Shortlist Announced for 25th Saskatchewan Book Awards. Posted 2018-02-27 . The shortlist for the 25th Saskatchewan Book Awards was announced today in Regina and Saskatoon. Congratulations to all of the shortlisted authors and publishers! We look forward to celebrating with all of you at the
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“Predatory” publishers solicit articles from faculty and researchers with the intention of exploiting authors who need to publish their research findings in order to meet promotion and tenure or grant funding requirements. These publishers collect extravagant fees from authors without providing the peer
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The public library in Redbank Plains, near Ipswich, has shifted 25,000 books from its collection in order to clear more space for extra public computers and new meeting rooms, reports the Queensland Times. The original catalogue of 27,000 items will be reduced to just 2000 items in the exercise, and
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When he and the publishing executive feared no one would read the lengthy tome he split the story into three novels. “Razors Edge,” which is 250 pages, is the first of a trilogy. It was published through Amazon Direct Publishing and can be bought as a softcover book or a PDF to be read on a computer.
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The British Library has collaborated with Google to launch a virtual version of its Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition on the Google Arts and Culture mobile app and website, reports the Guardian. The virtual exhibition was launched on Tuesday, and includes objects, sketches and notes from
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Her many best-sellers include The Best of Times, An Absolute Scandal, An Outrageous Affair and A Perfect Heritage. “I haven't the faintest idea what is going to happen, ever,” she told the Telegraph in 2014. “I just get the kernel of the idea… and then the characters wander in.” Vincenzi, who had four
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The first creative writing class I took I only signed up for it to fill a foreign language requirement. So, it wasn't like I miraculously fell in love with writing. The second assignment in that class was to write a story about something the world forgot. I wrote a story about Henrietta Lacks, and the fact that the
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Recent release “Shhhh Don't Tell” from Page Publishing author Deb Brainard is a riveting book about four friends who get caught in an adventure too engaging … Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create – not bogged down with complicated business issues like eBook conversion,
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At 13, I was selected for a special course on creative essay writing. We threw … I thought about becoming a writer, but wanted to be sure I could earn a living, so I pursued my second love. I became a psychologist but promised myself that I would later return to my first love, writing what really matters.
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Recent release “God Purposed Threads” from Page Publishing author Vagsta is a thought-provoking narrative that guides the readers into uncovering their life's … Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create – not bogged down with complicated business issues like eBook conversion,
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Park City's Bill Humbert, known as the Recruiter Guy thanks to his website, challenged himself to write his new book, “Employee 5.0: Secrets of a Successful Job Search in the New World Order.” … “And by the time we had our next meeting, I had already sent the book to three different publishers.”.
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… Equinox Fitness's advertising campaign, “8 Humans Who Committed to Something in 2017.” He is planning to major in English and creative writing, and self-published a collection of his poetry, “Early Works,” in August. (Sample lines: “When you left I downed a glass of milk/It didn't wash the taste away.
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Floor: “Yeah, I know that Tuomas [Holopainen, NIGHTWISH keyboardist/leader] has been writing. He's such a creative spirit, there's always something bubbling. But, of course, now with this world tour [in support of the 2CD compilation titled 'Decades'coming up so soon], all focus goes to this. In regards
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•Kids Poetry Workshop: 5:30 p.m. Thursdays, March 15, 22 and 29 — poetry classes are led by creative writing instructors from Binghamton University. Participants will read poetry, look at the themes of poems, share their own poems and have fun with language and writing. Suggested ages 6 to 13.
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Perdomo is a Pushcart nominee, two-time New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow and a former Woolrich Fellow in Creative Writing at Columbia University. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, Bomb Magazine, and African Voices.
