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A literary studio that innovates in digital publishing: #subwaylibrary, @writingdowntown, @codexhackathon. Publishing is a craft.

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@srhm_ca @HeidiPitlorEd Sponsored by Heidi Pitlor Editorial @HeidiPitlorEd and Plympton, with pay-what-you-wish tix supporting Plympton's residency for emerging writers.

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What will the future look like for writers, agents, editors, and the broader creative landscape? Editor of The Best American Short Stories Heidi Pitlor and AI Researcher Sil Hamilton will discuss the possibilities, limits, promises, and dangers of ChatGPT https://t.co/ffLThAdErY

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@srhm_ca @HeidiPitlorEd Will agents rely on AI to find new clients? Will AI replace curators and judges for literary prizes? Will it one day write and edit better prose than us? We’ll demystify a technology many fear but few truly understand. Luddites and technophobes welcome. A Q&A will be held after.

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Submit nearly completed manuscripts (50k-100k words) in ANY genre (speculative fiction, science-fiction, young adult, horror, mystery, thriller, romance, and more!) by 3/31 at https://t.co/5iBCgvkhvq

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PAGES IN PROGRESS, Asian American Writers' Workshop's @aaww first annual AAPI fiction contest in partnership with Plympton and Third State Books @ThirdStateBooks, is now open! Winners will enjoy a one-month residency at our Writing Downtown @writingdowntown apartment in Las Vegas

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Plympton author, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie's @ChimamandaReal, 2022 Reith Lecture on Freedom of Speech asks difficult questions with difficult answers on literature's current perils. Three other lecturers took on Freedom of Worship, from Want, and from Fear https://t.co/vEXWNQ52Eb

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Thrilled to see some friends of Plympton featured in the NYT's 10 Best Books of 2022! Sharp, clever, and deeply felt - congrats to Namwali Serpell’s @namwalien THE FURROWS, Jennifer Egan’s @Egangoonsquad THE CANDY HOUSE, and Hua Hsu’s @huahsu STAY TRUE
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So @ShehanKaru has been a writer to watch since his debut, CHINAMAN, won the Commonwealth Book Prize. His second book's, THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA, playful and cutting take on the Sri Lankan Civil War won him the 2022 Booker Prize by unanimous vote! https://t.co/lkUmocGU9P

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And for more of her stories, check out IF YOU ARE LONELY AND YOU KNOW IT, part of our CURRENCY collection with Amazon Original Stories

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"Li has become known for distilling the essence of unbearable grief, and doing so with exactitude and an unexpected lightness."

Read the New York Times profile for more on the force that is Yiyun Li, one of our very own Plympton authors!

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For more climate stories, see our WARMER collection with Amazon Original Stories!

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Congrats to our friends, dir. Daniel Goldhaber @chronopictures and editor Daniel Garber @dsgarber!

How To Blow Up a Pipeline premiered at TIFF and was picked up by Neon, the same creative distributor behind Oscar-winning Parasite. See you in theaters!

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Based on the non-fiction book, HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE: LEARNING TO FIGHT IN A WORLD ON FIRE, by Andreas Malm

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Can anyone figure out the NFT/web3/blockchain approach to book publishing? Many are trying. https://t.co/BAwBrrDSd3

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Proud to see ⁦⁦⁦@ChimamandaReal⁩
win a 2022 O. Henry Prize for Zikora, a story we published with Amazon Original Stories. https://t.co/6PFotCmrk6

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Our first short story to hit #1 in all of Kindle. An Amazon Original Story by @MargaretAtwood.

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Her meatloaf is magical, her biscuits are bewitching—and her word is final. From bestselling author @MargaretAtwood comes an enchanting new short story about coming of age with a witch for a mom in the 1950s. Prime members read and listen for free.

https://t.co/KPRGKWWQSe

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At #AWP22? Come get homemade matcha cookies at the @WritingAtlas table 1408.

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“I’ve long been fascinated by the idea of telling a mystery thriller in an episodic format. But to work with the master of suspense thrillers – Dean Koontz’s Nameless is beyond my expectations,” Golding said."

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"Under these arrangements, libraries are forced to rent books through very restrictive agreements that look like leases" A search for answers when it comes to libraries and their ability to lend e-books. Will be interesting to see where this leads...

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