Lisa Bickmore has won the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for her poem on separation, love and grief, “Eidolon”. Her win of the €10,000 (£7,152) award for a single unpublished poem was announced at a special event at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin. The prize is sponsored by Darina Allen’s Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland, in association with the arts and literature magazine The Moth. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The Commonwealth Short Story Prize has announced its five regional awards this year have all been won by women. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Booker and Jhalak Prize winners Anna Burns and Guy Gunaratne are among the 12 novelists longlisted for the first Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Rock star and author Smith's 'Just Kids' is the winner of the 2019 'One Book, One New York' contest. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Indies make up half of this year's Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize longlist, with Head of Zeus bagging two nominations for the £15,000 prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The London Magazine has launched its debut fiction prize for a second year, following the success of its inaugural year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The biggest international poetry prize for ecological, environmental and climate-concerned poetry, the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry, has returned for a second year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Imprisoned Egyptian publisher and bookseller Khaled Lutfi has won the International Publishers Association’s 2019 Prix Voltaire which supports defenders of freedom to publish. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Will Eaves' novel uses the legacy of Alan Turing to explore the impact of torture. Continue reading at BBC News
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Raynor Winn and A J Pearce are among the authors on the six-strong shortlist for the inaugural Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Kim Scott Walwyn Prize shortlist has been revealed following a record number of nominations. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Women's Fiction Prize co-founder Kate Mosse missed last night's celebration for the 2019 award shortlist after being knocked off her bike in central London. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) recognized the best Christian books of the year in 12 categories on Wednesday during its annual Leadership Summit in Chicago, awarding its top prize to Lysa TerKeurst for her devotional, ‘Embraced.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The hunt is on for up-and-coming writers who could scoop this year’s £1,000 Guardian/Fourth Estate prize A Chinese villager with no arms becomes a Paralympian swimming champion; a dapper elderly Jamaican spends New Year’s Eve in a south London police cell under suspicion of domestic abuse; a... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Author David Nicholls has won a BAFTA TV Craft award for best drama writer, for his adaptation of the Patrick Melrose novels. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Multimedia publisher OWN IT! will co-publish a poetry collection edited by Stormzy’s co-author Jude Yawson in conjunction with BBC 1Xtra, as part of a new ‘Words First’ initiative. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Man Booker winner Anna Burns and debut author Oyinkan Braithwaite have made the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Seven authors have been shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize following a record 600 entries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French-Canadian author Nicole Brossard is named the 2019 recipient of the Griffin Trust's lifetime achievement award the honor to be conferred June 6. The post Nicole Brossard Given Canada’s Lifetime Griffin Award for Poetry appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The prize money for this year’s Society of Authors’ Awards will exceed £100,000 for the first time, say organisers, as the Elizabeth Longford Prize shortlist is unveiled. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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4th Estate has triumphed in an auction for a "breath-taking" debut work of autofiction about one man’s involvement in London gang-life. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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