as in author
a person who creates a written work
a writer who is still trying to get published
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Recent Examples of writer
But defining the boundaries could be slippery; how to account, for instance, for all the writers using ChatGPT in the early stages of script creation?
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Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Eric Mack is a writer for Fox News Digital covering breaking news.
—Eric MacK, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Panelists include Grosse Pointe Garden Society and the upcoming Little House on the Prairie star Jocko Sims, and Nobody Wants This writer Ryann Werner.
—Peter White, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2026
Where writers and audiences encounter each other directly—not through algorithms, but through dialogue.
—Julie Finch, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
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Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Eric Mack is a writer for Fox News Digital covering breaking news.
—Eric MacK, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Panelists include Grosse Pointe Garden Society and the upcoming Little House on the Prairie star Jocko Sims, and Nobody Wants This writer Ryann Werner.
—Peter White, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2026
Where writers and audiences encounter each other directly—not through algorithms, but through dialogue.
—Julie Finch, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for writer
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Taylor is among authors such as Gregg Hurwitz and Mark Greaney who have reinvented the thriller genre.—
Oline H. Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Apr. 2026
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But author and television producer Eli Frankel has some ideas.—
Patrick Salland,
Kansas City Star,
7 Apr. 2026
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Pretty Little Liars star Sasha Pieterse is launching production label Mother Bare Productions with the first project a movie adaptation of popular American novelist Sherrilyn Kenyon’s upcoming urban fantasy book series Infernal Affairs, which Pieterse will star in and produce.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2026
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So said American novelist Wallace Stegner in the 1980s, and guess what – the country’s people still seem to agree.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
9 Apr. 2026
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The Inside Story, royal biographer Robert Hardman wrote that the monarch was anxious about staying in Scotland as Liz Truss was appointed prime minister—a duty that was always carried out at Buckingham Palace in London.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
9 Apr. 2026
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As her health quietly declined in 2022, the late monarch focused not on ceremony, but on creating lasting moments with the youngest members of the royal family at Balmoral Castle, according to a new book by royal biographer Robert Hardman via The Daily Mail.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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He's got to be one of the most amazing storytellers that way.—
Martha Teichner,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Her first novel, In the Woods (2007), established her as a skilled storyteller who blends the elements of police procedurals and psychological thrillers with an engaging literary style.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But what happens when a poet abandons this essential tool?—
Patrick Dundon,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Apr. 2026
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Benjamin Frandsen is a poet, essayist, and advocate whose writing on incarceration, redemption, and resilience appears in exCHANGE magazine, Iconoclast, PEN America’s prison writing anthologies, UCLA Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, and other outlets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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