The quintet of books named to the UK Young Writer of the Year award shortlist this year includes memoir, novels, and poetry collections. The post The UK’s Young Writer Award Names Its 2020 Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-11-06 21:59:14 UTC ]
‘She knew it was a trick of the lonely to favour the rude to the simply unmoved; that the loneliest thing in these villages and in this most tucked-away of professions was to elicit no response at all.’ Marina Kemp’s debut novel Nightingale is shortlisted for the 2020 Young Writer of the Year... Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2020-11-05 11:53:49 UTC ]
‘Waking, close to morning but still a shuttered, metal dark in the room’ Two poems by Seán Hewitt from Tongues of Fire, shortlisted for the 2020 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The post Tongues of Fire appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2020-11-05 09:00:03 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has snapped up an “exquisite” memoir about the challenges facing gay men today from acclaimed poet and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year shortlistee Seán Hewitt. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 07:03:12 UTC ]
In this bold adaptation of the Jack London novel, a young writer suffers, fights and pays as he stands alone against the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-10-15 11:00:08 UTC ]
One juror for the 2020 Young Writer of the Year award says she hopes 'we won’t see a rash of virus or pandemic stories.' The post Amid ‘the ‘Low-Level Hum of Panic,’ the UK’s Young Writer Award Names Its Jury appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-05-18 12:37:26 UTC ]
Sebastian Faulks, Kit de Waal and Tessa Hadley are among the judges for this year's Sunday Times and University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-18 10:25:47 UTC ]
Can a young writer find creative fulfillment after all her friends have settled down, married up and sold out? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-04 19:24:27 UTC ]
A young writer wrote a controversial bit of military science fiction about sexual politics. The fallout was nuclear. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2020-01-17 14:00:00 UTC ]
For Antrobus' 'commitment not just to recognizing difference but to the difficult act of forgiveness,' the Young Writer Award goes to poetry this year. The post In London, Raymond Antrobus Named 2019 Young Writer Award Winner appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-12-06 13:02:43 UTC ]
Raymond AntrobusWho/ What inspired you to start writing? I never started writing poetry with the intention of writing books until publishers approached me. I was happy to write poems and travel and read the poems for audiences. I live poem by poem. The idea of a book of poems doesn’t really... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-12-05 12:09:15 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood writes about the influence that the “Little Lulu” comics had on her as a young writer and storyteller. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2019-11-29 11:00:00 UTC ]
Two titles from Hachette imprints, one from Pan Macmillan and one from Penned in the Margins are shortlisted for this year's Young Writer of the Year Award. The post Four Debuts Shortlisted for UK’s Times/Warwick Young Writer Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-11-05 06:45:00 UTC ]
From meditations on the d/Deaf experience to short stories blurring the mythic and the gothic with the everyday, from mixing the personal and political to a young woman uncover the truth about her family’s past – four outstanding writers have today been named on the shortlist for The Sunday... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-11-04 12:55:09 UTC ]
Four debuts have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award after a record number of submissions forced an expanded judging panel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-02 15:32:17 UTC ]
A young writer discovers her grandmother’s literary secret. The post Translation and the Family of Things appeared first on Guernica. Continue reading >> [ Source: Guernica | 2019-10-29 12:00:48 UTC ]
The Blunt Instrument is an advice column for writers. If you need tough advice for a writing problem, send your question to [email protected]. For early access to Blunt Instrument columns, plus a special subscriber-only edition every other month, become a supporter of Electric... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-07-30 11:00:37 UTC ]
I was having coffee with a young writer who was starting out in the TV business and wanted advice. I could tell she was new by her hopefulness, good skin, and full head of hair. She asked me about my writing process. I told her I don’t have a “process.” I more. . .spend most […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-30 08:47:17 UTC ]
As a young writer obsessed with epiphanies in fiction, Jess Row stumbled upon a revelation of his own. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Paris Review | 2019-07-29 16:10:33 UTC ]
OK, first of all, nobody is going to teach you how to actually kill an intern. Instead, this is about how I almost killed our interns by unintentionally breaking their hearts. Through exit interviews, I became newly empathetic to their struggles. Even when you’re young and talented, it’s not... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-07-17 07:00:00 UTC ]