Alec Ebeling, junior creative writing major, sifted through their record collection and revealed a few favorite vinyls along with an album by their father's old band “The Spy-Fi Sounds of The Omega Men.” “I like vinyl because it appeals to me as a collector of things, getting that physical album art in your
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The creative writing lecturer had been living in Dubai with his ex-wife, working at the American University in the emirate. But after 20 years in the region he was locked up when he lost his job and failed to repay a $70,000 debt. The country criminalizes debt and banks and landlords can send someone to
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I was writing poetry from a young age and found that I could understand the world through that. My dad and stepmom had a country band while I was growing up. I'd go over there on the weekends and hear them practicing Fleetwood Mac covers and original songs. Eventually, I asked my dad to teach
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“The Last Ballad,” a historical fiction novel, has been released by an alumni of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's creative writing graduate program. Set in Bessemer City, North Carolina, the book centers around Ella May Wiggins, a 28-year-old mill worker and single-mother attempting to feed four
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The Australia Council will select a delegation of up to six Australian rights sellers, literary agents and publishers to visit the US in 2018. The New York
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Ardoch Youth Foundation: $10,000 to run four writer-in-residence programs with the organisation's partner schools in inner Melbourne, Melbourne's
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The iconic Johnson Publishing building has a new owner, and will eventually have new tenants. Developer 3L Real Estate announced Tuesday it has
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How Google is sharing a bigger piece of the subscription pie In the past, some publishers expressed unease around the dynamics of their relationship
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Although self-archiving is becoming increasingly popular, many scientists do not publicly share their work, even when journals permit it. In a recently published analysis of more than 3,000 global health-related papers published between 2010 and 2014, researchers found that approximately 60 percent
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Atlantic's revenue in 2016 was £5.5m (A$9.7m), down £0.5m (A$0.9m) on the previous year, with the publisher posting a loss of £600,000 (A$1.1m).
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Formerly home to Ebony and Jet magazines before being purchased by Columbia in 2010, the Johnson Publishing Building has been sold to 3L Real
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Harrigan and Hesler both teach creative writing at WriterHouse, a nonprofit writer's space in Charlottesville. Harrigan's essays, reviews and short stories have appeared in numerous publications. In all of those environments, including a Master's in Fine Arts at Pacific University, she said she has never
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Spanish author Juan Casamayor has received the Publishing Excellence Award at the Guadalajara International Book Fair
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