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Sponsored by Illinois State University's Creative Writing Program and the Department of English, the event is free and open to the public. Franklin, the author of Study of Love & Black Body, is a writer and visual artist whose works have appeared in Poetry, Black Camera, Copper Nickel, Callaloo, Vinyl,
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An inmate on death row for killing a police officer in Alabama, USA may be spared from execution as he has no memory of the crimes he committed. 67-year-old Vernon Madison, who suffers from dementia, was spared from execution with 30 minutes to spare last month after the US' highest court, the
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British author and ex-pat Tilly Bagshawe apparently travels up to 100,000 miles a year from her current home in Los Angeles to the UK. Alright for … He graduated from the University of East Anglia with degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing before completing his NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia
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Students from schools throughout Sussex County will assemble at SCCC for the day celebrating creative writing, dance, instrumental music, theater, film making, visual art, and vocal music. Students will be able to participate in workshops, demonstrations and performances that will take place throughout
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LAWTON, Okla. – When an Oklahoma kindergartner learned about a creativity essay contest, he knew exactly what he wanted to say. The Black Heritage Creative Contest asked students across the state to write about a significant African-American person in their life. Hunter Borden, a kindergarten
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Topics include diversifying your writing, generating ideas, turning ideas into story, setting goals, writing dialogue, creating new stories from old, writing creative non-fiction and memoir and discussions with publishers and an agent. The line-up of award-winning writers reflects a broad range of talents,
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Saikat Majumdar novelist, author and Professor of English and Creative Writing, Ashoka University, and novelist, said: “The ongoing symposia on literary activism stage is an appeal to fragment and scatter the notion of literary value. A totalised notion of value cuts the breath from the diffuse, elusive and
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Sewanee has a well-established English department and heavy involvement with writing, and the Creative Writing Certificate allows students to engage further with this aspect of the University. In order to complete the Certificate, a student works with an advisor as they complete their capstone, which can
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In the last couple of weeks, we've had them in English, where they did a haunted house experience to inspire some creative writing. The history department did a Wall Street crash experience,” he said. “Virtual reality has already begun to transform education. Experiential learning is unparalleled.
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CREATIVE CONTEST — If you have artistic talent and love animals, you might want to enter the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' 126th Poster and Creative Writing Contest. The Humane Education Department recently announced its theme: Emergency-prepared Pets, which stresses the
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[Mariam Williams is a Kentucky writer living in Philadelphia. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing and certificate in public history from Rutgers University-Camden. She is a contributor to the anthology Faithfully Feminist and blogs at MariamWilliams.com. Follow her on Twitter:
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Her creative writing thesis combines poetry and prose to explore the development of her identity. … I am basically writing about my life and how I've come into my identity and writing about the different nuances between family dynamics and coming into what it means to be a black woman in America.
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Makeready, the studio owned by former New Regency CEO Brad Weston, has preempted film rights to Freefall by Jessica Barry (HarperCollins, 2019), a novel about a woman who is racing to protect her mother, in a seven-figure deal. (Deadline Hollywood). Stephen King's narrative poem The Bone
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The backstory: Martha Holmberg — a longtime cookbook author — also leads IACP, which has been doling out awards to publications, publishers, and authors for 40 years. Holmberg co-wrote Portland-based chef Joshua McFadden's Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables, a book that was
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According to TMZ, at least two of the outspoken survivors have been in talks with publishers for book deals. The deals haven't been inked but the students are in the meeting phase with book publishers. TMZ also reports that some of the students have been getting help from high-profile publicists to field
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Join us for our first creative writing club meeting where we'll discuss upcoming events and involvement. You'll also meet other CCD students and work on some creative writing prompts. For more information, please contact Jeff Becker or Tyler Peyton.
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In the ultra-competitive, hard-to-break-into world of book publishing, it's very unusual for someone who's just 22 years old, from little old Gig Harbor, to have three illustration contracts from a major publisher even before she graduated from college, Robbins said. “That's almost unheard of. And I'm so
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Using the hashtag #KidLitMarchesforKids, two YA authors, Jenny Han and Raina Telgemeier, have taken the lead in organizing the children's book publishing community to join the #NeverAgain and #MarchforOurLives movement for gun control. Collaborating with the advocacy group Everytown for Gun
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Author Carol Thomas is celebrating after being told her latest novel, The Purrfect Pet Sitter, is to be published by an award-winning company. Her new book is to be published by Ruby Fiction and follows the success of her first novel, Crazy Over You. Carol attended a “meet the authors” event staged by
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The Extremely Weird Thing That Happened in Huggabie Falls, the first title in a middle grade series by Australian author Adam Cece, has sold to a number of publishers including Bayard (France), Salani (Italy), Lannoo (Netherlands), Castor de Papel (Portugal), and Duomo (Spain). Text Publishing in
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To understand how poetry books are faring at the Book Fair, Dhaka Tribune spoke to two publishers and two poets. Robin Ahsan, publisher at Shrabon Publication, said they have launched seven poetry books – notable among them Mohammad Nurul Huda's book “Ami O Rohingya Shishu” and
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People of all ages thronged the book fair yesterday to satiate their literary cravings and went home happy heaped with books. The publishers were upbeat too as the sales were high. And the festivity … So, rain could not damage any book,” said Md Tofazzol Hossain, publisher of Biswasahitya Bhaban.
