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UT Tyler Creative Writing Class Becomes Published Playwrights (KLTV 7 Tyler)

A one-act play written by a creative writing class at The University of Texas at Tyler has been selected as a top winner in an annual competition sponsored by the Tyler Civic Theater Center.

Ann Hood headlines URI writing conference in June (Westerly Sun)

The celebrated Rhode Island writer Ann Hood will be the featured speaker at URI's writing conference. Registrations for the conference are being accepted now.

Students honored for writing (Red Bluff Daily News)

Second grade winners of the 2008 Tehama County Writing Contest line the stage Thursday at the State Theatre in Red Bluff.

Spencer Honors English: National Writing Contest Winners (The Daily Reporter)

Spencer High School's Honors English students have been named "Best Class" in the national writing contest sponsored by Penguin Books. The contest "Confessions of a Word Nerd" required students to submit personal essays of 1,500 to 3,000 words and correctly utilize 60 SAT vocabulary words.

Oakley Hall, 87; Western author and writing teacher (Los Angeles Times)

Hall, a well regarded Western novelist, helped build UC Irvine's prestigious writing program and launch the careers of such writers as Michael Chabon, Richard Ford and Amy Tan. Oakley Hall, an author and teacher whose novels set in California and environs helped define contemporary Western literature and who also helped launch the literary careers of such prominent writers as Michael Chabon, ...