Works by writers like bell hooks, Damon Young and James Baldwin that will educate and make an impact on everyone. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2022-01-31 16:37:38 UTC ]
Abimbola Salami and Diane Ewan have won the inaugural Jericho Prize, a competition for unpublished and self-published Black-British writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-27 15:04:19 UTC ]
A late baby-boomer, I spent my tweens and adolescence in the 1970s under the Tolkien-woven spell of heroic fantasy, immersed in the imagined worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy (1968-72), Patricia A. McKillip’s Riddlemaster trilogy (1976-79), and Evangeline Walton’s Welsh-myth-remix... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-01-26 09:55:39 UTC ]
United States Artists, a Chicago-based arts funding organization, announced that six writers are included in this year's slate of 63 USA Fellows, each of whom is receiving an unrestricted $50,000 award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the 2021 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust award includes poetry, nonfiction, and three novels. The post The UK’s Sunday Times Young Writer Award Names Its 2021 Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-01-25 12:58:34 UTC ]
Want to be a fly on our bookshelf? These are the novels, short stories, essays and cookbooks that writers and editors are reading this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2022-01-24 10:45:02 UTC ]
The Vietnamese monk was prominently known for "engaged Buddhism," taking a mindful-but-active approach to contemporary issues. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-24 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award shortlist has been revealed featuring Megan Nolan, Costa Prize-winning Caleb Azumah Nelson and Cal Flynn among others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-23 07:16:43 UTC ]
Gillian Flynn, Carmen Maria Machado and other authors discuss their creative process. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-20 18:04:50 UTC ]
Andrew Lipstein’s entertaining debut novel mines comedy from an aspiring author’s ethically questionable path to publication. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-01-19 10:00:00 UTC ]
His 1973 novel "My Uncle Napoleon," affectionately skewering the foibles of his countrymen and women in the decades before the Islamic Revolution, became one of the most phenomenally popular works of modern Persian literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-19 04:45:33 UTC ]
Once again the children’s writer Julia Donaldson tops the year-end ranking of writers through Nielsen, but a rise in sales of backlist titles saw a number of authors with large oeuvres make an appearance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-16 10:02:13 UTC ]
Waterstones has apologised and said it is "deeply embarrassed" after award-winning author Derek Owusu was asked for ID in a London branch when he offered to sign copies of his books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-16 01:22:08 UTC ]
The ’90s are back, as if they could ever truly peace out. Between Fear Street and Captain Marvel and the Alanis Morissette musical, the last mostly-offline decade is getting a gargantuan nostalgia polish. For my memoir Sticker—an exploration of my childhood in Charlottesville, Virginia via 20... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-01-14 12:00:00 UTC ]
Peters Fraser & Dunlop has entered into an agreement with French publisher J C Lattès to handle all translation rights to the iconic Imogène series by Le Masque author Charles Exbrayat. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-13 14:31:59 UTC ]
More than 300 prominent writers and publishers including Bernardine Evaristo, Alan Hollinghurst and Malorie Blackman have signed a letter to the Times opposing the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill, which is being voted on in the House of Lords over the next two weeks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-13 12:40:06 UTC ]
Roxane Gay is launching a new one-year fellowship programme which will see her support three aspiring writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-12 16:04:26 UTC ]
IPA, CPJ, and several embassies condemn the defamation verdict against PRH Peru's Jerónimo Pimentel and author Christopher Acosta. The post PRH Peru Chief and Author in Defamation Case: Publishing Industry Support appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-01-12 15:59:10 UTC ]
BookLife, PW’s subsidiary devoted to helping self-published authors, will hold the first BookLife Indie Author Forum on March 19 from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EDT. The forum will cover the writing and publishing of adult and children’s books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
In “I Came All This Way to Meet You,” the novelist reveals how far she’s traveled — and how many obstacles she’s cleared — to get where she is now. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-01-11 10:00:05 UTC ]