Former interns Jennifer Crystal Johnson and Rebecca Kaye are moving up the ladder at phati’tude Literary Magazine. Johnson, formerly Associate Editor is now Managing Editor; and Kaye, formerly Editor is now Associate Editor. It just goes to show that growth opportunities truly exist at Team phati’tude!
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The editors of phati’tude Literary Magazine is pleased to announce Kevin Tobar Pesántezan is our Spring 2012 intern. Kevin is a Queens-born (NYC), Ecuadorian writer, spoken word poet, and facilitator who is a great addition to Team phati’tude.
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2Leaf Press, created to publish literary works, is committed to publishing poet-activist Jesús Papoleto Meléndez’s bilingual omnibus and is on the search to publish four outstanding books Fall 2012.
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Publishing has changed since “Animals of the Bible” won the first Caldecott in 1938 and the Newbery went to “The Story of Mankind” in 1922. There is a lot of inventiveness on the part of children’s book creators, and its paying off, capturing the public’s eye.
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As intense Western interest has vaulted the work of a handful of Pakistani writers on to prize lists and foreign bookstore shelves, Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif hopes to build a publishing industry in the image of the one that thrives next door in India.
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The Jewish Book Council has announced the five finalists for the 2012 Sami Rhor Prize for Jewish Literature, which will be awarded next month. The winner will receive $100,000, among the most generous in the literary world.
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As Scottish writer Alex Salmond relishes Scottish independence, one wonders that if Scotland gains full autonomy and develops its own literature, ‘British’ writing will look rather thinner as a result.
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What is the role of the contemporary African writer? At the start of the Dutch literature festival Writers Unlimited, Radio Netherlands Worldwide talked to three African writers from different corners of the continent.
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There was a time when scholars argued there was no such thing as Australian literature, but with home-grown literary bestsellers, the destiny of Australia’s literary scene is changing for the better.
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The Chicago Tribune has announced that it will be offering subscribers a new Sunday books section as a piece of premium paid content. The Tribune compares its model to cable TV subscriptions, which encourage users to sign up to a basic package and then pay for extra premium channels. The question is, will it work?
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The American Library Assn. announced the 2012 winners of its annual Newbery, Caldecott, Printz and other awards Monday in Dallas. The awards are given to authors and illustrators of books, audio books and videos for children and young adults.
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Vladimir Putin wants to establish a hundred book “Russian Canon” that’s more rigid and purpose-driven than the Western Canon . . . but others fear that texts from the likes of Dostoyevsky or Solzhenitsyn will be sacrificed for “Soviet-era schlock” literature.
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Bigotry. Intolerance. Censorship. Not words that you would normally associate with a literature festival, let alone one taking place in what is considered the world’s largest democracy, and yet Salaman Rushdie was banned at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India.
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This holiday season, won’t you consider supporting phati’tude Literary Magazine? Give he Gift of Literature, Give phati’tude & pass it on!
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An international conference on the Persian poet and mystic Jalal ad-Din Rumi entitled From Balkh to Konya opened Saturday at Iran’s Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia.
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Egya Sule, a poet and a literary critic teaching at the University of Abuja, Sule , criticizes the Nigeria Prize for Literature for not helping African writers, and publicly states that fellow African writer, Chinua Achebe, is overrated.
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Although industry experts predict a digital literature boom next year, a lot of inspiring work has already hatched during 2011.
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In this season of goodwill, Robert McCrum shares his list of 50 things he has learned in the byways and saloons of Grub Street, about the literary life.
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Winter may be here, but phati’tude Literary Magazine “burns the clock” to celebrate the long-awaited publication of its “Summer Sixties Special” and “Spring Has Returned: A Season of Renewal.”
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Canadian literary circles are pleased by this years’ emerging homegrown authors such as Patrick deWitt and Esi Edugyan, as well as established writers Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood, strutting their stuff on an international stage.
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West Coast transplant Aurora Anaya-Cerda found a community in East Harlem and now she wants to open a bookstore there to nurture the area’s passion for literature.
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Award-winning poet Alice Oswald has pulled out of prestigious poetry award the TS Eliot prize in protest over its sponsorship by an investment company.
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Introducing Polifonia Scholarly Journal, a new a peer-reviewed, online journal of literary criticism and culture of Hispanic studies, housed in the Austin Peay State University’s Department of Languages and Literature, led by Dr. Osvaldo DiPaolo, assistant professor of languages and literature.
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