False Plagiarism Accusations Against Shaun King Hit the Twitter-Sphere On April 19, The Daily Beast published a report on the death of Elliot Williams by
Tag: Global literary news
A Global Book Extravaganza, a Warning, and an Eighth-Grade Shining Star: Your Weekly Lit News Roundup by Laurel Dowswell
The huge London Book Fair brought thousands of book lovers from all over the globe on April 12th-April 14th. From publishing industry panels to author seminars and agent one-on-ones, this fair brings a lot of excitement to Olympia, London.
Controversy and Technology: Your Weekly News Roundup by Emily Ramser
Last year, Hooked, an app that told short stories through text messages was released. An update to the app was released this week that now lets readers become writers too.
AWP, VIDA, and SATAN: Your Weekly Lit News Roundup by Laurel Dowswell
Thousands of writers, editors, teachers, publishers and others keen for the written word converged in Los Angeles, California, from March 30th to April 2nd for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference.
Robots and Poet Laureates Abound in March: Weekly News Round-Up by Emily Ramser
Novel Written By Robot Passes First Round in Japanese Lit Prize:
The Day A Computer Writes a Novel was written by, as the title suggests, an artificial intelligence program.
From Tech to Prince and a Library on Horseback: Your Lit News Roundup by Laurel Dowswell
Can Google Raise Dead Authors? They’re trying to do just that. Through their Natural Language Understanding unit, Google is trying to teach its artificial intelligence to predict sentences of authors, such as Shakespeare and Mark Twain, by pouring millions of lines into networks
