Sentences with phrase «literary community for»

He created Holiday Spheres to float over the Miami - Dade Cultural Center during its opening, and organized the city's literary community for his Miami Reading Symphonies for the public library system.

Carrot Ranch is a dynamic online literary community for those practicing craft, reading stories and discussing process.

But he will be remembered most by the Nashville literary community for his immense enthusiasm for books.

Not exact matches

I meet with the community team at least once a week to brainstorm about ways we can connect with users, like sponsoring a literary event or organizing meetups for Tumblr users around the world.

A native of New York City, he returned there to work at two literary agencies as a manuscript reader, and then worked for a year and a half as a VISTA Volunteer community organizer with the Gray Panthers.

The news drew criticism from the literary community under the suspicion that awarding the Nobel Prize for literature to a musician overlooked more deserving honorees.

His mistake was rather in supposing that America's literary community still took him seriously enough to look for some significant intent in his writing.

Winfred Ernest Garrison, church historian and for over three decades literary editor of the Christian Century, writes here of the World Conference on Church, Community and State held in Oxford in July, 1937.

Yet even on these terms it should remain possible for an interpretive community to make a conscious decision to hear the Bible as scripture, to believe in the coercive and constraining force of the Bible's own unique literary construction, and to regard itself as trying to live out the demands of a word and a God that stand over it, in continuity with communities of faith within the Bible and in the church's ongoing history of interpretation.

Since 1982, Just Buffalo has led the way for literary arts education in Western New York, bringing professional writers into Buffalo Public Schools and other communities through creative writing programs that reach 2,500 students per year.

One Story Blog About - One Story is an award - winning, not - for - profit literary publisher committed to supporting the art form of the short story and the authors who write them — through One Story, One Teen Story, education, community, and mentorship.

We appreciate the courtesy of our viewers and members of the creative community who suggest material, including program concepts, formats and literary material, music and lyrics, and other creative concepts for our use.

It would be a landmark work, not only for Capote, but also for the literary community as a whole, influencing the way books are written for the next few years and beyond.

Plus tips for choosing the right literary selection for a community read.

Included: Tips for choosing the right literary selection for a community read.

The literary community as a whole tends to be very insular and the books themselves also read like they're too cool for school.

Active in the literary community, she is a member of the Brooklyn Book Festival publicity committee and publicity director for Littsburgh: Celebrating Literary Pittsburgh.

It is also hub for one of the world's largest communities of literary agents and scouts.

Through my group in Gainesville, Florida, authors are invited to speak on panels for community events, share writing in critique groups, publish in the group's literary journal, and collaborate with schools and civic groups in the area.

Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer (and a pile of other awards) for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but I've always been all about Drown, his first collection of short stories and the book that singled him out as the most promising literary voice of the Dominican - American community.

Digital - only sequels and epilogues are common in genre communities, but rare for literary authors.

Not only is she newsletter editor for the ALCS, she's also non-fiction editor for The Bookseller (the trade paper of the British book trade), chair of literary festival events, book award judge, and a respected author — and she still finds time to volunteer in the local community, choreographing a fabulous Book Week for one lucky primary school in the neighbourhood.

I think there will be a demand for dedicated reading devices for a long time to come, especially since the literary and academic community has embraced them.

January 2010 I started blogging and by the end of 2012, so we are talking a good couple of years of blogging here, I built a speaking platform for myself, I had started podcasting, I was blogging a couple times a week, good community of people and then boom, the book offer comes in from a publisher in the U.S. and I didn't go with that initial offer but it made me think very seriously about going back to that goal of someday writing a book and so I was introduced to a literary agent and I obviously went the traditional publishing route with Virtual Freedom but there's nothing wrong with the self publishing route at all.

Lurk or join for free, and see what a community of 50,000 + authors, readers, editors, agents, and other literary professionals says about places like Balboa, PublishAmerica, and Author Solutions.

This might mean that literary writers will have to create communities and audience for themselves.

Bridburg, in fact, is echoing Muse keynote speaker Jane Friedman, who, in her comments to us at Publishing Perspectives for The Muse's Town Hall: Jane Friedman on Literary in Digital Times, also goes right for the community angle, saying, «I wish there were a community aspect to it, which the literary world needs.

