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		<title>Ernest Gaines at Words &amp; Music 2012!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words &#38; Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans, opens November 28, 2012 with the Society’s annual master class for high school students.  Adult programming will begin later that day.  Our special guest of honor this year will be Ernest J. Gaines, famous Louisiana fiction writer, author of A Lesson Before Dying, The Autobiography of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words &amp; Music Call for Papers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 15:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pirates Alley Faulkner Society will issue a formal &#8220;Call for Papers&#8221; on May 15, 2012.  We are actively soliciting presentations on the work of 2012 Words &#38; Music featured speaker Ernest Gaines and its relevance in contemporary life and literature.   Proposals must be presented to us in advance of William Faulkner&#8217;s birthday, September 25, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faulkner Wisdom Writing Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 14:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[POSTMARK DEADLINE FOR WILLIAM FAULKNER -WILLIAM WISDOM COMPETITION: MAY 15, 2012 The Pirates Alley Faulkner Society reminds writers and friends of writers that the postmark deadline for the William Faulkner &#8211; William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition is May 15, 1012.   The competition is open to all writers anywhere working in English and offers significant cash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mermaid Memoir by M. Eileen Cronin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[M. Eileen Cronin’s memoir, MERMAID, is forthcoming in 2013 from W.W. Norton &#38; Co. Her novels-in-progress have both been finalists in the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner-Wisdom competition. Awarded the Washington Writers’ Prize in Short Fiction and a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, Eileen was also nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Her stories and essays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2004 Faulkner Gold Medalist Publishes New Novel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From former Faulkner winner Fred Setterberg, who won the gold medal for Best Essay for his manuscript, &#8220;She&#8217;s Gone&#8221; in 2004 comes his new novel: Lunch Bucket Paradise: A True-Life Novel. According to Fred, it’s all about growing up in a working class suburb during the 50s and 60s, and one of the chapters, titled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Skull by Rob Magnuson Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob Magnuson Smith, who won the Faulkner Society&#8217;s gold medal for Best Novel for his work, The Gravedigger, is back in the news! His novel was published by University Press of New Orleans in 2010 to great acclaim. According to Publisher&#8217;s Weekly, &#8220;Smith&#8217;s well-wrought prose beautifully captures the tone of an English village and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book &amp; Blog Success for Nicole Kelby!</title>
		<link>http://wordsandmusic.org/wmblog/2011/04/book-blog-success-for-nicole-kelby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[N.M. Kelby, a frequent finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing competition, has announced her new novel, White Truffles in Winter, about famed chef Escoffier, is scheduled to be published by WW. Norton on November 3, 2011. To read more about the book, visit http://www.nmkelby.com/www.nmkelby.com/White_Truffles_in_Winter.html Kelby has just created a blog about cooking and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publishing Success for Faulkner Finalist David Armand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in from author David Armand: &#8220;I just wanted to send you a quick e-mail to let you know that my book The Pugilist&#8217;s Wife &#8211; which was twice named a semi-finalist in the Novel and Novella categories in 2009 and 2010, and once as 2nd runner-up in the novel-in-progress category in 2008 (under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publishing Success for Domingue &amp; Durrow!</title>
		<link>http://wordsandmusic.org/wmblog/2011/02/publishing-success-for-domingue-durrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ronlyn Domingue of Baton Rouge, a Faulkner &#8211; Wisdom finalist with her first novel, The Mercy of Thin Air, (later published to critical acclaim!) updated the Faulkner Society on her recent great news: &#8220;Shambhala Sun has published my first essay in a national print magazine. The piece is entitled “In Every Living Thing.” You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Faulkner Semi-Finalist Receives Publishing offer</title>
		<link>http://wordsandmusic.org/wmblog/2010/10/former-faulkner-semi-finalist-receives-publishing-offer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jessica McCann, free lance writer and novelist, sent us a quick note to share some exciting news. Her novel, which was a 2005 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition semi-finalist as a work-in-progress (working title, Margaret Morgan) has been acquired by Bell Bridge Books and will be published March 2011! Under the title All Different [...]]]></description>
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