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Stick a toe in

ARE you interested in the growing field of children’s literature? Not sure what to expect or how to get started? Then you might want to check out Writing and Illustrating Children’s Books: An Introduction.

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Stick a toe in

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Four days of literature with the Beirut 39

BEIRUT: “The reader touches, feels, hears, tastes and sees the Middle East and North Africa as it really is,” claims Hanan al-Shaykh in her preface to the Beirut39 anthology. “Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World” was published this month, in both English and in Arabic, as the Arab literature festival draws to a close. Celebrating Beirut’s

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Four days of literature with the Beirut 39

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One Book Discussion Continues With Lecture on Iranian Women’s Literature (Phillyist)

Photo by Flickr user hapal As part of the One Book, One Philadelphia series focusing on Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis , Dr.

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One Book Discussion Continues With Lecture on Iranian Women’s Literature (Phillyist)

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On the job: Nancy R. Kellner, Library teacher-children and #8217;s librarian, Peaslee Elementary School, Northboro (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)

“I work with teachers and direct students to books in the school library.

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On the job: Nancy R. Kellner, Library teacher-children and #8217;s librarian, Peaslee Elementary School, Northboro (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)

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Kittatinny students brought the spirit (The Township Journal)

of the season to local elementary schools By Hailee Magee SANDYSTON Each holiday season the Kittatinny Creative Writing classes, composed of mostly juniors and seniors, embark on their second marking period task: children’s books. Students spend the entire unit studying effective elements of children’s literature, and conclude the unit by writing and illustrating their own children’s book.

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Kittatinny students brought the spirit (The Township Journal)

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Inside the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas (Spike the Meanjin Blog)

This weekend I went to the first workshop at Melbourne’s brand spanking new Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas . It’s the jewel in the crown of UNESCO’s City of Literature and, based on the construction work going on out the front, there’s a bit more polishing before it’s fully open to the public.

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Inside the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas (Spike the Meanjin Blog)

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Legend of a Suicide, By David Vann (Independent)

Suicide is always horribly violent. It’s the death that wreaks maximum havoc on those left behind

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Legend of a Suicide, By David Vann (Independent)

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Scrivener offers hefty NaNoWriMo discounts (Macworld)

To help you get through next month’s National Novel Writing Month, Literature and Latte is offering some hefty discounts and an extended trial version of its novel-writing application Scrivener.

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Scrivener offers hefty NaNoWriMo discounts (Macworld)

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The Forgettable And The Overlooked In Lit Prizes (The Huffington Post)

What’s Your Reaction? This year is a good one for female writers; most of the major literature prizes have gone to women, though whether this is a fluke, a new trend of heightened equality, or a sign that “literary fiction itself is succumbing to entropy,” as Erica Jong muses in her new piece for HuffPost .

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The Forgettable And The Overlooked In Lit Prizes (The Huffington Post)

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Tay ethnic writer and the ASEAN Literature Awards (Vietnam Net)

VietNamNet Bridge – The short story collection Ngoi Nha Xua Ben Suoi (The Old House by the Stream) by Tay ethnic writer Cao Duy Son has been nominated for the Southeast Asian Writers Award for Viet Nam this year.

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Tay ethnic writer and the ASEAN Literature Awards (Vietnam Net)

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