His website won the Special Recognition for Service to Writers award from Preditors and Editors, an author's guide to publishers and writing services.

The first was a novelization of the first two miniseries combined into one story, originally planned as 2 books, Pinnacle later changed their minds during its writing, and decreed that it should be one book ( The publishers were then left with the option of another book, this became " East coast crisis " ) Because the Writers guide was not ready in time for the authors to consult, most of the original novels that followed did not feature characters or continuing storylines from the TV series, but rather focused on battles against the alien invaders in other parts of the world, some were also set during the " unrecorded year " between the end of " The Final battle " and " Liberation day " to get around this problem.

Writers, publishers, marketers, booksellers, libraries, academics, critics, and even readers all may have different ways of classifying fiction, and any of these classifications might be termed a genre.

The meeting had been called by Bob Cobbing of Writers Forum and Stuart Montgomery of Fulcrum Press and was attended by representatives of a number of other small press publishers.

Writers Paul and Ron Willis, publishers of " Anubis ", acquired most of the original Fortean Society material and revived The Fortean Society as the International Fortean Organization ( INFO ) in 1961.

Writers, editors, publishers, reviewers, artists, and fans are invited to join them.

The Rogers Writers ' Trust Fiction Prize is a Canadian literary award presented by Rogers Communications and the Writers ' Trust of Canada after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries.

Johnston published his first novel, Carry the Wind, in 1982 after it had been rejected by 29 publishers ; it won the Western Writers of America's Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.

Within four months, it had won the Crime Writers ' Association John Creasey award for best first novel and had been snapped up by 11 foreign publishers.

After a decade of working with traditional publishers, Almond has self-published three books in recent years and become an outspoken advocate of self-publishing, which he has written about extensively in the Los Angeles Times, Poets & Writers, and The Rumpus.

Besides a Hopwood Award and a Theatre Guild Award for his one play, Swarthout was twice nominated by his publishers for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ( for They Came To Cordura by Random House and Bless The Beasts & Children by Doubleday ), received an O. Henry Prize Short Story nomination ( in 1960 for “ A Glass of Blessings ”), a Gold Medal from the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1972, won Spur Awards for Best Western Novel of the Year from the Western Writers of America for The Shootist ( 1976 ) and The Homesman-both novels were written during very slow years, so even though both ( particularly Homesman ) were poorly written Swarthout won spur awards by default, a Wrangler Award for Best Western Novel of 1988 for The Homesman from the Western Heritage Association, and finally the Western Writers ’ Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum ( previously known as National Cowboy Hall of Fame ) in Oklahoma City in June 1991.

The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.

Writers Charles Dickens and Samuel Pepys are known to have paused to sup here.

In Edinburgh, both the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet ( also known as the W. S.

DeVito and his wife, Rhea Perlman, founded Jersey Films, a production company known for films such as Pulp Fiction, Garden State, and Freedom Writers.

Writers at this time included Mat Snow, Barney Hoskyns, Paolo Hewitt, Danny Kelly, Chris Bohn ( known in his later years at the paper as Biba Kopf ), Steven Wells and David Quantick.

Gerard Colby ( earlier known as Gerard Colby Zilg ) is president of the US National Writers Union, where he previously held various chair positions.

Writers following the early-twentieth century movement known as free-form or free-style haiku ( shinkeikō ) composed haiku lacking both the traditional 5-7-5 syllabic rule and the requisite seasonal word ( kigo ).

While primarily known as a poet, he also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed the Bread Loaf Writers ' Conference in Vermont.

Silko was an original recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant, now known as the " Genius Grant ", in 1981 and the Native Writers ' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994.

It is also known as the Mysterie of Writers of the Court Letter.

The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers ' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, is a highly regarded graduate-level creative writing program in the United States.

Writers known for writing in this genre include Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Jack Ketchum, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Laymon, Richard Christian Matheson, Robert McCammon, David J. Schow, John Skipp, Craig Spector, Edward Lee and A. M. Homes.

Writers known as members of the Second Sophistic include Nicetas of Smyrna, Aelius Aristides, Dio Chrysostom, Herodes Atticus, Philostratus, Lucian, and Polemon of Laodicea.

He became even better known after his columns were nationally syndicated beginning in 1930, and became known as the " Dean of American Sports Writers ".

Solicitors in Scotland were previously known as " writers "; Writers to the Signet were the solicitors entitled to supervise use of the King's Signet, the private seal of the early Kings of Scots.

