Writers including Malorie Blackman and Nikesh Shukla have urged writers of colour not to give up and that their stories matter, as the #PublishingPaidMe hashtag took off over the weekend to illustrate the disparity between the advances paid by publishers to non-Black authors versus Black authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-08 10:07:04 UTC ]
Lionel Shriver has criticised the "politically correct censorship" in fiction and urged writers to take a stance against it. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
AWP 2017's keynote speaker, Azar Nafisi, the author of 'Reading Lolita in Tehran,' blasted President Trump in a fiery presentation and urged writers to use their imaginations to resist the tyranny of the Trump administration. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]