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:
Helen Zell will give fifty million dollars [2] to the writing program at the University of Michigan. (Washington Post)
Meanwhile, an anonymous donor gave one hundred thousand books to students [3] in the Mississippi Delta. (Cleveland Currrent)
Siddhartha Mitter reports from the Congo Literary Festival [4]. (New Yorker)
Tibetan poet and activist Tsering Woeser was denied a passport by China [5] to accept an International Women's Day honor in the United States. (Huffington Post)
Because of its author contracts, Science Fiction Writers of America [6] (SFWA) has declared Random House imprints Hydra and Alibi ineligible for inclusion [7]. (Publishers Weekly)
Elizabeth Bastos describes particular yoga poses for literary types [8]. (Book Riot)
"Yet what we have right now is a system that produces great literature in spite of itself. [9]" Publisher and editor Richard Nash examines the business of literature. (Virginia Quarterly Review)
The Telegraph ranks the worst sex scenes [10] in contemporary literature.