Sentences with phrase «young writers of»

After the 2003 publication of Nell Freudenberger's story collection Lucky Girls, young writers of her generation...

That's why you will never see a major bestseller even talk about this topic, or bother to learn what is happening to the young writers of today.

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Winners of the Debut Political Book of the Year and Young Writer of the Year will each win # 3,000.

The winner will be surprised in a school assembly by Steve, who will announce the National Young Writer of the Year, present them with a trophy, a trip to Disneyland Paris for their family, and # 500 worth of books for their school.

We are absolutely thrilled that Steve Backshall is our judge for 2017 and we know that he will inspire even more children to enter to win the chance to meet their idol — as well as that fantastic trip to Disneyland Paris and the wonderful accolade of being named National Young Writer of the Year!»

«We are beyond excited to have David Walliams as our judge for the 2018 competition and we know that he will help to inspire even more children to get writing for the chance to meet their idol - as well as that fantastic trip to Disneyland Paris and the wonderful accolade of being named National Young Writer of the Year!»

The winner will be surprised at a school assembly by David Walliams who will announce the National Young Writer of the Year and present them with a trophy, a trip to Disneyland Paris for their family and # 500 of books for their school!

Last week saw the launch of the 2018 Sunday Times Peters Fraser Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award.

The Dead Fathers Club is a riveting, imaginative, and quirky update of Shakespeare's great tragedy that will establish Matt Haig as a young writer of great talent and imagination.

Spanning over a century, dreamlike and yet impossibly real, profound and playful, The Shore is a breathtakingly ambitious and accomplished work of fiction by a young writer of remarkable promise.

This morning she was named a recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award — given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters — honoring «a young writer of considerable literary talent for a work published in 2012» and accompanied by a prize of $ 10,000.

The Sunday Times / Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, in association with Warwick University, is awarded for a full - length published or self - published (in book or ebook formats) work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, by an author aged 18 — 35 years.

Self - published authors are being encouraged to submit to this year's The Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, along with traditionally - published...

Writers between the ages of 18 and 35 in the UK and Ireland have been rushing to get their work entered into the newly revived Sunday Times / Peters Fraser Dunlop Young Writer Of The Year Award.

Not exact matches

Rockstar Games» Dan Houser, one of the writers behind GTA: III, told Gamespot in October, «It's still a young, young medium.

Many of the young entrepreneurs I meet through my work as a writer, investor and entrepreneur aren't reaching their full potential.

Cristi Young is a New York City - based writer and the founder of No. 2 Creative, a branding firm that offers editorial content and strategies for companies looking to grow and refine their brands.

You might know Strauss already — the Rolling Stone writer is also the author of «The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists,» a book that's become something of a bible to awkward young men who would like to learn the curious arts of charming women.

A good example of this would be a weight loss advertisement or advertorial in which the writer claims to have lost a large amount of body fat in two months, or a customer claiming that their face looked 10 years younger in just two weeks.

There's a solution I like, and it comes courtesy of Hollywood — specifically, from actress - writer - producer Mindy Kaling, whose impressive success as a young woman of colour in a town run by old white men routinely spurs people to ask where she gets her confidence.

We are thrilled that, through the new Emerging Writers Award, we will be able to cultivate the talents of promising young writers in Canada.Writers Award, we will be able to cultivate the talents of promising young writers in Canada.writers in Canada.»

That inspired him to assemble Young Leaders, one of two panel discussions he'll present at the International Metal Writers Conference in Vancouver on May 28 and 29.

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

Usually the idea of modesty was presented innocuously enough, often at big concerts and conferences led by eloquent, attractive young artists and writers like Joshua Harris and Rebecca St. James with largely good intentions.

William F. Buckley — especially the young Buckley of the 1951 God and Man at Yale, his first book — exploded on the American scene in much the same way these other Catholic writers did.

Buckley was never a professional Catholic, in the sense of someone who made his living from the fact of his faith, and his standing as a Catholic commentator may have declined when, in 1961, National Review responded to John XXIII's encyclical on Christianity and social progress, Mater et Magistra, with an unsigned quip: «Mater si, Magistra no» (though most reports now ascribe it to a hotshot young writer at the magazine named Garry Wills.)

To many he is known as one of the most courageous opponents of the bloody war in Indo - China, to others he is known as a leader in the civil - rights movement, yet to others he is known as a popular writer and speaker, and to yet others he is an enterprising young politician who will someday hold political office.

That (very) young man was, of course, this writer.

