Northern Kentucky University’s School of the Arts will host Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes on Wednesday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. at NKU’s Corbett Theater. As part of the SOTA Summit Series, his presentation, titled “Art as Mayhem, Joy, Rebellion, and Home,” will be a rare opportunity for theRead More →
Aptaker, who grew up in Arlington, said he “was obsessed with television” as a child. When he realized he wanted to be a screenwriter, writing an imaginary film The episode of “Boy Meets World” was enough to convince her mother not to cut her time in front of the tube.Read More →
Viktor Merezhko, an award-winning Russian screenwriter, filmmaker, playwright, actor, writer and TV presenter, died on Sunday at the age of 84. The cause of death was complications from the coronavirus. Merezhko was born in Rostov and graduated from the prestigious Gerasimov Film Institute (VGIK) in 1968. Even before graduating fromRead More →
A Big Brother finalist and award-winning novelist has signed up to participate in a fundraiser for brain tumor research. Andy West grew up in Milton Keynes and worked as a BBC newsreader, reporter and producer for 15 years before becoming a Big Brother finalist in 2016. His debut novel TheRead More →
Lawyers for a Ugandan satirical novelist accused of insulting the country’s ruling family have said their client was unlawfully detained in defiance of a court order ordering his release issued hours earlier. Kakwenza Rukirabashaija was due to be released on Tuesday after a Kampala court granted him bail and orderedRead More →
Just over a month ago, Aamir Faraz – the son of the late Afra Bukhari and now literary heir – told me on the phone that his mother’s new collection of short stories Sang-e-Siyah (black stone) had just been released. I had wanted to review the book and also meetRead More →
LODESTAR – Danton Remoto – The Filipino Star January 15, 2022 | 00:00 That’s the title of Chapter 9 of “The First Filipino,” the award-winning biography of Dr. Jose Rizal, written by the late Ambassador Leon Maria Guerrero. Anvil won a grant from the National Book Development Board to publishRead More →
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – “What’s your class? “ This is how Brother Sionil José usually greeted student writers. When I was asked the same question, I proudly answered, “Journalismâ€. To which he retorted with an even more proud response: “Stop! You can be a writer without doing journalism. For SirRead More →
[ad_1] Almost a week after his arrest, prominent Ugandan satirical novelist and critic of President Yoweri Museveni, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, paid a surprise visit to his home under guard. Security forces wanted to search the home of the dissident writer, but his wife did not have to look for visible signsRead More →
[ad_1] Award-winning screenwriter Wenonah Wilms visited Missouri State University in Minnesota to participate in MSU’s film series hosted by the Department of Media, Journalism and Film. She presented her 2016 short film “Waabooz” on Tuesday, November 30 at the Robert W. Plaster Student Union Theater. As a Native American herself,Read More →
[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has signed award-winning screenwriter, director, novelist, cinematographer and musician S. Craig Zahler, Deadline has learned. “We are deeply honored to partner with UTA and to work with Craig. There is a Zahler on the planet. And that’s for good reason. It’s a real multi-hyphen. AndRead More →
[ad_1] Punjabi writer and Sahitya Akademi award recipient Gurdev Singh Rupana died on Sunday evening in his hometown of Rupana in Muktsar Punjabi writer and Sahitya Akademi award recipient Gurdev Singh Rupana died Sunday evening in his hometown of Rupana in Muktsar. He was 87 years old. Rupana’s eldest sonRead More →
[ad_1] 11/30/2021 Screenwriter legend Jimmy McGovern has been nominated to receive the Freedom of Liverpool – along with the 97th victim of the Hillsborough tragedy, Andrew Devine. Andrew sadly passed away in July of this year due to complications from life-changing injuries following the Hillsborough football stadium disaster in AprilRead More →
[ad_1] If you think a bearded man with white hair is writing the Happy Hallmark Holiday movies, think again. Marion native Rick Garman, 55, of Savannah, Ga., Has no hair, a cropped figure and tribal tattoos on his left arm that spell out inspirational words, curling under his shoulder andRead More →