I don't see online communities growing up around literary authors and books in quite the same way I see it happening for genre fiction and fan fiction.

It could be that there just isn't as much money in literary as there is in romance, mystery, and thrillers, making it less appealing for online publishers or online writing communities to get into the literary space.

Creative nonfiction essays of no more than 5,000 words on any subject, are eligible for consideration for this award, whose winner receives $ 250 and publication in Lunch Ticket, the literary and art journal produced by the MFA community of Antioch University Los Angeles.

For her part, Bridburg sees the Wattpad model as it stands today to be valuable as a community but wonders aloud if it's the kind of operation that might produce work generally thought of as literary.

As a small business open in Phoenix for nearly a decade, Midnight Publishing's staff is really passionate about our local writing community, and we always want to spread the word about literary events.

Interestingly, the literary pieces themselves have been out for about a decade now, long before ebooks have caught on with the reading community; being a decade old also means those print books can not provide as refined a reading experience as the newer ebooks do.

The essence of the Humble Bundle campaign with Harpercollins is that customers can pay what they want for a collection of digital literary works from bestselling authors, like Neil Gaiman and James Rollins, while helping support the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America Emergency Medical Fund, a non-profit organization for authors of science fiction and related genres, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment rights of the comics art form and its community.

Acting as a clearing house for Jewish Book Month events is part of the Jewish Book Council's overall mission to promote the reading, writing, publishing and distribution of quality Jewish content books in English, as well as to serve as the coordinating body of Jewish literary activity in North America in both general and Jewish venues, advising local communities on exhibits, book fairs, book club appearances, author tours and other literary programs.

https://www.shelfari.com/ Shelfari introduces readers to a global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers (for now).

Shelfari introduces readers to our global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers (for now).

Eve Bridburg: «I don't see online communities growing up around literary authors and books in quite the same way I see it happening for genre fiction and fan fiction.

While it will likely appeal most to music fans eager to see how this iconoclastic singer / songwriter (and author of the 2001 short story collection Doghouse Roses) will fare in the literary sweepstakes, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive deserves praise for the way it captures both the squalor and the community spirit of a down - and - out enclave populated with lively, believable characters.

While it will likely appeal most to music fans eager to see how this iconoclastic singer / songwriter will fare in the literary sweepstakes, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive deserves praise for the way it captures both the squalor and the community spirit of a down - and - out enclave populated with lively, believable characters.

GoodEReader.com spoke with Sarah Mackey, Community Liaison for the Office of Letters and Light, the parent organization of NaNoWriMo, literally hours before the official start of this year's National Novel Writing Month about how technology and digital publishing have affected the «thirty days and nights of literary abandon» and may have influenced record numbers of writers to take on the challenge.

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg (Scout Press) Already longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, this debut from literary agent Clegg (Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man) is a scorching depiction of a community's grief after a life - changing event.

Patterson, who received an honorary National Book Award last year for his contributions to the literary community, has also given away millions to independent bookstores and to literacy programs.

2012 Fall Flash Fiction Competition Finalist, Tuscany Press Novel Prize for BLOOD OF A STONE Violinist, Phoenix College Symphony Instructor, Creative Writing for community groups and libraries (including numerous grants) Freelance editor Short Fiction and Creative Nonfiction published in dozens of literary magazines Blogger, Jeanne's Writing Desk

She is also the founding director of VisionaryFiction.com, the Internet community forum for readers, authors, booksellers and publishers of the emerging literary genre of visionary fiction.

Moreover, it probably wouldn't have been so horribly rejected by the literary community if not for the fact that the readers already know just how great a writer Rowling can be.

3) Joshua said: «And for all the good points Dean makes, his underlying dislike of literary agents blinds him to the fact that the community of arts and letters and culture is as a whole a better place for writers where more writers make more money than they would otherwise.»

The result for the literary community as a whole can be surprising, enriching, and collaborative in terms of connections made and ideas exchanged.

Different things work for different people, but there's no doubt that using all your good stuff and being a good citizen in your literary community benefit everyone.

With its growing community of over 194,000 members, their readership is constantly looking for free and deeply discounted ebooks that align with their literary tastes.