The next awards program to move online is the 'Nibbies,' set for June 29 with access available to readers as well as to book business players.
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[ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-06-22 09:40:01 UTC ]
The YA Book Prize launched in 2014 to award a YA title written by an author living in the UK ...
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[ Source: Book Riot | 2020-06-19 10:36:00 UTC ]
The Women's Prize Trust is launching Discoveries, a writers’ development programme offering aspiring female writers of all ages and backgrounds "encouragement and support" at the beginning of their creative journeys.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-18 07:15:38 UTC ]
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh by Alan Strachan (I B Tauris) has been awarded the Society for Theatre Research Theatre Book Prize 2020.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-18 01:28:40 UTC ]
Kathryn Hind, Stacey Halls and Okechukwu Nzelu are among the winners of this year's £100,000 Society of Author Awards.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-17 22:31:09 UTC ]
For seeing society's wealth as reflecting 'the opportunities for development available to all individuals,' the German book trade's Peace Prize goes to Amartya Sen.
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[ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-06-17 13:51:51 UTC ]
The shortlists for this year's Telegraph Sports Book Awards have been revealed, with titles from England Rugby coach Eddie Jones and British Lions coach Warren Gatland jostling for Rugby Writers Book of the Year.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-17 13:50:00 UTC ]
Lemn Sissay, Lisa Taddeo and Paul Mendez have been longlisted for this year's Gordon Burn Prize.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-17 02:24:37 UTC ]
David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea (Allen Lane), a global history of humankind told through our relationship with the world’s oceans, has won the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-15 10:43:11 UTC ]
Bad Form, the quarterly literary review magazine, is launching a new prize for young black, Asian, Arab and other non-white fiction writers based in the UK, with support from across the publishing industry.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-14 17:30:53 UTC ]
Irish author Christine Dwyer Hickey has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for her “masterpiece” The Narrow Land (Atlantic), exploring the marriage of artists Edward and Jo Hopper.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-14 12:10:56 UTC ]
I am a Black author and publisher in an industry that is dominated by white people. Black Lives Matter is not a hashtag. It is a movement that will carry on until we have seen real change. It is being said time and time again but there is still not enough representation in the publishing...
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-11 01:22:51 UTC ]
Opening today for submissions in its 2021 cycle, the Aspen Words Literary Prize is focused on fiction that illustrates 'the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.'
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[ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-06-10 17:05:39 UTC ]
Hay Festival and Mexico's Guadalajara Book Fair have been jointly awarded the 2020 Princess of Asturias Award for communication and humanities.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-09 19:05:34 UTC ]
This year's Comedy Women in Print Prize shortlists have been revealed, and feature Candice Carty-Williams, Jeanette Winterson and Beth O'Leary.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-08 04:36:56 UTC ]
First-time writer Lorelei Goulding has won Spread the Word's Life Writing Prize, for her "heart-breaking story" Birdie.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-04 12:18:00 UTC ]
'Publishers Weekly' and the U.K.'s' BookBrunch' announced the five titles chosen for the shortlist for the Selfies book awards for self-published authors in the U.S.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
The regional winners of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize have been announced, with 20-year-old Reyah Martin taking the title for Europe and Canada.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-03 23:09:53 UTC ]
Anne Griffin and David Nott have made the shortlist for this year's £10,000 RSL Christopher Bland Prize, which goes to a debut author aged 50 or over.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-03 14:09:31 UTC ]
Jeffrey Gerritt, recipient of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, has been appointed editor of the Sharon Herald and
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[ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2020-06-02 19:35:11 UTC ]