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First Prize for Innovation: Spokane (Poynter Institute)

The newspaper industry may be shrinking, but the high volume of self-congratulatory writing and reporting contests rocks along unabated.

Elegant Variation blog guts pompous literary writing (The Oregonian)

F ive years ago, Mark Sarvas was a screenwriter living in Los Angeles who liked to read and liked to surf the Web. (The two aren't mutually exclusive, never mind what you've heard.)

Literary News (San Diego Reader)

Posted by jsmith on May 16, 2008 Oakley Hall, San Diego-born novelist, died Monday, May 12 in Nevada City. He was 87. He wrote Warlock (which Thomas Pynchon ranks “among the finest of American novels), he founded the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and, for 20 years he directed the nationally-ranked creative writing program at U.C. Irvine.

Schools draft policy to allow gun contests (The News & Observer)

The Wake school board has reached a consensus to allow students to train and compete in marksmanship, but it will take about a month to put a policy in writing.

Obama attracting huge amounts of cash from Iowans (Quad-City Times)

If history is any guide, Iowans should be pretty busy writing checks to Barack Obama today.