Open letter rebukes LitProm decision to cancel award ceremony for Adania Shibli due to ‘war started by Hamas’Israel-Hamas war: latest news and live updatesSeveral prominent authors and publishers from around the world have accused the Frankfurt Book Fair of “shutting down” Palestinian voices,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-10-15 18:11:54 UTC ]
The Women’s Prize Trust hopes to make the first award in 2024, after research showed female writers were far less likely than men to be reviewed or win prizes The Women’s prize is to launch a non-fiction award to sit alongside its long-running fiction prize, in response to research that found... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-08 08:00:10 UTC ]
The publisher and writer – who has died aged 84 – was a pioneering champion of female writers. Virago’s chair Lennie Goodings remembers her long-time colleague and friendMore than 40 years ago when Carmen and I were working late in the first Virago office on Wardour Street I asked her why she... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-10-18 15:06:43 UTC ]
Publisher who founded Virago Press began as a campaigning outsider who introduced UK readers to authors including Angela Carter and Margaret AtwoodCarmen Callil, the publisher and writer who championed female writers and transformed the canon of English literature, has died of leukemia in London... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-10-18 09:09:25 UTC ]
What are some of the best short stories by female writers? Women have been making their mark on the short story form since the form became popular in the nineteenth century, and many notable female practitioners of the short story, such as Katherine Mansfield and Kate Chopin, were among the […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2022-03-23 15:00:17 UTC ]
The organisers of the 2021 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival have apologised for not including any female writers of colour in the programme . Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-02 16:32:23 UTC ]
In collaboration with the Women's Prize for Fiction, sponsor Baileys is re-releasing free e-books of classic works using the real names of female writers who originally published under male pseudonyms. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-12 02:14:44 UTC ]
Three debut collections appear on this year’s shortlist for the £10,000 Edge Hill Short Story Prize, which sees an equal balance of male and female writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-12 11:24:57 UTC ]
Female writers and first-time authors dominate the longlist for the 2019 Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize, worth £30,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bluemoose Books has revealed it will only publish female writers in 2020, with co-owner Kevin Duffy lamenting how “women over a certain age are overlooked in the publishing world”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
While Gail Honeyman is completely fine, where have all the female writers gone? John Dugdale takes a look at 2018’s biggest books and the year’s trendsRead Alex Clark’s look at 2018: the year the books world opened upThere are two contrasting strategies for achieving a mega-seller, as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2017 bestseller list was dominated by women, with Margaret Atwood at the top, but the Booker still favours menOn the face of it, the revelation that female writers dominated the UK literary bestseller lists in 2017 might seem cause for celebration, a long-overdue correction that seems... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Waterstones branch is dedicating its ‘Staff Recommends’ bay to female writers to celebrate the 'Year of Publishing Women'. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Only a third of books translated into English last year were by female writers. As Women in Translation month wraps up, we investigate why – and if things are changing• In their own words: 10 female translators on the work that inspires themWhen Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin’s first book,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Loganberry Books in Ohio has reorganised its fiction section so all titles by male writers now have their spines facing the wallA bookshop in Ohio has made a graphic illustration of the position of female writers by leaving only books by women visible to its customers. The change, made to mark... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Laurie Garrison’s call to arms is intended to foster collaboration ‘rejecting traditional models of publishing’The internet is not always a safe place for women, so there is something hearteningly radical about women staking a claim to this space to assert their own ambitions and interests. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paula Hawkins’ bestseller leads a crop of psychological thrillers, in a top 20 dominated by womenDark psychological thrillers dominate the list of the year’s bestselling ebooks unveiled by Amazon, with MP Nadine Dorries making it into a line-up composed almost entirely of female writers.The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher And Other Stories will only publish books by female writers in 2018, in response to a call for a Year of Publishing Women by the author Kamila Shamsie. The initiative, to be held in 2018 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote in the UK, would help... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Crowdfunding publisher Unbound has launched Women in Print, a campaign to encourage more female writers to submit their ideas for books. Unbound has published 43 books, two magazines and a box set of photos to date, of which 32 were by male authors, 12 by female authors, and two by male and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two mystery book experts go head-to-head on the topic of male and female writers and characters in the genre. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]