The pervasive lack of diversity within the book publishing industry, both in terms of the composition of the workforce and the types of books being produced, has been the subject of numerous surveys and discussions, and the inspiration for the We Need Diverse Books and #ownvoices movements.
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Meet Snny. The Ivory Coast-born, Boston-bred, NYC-based artist first made his introduction this fall with his shimmering debut EP Learning to Swim, via Glassnote Records. The newcomer, who was raised on rock and roll, first got his start as a songwriter through creative writing and poetry and was
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LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Triton Digital®, the leading technology provider to the global audio industry, announced today a partnership with South Africa's leading digital publisher solutions company, 365 Digital, whereby 365 Digital will leverage the industry's leading programmatic audio
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They stayed in Manhattan, where she studied creative writing at Columbia. She loved New York and describes walks after Shabbat with “the lights coming from the apartment building, as beautiful to me as any constellation of stars.” When they moved to Boston, where Aaron's family lived, they became
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Melissa Febos is an author as well as an assistant professor of creative writing at Monmouth University and a faculty member of the Institute of American Indian Arts. She's also a former heroin addict and dominatrix, who worked for four years in a midtown New York dungeon. Her latest book, “Abandon
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Pennington succeeds Roger Plothow, who had been editor and publisher of the Post Register since 2002. The changes were announced Tuesday afternoon in a Post Register staff meeting as well as in a PNG Media LLC news release. PNG Media is a division of Adams Publishing Group, which owns
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OBB Pictures has optioned Michael Konick's The Smart Money (Simon & Schuster, 2006), a nonfiction work about the author's experiences working for a bookmaker, for series development. The book's subtitle is How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions. (Deadline Hollywood).
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Eastside As Found & Encounter, a collaborative art show by architectural designer Jae Boggess, University of Houston (UH) graphic design and creative writing students and Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP), is now on display through the end of January at the historic Sunset Coffee Building at Allen's
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The competition took place at Parrott Academy where writing prompts were sent via email, and finished essays were uploaded within a 90-minute period. The writing prompts were argumentative, literary analysis, problem-solution, and creative writing. Each essay was scored by two different judges, and
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