Her father was a professor, mother taught art and she was now teaching creative writing and black theater. I was one of those active thespians in the theater department, I was also president of our Hampton Players group, and so I had an off-campus apartment that I really couldn't pay for because I wasn't
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NEW YORK—Recalling how his best-selling mathematics primer had struggled to garner any attention from top textbook agents, author Bruce Gallagher confirmed Friday that his runaway blockbuster textbook, Introduction To Algebra, had been rejected by a dozen publishers before finally being picked
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The purpose of the festival is to promote literature across the board while, at the same time, giving publishers and book distributors a space in which they can sell and promote their publications with a mature audience, such as university students. A vast programme of activities will be put up during the
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“[We] believe that such a senior facility can provide a multigenerational cultural experience for our community by providing a facility that hosts arts, dance, theater, creative writing, architecture, crafts, music, folk arts and other related cultural opportunities and experiences, to include exhibitions of any of
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No creative writing, no debate team, no Odyssey of the Mind or jazz band, no competitions for showcasing special talents nor passionate community organizations doing good work. My interest in writing was sparked by Mrs. Hamilton. Much to my dismay at the time, she required weekly vocabulary tests
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FRANKFURT/MUNICH (Reuters) – SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazine Nature, has brought forward a listing which may value it at more than 7 billion euros ($8.6 billion) including debt, to reduce the risk from volatile stock markets, people close to the matter said. The company, which also
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He added that publishers would not publish unless the writer made serious financial commitment. Denja also explained that publishers, too, have their challenges. “For example, prices of printing materials and other consumable required in publication in the country have gone up. “Most of the printing
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Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Dennis-Benn is a graduate of St. Andrew High School for Girls and Cornell University; and holds a Master of Public Health from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a Kowald Visiting
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Emizi, a young Nigerian author, won the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa for her story “Who is Like God.” She also worked with the editor and acclaimed author and feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop in Lagos. The experience has clearly
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As longtime members know, we're always working on site refinements. We wanted to update you on a few things that we have rolled in over recent weeks: – By request, the children's deal categories have been expanded, so our young adult and middle grade sections now both all you to distinguish
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