Hit Makers of The Hit List: A Look Back at Hit List Alums

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Hit Makers of The Hit List: A Look Back at Hit List Alums

For many of these writers, earning a spot on a The Hit List is the culmination of years worth of hard work, dedication and, of course, writing, rewriting, and more writing. But before we announce this year's Hit Listers, we want to take a moment to revisit some of our favorite success stories from the Hit Lists
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A thank you and farewell to El Paso

I'm excited to graduate with my bachelor's degree in creative writing and to head back home to the frozen tundra of Buffalo, New York, while I decide which university I'll attend for my fifth year of college football and my master's degree. Since 2014, the journey that the college process has taken me on
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Flight to quality takes hold in end-of-year video ad spending, pushing up prices

Conversations with four media agencies executives show that not every client is halting advertising on YouTube and hard news sites, but in general, programmatic video CPMs at nonpolitical publishers and connected TV providers like Apple TV and Amazon Fire have been increasing, which could
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'I was genuinely terrified dad would kill us and mum had been trying to pluck up the courage to …

Successful Belfast-born author and academic Carolyn Jess-Cooke learnt very early in life the benefit of writing to escape trauma. Creative writing carried her through a horrific childhood when she lived in constant fear of being killed by an abusive father who took his own life on Christmas Day when she
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Michael Gifkins Prize judging process announced

The NZ Society of Authors (PEN NZ INC) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa and Melbourne-based Text Publishing are pleased to announce the judging
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Non-convex Optimization for Machine Learning

Abstract. A vast majority of machine learning algorithms train their models and perform inference by solving optimization problems. In order to capture
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Taliparamba-native, who went hiding after publishing own obituary, found at Kottayam

Kottayam: Taliparamba Kuttikkolil native Joseph Melukunnel, who went into hiding after publishing his own obituary in newspapers was found from a
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Gimmick Some Lovin': The Arkansas Hog Pen Match

Henry Orpheus (an awesome middle name that I didn't know was attached to this character until I did the research for this column) Godwinn (get it?) was a product of this line of creative writing, combined with Vince McMahon's oddly alternating disdain and pride for his own rural North Carolina
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Evans: Walter weathers name's ebbs, flows

Walter Mosley (1952) is a best-selling mystery and science-fiction author. Huston (1883-1950), Brennan (1894-1974), Pidgeon (1897-1984) and Koenig (1936) are famous actors. Cartoonist Lantz (1899-1994) created Woody Woodpecker. Guitarist Becker (1950-2017) co-founded Steely Dan.
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Sony's music division launches Tiny Metal for PC and Switch this month

What's especially interesting about this game, which debuts December 21 for PC, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4, is that Sony is publishing it.
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The strange appeal of Milo Yiannopoulos

Yiannopoulos' comments drew widespread condemnation and led to publisher Simon & Schuster cancelling plans to publish his autobiography Dangerous Faggot. Yiannopoulos was subsequently forced to resign as tech editor at Breitbart and self-publish his book. Yiannopoulos' dramatic fall from
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CREATIVE VERSE: Monthly Poetry Page

You may submit your own poetry via email to kwalenga@gvnews.com or drop off a typed copy at the newspaper office in the Sahuarita Plaza on Nogales Highway, around the corner from Ross and Big Lots. So put on your thinking caps, let your creative writing juices flow, and submit to us some original
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