The Curtis Brown Creative Writing school is launching a Breakthrough Writers’ Programme, which features fully funded courses, mentoring and scholarships for underrepresented writers. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 13:15:13 UTC ]
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Under-represented writers’ platform Untitled has launched the second full issue of its global online journal Untitled: Voices, featuring work from 53 emerging writers from around the world. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-18 16:23:12 UTC ]
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The full programme for FutureBook, The Bookseller's publishing conference has been launched. The all virtual event takes place for a week from 16th November, and includes speakers across a range of disciplines and companies. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-16 08:47:44 UTC ]
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Submissions are now open for Spread the Word's 2021 London Writers Awards, which this year focus on developing authors of literary fiction, commercial fiction, YA/children’s fiction and narrative non-fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-18 03:44:16 UTC ]
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The Society of Authors is launching a fundraising drive to help top up its Authors’ Contingency Fund, ensuring it can continue to offer hardship grants to authors as the effects of the health crisis continue to be felt. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-09 17:04:03 UTC ]
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The Festival for Working Class Writers is being launched in Bristol next year, hoping to shine a spotlight on authors who organiser Natasha Carthew says are underrepresented at other events. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-20 17:38:05 UTC ]
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The Literary Consultancy is partnering with Ellah P Wakatama, editor-at-large at Canongate, to launch the TLC Scholarship. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-19 14:43:29 UTC ]
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Production firm Fane has launched a digital programme of live streamed events featuring stars including Arsène Wenger, Armistead Maupin, Ian McKellen, Elizabeth Day and Graham Norton. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-17 03:24:42 UTC ]
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The London Library has announced the 40 participants of its early career writing development programme, as the library plans its reopening for 6th July. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-25 01:17:13 UTC ]
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Bad Form, the quarterly literary review magazine, is launching a new prize for young black, Asian, Arab and other non-white fiction writers based in the UK, with support from across the publishing industry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-14 17:30:53 UTC ]
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The Literary Consultancy (TLC) has launched a digital platform to support writers and "safeguard their creativity". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-11 01:42:35 UTC ]
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A group of crime writers are publishing a digital short story anthology to help raise funds for charity Samaritans in the light of the coronavirus crisis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-20 05:15:57 UTC ]
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Four independent bookshops have pooled their knowledge and resources to organise a series of virtual events. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-09 02:25:23 UTC ]
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers has launched a non-fiction writing prize for trans and non-binary writers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 09:48:12 UTC ]
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Unbound is launching an anthology of working class writers from across Ireland, featuring original pieces by Roddy Doyle and Lisa McInerney alongside lesser known authors and edited by Paul McVeigh. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-04 02:04:57 UTC ]
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Libraries Connected has launched a programme of activities and partnerships as part of the BBC’s The Novels That Shaped Our World festival. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-10 15:45:24 UTC ]
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Literature Wales has launched a brand new funding scheme for Wales-based writers from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, and writers with a disability or illness (mental or physical). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-21 20:58:51 UTC ]
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Author Carmen Marcus has teamed up with the North Yorkshire bookshop Book Corner to offer aspiring working-class writers a free course on developing a strategy to write professionally. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 19:37:39 UTC ]
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Artbook/D.A.P. has launched a new global sales and distribution programme to expand its reach into bookshops, wholesalers and libraries in the UK and beyond. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-21 14:39:34 UTC ]
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The London Library has welcomed 38 authors onto its inaugural Emerging Writers Programme. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pop Up Projects, a not-for-profit children’s literature agency, has received £300,000 to launch a talent development programme for illustrators of colour. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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