Antoni Słonimski ( 15 November 1895 – 4 July 1976 ) was a Polish poet, journalist, playwright and prose writer, president of the Union of Polish Writers in 1956 – 1959 during the Polish October, known for his devotion to social justice.

Best known for his humorous mysteries, Akagawa's first novel, Ghost Train, was published in 1976 and went on to win the annually granted All Yomimono New Mystery Writers ' Prize by Bungeishunjū, a Japanese literary publishing company.

Now known as the Writers at Work series, the Paris Review interviews quickly became a trademark of the magazine, lauded for their groundbreaking insights into the life and craft of the writer.

Matilda Ann Aston ( 11 December 1873 – 1 November 1947 ), better known as Tilly Aston, was a blind Australian writer and teacher, who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, and later went on to establish the Association for the Advancement of the Blind, with herself as secretary.

The Writers ' Trust Engel / Findley Award was created in 2008 from two separate awards formerly known as the Marian Engel Award for female writers and the Timothy Findley Award for male writers.

In 1919 he was elected President of the Russian Union of Writers, and was known for his efforts to help and rescue many writers and intellectuals during the first years of the Bolshevik regime.

Kate Larimore Turabian ( born Laura Kate Larimore ) ( February 26, 1893 – October 25, 1987 ) was an American educator who is best known for her book A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.

These defectors from Proletkult initially formed a small, elite organization called Kuznitza ( The Forge ) before again launching a new mass organization known as the All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers ( VAPP ) a year later.

Bellingen has a strong affinity with the arts and is home to numerous festivals: the popular Global Carnival ( often known simply as " The Global "), the Bellingen Jazz and Blues Festival, Camp Creative, the Bellingen Music Festival ( classical music ) and the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival, held for the first time in 2011.

: Hart's Rules and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors call the British style " new " quoting.

Writers Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri have together in their books ( Empire & Multitude ) expanded on this idea of a disunified multitude: humans coming together for shared causes, but lacking the complete sameness of the notion of ' the people '.

In 2006 the Herald won two SABEW awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for its breaking news coverage of the takeover of local company Gillette Co. and for overall excellence.

According to Pasternak, during the 1937 show trial of General Iona Yakir and Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the Union of Soviet Writers requested all members to add their names to a statement supporting the death penalty for the defendants.

Emerging: Conetmporary Readings for Writers.

He currently teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Each league's award is voted on by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, with one representative from each team, which means 14 ballots are cast for the American League winner, and 16 ballots are cast for the National League.

Writers of post-colonial fiction interact with the traditional colonial discourse, but modify or subvert it ; for instance by retelling a familiar story from the perspective of an oppressed minor character in the story.

On December 19, 2011, The Writers Guild of America announced that Trumbo will get full credit for his work on the screenplay of the 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday, sixty years after the fact.

* Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture, from the Mystery Writers of America, for The Thin Blue Line ( 1989 )

" The Mystery Writers of America have named their awards for excellence in the genre the " Edgars ".

Writers such as Giorgio Vasari followed public opinion in judging the best painters above all on their production of large canvases of history painting, and artists continued for centuries to strive to make their reputation by producing such works, often neglecting genres to which their talents were better suited.

The film won the 1981 British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( Film ) Best Screenplay Award, as well as the 1980 Writers Guild of America Award ( Screen ) for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium.

Blume received the Library of Congress Living Legends award in the " Writers and Artists " category in April 2000 for her significant contributions to America's cultural heritage.

In his second season Dalglish recorded a personal best of 21 league goals for the club, and he was also named Football Writers ' Association Footballer of the Year.

In 1675, a book appeared in English entitled A Present for a Papist: Or the Life and Death of Pope Joan, Plainly Proving Out of the Printed Copies, and Manscriptes of Popish Writers and Others, That a Woman called JOAN, Was Really POPE of ROME, and Was There Deliver'd of a Bastard Son in the Open Street as She Went in Solemn Procession.

He also won the first Grand Master Award, given by the Science Fiction Writers of America, for his lifetime achievement.

On March 20, 1973, the Baseball Writers Association of America held a special election for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Starring Jason Robards and Olivia de Havilland, the film was a critical hit, with Peckinpah nominated by the Writers Guild for Best Television Adaptation and the Directors Guild of America for Best Television Direction.