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 Nigerian son takes his father to a euthanasia centre in a Britain with no time for invalids. These three very different tales – respectively by Yiming Ma, Lisa Smith and Abiola Oni – are all previous winners of the Guardian/ Fourth Estate BAME short story award, showing just how vigorous and various the short story can be as a showcase for up-and-coming talent.The hunt is now on for the fourth winner of the £1,000 prize, which is open to black and minority writers aged over 18 and based in the UK or Ireland. Among this year’s judges is Niki Chang, a literary agent based at the Good Agency, set up to seek out writers of colour at a time when the publishing industry is struggling to increase its diversity. She will be joined by 4th Estate publishing director Helen Garnons-Williams, novelist Michael Donkor, author and broadcaster Emma Dabiri and me. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The critically lauded US author turns his hand to children’s books with a fortuitously timed tale of immigrant experience—and keeps a decades-old promise as a result. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A trend toward public reading-engagement projects continues, this time as the European Union Prize for Literature's 10th-anniversary short-fiction competition opens for reads and votes on newly created 'European stories.' The post The European Union Prize for Literature Launches Its 10th... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eimear McBride, Kit de Waal and Sally Rooney are among the writers from "Ireland's current golden age" who are to feature in an anthology for Faber. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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American writer Courtney Zoffness has won the 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for her short story "Peanuts aren't nuts". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Philip Pullman is to judge a new 500-word short story competition which is being launched ahead of the 2018 Liverpool Literary Festival. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the (hash)MeToo movement and set off a national reckoning over sexual misconduct in the workplace. The Times and The Washington Post took... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus imprint riverrun has acquired a debut short story collection Friday Black by American writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With more than €26,000 in prizes, the Global Illustration award from Frankfurter Buchmesse and the Information Content Industry Association has issued its third-year call for submissions to IlluSalon, with an award ceremony set for Frankfurt on October 10. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse: Global... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With soaring sales, viral hits like Cat Person and a cameo by Tom Hanks, the form seems to be staging a comeback. But did it ever go away?In 2017, almost 50% more short story collections were sold than in the previous year. It was the best year for short stories since 2010. Booksellers are... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The new stores will average about 14,000 sq. ft., making them roughly 12,000 sq. ft. smaller than the chain's current stores. The first prototype location is set to open in New Jersey in late summer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Strout was awarded The Story Prize and a $20,000 cash prize for her acclaimed short story collection 'Anything Is Possible,' at a ceremony at New York's New School. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There are so many literary prizes these days that they could be regarded as an industry in their own right – but they’re needed to change the status quoHow many literary prizes are there in the UK today? To Wikipedia’s tally of around 70, I can immediately add half a dozen more – and still they... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With challenges to so many voices becoming shrill in so many markets, Publishing Perspectives' Spring Global Overview Edition will spotlight the book industry's champions of diversity and efforts to promote it. The post Publishing Perspectives’ Spring Magazine: Call for Stories on Diversity... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A letter from 30 industry figures is urging the award to reverse 2014’s inclusion of US authors, in order to avoid a ‘homogenised literary future’Tensions over the decision to allow US authors to enter the Man Booker prize have flared up yet again, with 30 publishers signing a letter urging the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent poetry publisher Offord Road Books is opening its submissions window exclusively to writers from black, asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds until March. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A French publisher aims to print stories and poems on demand in unexpected places. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2018-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish publishers are now eligible to submit novels for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction from this year onwards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hutchinson has revealed it is publishing a posthumous collection of "powerful" short stories by Helen Dunmore, a day after the late author was given the Costa Award for Poetry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Borough Press is publishing a short story collection inspired by Wuthering Heights, to be edited by Kate Mosse. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A former judge's collection of satirical short stories, entitled Walden of Bermondsey, has been optioned for television by Revelation Content and Media Limited. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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