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:

“Accusations of silliness (and its close cousin, sluttiness) have plagued just about every woman writer you can think of.” Michelle Dean takes a detailed look at the game of women's memoir [2]. (New York)

Playwright and outspoken author David Mamet has joined the ranks of the self-published [3]. (New York Times)

Meanwhile, Digital Book World answers some key points about self-publishing [4] made by the New York Times.

Author George Orwell's birthplace in India will be turned into a public memorial [5]—to Gandhi. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Paisley Rekdal comes to the defense of the poetry workshop [6]. (Harriet)

On Graywolf's blog, novelist J. Robert Lennon dispenses advice for the literary-minded and lovelorn alike [7]: “If you feel like a failure, then, congratulations! You feel like a writer.”

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn played college basketball for Hofstra University, and tells NPR what commonalities basketball and poetry [8] share.

Henry Review features NPR correspondent Scott Simon reading his new novel Pretty Birds [9].

Tomorrow is Poem in Your Pocket Day [10]!