Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s stories:
Short story writer Mavis Gallant, the author of nine story collections, two novels, and a book of essays, among other works, and who published more than one hundred stories throughout her career, has died. She was 91. (Globe and Mail)
Due to apparent tax issues, the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Seattle will not be open to the public this year. The Stranger's Paul Constant talks to AWP’s David Fenza to find out more.
In June J. K. Rowling will publish a second crime novel, The Silkworm, under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Rowling released her debut mystery novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling, under the nom de plume last year, before her identity was leaked to Britain’s Sunday Times. (NPR)
At Guernica, Jonathan Lee interviews Elisabeth Schmitz, the vice president and editorial director at Grove Atlantic, about the art of editing literary fiction.
A previously unpublished 1891 letter by Charles Dodgson—otherwise known as Lewis Carroll—being auctioned next month in London reveals that the Alice in Wonderland author so hated fame that he sometimes wished he “had never written any books at all.” (The Guardian)
Flavorwire’s Jason Diamond rounds up ten of the most notable fiction writers who have also been teachers.
Toni Morrison turns eighty-three today. In celebration, Colorlines has published a collection of photographs from the important and influential author’s life.
