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This Week at Fiction Week

Fiction News of the Week
New this week at FictionWeek: This time of year, book awards continue to be the big topic. On the other side of the pond, Marilynne Robinson just won Britain's top award for Women's Writing, the 2009 Orange Prize. She won for her novel Home. As you may recall, she is no newcomer to writing awards, having won the Pulitzer back in '05 for her novel Gilead. In her new novel, she revisits the setting and characters from her previous work. As was announced earlier, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Elizabeth Strout for a collection of her short stories titled Olive Kitteridge. She beat out Louise Erdrich for her novel The Plague of Doves and Christine Schutt for her novel All Souls.
    The judging panel for the Man Booker International Prize is in place with Los Angeles writer Jane Smiley as the chairperson. Awarded every two years, the prize differs from the annual Man Booker Prize in that it is for a writer's continued creativity and overall contribution to the world of fiction. For that reason, it is even more prestigious than the annual Booker prize. Here are the nominees: Australian Peter Carey, (Theft), American Evan S. Connell ( Mr. Bridge), Indian Mahasweta Devi ( Imaginary Maps), American E.L. Doctorow ( Homer and Langley), Brit James Kelman ( You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free), Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa ( The Feast of the Goat), Czech Arnošt Lustig ( Lovely Green Eyes), Canadian Alice Munro ( Runaway), Indian V S Naipaul ( Magic Seeds), American Joyce Carol Oates ( Little Bird of Heaven), Italian Antonio Tabucchi ( Dreams of Dreams), Kenyan Ngugi Wa Thiong'O ( Wizard of the Crow), Croatian Dubravka Ugresic ( In the Jaws of Life), Russian Ludmila Ulitskaya ( The People of our Tsar),

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The FictionWeek Literary Review

The FictionWeek Literary Review publishes innovative fiction and poetry, plus book reviews and essays about the writing craft. Submissions are now being accepted for the Fall 2009 issue.



On-Line Writing Workshop: Stories and Discussions

Fiction Week sponsors writer's groups and fiction-writing discussions, both in person and virtually (on-line and by email). This section summarizes some recent writer's group discussions, along with the stories that were discussed.


Writer's Block? - Try Walking the Character

What do you do when you can think of anything to write? Is there a solution to writer's block? These authors say yes: create a character and walk that character into a story-building situation. It works!
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Where is E-Publishing Going?

Where is e-publishing going and what does it mean for writers? This news report describes the current status of e-publishing and discusses techniques for producing e-books and opportunities for writers.
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Fiction at the University

What is the current condition of our nation's fiction writing programs at colleges and universities? Believe it or not, it is as healthy as ever. This author lists some of the top creative writing programs and discusses the programs.
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How to Organize Your Own Writing Group

This author describes a few of the many methods of organizing writing groups and/or book discussion groups. He describes not only how to begin a writing group but also how to keep it going.
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