Day: September 11, 2017

Hampton University graduate's novel tells story of enslaved girl finding freedom

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Hampton University graduate's novel tells story of enslaved girl finding freedom

Civil War history was inescapable, she said in a Q&A with her publisher, For the People Press. To accurately portray the story of an enslaved girl in the
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Miles joins Siebold Company

“The timing is perfect for us to grow by adding companies that will … president and CEO of newspaper publishing and commercial printing companies.
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Arbitrator: West Virginia paper owes $3.8 million

MediaNews Group Inc. and Charleston Publishing Company, the Charleston Daily Mail's former owners, claimed the web address was theirs, and the
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Late Canadian poet laureate DesRuisseaux accused of plagiarising Tupac among others

Montreal-based publisher Editions du Noroit said Monday that only … He said the incident is the only one in the 45-year history of the publishing
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Exhibition area for Sharjah Book Fair sold out

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Exhibition area for Sharjah Book Fair sold out

SHARJAH: The Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) has revealed that the exhibition area designated for publishers for the 36th edition of the Sharjah
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Personal Development Coach John Grab Reaches Two Amazon Best Seller Lists with Local …

Personal Development, John Grab, hit #1 on the Amazon.com Category Best Sellers List on September 7, 2017, for the release of Local Business
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'Invest Like a Guru' to Be Out in Four Languages: English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean

Over the past three months, three publishers from China, Japan and Korea have acquired the publishing rights to translate Dr. Charlie Tian's book
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For 48 years Talking Book Network has been serving the visually impaired

He doesn't usually select best sellers for broadcast because the National Library Service covers those. “I check their list to see what is already being
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Weekly Bestsellers, 11 September 2017

Two media tie-in novels debut this week: Leigh Bardugo's Wonder Woman: Warbringer (Random House), on two children's lists, ranking as high as #3
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Embellish Unveils Fall 2017 Delivery 1 Lookbook

The season also features a range of biker jeans, standard denim and denim jackets, as well as best-sellers. The Embellish NYC Fall 2017 collection is
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Reporting standards course to launch

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Reporting standards course to launch

Habiba Al Marashi, President & CEO of Arabia CSR Network, said: “This immense value-added training is specifically designed for writing teams,
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Jake Mattera to headline Delco comedy show

… that the comedy bug hit him big time after he took a comedy writing course … Show” on WMGK to talk about his son's birth — with humor, of course.
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Trump Now Owns the Fed

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Trump Now Owns the Fed

Rickards is the author of The New Case for Gold (April 2016), and three New York Times best sellers, The Death of Money (2014), Currency Wars
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Settlement Reached: 'Monkey Selfie' Case Broke New Ground for Animal Rights

PETA; photographer David Slater; his company, Wildlife Personalities, Ltd.; and self-publishing platform Blurb, Inc., have reached a settlement of the
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Career Coach Rogers Vigne Reaches Two Amazon Best Seller Lists with Local Business …

Career Coach, Rogers Vigne, hit #1 on the Amazon.com Category Best Sellers List on September 7, 2017, for the release of Local Business Mavericks
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Library Notes: Fiction Schmiction

Then you have to consider who determines the genre of a book. The author? Critics? The publisher? Can a book be both fiction and nonfiction?
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Ramsey County goes back to drawing board with prominent site along river

Leila Navidi, Star Tribune The former West Publishing building, long tan building on left, and former Ramsey County jail building, squat reddish-brown
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'Joe jobs' and getting published: Humble steps on the road to academia

Academic journals often publish work reflecting subject matter expertise that many undergraduates have not yet achieved. JURA answers this
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Carter's Exit Affirms Print's Third Act

Some are characterizing Carter's departure as another nail in the coffin for print magazine publishing. When he entered the game, magazines were
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50 Cent's 'Curtis' Lost Its First-Week Sales Battle, But Did So in Historic Fashion

Even accounting for SEA & TEA, Curtis would still top this year's tally, … calculations, 2017 can't really compete with 2007 in terms of best-sellers.
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Katy Perry Decorating Beverly Hills Mansion With Used Craigslist Furniture?

