No men allowed: publisher accepts novelist's 'year of women' challenge

Small press And Other Stories will produce no books by men in 2018 in answer to Kamila Shamsie’s call for direct action to beat gender bias in publishingSmall press And Other Stories has answered author Kamila Shamsie’s provocative call for a year of publishing women to redress “gender bias” in the literary world.The novelist made what she called her “provocation” in Saturday’s Guardian, revealing that just under 40% of books submitted to the Booker prize over the past five years were by women, and pointing to everything from the author Nicola Griffith’s research, which found that far more prize-winning novels have male than female protagonists, to the Vida statistics showing that male authors and reviewers command more space than female. Related: Kamila Shamsie: let’s have a year of publishing only women – a provocation Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Slant: a publishing platform built on pay-per-click content

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[ Digiday | 2015-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins to publish Tolkien 'legend' story

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Religion Publishing News From Around The Web: August 12, 2015

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Russia’s Algoritm Publishing House Accused of Piracy

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Harlequin Makes HC's Year

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Sargent promoted at Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

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Facebook Is Working on a Twitter-Like App That Lets Publishers Send Mobile Breaking News Alerts to the Masses

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Four Questions for...Publishing Scotland's Marion Sinclair

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Somali Sisters Launch Qurtuba Publishing House in Ottawa

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Russian publisher prints books about Putin under names of western authors

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George Braziller: the man who published Pamuk and Janet Frame in America

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[ The Guardian | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One Year After Michael Brown’s Death: 5 Books on Faith, Race, and Reconciliation

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