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- Norman North sweeps fiction awards at ECU (The Norman Transcript)
Students from Norman North High School swept the fiction awards this spring in the fourth annual R. Darryl Fisher Creative Writing Contest at East Central University. The contest received more than 600 submissions from 300 Oklahoma high school writers.
- Bear books for children are great reading (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bears loom large in children's literature - teddy bears, panda bears and Goldilocks' mild-mannered victims, for example. This season, such cuddly human stand-ins reappear in three utterly charming sequels to recent favorites, all about friends. A deferential...
- Joni Mitchell's plea turned into a blockbuster - Globe and Mail
Joni Mitchell's plea turned into a blockbusterGlobe and Mail, Canada - 3 hours agoMitchell even wrote music for the two new songs based on poetry by Rudyard Kipling (If) and WB Yeats (The Second Coming). The songs are heavily orchestrated ...
- Manny Not Being Manly - Right Side News
Manny Not Being ManlyRight Side News, GA - 2 hours agoIn addition to politics, he is an aficionado of baseball, poetry, music & ketchup flavored potato chips. Aaron satiates his various appetites in Boston.
- SPECIAL EVENT : Events to honor Black Boy author Richard Wright - Arkansas Democrat Gazette
SPECIAL EVENT : Events to honor Black Boy author Richard WrightArkansas Democrat Gazette, AR - 22 minutes ago“The Poetry in Black Boy,” presented by Central High English teacher Stacy McAdoo; excerpt reading to follow. “Richard Wright and the Harlem Renaissance,” ...
- At writing camp, schlepping goes with scholarship - Miami Herald
RIPTON, Vt. It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a gathering at a picturesque mountaintop retreat where literary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since the 1920s. But ...
- IN BRIEF - Pahrump Valley Times
Nevada Outreach Training Organization is seeking a volunteer "grandma" to work in the shelter. Qualifications include a lot of free time, must love kids and be a good listener, must be able to sleep at the shelter 2-3 nights a week. She can share ...
- Word Thursdays open mike to feature poets - Daily Star
At 7 p.m. Thursday, Word Thursdays will present an open reading followed by readings by Durham, N.C., poet Liz Beasley and Saratoga Springs poet Jay Rogoff in the Word and Image Gallery of Bright Hill Center at 94 Church St. in Treadwell. During the ...
- Madison poets finish third in second national bout (The Capital Times)
After coming in third at the second bout Thursday evening at the 2008 National Poetry Slam, members of the the Madison Slam Team won't be going on to the semifinals Friday night for individual pieces. They find out Friday afternoon if they'll be competing in the Group Piece Championship (Friday, August 8 at 10 p.m. in the Overture Center, 201 State ...
- Laureate lessons: Politics and artistic honors don't mix - Gloucester Daily Times
Gloucester has a new poet laureate — officially. But the title might as well be amended to "political poet laureate." That is the only way to describe the appointment of John Ronan by the City Council on Tuesday night. The council didn't even vote ...
- Teacher was an inspiration to a generation - Northampton Chronicle
A speech and drama teacher who was an inspiration to a generation of performing arts students in Northamptonshire has died aged 88. Anita Wright was involved with the Northamptonshire Festival of Music and Drama for more than 50 years and helped ...
- Festival builds bridge between art and entertainment - The Age
Festival builds bridge between art and entertainmentThe Age, Australia - 2 hours ago"It's culturally threatening in a way, not a lot of poetry in it. But you're sitting in a culture that is one of the most travelled," she says. ...
- Shelf life What's happening at area bookstores - Cincinnati.com
Breaking Dawn (Little, Brown Young Readers, $22.99) the fourth and final book in Stephenie Meyer's bestselling Twilight Saga vampire series is getting the Harry Potter treatment. There will be release parties nationwide Friday night leading up to the ...
- Don Imus in hot water again; Rikki Rocket isn't, and he's celebrating ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Don Imus is dining on toes again after his latest "open mouth, insert foot" moment. Oops, he did it again. Don Imus, who apparently loves nothing more than a beatdown from Rev. Al Sharpton, drew another one Monday by wondering on the air about the ...
- Reluctant 18-year-old poet sees work chosen for top prize (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
After years of denial, Merit O'Hare has finally come to terms with her inner poet. ...
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