Day: December 4, 2017

English Professor's sabbatical extended through next semester amidst sexual harassment …

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English Professor's sabbatical extended through next semester amidst sexual harassment …

This is alleged to have taken place from 2009 to 2010 while she was earning her MFA in Creative Writing. Harrigan, who was the third woman to file a complaint, said she took Casey's fiction workshop as a community member in spring 2010. The class was composed of undergraduate students, poetry
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What I Know About My Students

Teaching creative writing at Eastern Washington University, in an area of the state that's closer geographically and politically to blood-red, gun-toting northern Idaho than it is to multi-culti, rainbow-flag-waving Seattle, I know some things about my students. My students have OCD, PTSD, anxiety, diabetes
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Writer celebrates first year at PLE

In a business where we're always searching and chasing after what's next, it's good to remind yourself to keep the past just as much in sight. Not too long ago, I celebrated my first year of working at the Potter Leader-Enterprise and Tioga Publishing at large. With a year under my belt, I felt it important to
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Opinion: Why I don't play cards

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Opinion: Why I don't play cards

I have never been much of a card player. My wife and her family, on the other hand, will launch a card game at the drop of a hat. Euchre, mostly, although Jeanne has been part of a bridge club from time to time. For some reason I never got the card bug. My dad taught me to play cribbage at an early age.
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JKAACL organises Punjabi Mushaira

He also informed that young and budding writers, artists are given preference and provided platform to explore their talent of creative writing. He further invited the audience to participate in two-day Punjabi Writers Conference being organised by JKAACL on December 12 and 13, 2017 at Abhinav
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Two scientists have developed a tool to make it easier to spot bad cancer research

While scientific publications are important foundations for subsequent treatments, in the area of medicine researchers often face pressure to publish during the long peer-review process. It's not unusual for scientists to spend years in research before publishing. And it's often challenging for publishing
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Business Insider: Post Media shifts focus to digital

With sweeping changes across Cambodia's publishing industry, Marcus Holmes, CEO of Post Media, will be steering the publication through a “digital first” agenda that will transform the iconic publication into one that is faster and more effective in reaching its audience. The Post's Kali Kotoski sat down
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Online giants put squeeze on digital upstarts

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Online giants put squeeze on digital upstarts

Most of us have succumbed to a Buzzfeed “listicle” or a trashy piece from the Mail's sidebar of shame at some point in our online lives. Despite their immense popularity, however, digital publishers such as these are struggling to compete with the online advertising duopoly that is Google and Facebook.
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Locals take on creative writing project

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Locals take on creative writing project

“Everyone wants to write, but they never finish. So what we need to do is push people to quiet their inner editor and just get the creativity out,” said participant Brigid Reeves who also organized Sunday afternoon's event. According to Reeves, NaNoWriMo is an annual, internet-based creative writing
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$2m debut novelist Emma Cline stole my work for Charles Manson book, says her ex

… magazine's fiction department three years ago, aged 25, she sealed a $2 million three-book publishing deal that included her debut novel The Girls.
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'Out & About' expands to Puerto Vallarta

He earned a post-graduate certificate in Social Media from Seneca College and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the Institute of American Indian Arts. In addition to overseeing Out & About Puerto Vallarta's editorial operations, Brant will continue to manage all digital properties,
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A Life Remembered: Don Kummings helped establish Parkside's Foreign Film Series

He taught American literature and American poetry, freshman writing, literary analysis and creative writing. Over the course of his Parkside career, Kummings earned the university's “Triple Crown” of faculty awards: for teaching, service and research/creative activity. In 1997 he was named Wisconsin
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Watchung Hills Students Benefit from more than 70 Co-Curricular Activities

Under Academic – Diversified Interest, the Co-Curricular Activity list includes: Arrowhead Newspaper, Astronomy Club, Creative Writing Club, DECA Club, Economics Club, Entrepreneurship Club, Film Club, Folio (creative writing and expression), Forensics and Investigatory Club (F.I.C), Fusion, Future
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Herrmann named UK FutureBook Leader of the Year

As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Herrmann was shortlisted for the award alongside Arpita Das from Yoda Press, Mads Holmen from
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OSU graduate students voice opposition to tax on tuition waiver

Jen Hudgens, who is pursuing a master's of fine arts in creative writing at OSU, said taxing tuition waivers is not a good idea because graduate students struggle to make ends meet as it is. “I think taxing tuition waivers is a terrible idea,” Hudgens said. “Most grad students wouldn't be here if it weren't for
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CEO Chat: Mohan Virdee, Markets Media

We strongly felt that there was a gap in the market in terms of publishing and news companies not effectively covering what was happening in the electronic trading space across asset classes. Financial markets were shifting across different sectors — exchanges were going public and starting to
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Google revenue buoyed by Ads.txt adoption

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Google revenue buoyed by Ads.txt adoption

However, Google's Kapoor noted that some publishers are still holding back from supporting Ads.txt amid concerns it could negatively impact their revenue or interfere with their existing arrangements regarding ad sales. “There's still some education needed and there's still some confusion out there,”
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GroupM report reveals 'exceedingly bad news' for publisher ecosystem

GroupM is back again with its latest investment report which not only shines a light on concerns for the digital publisher ecosystem, but highlights key growth areas and forecasts 2018 trends. Next year global advertising investment is set to grow 4.3%, or US$23 billion, but despite that, the media
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Bollen wins Bad Sx in Fiction Award

US author Christopher Bollen has received the 2017 Bad S-x in Fiction Award, the Literary Review's annual prize for 'poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction'. Bollen won for his book The Destroyers (Scribner), which was chosen from a shortlist of seven.
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