Tag: Featured
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Climate Fiction, Science Fiction, and more…
Indigenous authors celebrated as readership skyrockets across Canada (CBC) Pauls, whose work aims in part to revitalize the Southern Tutchone language he grew up with, is one of many authors featured at the Vancouver Public Library’s new Indigenous collection at the Central Branch. The collection includes fiction and non-fiction books, films and music from Indigenous authors, and about Indigenous issues. Most […]
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A Literary Contest that Excludes Men, the Success of Indie Booksellers, and more…
A Code-Obsessed Novelist Builds a Writing Bot. The Plot Thickens (Wired) A native of India, the 58-year-old Chandra supported himself as a graduate student studying creative writing in the United States by working as a programmer. He is as comfortable with code as he is with prose, and his startup, Granthika, is a geekily sublime merger […]
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Middle-aged Women as Heroes in Crime Fiction and more…
What is speculative fiction? (Book Riot) Margaret Atwood writes in her book In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination that science fiction and speculative fiction are fluid terms. The worlds of science fiction and speculative fiction “don’t exist, and their non-existence is of a difference in order than the non-existence of the realistic novels.” Additionally, Atwood […]
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Gentrified Comic Books, Podcast Stories, and more…
Romantic fiction awards cancelled after racism row prompts mass boycott (The Guardian) The US’s most prestigious awards for romance writing, the Ritas, have been cancelled after a host of judges and entrants pulled out over an ongoing racism row involving the industry’s largest trade group, the Romance Writers of America. Twisted timelines of a double dystopia […]
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Authors’ websites, horror fiction, and more…
A Beginner’s Guide to Chinese Science Fiction (BookRiot) Chinese science fiction is a diverse, undeniably unique type of sci-fi. And it contributes to the worldliness of the genre as a whole, one whose strengths rest in societal critique and philosophy. How can we only have societal critiques from the West? We need global perspectives to […]
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Reclaiming My Time: I’m breaking up with Facebook for good.
Most authors I’ve talked to at Waking Writer admit that distraction is one of their biggest obstacles to actually…you know…writing. I’m willing to acknowledge that Facebook has been one of the main sources of distraction for me. I’ve been on Facebook since 2005. Yes, nearly 15 years. It’s my longest relationship with any non-human thing: […]
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Nita J. Kulkarni, author of The Hawa Mahal Murders
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing when I was ten years old, with a diary. I wrote a diary for about 15 years and this wasn’t a chronology of events. I wrote about my thoughts and feelings, poems and character sketches of people I knew. I also wrote short stories, novellas, […]
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Tim Starnes, author of Agony: Suffering Yesterday, Entertaining Today
What is the biggest thing that people THINK they know about nonfiction that isn’t so? The walking public believes, or at least I think so, that nonfiction has to be boring – and sadly, it usually is, but the reality is that it doesn’t have to be. There are too many people out there who […]
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The Rise of Nigerian Literature, and more…
Indigenous Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors You Should Be Checking For (Black Girl Nerds) Louise Erdrich is a prolific American Ojibwe author who has published or contributed to over 30 books in various genres. Erdrich has written poetry, non-fiction, children’s literature, and contemporary fiction. Amidst her varied bibliography are several genre novels. Her most recent work […]
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Crime Fiction, AI Writing Novels, Celebrity Book Clubs, and more…
Computers are learning to write, but could they ever produce a literary masterpiece? (ABC News) However, the idea that a novel could ever be written by a machine may still strike some as absurd, given the complexity involved. Language has long been regarded by some AI researchers as a “final frontier”. To readers who value […]
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