Interviews Shelly Bhoil Tenzin Dickie is a Tibetan writer and translator and editor of The Treasury of Lives, a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. Her edited anthology, Old Demons, New Deities: 21 Short Stories from... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-06-25 14:25:59 UTC ]
Picador has acquired a collection of short stories from "really exciting talent" Dima Alzayat. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
As a recipient of the Arts Connects Us Grant I travelled to Ghana and Sierra Leone to meet with writers and publishing professionals working in the field of books for young readers to foster creative and collaborative exchanges between those contacts and publishing professionals and readers in... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-03-19 11:10:28 UTC ]
You started writing early in your high school days, what were you writing about most back then?I think it is exaggerating to say I started writing at high school. I was already writing, but it was mainly journaling, which was not for public consumption. There was a poem (about a tree in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-03-15 11:15:36 UTC ]
Europa Editions has snapped up the latest collection of short stories by American writer Deborah Eisenberg. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Podcasts, writing workshops and a collection of short stories are among the winners of this year’s RSL Literature Matters Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador has landed a second book of short stories by acclaimed science fiction writer Ted Chiang, Exhalation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some writers turn to fiction as a way to escape the nonstop onslaught of (mostly bad) news that Americans are subjected to constantly these days. Karen E. Bender, the novelist and short story writer, is not that kind of writer. Bender’s new short story collection, “The New Order,” takes on a host... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indonesia is the country of focus at the London Book Fair this year and recently at Frankfurt - to what extent do you think Indonesian literature is finally having it's moment in the spotlight? I cannot say for certain what these one-off ‘spotlights’ on Indonesian literature would mean for... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-02-08 10:06:53 UTC ]
Audible is bringing the novels and short stories of A.S. Byatt to audio for the first time this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Myriad has acquired world rights to Elaine Chiew's debut collection of short stories, The Heartsick Diaspora. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction was announced today at the El-Hakawati Palestinian National Theatre in East Jerusalem. The IPAF - often referred to as the ‘Arabic Booker’ - is an annual literary prize for prose fiction, which encourages the readership of... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-02-05 16:33:45 UTC ]
David Walliams’ next publication, a funny story entitled Fing, "dovetails seamlessly" with his short stories and middle-grade novels, according to his publisher HarperCollins Children’s Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author of the Oscar-nominated film “45 Years” David Constantine has signed a deal for a collection of short stories, The Dressing-up Box, with Comma Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Each month in 2018, Future Tense Fiction—a series of short stories from Future Tense and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives—will publish a story on a theme. The theme for October–December 2018: Work. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2018-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Daunt Books, Waterstones and Foyles are raising money for The Passage, a charity that supports people who are homeless, by selling a book of short stories by AS Byatt, Lennie James and Michael Morpurgo. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thirty-six short stories were submitted for the first ever FutureBook speculative fiction competition run with digital reading platform the Pigeonhole. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
He has charmed Elton John, angered Paul McCartney – and horrified Yoko Ono. What will he uncover about the ‘murky’ death of Jimi Hendrix? The great rock writer reveals the pain – and pleasure – of chasing starsSlowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton is my eighth rock biography since Shout!... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Saqi Books is publishing a newly discovered collection of short stories by the late author Naguib Mahfouz, who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Orwell Foundation will next month launch a prize to celebrate novels or short stories that illuminate social and political themes through the art of narrative. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]