For decades, I sat in meetings with all-white teams. The industry needs an independent body to advise on equalityI’m a literary agent and at the height of last year’s Black Lives Matter protests I was sent a list, with accompanying photographs, of the top editors working across the major... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-01 10:00:46 UTC ]
Literature Wales has launched a brand new funding scheme for Wales-based writers from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, and writers with a disability or illness (mental or physical). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-21 20:58:51 UTC ]
Literature Wales has disputed the BBC's claim that some of the Wales Book of the Year winners have only sold as few as 20 copies, describing the Nielsen data as “misleading”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literature Wales is to administer the Wales Book of the Year awards in 2018, although the future of the prize is still under review. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literature Wales has raised “serious concerns” regarding the Welsh Publishing and Literature Review released last week after it was accused of being “inward looking” and “uncertain as to its proper purpose”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
An independent review into the Welsh Government's support of publishing and literature in Wales has recommended the Welsh Books Council take on some of the functions of Literature Wales, including the administration of its Book of the Year prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literature Wales is currently reviewing the Wales Book of the Year awards, with a statement on its future expected before the end of the week, the BBC has reported. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Patrick McGuiness has won the main English-language prize at Wales Book of the Year 2015 awards, run by Literature Wales, for Other People’s Countries (Jonathan Cape). Other People’s Countries is set in the town of Bouillon, where the author’s mother came from, and is a “brilliant, lyrical... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Professor Damian Walford Davies has been appointed chair of Literature Wales, following the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 18/10/2011 - 08:00 Fantasy childrens author Catherine Fisher will be officially named Wales first Young Peoples Poet Laureate later today (18th October). The Newport writer will be given the title by Literature Wales, which was established in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]