Stephanie Land’s best-selling memoir inspired the popular Netflix series. She’s not done fighting for people navigating the red tape of poverty. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-12-16 10:00:03 UTC ]
The Authors Guild has launched a National Letter Writing campaign, asking its 11,000 members and supporters to send emails and letters to school boards, lawmakers, and newspapers arguing that banning books harms students. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
Eight new writers have been chosen to join this year's Penguin Random House UK’s WriteNow mentoring programme, with a focus on children's writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-15 07:50:03 UTC ]
Her first novel, “Interview With the Vampire,” launched a blockbuster book series and was adapted into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-14 00:33:11 UTC ]
Rice, whose books have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide, died of complications from a stroke on December 11. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
Greg Tate, acclaimed author, journalist, cultural critic, musician, activist, and professor, died on December 7 in New York City. He was 64. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
The American author Anne Rice, best known for Interview with the Vampire, has died aged 80 with Chatto & Windus paying tribute to the "true one-off". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-12 22:02:56 UTC ]
The Festival for Working-Class Writers' team are on the lookout for books to promote as part of their new book club, which launches in 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-08 23:43:53 UTC ]
It is almost exactly a year since I rode into Barcelona on a second-hand bicycle I had bought in Lisbon a thousand miles earlier. As well as all the normal enjoyment of seeing your book on a shop shelf, I’m also slightly amazed when I stop to think that it was only 12 months ago that Iberia was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-08 22:47:22 UTC ]
Sarah Maycock has won the 2021 ALCS Educational Writers’ Award for her children's book Sometimes I Feel: A Menagerie of Feelings Big and Small (Big Picture Press.) Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-07 22:38:06 UTC ]
Mathelinda Nabugodi has won the £10,000 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award for her "engaging and fascinating" work of non-fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-07 20:28:37 UTC ]
Are there certain books with topics you avoid? That you fear may leave you a little worse for wear? Here's what may happen if you read them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-12-07 11:38:00 UTC ]
Agatha Christie, the Queen of Mystery, is the best-selling novelist of all time. What makes her work so timeless? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-12-06 11:40:00 UTC ]
In the last few years, we have seen a boom in books written by trans authors. Here are some graphic trans memoirs right on the cutting edge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-12-06 11:38:00 UTC ]
The main character in “The Lyrics” is his best friend and fiercest rival, John Lennon Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2021-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Northern Writers’ Awards has opened for submissions with a chance to win a share of £40,000 in development opportunities as former winner Benjamin Myers (pictured) launches a new short story category. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-03 20:45:57 UTC ]
Literary critic Edmund Wilson, an early champion, called her “a writer in a class by herself.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-03 01:22:24 UTC ]
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 ]