A young writer in Australia recently sent me an essay that ended with an arresting sentence: «I am twenty - seven years old and hope to live to see the end of the twentieth century.»

Down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass, young writers and editors dressed in black crowd into the offices of Verso Books, open Brooklyn Lagers, and gird their loins for intellectual combat.

What other writer, having just finished Moby - Dick and standing at the peak of his powers, would have taken in his next book a simple story about a young man's descent in the city and compounded it into the unreadable, pseudo-Hawthornian mess of Pierre?

Hold the Dark, then, is an anti-Oresteia, one that follows with silent terror as a nature writer stumbles into a place where the rule of society and of the «younger gods» have broken down.

But instead, one of the main characters pains over having to be a young adult novelist over a «serious» writer.

Many of the current «young evangelical» writers grew up in the «60s, and could not resist the perceived cogency of certain cultural trends — for instance, racial and sexual equality, or nonviolence.

Given the fundamentalist personal background of many young evangelical writers, this unconscious hangover of biblicism is not too surprising.

The result — a tale of a young teenage boy who believes his epic sci - fi novel has been stolen for use by one of his writer heroes, and the battle that ensues between them — is a movie that this time might be too strange for a mainstream audience, but based on the Hesses» track record, could very well gain a cult following for years.

There are writers, such as Allan Bloom in THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND, who have actually claimed that the End of History is already here for sophisticated young Americans, and without our any biotechnological helOF THE AMERICAN MIND, who have actually claimed that the End of History is already here for sophisticated young Americans, and without our any biotechnological helof History is already here for sophisticated young Americans, and without our any biotechnological help.

Reading through Flannery O'Connor's published interviews, a scholar today might be surprised to see that half of them appeared in Catholic journals — an inconceivable situation now for a serious young writer.

The great and present danger to American literature is the growing homogeneity of our writers, especially the younger generation.

I recalled that the last time I looked at the book, more than ten years ago, I felt embarrassed by the naïveté and piety of the young writer who sought to authorize her insights and proposals by quoting numerous theological, psychological and sociological authorities.

Anglican and Nonconformist theologians, philosophers, and writers (Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Frederic Dennis Maurice, Charles Kingsley), especially the Christian Socialists, were interested in the normative aspect of the problems of religion and society.15 In the younger generation several of these trends are blended: William Temple, John MacMurray, Maurice B. Rickett, Vigo A. Demant.16 Max Weber's influence in England never reached as deep as in France or the United States; it remained limited to his theories on economics.

This lack of agreement, even along the most general lines, is a characteristic feature of the situation today and accounts in a large measure for the low educational status of the ministry The work of the lawyer, the physician, the teacher, the artist, the writer and the engineer, is clear - cut and rather sharply defined (at least in the mind of the average man), so that when a young man chooses one of these professions he has some idea of what he is getting into.

Friedman thinks a major change may be under way, citing the large number of younger Jewish intellectuals and writers who identify themselves as conservative.

Against Goldhagen, Littell wants to defend «senior scholars» who have spent decades pressing the case for serious research of the Holocaust «long before any young writer or eager publisher could capitalize on the brute fact that today «there's no business like Shoah business.

The younger writers are so self - conscious, so steeped in a certain kind of liberal education, that their characters can't condone even their own sexual impulses; they are, in short, too cool for sex.

The local habitation for much of his life was Salem, Massachusetts, with important chapters elsewhere: as a boy along the idyllic shores of Lake Sebago, Maine; as a student at Maine's Bowdoin College; as a young idealist at the Brook Farm Utopian community west of Boston (1841); as a married man in Emerson's Concord (1842 — 45); as a summer neighbor of Herman Melville in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts (1850); as a mature writer and consular official in Liverpool, England (1853 — 58); and as a traveler and resident in Italy (1858 — 59)-- before a final period of ill health and death in Concord (1859 — 1864).

Writers of Christmas books for children can no longer assume their young readers understand fundamental elements of the Nativity story, Scripture Union has warned.

While Curran's attempt at diversity is obvious (one essay is by a lesbian, several are by nonwhite writers, and at least one is written by a thrice - married «encore bride»), and while the authors subscribe to a range of opinions on what constitutes a meaningful wedding, the essays tend to merge into one witty, young - hip - and - urban and mostly forgettable voice.

I've known ever since I was a little girl that I wanted to be writer, and so each year, my elementary school teachers encouraged me to attend the Young Author's Conference at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.