Unfortunately, OK! has a long history of publishing bogus stories about the pop star, so this latest piece of fiction doesn't come as much of a shock.
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Home Inspector, Gary Monfeli, Reaches Two Amazon Best Seller Lists with Local Business …

… hit #1 on the Amazon.com Category Best Sellers List on September 7, 2017, for the release of Local Business Mavericks. The book also ranked No.
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A Most Epic Book — Houston Author Spends More Than a Decade Working on Highly-Anticipated …

It is not yet known how large the finished book will actually be. …. From Houston, Fredericka Hunter told me that a book publisher in New York was
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Actors union: Make it a crime to publish this accurate data about us

A new law in California prohibiting websites from publishing the birthdates of actors has been challenged by IMDB, a popular website for film and TV
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Coast Guard delays publishing external review after volunteer's death

The Irish Coast Guard has said it will not be publishing an external review of its volunteering activities before the Marine Casualty Investigation Board
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An Alt-Right Group Is Trying to Recruit College Kids Like It's a Frat

… school year, but the group is trying to justify its white supremacist views with academic tracts through the far-right Arktos Media publishing company.
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33rd Annual Coastal Cleanup Day

Coastal Cleanup Day Times Publishing Group Inc tpgonlinedaily.com MONTEREY BAY — Annual Coastal Cleanup Day is the world's largest
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Tyndale House to open Carol Stream store, hold warehouse sale

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Tyndale House to open Carol Stream store, hold warehouse sale

We also have a lobby that can serve as a place to profile our new products and best-sellers — and we thought a Tyndale bookstore would be a great
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Innovative new services born from the bankruptcy of Douglas & McIntyre

D&M's Greystone Books imprint also remained in the province, sold to … the challenge in book publishing forever has been how to sell books. How do
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Community news

Oct. 2, 7 p.m., Center for the Arts: Mark Irwin, associate professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California and author of
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Shute Festival of Literature and Landscape wins support across the community

… The Tulip, while crowdfunding publisher Unbound is supporting a community outreach creative writing workshop led by children's writer Kate Smith.
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Who is a journalist?

As someone who once taught “Creative Writing” to some students at the Institute, I was keen to find out what sort of human material the Institute was
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tabcmd – description and tags when publishing

It doesn't appear as though tabcmd has the ability to include description (about) or tags when publishing. Is there a plan to allow this? We can add
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Still Lit After all these Years: ODU's Literary Festival Turns 40

Additionally, the ODU MFA Creative Writing Program's Fall 2017 Writer-in-Residence, Olivia Laing, will read from her widely praised memoir The
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Franklin entrepreneur launches writing, wine business

“But instead of painting, attendees do fun, creative writing for 1½ to 2 hours hosted in local bars and restaurants,” Pinderhughes said. After having
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Wine is My Nature: Area vineyards operate as family friendly businesses

Buck Naked, a moscato, and Buck Wild, a sweet red, are two of their best sellers. White Buck also has an indoor meeting venue where different events
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SIUC creative writing department to host fundraiser for Hurricane Harvey, Irma victims

The director of the creative writing MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Joseph said she wanted to use the department's history of
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MI Voice: Following My Creative Writing Dreams

This week as part of our MI Voice series, we're bringing you short stories from youth at St. Vincent's Children's Home. St. Vincent's offers a Case
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Education courses still available at Kettering charity

The charity still has places available on courses for: creative writing, IT in the workplace, basic IT, buying and selling online, English tester, ukulele for
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UNCSA Symphony Orchestra to perform at Dixon Auditorium Sunday

“A lot of kids may bot have a left side brain, but they are more creative … “Creativity is not just music and art, but it applies to creative writing, science,
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Hungry Girl: This Philly Cheesesteak-Inspired Meatloaf Will Be Your New Favorite Meal

She is also the author of twelve books, six of which debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Read her PEOPLE.com blog every
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'The Insult' Director Ziad Doueiri Detained In Lebanon After Venice Win

The Attack premiered in Toronto in 2012 and is based on the best-selling book by Yasmina Khadra. The movie was filmed in Israel and featured
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Sha Norman Named New Barrel of Monkeys Program Director

Barrel of Monkeys, a Chicago-based arts education theater ensemble now in its 21st season, conducts creative writing workshops with 3rd through 5th
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Bringing character education (and penguins) alive in the classroom

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Bringing character education (and penguins) alive in the classroom

