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The winner of the 2025 Award is Tina Ehsanipour of San Mateo, California. “Between a Dream and a Curse,” follows 17-year-old Azadeh, who, after being visited by a strange woman in a dream, learns of a family curse that has claimed young women for generations. Ehsanipour is an Iranian-born, California-raised writer, high school creative writing teacher, and school librarian.
The Copyright Act of 1976 (effective January 1, 1978) provides that U.S. copyright subsists in a work from the time of creation, whether or not it is registered. Yet registration is critical to an author’s ability to enforce their copyright in U.S. works. Under copyright law, if a work was first published in the United States or was authored by a U.S. national, domiciliary, or habitual resident
At the center of these meetings are discussions to gather support for the Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act (VACRA) which is based on a white paper that ASMP was the lead author on in 2024 and 2025. At the heart of VACRA is the awareness that the existing copyright system fails high volume creators, and all small creators generally. These failures can no longer go without remedy; the stakes are
Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to be a hot topic in children’s publishing. Publishers Weekly recently spoke with SCBWI Executive Director Sarah Baker about Google’s AI Gemini Storybook app, which lets users create personalized, illustrated storybooks with read-aloud narration.
The Graphic Artists Guild has endorsed the California bill AB-412, introduced by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan. The legislation seeks to increase transparency around the use of copyrighted materials to train generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). It requires model developers to provide copyright owners a means by which they could be informed on whether and how their copyrighted works wer
Over the last few days, a potential settlement has been announced in the class action litigation resulting from the unsanctioned use of hundreds of thousands of books. Mystery Writers of America is following the matter closely, and there are steps our members must take to be part of the settlement.
Here’s your moment to stop and think, to learn before you put your pen to paper and ink that contract or hit publish on your book.
On July 24, SFWA jointly signed onto an amicus brief with nine other literary organizations. We are challenging a 2023 Iowa state law that would remove hundreds of books from K-12 libraries. Books like A Handmaid’s Tale, Maus, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Can you imagine a world without these stories?
Trainees in science writing and journalism must balance financial needs with new challenges, especially amid economic and journalism industry impacts. To ease this journey for students and early career professionals — and to encourage new talents of diverse identities and lived experiences — NASW began offering the Diversity Summer Fellowship program in 2017.
The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund has announced a new fund to support reporters and photographers facing legal threats and other hardships for their coverage of protests in Los Angeles and other cities throughout the nation. Participating in the effort to provide assistance to these journalists are CalMatters and the National Press Photographers Association.
NWU strongly supports the IFJ motion condemning attacks on journalists abroad and at home. Repression in its many forms is a hallmark of fascism, and we support our media colleagues in continuing to bear witness....
"The Dramatists Guild of America is outraged by the Kennedy Center’s announced cancellation of its scheduled production of the show Finn by Dramatists Guild members Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond, and their co-author, Chris Nee."