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:

In the latest development in the ongoing e-book price-fixing conflict, judge Denise Cote has refused to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit [2] filed in September 2013 by Australian e-book retailer DNAML against Apple and the five major publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin—involved in the legal battle. (Publishers Weekly)

StoryCorps, a nonprofit organization that records and shares oral histories and interviews between family members and friends, will launch OutLoud, a new project featuring stories and experiences from the LGBTQ community [3], on June 28, a date which marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. (New York Times)

Over the weekend, one hundred and fifty thousand people attended the thirtieth Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago [4], with two hundred programs featuring one hundred and fifty booksellers, presentations by several authors including Stuart Dybek and Luis Alberto Urrea, and an installment of the Human Library [5]. (Chicago Tribune)

An author writing under the name Scott Maka released a self-published e-book on Sunday that fictionalizes events connected with missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 [6]. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Meanwhile, author Michael Koryta shares the harrowing experience of watching a tragedy similar to one he’d written about in a novel unfold in the news [7] following his completion of the book. (Daily Beast)

Georgia’s poet laureate, Judson Mitcham, and the Georgia Council for the Arts have launched a poetry prize for high school students [8] across the state. (Atlanta)

Meanwhile, Northern California’s radio station KQED offers a list of twenty-five books that can add diversity [9] to children’s summer reading lists.