“For each letter of penguin, they write an acrostic poem,” she says. … as Reading Challenges, Methods, Reading Assessments or the writing course.
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The search for good ideas

Writing prompts are of course great ideas for young aspiring writers, but I would like to think that professional journalists and authors don't need to troll
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Writing For 'Star Trek: The Next Generation': My First Script Sale In TNG's Final Season

Of course, this covered only Trek's TV realm. The original Kirk and Spock focused theatrical movies had also become a box office mainstay in the
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Writing Life vs. Living Life

The summer flew by once I was back in Indy, and already it's the 4th week of classes of the fall semester. Part of me, of course, is freaking out and
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SQL Training Courses – Why every professional should learn SQL – MS SQL Server Training for …

Before the SQL course I had a basic knowledge of what a database was, but the training really helped me cement this. I am now able to do write
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The Huron River review

Prior to submitting his work to the HRR, Romero grew as a writer in Zachary Braun's writing courses at WCC. An assignment in Braun's course led to
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He wrote the books on Henry County

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He wrote the books on Henry County

“New Castle: A Pictorial History” was published in 1992 with huge contributions from local historian Doug Magers. The book was published by G.
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Punk Poet Eileen Myles on Combating Trump, Capitalism With Art

My own publishing history illustrates what I mean, which is that both gender and genre are endlessly blurry.” The reissue, after 17 years, creates a
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More than 4 decades after writing historical novel, Portsmouth Army veteran self-publishes on …

But Jones' sister Carolyn O'Neal, 15 years his junior, recently self-published a novel of her own and started a one-woman publishing company in
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Travian: Legends launches largest ever update today

Travian Games GmbH, based in Munich, is a world renowned self-publishing developer of cross-platform games (online and mobile) and European
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5 Questions: South Middleton girl pens children's book

A. Before, and while, I was in the process of self-publishing Drip, Drip, Drop! I had been hired by a video company to be the “host” of three short safety
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Festival shows the Bronte inspiration

The weekend kicks off on the Friday with a free event exploring self-publishing and self-promotion. Laurie Garrison, the founder of the Women Writers
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“Business as usual” for Goldplat, despite referral of Rand Refinery dispute to High Court

“The company will keep shareholders informed of progress. … “The company will be publishing its annual financial results in September 2017.”
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A Job for Journalism, Communication or Creative Writing Pros…

Help us tell our story! Utilities, Inc. is searching for a strategic, proactive Communications Specialist to join our team! About this opportunity.
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"Genius: 100 Visions of the Future" – World's First 3D printed book prototype unveiled last night in …

… in collaboration with NASA, marked a milestone in publishing history. … and legacy of Albert Einstein”, said Monette Malewski, co-chair, Celebrating
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Flip yourself into leadership with Exponential Growth Publishing

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Flip yourself into leadership with Exponential Growth Publishing

To gain business and revenue leadership, use a “Big Flip” to surpass the giant tech platforms by adding people-first Exponential Growth Publishing.
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Scan text for words before publishing

I wanted to write a plugin that'd be very helpful to me, the idea is before publishing an entry for the confluence, the plugin will search for.
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Study finds gender disparity in STEM publishing and citations

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Study finds gender disparity in STEM publishing and citations

What do the worlds of literary and science publishing have in common? Research indicates that women authors are underrepresented in both genres.
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Pierce Atwood announces new patent partner in Portsmouth

… Atwood, Anderson worked as a freelance scientific editor and writer for companies such as Motorola, Amersham and numerous book publishers.
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Plans fall through for West Publishing site redevelopment in St. Paul

Back to the drawing board. The Star Tribune's Nicole Norfleet reports: “An initial effort to redevelop the former West Publishing Co. site along the St.
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Beyond digital – enter the FutureBook awards 2017

It's time to change the conversation about digital publishing. … The FutureBook Book of the Year: These two awards – one for children's and another
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Bill Giving BD's Freedom To Publish ETF Research Moving Through Congress

Congress is one vote away from passing a measure that would make it easier for brokers and dealers to publish research reports about increasingly
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McIntire's book takes aim at Florida State, college sports

His first book, however, focuses on college sports. … whistle-blowers and victims,” said Publishers Weekly in an advance endorsement for the book.
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Library express location opens in Campbell

