Sentences with phrase «white writers»
It still remained risky for white writers to highlight black family problems.
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For white writers, the puzzle of the flesh usually has to do with the uneasy relationship of body to spirit.
Donald Woods, a prominent newspaper columnist and an early friend and supporter of Steve Biko, has been expelled from the country, and novelist Breyten Breytenbach is among a number of white writers who have gone to prison.
Last year, Jennifer duBois» debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was met with widespread acclaim — and she's just won a 2013 Whiting Writers Award.
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Skeeter is the vessel, trying to be an up & coming white writer in that time & place.
When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories.
Finally, as I was telling a friend the other day, I'm desperate to see more white writers exploring whiteness in their work.
A very simple example is how in the educational system the Harlem Renaissance may be taught over two days, while Transcendentalism, solely taught on a roster of white writers, receives two weeks.
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It was the second all - black cast film produced by a major Hollywood studio and the first sound film by white writer and director King Vidor.
He received a 2009 Whiting Writers» Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, the 2004 Lawrence Foundation Prize from the Michigan Quarterly Review, and the 2003 Short - Story Award for New Writers from Glimmer Train Stories.
He has won the Whiting Writers» Award; the Milton Center's Award for Excellence in Writing; the Florence Kahn Memorial Award; Poetry magazine's Ruth Lilly Fellowship; Philips Exeter Academy's George Bennett Fellowship; and a Lannan Foundation fellowship.
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Wayne's debut, Kapitoil, won the 2011 Whiting Writers» Award.
More novels followed: The Late - Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind; The Dark Sister, which received the Whiting Writer's Award, Mazel, which received the 1995 National Jewish Book Award and the 1995 Edward Lewis Wallant Award; and Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics.
The recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, Ms. McDermott is currently writer - in - residence at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Teddy Wayne won attention and acclaim (including the 2011 Whiting Writers» Award) for his first novel, Kapitoil, the story of a Muslim immigrant's integration into the corporate world — and America's capitalist society.
Breaking Clean was awarded a 1997 PEN / Jerard Fund Award for a work in progress, as well as a 2001 Whiting Writers» Award.
Jordan has been awarded the Anisfield - Wolf Award, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Pushcart Prize for his work.
Mark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with such distinctions as the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN / Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers» Award, a... (more)
A winner of the Whiting Writer's Award and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Kantner is a Recipient of the Whiting Writers» Award in 2005 for fiction.
Other honors for his writing include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writer's Award.
Jennifer duBois is the recipient of a 2013 Whiting Writer's Award and a 2012 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award.
Johnson has received a Whiting Writers» Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Swarthout Writing Award, a Kingsbury Fellowship and a Stegner Fellowship.
There are stories that there are too many male writers or white writers.
Other honours for his writing include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writer's Award.
Congratulations to all the winners of the Whiting Writers» Awards, which took place this Monday!
Mark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with such distinctions as the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN / Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers» Award, a Lila Wallace — Reader's Digest Writers» Award, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize.