Journalist Philip Clark and novelist and essayist Javier Montes have been named as the winners of the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award, at a reception at the British Library. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-01 10:40:51 UTC ]
Yasmine Awwad, Sophie Meadows and Mathelinda Nabugodi have been shortlisted for the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award, chosen from 983 entries this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-01 09:27:14 UTC ]
The London Library is releasing its second anthology featuring work from its Emerging Writers programme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-01 01:29:13 UTC ]
Substack is starting a "concerted push" to bring more UK based writers to the platform, and has appointed Farrah Storr as a new head of partnerships for the region. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-30 08:13:23 UTC ]
What launched as a sort of support group in the early days of Covid-19, Friends & Fiction celebrated its 100th episode on November 24. PW caught up with show's creators and hosts, Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, and Patti Callahan Henry, to talk about the remarkable... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
She wrote a modern translation of "The Tale of Genji," one of Japan's most celebrated novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-11-30 02:12:35 UTC ]
U.S. copyright law protects all kinds of creative material, but recipe creators are mostly powerless in an age and a business that are all about sharing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-29 21:11:57 UTC ]
Canelo has landed a historical fiction saga which navigates the fall out of the Great Sheffield Flood, by debut author Joanne Clague. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-26 10:12:45 UTC ]
Hachette is undergoing a "major overhaul" of its recruitment and outreach practices to improve diversity in the workplace, after publishing the results for its first staff and author censuses. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 00:35:55 UTC ]
Foraging expert Roger Phillips has died aged 89, his publisher Pan Macmillan has announced. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-24 00:28:52 UTC ]
Audiobook performances by talented narrators is wonderful, but an audiobook memoir read by its author gives such a personal touch. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-11-23 11:30:00 UTC ]
A free workshop for writers of colour is being organised by The Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-22 20:37:24 UTC ]
His books were full of lovers, dysfunctional families, pirates and hunters, and set in locations from ancient Egypt to colonial Africa. They sold in the millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-19 23:10:00 UTC ]
In “Taste Makers,” Mayukh Sen profiles successful female chefs and cookbook authors – immigrants – who made an impact on American food culture. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-11-19 17:00:15 UTC ]
Penguin Random House’s first report auditing the diversity of its contributors found that the demographics of its authors, illustrators, translators, and other creators “do not reflect U.S. reader demographics when it comes to race and ethnicity.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
The author of The Upstairs House on postpartum depression, hauntings, and the legacy of Margaret Wise Brown. Continue reading >> [ Source: Guernica | 2021-11-18 03:45:32 UTC ]
Based in Abu Dhabi, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award releases the first two of its eight longlists showcasing Arabic literature, scholarship, and writing. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Longlists: Young Author and Children’s Literature appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-11-18 01:57:08 UTC ]
Fay Evans alleges a ‘striking similarity’ between the 2019 Excitable Edgar TV campaign and her 2017 book Fred the Fire-Sneezing DragonThe author of a self-published children’s book about a dragon that causes havoc with its fiery sneezes is suing John Lewis over its 2019 Christmas ad about a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-11-16 14:46:45 UTC ]
His novels — filled with bloodshed and bodice ripping — sold more than 140 million copies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-11-16 01:36:30 UTC ]
Titles exploring climate change, expressing difficult emotions and exploring the wonders of the scientific world have been shortlisted this year for the Society of Authors (SoA) and Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) Educational Writers’ Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-16 00:18:25 UTC ]