Sentences with phrase «winning writer of fiction»

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Professor Jim Al - Khalili, President of the BHA Phillip Pullman, author Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster Tim Minchin, musician and writer Dr Simon Singh, science writer Ken Follett, novelist Dr Adam Rutherford, broadcaster and science writer Sir John Sulston FRS, Nobel Prize winning scientist Sir David Smith FRS FRSE, eminent botanist Professor Jonathan Glover, philosopher Professor Anthony Grayling, philosopher Nick Ross, broadcaster CJ De Mooi, actor and professional quizzer Virginia Ironside, writer Professor Steven Rose, scientist and writer Natalie Haynes, comedian and writer Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner Professor Raymond Tallis FMedSci, physician, philosopher and author Dr Iolo ap Gwynn FRMS, scientist and mountaineer Stephen Volk, screenwriter and author Professor Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics, science writer and broadcaster Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, Fantasy fiction author, satirist Dr Evan Harris, Former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the BHA Dr Richard Bartle, Professor of Computer Game Design Sian Berry, Green campaigner, politician and author Professor John A Lee, Consultant Histopathologist and Professor of Pathology Professor Richard Norman, philosopher Zoe Margolis, author Joan Smith, journalist and author Michael Gore, CVO CBE Derek McAuley, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches Lorraine Barratt, former member of the Welsh Assembly Dr Susan Blackmore, writer and broadcaster Dr Harry Stopes - Roe, Vice President of the BHA Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC (Hon), human rights lawyer Adele Anderson, actor and singer Dr Helena Cronin, Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science Professor Alice Roberts, Anatomist, author and broadcaster Professor Chris French, Professor of Psychology, editor of The Skeptic Sir Tom Blundell, scientist Maureen Duffy, poet, playwright and novelist Baroness Whitaker, Labour peer Lord Avebury, Liberal Democrat peer Richard Herring, writer and comedian Martin Rowson, writer and cartoonist Tony Hawks, comedian, writer, musician and philanthropist Peter Cave, philosopher and author Diane Munday, campaigner Professor Norman MacLean, Biologist Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS, Nobel prize winner, Professor of Chemistry Sir Richard Dalton, former Diplomat Sir David Blatherwick, KCMG, OBE, Diplomat and writer Michael Rubenstein, writer and legal expert Polly Toynbee, columnist and broadcaster Lord O'Neill, labour peer

«People always wanted storytelling games,» says Emily Short, an award - winning writer of interactive fiction and text - based mobile game Versu — where gameplay involves typing commands into an on - screen prompt.

«People always wanted storytelling games,» says Emily Short, an award - winning writer of interactive fiction — text - based adventures where the player has to type in commands at an on - screen prompt.

Pre-Star Wars director, USC graduate, and writer George Lucas had begun his career as director of the science - fiction film THX 1138 (1971), an expanded version of a prize - winning feature film he made while studying film at USC.

She has won Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council in both poetry and fiction and is one of the few American writers listed as both a poet and a writer in the Directory of American Poets and Wwriters listed as both a poet and a writer in the Directory of American Poets and WritersWriters.

Last year she was awarded Editor of the Year from the American Christian Fiction Writers and won B&H's first Christy award for Ginny Yttrup's debut novel Words.

This site, co-founded and maintained by award - winning author Victoria Strauss, is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and has a wide array of information on all forms of scams, ranging from vanity / subsidy publishers and literary agencies to red - flagged clauses and contractual agreements authors should steer clear of.

Next up in this power - list of new and top science fiction writers is New York Times bestselling writer and Hugo Award - winning writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch with her story The End of the World.

Our staff of agents represents dozens of authors and experts, including # 1 New York Times bestsellers, award - winning fiction writers for adults and children, and important non-fiction authors.

Say You're One of Them won the Commonwealth Writers» Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region) 2009 and PEN / Beyond Margins Award 2009, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

Lynn Johnston is a writing coach and award - winning author with a passion for teaching fiction writers how to increase the emotional impact of their stories to turn readers into fans.

She has won Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future Contest and is a graduate of the James Gunn Speculative Fiction Workshop.

The So You Think You Can Write competition offers aspiring writers in Canada, the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa the chance to win a publishing contract from Harlequin, one of the world's leading publishers of romance and women's fiction.

Awarded two Hugos and five Nebulas for his fiction, one of two authors to win a Nebula in every category, Bear has been called the «Best working writer of hard science fiction» by «The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.fiction, one of two authors to win a Nebula in every category, Bear has been called the «Best working writer of hard science fiction» by «The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.fiction» by «The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.Fiction.»

Spend a week with John Updike, one of the few writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

One of the writers she mentions is James Tiptree Jr., an award - winning science fiction author who turned out to be a woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon.

In 1997 he published a collection of short stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Eurasia region); was short - listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize; and was included in a number of «notable books of the year» lists.

Sawyer, the author of twenty - three novels and two story collections, is one of only eight writers in history — and the only Canadian — to win all three of the world's top Science Fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the... Continue reading Episode 004 — Optimizing Your Author Brand with Robert J. Sawyer

There's a trend this year of award - winning writers for young people — like Robin Wasserman, Gayle Forman, and Meg Rosoff — publishing significant literary fiction for an adult audience.

It was conducted under the supervision of writer Jamaica Kincaid, and won numerous awards including the John Llwellyn Rhys Prize for Best First Novel, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize, the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Los Angeles Times First Book Award.

Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers, a novel which won the 2016 PEN / Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction, the 2018 PEN / Hemingway Award, and the 2017 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.

The Pulitzer Prize - winning author — «an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist» (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)-- offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award - winning fiction.

With her debut novel, The Daughters — the story of a soprano whose voice is stolen by a curse, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction — Celt introduced herself as a notable writer with a hauntingly lyrical voice.

Award - winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory.

He's either won or received multiple nominations for virtually every other crime fiction award in the business, from the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award to the Anthony to the Barry to the Gumshoe.

An award - winning essayist and fiction writer, and author of four non-fiction books.

Zoetrope All - Story's Annual Fiction Contest has the aim of seeking out and encouraging talented writers, with the winning and runners - up's work being forwarded to leading literary agents.

A trusted book production partner for some of the most accomplished coaches, educators, entrepreneurs, and writers of inspirational nonfiction and memoir — several of whom have been finalists or won notable book awards, including a 2015 IPBA Benjamin Franklin award in the category Best New Voice: Nonfiction — Stacey has produced over 50 books from cover to cover, and has designed over 100 distinct interiors for novels, memoirs, middle - grade fiction, various specialty nonfiction, and academic language books.

This is one of the themes that Nancy Reisman, an award - winning writer of short fiction, explores in her beautiful debut novel The First Desire.

Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, Kate Grenville's The Lieutenant - a stunning follow - up to her Commonwealth Writers» Prize - winning book, The Secret River, is a gripping story about friendship, self - discovery, and the power of language along the unspoiled shores of 1788 New South Wales.

One of the first regular narrators for the podcast was Mary Robinette Kowal, an award - winning author who served as the vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), but when she had a work conflict in 2009, Baker came onboard to fill in, and later became the full - time narrator for the series.

Latelander is a far - future, science fiction action adventure novel set in the same universe as Brent's Writers of the Future award winning story «Digital Rights».

Today's guest is Bruce Holsinger, an award - winning fiction writer, critic, and literary scholar who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

SAGA, the new science fiction and fantasy imprint from Simon & Schuster, debuts next spring with an exciting slate of books — including the first novel from Hugo, Nebula, and many other awards - winning writer Ken Liu.

Rosie Forrest is a writer of fiction and flash fiction with a background in drama whose collections of stories, «Ghost Box Evolution in Cadillac, Michigan,» won the 2015 annual Rose Metal Press Chapbook contest.

Award - winning author of literary fiction with extensive branding and advertising background and a decade of teaching creative writing at graduate and undergraduate levels, Merrill has helped hundreds of writers develop material and prime manuscripts for publication.

Stephen Hawley Martin is a professional editor, ghostwriter, and author, and the only three - time winner of the Writer's Digest Book Award, having won first prize twice for fiction and once for nonfiction.

Also, Writer's Digest Self - Published eBook Awards — New and for 2013, they only had two categories, fiction and nonfiction, so chances of winning were very slim.

Ron is a well - published writer of fiction and non-fiction and has won many awards for his writing, including a Pushcart Prize, a gold medal from the Faulkner Society, a James Michener Fellowship from the Copernicus Society, and many more.

The agency welcomes both first - time authors and established writers in both fiction and nonfiction and has taken many of each genre onto best - selling and award - winning careers.

Cathy Gohlke is the three - time Christy Award - winning author of the critically acclaimed novels Secrets She Kept (winner of the 2016 Carol and INSPY Awards), Saving Amelie (winner of the 2015 INSPY Award), Band of Sisters, Promise Me This (listed by Library Journal as one of the best books of 2012), William Henry Is a Fine Name, and I Have Seen Him in the Watchfires (listed by Library Journal as one of the best books of 2008), which also won the American Christian Fiction Writers» Book of the Year Award.

The overall winner of the 2015 Writer Unboxed Flash Fiction Contest will be announced by the end of December 2015, and will win a fabulous Mystery Prize Pack.

The three - year Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program offers workshops with award - winning faculty writers in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and memoir, and scriptwriting.

Stauch is a certified executive coach, an award - winning essayist and fiction writer, and author of four non-fiction books.

Plus the award - winning Polish crime writer Zygmunt Miloszewski's Rage, the 2014 winner of the Glass Key for Scandinavian crime fiction Gard Sveen's The Last Pilgrim, and a number of Indonesian writers, including Abidah El Khalieqy, Nukila Amal and Laksmi Pamuntjak.

I'm a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (and won the 2016 Genesis Award for my novella), the Christian Proofreaders and Editors Network (a Silver member), New Zealand Christian Writers, Omega Writers, and Romance Writers of New Zealand.

I recently won a paperback copy of the wonderful A Season to Dance by Patricia Beal, in a giveaway at International Christian Fiction Writers.

She holds a master's degree in English and writing and has won awards for her journalism, fiction and poetry, including recognition from the Dog Writer's Association of American, the Cat Writer's Association, the Association of Food Journalists, and the James Beard Foundation (where she was a finalist for the work she does in her side - gig, writing about booze and cocktails for the Washington Post).

Listen in as I interview travel writer Jeff Greenwald; we discuss ethical travel, travel writing, science fiction, and more on the to the Lowell Thomas Award - winning travel show, Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer featured on NPR.org.

The award - winning science - fiction shooter Moon, originally scripted by writers James McDonough and Adam Patyk of THE ENEMY, is entering a whole new dimension — three of them, in fact!