The current location will include a small collection of popular materials, best sellers and Hot Picks, a small DVD collection, children's books, young
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Vanna White, Touching Hearts One Letter At A Time

Her posters became best-sellers, and she graced the cover of every major magazine including Newsweek. Thinking back, what's the first thing that
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A children's picture book of “Hidden Figures” is coming

Publishers Weekly announced last week the completion of a book deal for a picture-book adaptation of the 2016 nonfiction title Hidden Figures,
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US publishers' audio sales up 29% this year

Overall revenues for book publishers increased to $3bn for the first four months of this year, up 4% on the same period in 2016. Much of this growth in
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Fake Law Firm Duped Amazon Into Suspending a Product

… notice for his popular and best-selling product–an electric toothbrush head replacement–citing a complaint filed through an alleged fake law firm.
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How to avoid getting screwed in a game publishing deal

For a game developer, working with a publisher can be a huge opportunity. You can take advantage of their resources, marketing reach, and
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Campus Newspapers to Begin Publishing Weekly Snapchat Stories

In the “Discover” section of Snapchat, students at dozens of colleges and universities will soon notice video stories produced by their campus
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Director Jade Jenise Dixon Defies the Odds of a Female Filmmaker

The film won several film festal awards, was in heavy rotation on the B.E.T., Centric and Bounce TV networks, made the “Best Sellers” list at Target and
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IFLA signs open letter calling on Members of the European Parliament to ensure Open Access …

There are usually restrictions about what can be uploaded onto these repositories and when, set out in contracts with publishers – for example it may
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Ski Country Antiques Celebrates 6th Anniversary with Special Discounted Sale

… skis, ski poles, snowshoes, skates, and sleds are some of our best-sellers. … started here on the referral of the owner's son, and good friend of mine.
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Author of 'The Glass Ceiling' to headline IWLC conferences

“The Glass Castle,” a memoir about Walls' unconventional upbringing, spent 261 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Other speakers at
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Duane Lawrence's New Book “What's My Credit Got To Do With It?” Is An Informative Manual To …

Page Publishing is a traditional New York based full-service publishing … Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create – not bogged
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Gerritsen, Frederick in CMCA Sunday Salon

Her books have been Top 3 bestsellers in the United States and top bestsellers abroad. She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for “Vanish”) and
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AAP Reports Downturn in Trade Sales for April 2017

Adult book sales dropped 4.0% in the month, compared to April 2016. … part of its StatShot program, are based on figures from 1,205 publishers that
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Poem and a Pint programme returns for 2017/18 season

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Poem and a Pint programme returns for 2017/18 season

Miriam leads creative writing and performance workshops in schools, museums, mental health organisations and prisons, and she has worked and
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Communique: Inshiradu Receives Support From Cucalorus For 1898 Narrative: "What The River …

And so I heard that a creative writing program was opening up in Wilmington, North Carolina. This was 1996 and the graduate creative writing
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Making The Dog Laugh' Writing Intensive

She will unlock your creative blocks and learn the rules of the road to help make your creative writing funny. Its safe, fun. Good for all levels of writers.
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Bringing the plants to life: The horticultural man of the Heritage Ball

This is the third in a series about those who help make the Heritage Ball possible. For the last few years, Ernie Reynolds has managed to figure out
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Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre visitors launch book Missing Pieces

“There is growing evidence that creative writing is therapeutic. It helps process emotion, gives distance and helps take the writer away from their
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Creative children enter final nine of Norfolk writing competition as judges whittle down entries

A handful of creative youngsters have made it through to the winning nine in a children's writing contest after judges whittled down dozens of entries.
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Drew University to slash tuition by 20 percent

Recently launched liberal arts majors and minors include media & communications, creative writing, film studies, data science and statistics.
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Ball State professors remember 9/11

“I was teaching a creative writing class that semester in which we created a fictional New Jersey town. We were going to write interrelated stories set in
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Calling Teen Authors: The Write Rhode Island Fiction Contest Is Back

Write Rhode Island is hoping to get teens excited and spur entries by hosting free creative writing workshops at the Cranston Public Library on
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Why Your First Marketing Hire Should Be A Creative

We hired a person with a masters in creative writing who had spent the past five years traveling around Japan and Southwest Asia visiting World
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