A shared ambition to bring forth more diverse voices

We'd like to build bridges between the writing development sector and the publishing industry, to address diversity and to build new readers for contemporary writing, writes Claire Malcolm of New Writing North. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury reports sales surge as people buy books as ‘affordable diversion’

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