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AMD Foundation to Sponsor Video Game Design Category for The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) SUNNYVALE, Calif.----AMD today announced the AMD Foundation, in support of AMD Changing the Game, has awarded a grant to the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. The $65,000 grant will be used to help fund the Alliance?s new video game design category for the 2010 and 2011 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. New professional writing website helps aspiring writers to launch their career (PitchEngine) Literary agents, TV executives and bestselling authors have given their support to an innovative new website from MA Professional Writing at University College Falmouth, which helps aspiring writers to develop their work and launch a career.Profwriting.com offers affordable online writing courses , a space to showcase manuscripts and have them critiqued by... Is Seattle's writing curriculum too regimented? (Crosscut) To a group of 35 Seattle teachers and administrators visiting East Coast schools five years ago, the Lucy Calkins Writing Workshop seemed a brilliant instructional choice. The vigor of student engagement was impressive, and many New York City teachers swore by the program?s effectiveness. Not long after the group?s return, Seattle middle schools adopted a slightly modified version of Calkins?s K ... Writers in Performance Series welcomes journeyman author (The Woodlands Villager) Montgomery County?s leading literary group continues its spring reading series with a prolific Texas writer, editor and publisher who has helped create opportunities for new writers. Local film writers hit the big time (The Carrollton Leader) When most people think of film writers they think of Hollywood and big name celebrities, but for two local writers, Hollywood is calling their name.