Congratulations to the 2011 New Letters Literary Award
Winners:Our final judges: Aliki Barnstone
(poetry), Hilary Masters (fiction), and Maureen Stanton (essay).
In Memoriam, George Whitman, (See our feature,
winter 2011, vol. 77 no.
2)
on Wed., Dec. 14, 2011,
owner of the legendary bookstore
in Paris, Shakespeare & Co.
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New Lettersquarterly magazine
Now in its 77th year, New Letters
quarterly magazine of writing and art has
been called "virtually a who's who of international writers"
(Magazines for Libraries). See also our annual
Writing Contests.
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New Letters on the Air Listen to
weekly interviews with poets and writers from our
nationally syndicated half-hour radio show.
The New Letters on the Air audio
archives feature hundreds of readings and
interviews with great writers. Upcoming
broadcasts.
New Letters on the Air novelist,
Heidi Durrow in the
New York Times
David Clewell
discusses
his experience as poet laureate, his approach to poetry, and reads
from Taken Somehow by Surprise (2011), and The Low End of
Higher Things (2003).
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VIDEO
New Letters on the Air: An American Treasure
Broadcasting since 1977,
New Letters on the Air celebrates the
public radio show’s audio archives of literary interviews as part of
Save America’s Treasures. This film contains archival photos
with comments by producer, Angela Elam; assistant producer, Dennis
Conrow; New Letters magazine editor, Robert Stewart; visiting
fiction writer Margot Livesey; and Marr Sound archivist, Chuck
Haddix.
—Produced in 2010 by Jamie Walsh
New Letterswins
Pushcart "Triple Crown" for 2010
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New Letters on the Airwins2011 Clarion Award for
best Women's Issues Radio Program
Hear the
award-winning show about
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women
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Help Support CLMP's Lit Mag
Adoption Program for
Creative Writing Courses.
The program offers discounted
subscriptions for selected
literary
magazines to writing classes adopting
them for course use.
You can adopt
magazines for Spring 2011 courses on
the CLMP Lit Mag
Adoption Program Website now (http://www.clmp.org/adoption/).
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New Letters named
"Best Publication"
by Kansas City newspaper,
The Pitch.
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"One of
America's most consistently interesting
literary magazines. Both on the air and
on the page, New Letters
makes a serious
contribution to culture across the nation."
—Alan Cheuse,
National Public Radio book critic
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