[ad_1] Noah Gordon, an American author who was virtually unknown at home but whose novels on Jewish history, medicine and identity turned him into a literary luminary abroad, died Monday at his home in Dedham, Mass. He was 95 years old. His death was confirmed by his wife, Lorraine Gordon.Read More →
[ad_1] Brett Howard Nelson sees his star rise faster and faster like his last film The letter hits Cannes screens with near universal success alongside all the other festivals it has presented so far. In a recent interview with Toronto Cinema Magazine, we got a lot more information about theRead More →
[ad_1] Jonathan Reynolds, a playwright and screenwriter whose film credit streak in the 1980s included comedies Micki & Maude, change the channel, my stepmother is an alien and the famous flop leonardo part 6, died on October 27 of organ failure at Actors Fund Home in Englewood, NJ. He wasRead More →
[ad_1] At the heart of ITV’s new psychological crime drama, The Tower is a lie. A young policewoman submits a statement to a disciplinary investigation claiming that she overheard a conversation that she actually did not hear. She’s not a bad cop, but as the three-part series makes clear, theRead More →
[ad_1] The 2021 New York Ledger Prize just recognized Harry Harambee’s Kenyan Sunset through Gerald Everett Jones in the highly competitive General Fiction category as a Distinguished Favorite. This is the third prize Jones receives for this novel, as well as the third he receives for this literary fiction andRead More →
[ad_1] Earlier this month, the Loyola Writers at Work series hosted award-winning writer Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Fajardo-Anstine is an American novelist and short story writer from Denver. She studied English Literature and Chicano Studies at Metropolitan State University and received her MFA from the University of Wyoming. Her award-winning short storyRead More →
[ad_1] Tamer Nafar is an award-winning actor, screenwriter, filmmaker, activist and founder of Palestine’s leading hip hop group DAM. He recently released his first English track “The Beat Never Goes Off” with 12-year-old Gaza-based rap prodigy MC Abdul. and Palestinian singer Noël Kharman. His video has already accumulated an incredibleRead More →
[ad_1] David Black thought that the process of writing his latest book would take six to nine weeks. He would conduct a few interviews, then succinctly write a true story about medical malpractice. Then he met Carol Stern and realized it was a love affair. “The book ultimately took fourRead More →
[ad_1] NEW YORK (AP) – One of the world’s best-known mystery fans, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is currently writing one. Clinton teams up with her friend, novelist Louise Penny, on “State of Terror,” which has a plot that could come to mind someone from Clinton’s past: a “novice” Secretary of State,Read More →
[ad_1] Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral love and college stories included the marital saga “The War Between the Tates” and the Americans Abroad comedy “Foreign Affairs,” died Thursday at the age of 94. Lurie, professor emeritus at Cornell University, has died of natural causes, accordingRead More →
[ad_1] Crafted, honed, condensed and polished to perfection; the best short stories are like a precious jewel, as evocative as any novel. As the $ 5000 Sunday Star-Times short story competition enters its final week, Tracy Watkins talks to some of New Zealand’s best loved writers about the art ofRead More →
[ad_1] Why do we tell stories and how are they designed? In this series, we break down the work of the writer both on the page and on the screen. Award-winning playwright born in Adelaide Etienne house has created numerous plays, exhibitions and short films. He generally directs and performsRead More →
[ad_1] You’ve met them: Slightly curved back, eyes glued to the screen, reduced font size, and 14-step model in Jira. History, check. Verification of acceptance criteria. Examples, check. Log files, hmm have yet to perform this query. Mockups, check. Test scenarios, control. Linking all the previously known issues to thisRead More →
[ad_1] Ann Beattie, award-winning short story writer and former Edgar Allan Poe professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Virginia, returns to Grounds this fall as the sixth Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence. Beattie taught at UVA for many years before leaving in 2012 to write full time. HerRead More →
[ad_1] NEW YORK – Joe Masteroff, author of the Tony Award-winning story of the brilliant and avant-garde musical “Cabaret” and the touching and romantic “She Loves Me”, has passed away. He was 98 years old. Masteroff died at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey on Friday, said TheRead More →