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Here are all the 2020 recipients of Caldecott, Printz, and Newbery honors. Read More ““New Kid” by Jerry Craft just became the first graphic novel to win a Newbery Medal”
Only three of the five screenplays were based on traditional books this year, with the remaining contenders being adapted from a comic and an unproduced play. Read More “Which books were the 2020 Oscar adapted screenplay nominees based on?”
The winner will be announced at a ceremony on January 28. Read More “Meet the five authors vying for the 2019 Costa Book of the Year award”
The journalist and bestselling memoirist died from complications from metastatic breast cancer today, her friends and family report. Read More “Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of ‘Prozac Nation,’ is dead at 52”
Gyllenhaal plans to play Alison Bechdel’s father in the upcoming film adaptation of Bechdel’s memoir-turned-musical. Read More “Jake Gyllenhaal to produce and star in film adaptation of “Fun Home””
Little Women isn’t the only literary heavy-hitter coming to the big screen this winter. Read More “All the page-to-screen adaptations hitting theaters in January and February 2020”
Which 10 stories attracted the most visitors this year on our website? Read More “Counting down our most popular writing articles of 2019”
Which were our favorite pieces to write and read this year? Here’s a round-up of all our writer and staff favorites from 2019. Read More “Presenting all our favorite articles of 2019”
See which books reigned supreme each year according to Amazon’s Top 100 list archives. Read More “Here are the bestselling novels of the decade”
These 2019 novels dominated Amazon bestseller lists this year. Read More “Here are the bestselling new novels of 2019”
Here are the five components that should be in any truthteller’s toolkit. Read More “5 things a personal essay needs to succeed (and sell)”
“I want to write about the COVID-19 pandemic, but I’m worried literary journal editors are saturated with similar submissions.” Read More “Gigi Will Know: Are editors sick of COVID-19 pitches yet?”
Since conferences aren’t back on the table for most writers just yet, here are some online learning resources for craft-hungry scribes. Read More “Virtual learning opportunities for writers”
