Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:

Publishers Weekly reports independent bookstores experienced a rise in sales [2] over the holidays.

After ten years helming the venerable Poetry magazine, editor Christian Wiman announced he is leaving his position [3] to join the faculty at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School.

With the best books of 2012 lists behind us, the Atlantic speaks with David Gutowski [4], who gathers and updates an aggregate of over one thousand books lists on his website, Largehearted Boy.

On his blog, author Alexander Chee answers a query concerning a writer applying to a fiction program although the student has written a memoir [5]. (Koreanish)

Meanwhile, author and writing instructor Susan Shapiro reveals the lessons she's learned in the classroom, and in publishing her last memoir. "My rule for first person nonfiction is: question, challenge and trash yourself more than anyone else. [6]"

To start 2013 off on a good foot, the Review Review delivers an easy five-step guide to submitting your writing [7].

On his blog, Nicholas Carr considers recent surveys [8] and reported trends in the e-reading landscape, and offers what he's gleaned. (Rough Type)

The BBC has created Blandings [9]—a six-part television series based on the work of P. G. Wodehouse. (Guardian)

Speaking of the master humorist, author and editor Ed Park looks at P. G. Wodehouse's Life in Letters [10], due out next month from Norton. (Bookforum)

In collaboration with the University of Iowa, Prairie Lights Bookstore has created a small press [11]—one of its first titles will be a book of poetry by Philip Levine. (Shelf Awareness)