The shortlist has been announced for the seventh annual Gordon Burn Prize with two nods for Faber, including Max Porter, as well as nominations for three Penguin Random House authors including Pat Barker. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-17 06:42:03 UTC ]
Indie publisher Comma Press and the University of Central Lancashire have teamed up with the Northern Short Story Festival for the next Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-15 08:57:23 UTC ]
The Crime Writers' Association will continue the Margery Allingham Short Story competition for at least another five years and has plans to rename next year's prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-11 11:04:19 UTC ]
Submissions have opened today for the 2020 International Booker Prize, with a judging panel to be chaired by the Southbank Centre’s Ted Hodgkinson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 19:52:26 UTC ]
Cypriot author Constantia Soteriou has won the £5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize with 'Death Customs', marking the first time the prize has been awarded to a translation as the judges choose an all-women line-up of regional winners. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 20:13:50 UTC ]
Sophie Jai's debut novel Wild Fires was selected out of 200 entries to win The Borough Press and The Good Literary Agency open submission. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 18:07:57 UTC ]
Yrsa Daley-Ward has won this year’s £3,000 PEN Ackerley Prize for her memoir The Terrible (Penguin). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 15:33:37 UTC ]
Nigerian author Lesley Nneka Arimah has won the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story ‘Skinned’. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 03:36:33 UTC ]
Diana Evans has won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for her book Ordinary People (Chatto & Windus). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-08 04:24:03 UTC ]
The inaugural Primadonna Festival has revealed the judging panel for its literary prize will include author Joanne Harris, Agent of the Year Cathryn Summerhayes and HQ executive publisher Lisa Milton. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-07 22:39:11 UTC ]
Spoken word artist Steven Camden has won this year’s £1,000 CLiPPA (Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award) with his poetry collection Everything All At Once (Macmillan Children’s Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-03 13:47:22 UTC ]
Already among the world's richest awards for self-published content, Amazon's global literary prizes now include a chance at Amazon Studios development. The post Amazon Literary Prize Finalists To Be Considered for Prime Video appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-07-03 02:12:27 UTC ]
The Society of Authors has launched a £5,000 book prize for ‘quirky’ illustrated books for children aged 0-7. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-01 18:13:35 UTC ]
Little, Brown has scooped three nominations on the McIlvanney Prize longlist for 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-27 22:23:48 UTC ]
Writers including Tara Guha, Adam Bennett-Lea and James Harris are amongst the winners of this year’s Northern Writers’ Awards, administered by New Writing North. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-26 19:17:21 UTC ]
Peters Fraser + Dunlop e-book imprint Agora Books has launched a prize to celebrate its new writers’ group, Lost the Plot, which offers "no-nonsense advice, industry insight, and community connection". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-26 18:08:57 UTC ]
Anna Burns and Patrick Radden Keefe have won the Orwell Prize 2019, with both their books about the Troubles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-25 15:34:17 UTC ]
A M Homes, Emma Cline, Toby Litt, Joe Dunthorne and Kevin Barry are among the writers nominated for the £30,000 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-23 16:06:29 UTC ]
Cardiff-based poet Ailbhe Darcy has won the £4,000 Wales Book of the Year Award for her "striking" collection, Insistence (Bloodaxe Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-20 03:52:13 UTC ]
Claire Adam has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for first-time novelists with her "electrifying" debut Golden Child (Faber). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-18 18:50:22 UTC ]