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Sure, it might shore up page rates and stabilize things for a very short time, but as the economics of comics continues to slump and slowly degrade, either rates will just sink again, or publishers will go out of business or turn to IP farming in lieu of publishing. In the end, all comic book publishing is just
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Facebook's recent algorithm change has claimed a casualty. LittleThings, a 4-year-old site that scaled an audience by sharing feel-good stories and videos on Facebook, shut down today, putting 100 out of work, after Facebook decided it wanted more user posts and less publisher content in its news
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As a result, some sellers were left with the impression that the new Starter tier had the same FVF (commission fees) as other Store tiers (3.5%-9.15%). But according to eBay employees responding to seller questions on the boards, that's not the case – Starter Stores pay 10% FVFs across the board.
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“With Active Insights, publishers can now excel at audience engagement and retention via a clear understanding of the churn factors that lead users to delete, download, or re-download apps,” the company said in a press release. “Publishers can also 'activate' these insights by building and exporting
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LittleThings, the female-focused digital publisher that specialized in distributing its “feel good” content on Facebook , FB -1.88% is shutting down after a change to the social-media company's news feed caused its traffic to tumble. In doing so, the company becomes the latest publisher to feel the effects of
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Meetings between the small student groups and the seniors will concentrate on various literary skills, such as writing, editing, interviewing, discussions, composition and sharing. The students collect the information over the course of six weeks and then create a memory album for their senior partner.
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To help “metro newspapers” take their digital subscription business to a new level, Facebook has launched a local news accelerator for news publishers. The $3 million, three-month pilot programme titled “Journalism Project: Local News Subscriptions Accelerator” will begin in the US with 10-15 metro
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Graham wrote dozens of books, nearly all of which became top sellers. His autobiography, “Just As I Am,” published in 1997 appeared simultaneously on the three top best-seller lists in one week. Graham had personal audiences with many sitting US presidents from Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama.
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Jill Soloway, creator of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning show Transparent, is heading another Amazon project. The company announced today that Soloway will be the editor-at-large of a new Amazon Publishing imprint, Topple Books, which will feature a diverse slate of writers working in
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Editorial Board. Editor-in-Chief Patricio Manuel Aduriz Lorenzo – Dubai Hospital, , Dubai, UAE. Managing Editors Manal Mohammed Abdulrazzaq Abdulrahim – Dubai Hospital, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, UAE Hayat Ahmad Khan – Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, UAE Bassam Mahboud – Dubai
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The prioritization of friends/family content over publishers was the last straw. Our organic traffic (the highest margin business), and influencer traffic were cut by over 75%. No previous algorithm update ever came close to this level of decimation. The position it put us in was beyond dire. The businesses
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The Engagement Token cryptocurrency fuels the Pay Per Article publishing platform, SolidOpinion which is revolutionizing the digital publishing industry by incentivizing audiences to comment on articles on publishing platforms, thus increasing publishing site engagements and the values advertisers
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Of course, many retailers may invest in safety or buffer stock, particularly on best sellers, in an effort to avoid this customer disappointment. The commercial threshold for keeping such stock often depends on timing – matching seasonal trends and confidence in the sales to ensure that new lines sell at
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Instagram publishing is now live on HubSpot! But you need a business account to get started. Find out all the benefits for switching from a personal Instagram account to a business account.
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Perhaps due in no small part to its historical mystique, mechanochemistry has been shrowded in relative obscurity for quite some time. The successes of mechanochemistry in organic synthesis have often been curtailed by a fundamentally limited mechanistic understanding. Lately, however, the
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When using a beam to make a measurement in situ, irrespective of scale, the process implicitly includes the taking of a sample. Therefore, the uncertainty of the measurement result needs to include the uncertainty generated by the sampling process, which is usually dominated by the heterogeneity of
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The Book Publishers Association of Alberta has submitted a letter to the provincial Minister of Education, David Eggen, asking that the government withdraw from a recent lawsuit filed against … A paid membership is required to access Q&Q Omni material, including some of the content on this page.
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“Etsy had a good fourth quarter and helped our sellers achieve a meaningful acceleration in sales growth during an important holiday season,” said Josh Silverman, Etsy, Inc. CEO. “We created a more engaging experience for our buyers, and delivered our first-ever billion dollar quarter of GMS,
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