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Texas Highways Magazine

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Behind The Story

Dec 19, 2023

Since our Open Road section debuted in 2018, each essay has been written by a different prominent Texas writer. In celebration of our 50th anniversary, this year we’ve commissioned pieces from 10 of our most popular previous essayists. “This section

Poets & Writers

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The Endangered Poetry Project

Feb 14, 2018

Nearly half the world’s languages are endangered to some extent, with one language becoming extinct roughly every two weeks, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Barring swift revitalization eff

Poets & Writers

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The Endangered Poetry Project

Feb 7, 2018

Nearly half the world’s languages are endangered to some extent, with one language becoming extinct roughly every two weeks, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Barring swift revitalization eff

Sunday Tribune

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Final Book Fair To Be Held In Mitchell Park Today

Dec 6, 2020

TODAY is the last of the monthly book fair for the year, with authors from around the country launching and promoting their books. The book fair, now in its third year, is a volunteer programme to support Durban as a Unesco World City of Literature.

Writing Magazine

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Enter Hitman

Jul 1, 2021

Untreed Reads is a digital-only small press founded by Jay A Hartman in 2008 as a way to promote ebooks, with an emphasis on independent authors and publishers. Spend time at the website, novel submissions are limited to certain genres or authors but

Poets & Writers

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594 Ways of Reading Jane Eyre

Feb 12, 2020

Last summer, University of Oxford professor Matthew Reynolds, in collaboration with an international team of more than two dozen scholars, launched Prismatic Jane Eyre, a research project that explores the relationship between Charlotte Brontë’s clas

Nautilus

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Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing

Dec 23, 2020

The Chinese artist Xu Bing has long experimented to stunning effect with the limits of the written form. Last year I visited the Centre del Carme in Valencia, Spain, to see a retrospective of his work. One installation, Book from the Sky, featured sc

Writer's Digest

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From Our Readers

Jun 13, 2022

WD posed the question to readers on our website: “What has been the most pivotal moment in your writing life thus far?” Readers responded: “… I was an English minor in college and continued to write afterward, but at a diminishing pace ’til ‘real lif

Poets & Writers

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Publishing Poetry in Translation

Dec 12, 2018

In an April 2018 inter view with the Guardian, British Libyan author Hisham Matar said: “International literature remains hugely underrated and, as a side effect, English books are often overrated. About 1.5 percent of books published in the U.K. and

Poets & Writers

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Literary MagNet

Dec 11, 2019

After moving to a small Norwegian village on the edge of continental Europe’s largest glacier, Beth Peterson began writing the essays that would become her debut collection, Dispatches From the End of Ice (Trinity University Press, November 2019). “I

The Millions

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A Glimpse into a Different World: The Millions Interviews Bruce Humes

Feb 1, 2019

By making the reader commit these phrases to memory—the terms were generally defined only upon first mention—it subtly engaged the reader in the story. The post A Glimpse into a Different World: The Millions Interviews Bruce Humes appeared first on T

Creative Nonfiction

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Making A Hummingbird Of Words

Aug 17, 2017

BETH ANN FENNELLY, Poet Laureate of Mississippi, teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi. Fennelly has published three poetry books: Open House, Tender Hooks, and Unmentionables; a book of nonfiction, Great with Child; and The Til

Sunday Tribune

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Bliss For Bookworms! Crowds Flock To The Durban International Book Fair

Aug 13, 2023

South African literature is being embraced at the Durban International Book Fair. The event got off to a superb start since opening on Wednesday at The Globe, Suncoast. According to Anivesh Singh, one of two festival directors, the aim was to get a

The Christian Science Monitor

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In Zimbabwean Language, ‘Animal Farm’ Takes On New Meaning

Jul 27, 2023

When Zimbabwean novelist Petina Gappah first read George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” as a lonely 13-year-old at boarding school, she was transfixed. The story of a group of animals who overthrow an unjust regime only to be betrayed by their leader “made m

NPR

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Norwegian Playwright Jon Fosse Wins The 2023 Nobel Prize In Literature

Oct 5, 2023

A Norwegian writer, Jon Fosse, has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature. Though little-known outside his home country, he is celebrated in literary circles.

Writing Magazine

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Super Texts Wanted For Hypertext

Jul 2, 2020

The Hypertext Magazine publishes ‘fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and interviews’ by up-and-coming writers alongside established names, and celebrate diverse voices. Read what they publish before submitting: there’s plenty online an