Debut novelists Eimear McBride, Audrey Magee and Hannah Kent join Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Donna... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Penguin is launching a pop-up bookshop stocked solely with titles by female writers for International Women’s Day. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2018 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is out today, with 2017 SI Rookie Danielle Herrington gracing this year's cover. Former SI cover model Tyra Banks first shared the news with Herrington in a video posted to SI.com this morning. This year's Swimsuit Issue is unique in that the first... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publication’s editorial team will be combined with other Hearst magazines, including Cosmopolitan. Men’s Health faces a similar fate. It’s bad out there for the magazine industry as more consolidation leads to more dismissals. Hearst Media is laying off at least 15 editorial employees from... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Titles by Matt Carr, Lisa Thompson and Alice Broadway are on the shortlist for this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, meaning Scholastic has more books in the running than any other publisher. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The €20,000 EBRD Literature Prize, launched by the British Council and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has revealed its inaugural shortlist, including titles from Turkey, Croatia, Russia, Albania and Lebanon. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan celebrated female writers at its annual women’s fiction party on Tuesday evening. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The writings and adaptations of 'oustanding female writers whose work continues to be iconic and influential' is featured in the 'Book and Screen Week' program that runs parallel to London Book Fair in April. The post London Book Fair’s ‘Book and Screen Week’ Embraces Women’s Suffrage Centenary... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A screenwriter has launched an award for a novel in the thriller genre in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2017 bestseller list was dominated by women, with Margaret Atwood at the top, but the Booker still favours menOn the face of it, the revelation that female writers dominated the UK literary bestseller lists in 2017 might seem cause for celebration, a long-overdue correction that seems... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Only one publisher, And Other Stories, has answered Kamila Shamsie’s challenge to publish only female writers this year. But wider lessons are being learned, as the novelist and other industry insiders explain2018 was meant to be the “year of publishing women”, after the novelist Kamila Shamsie... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Actress Scarlett Johansson, who is expected to be one of the featured speakers at Saturday’s Women’s March L.A., is the subject of a separate demonstration. The Palestinian American Women’s Assn. (PAWA) announced on its Facebook page that it was withdrawing from the march in downtown L.A. because... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has shortlisted 10 authors and illustrators from countries such as France, Iran and Austria for this year’s Hans Christian Andersen Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I B Tauris has inked a second book deal from Labour MP Rachel Reeves, about the 100-year history of female MPs, to be published on International Women’s Day. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Zealand author Joy Cowley has been shortlisted for the highest international distinction given to the creators of children's books. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Translators' Association First Translation Prize, set up by writer and translator Daniel Hahn, has revealed its inaugural shortlist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Women writers dominated the best-selling literary novels of last year, taking nine of the top 10 spots, according to an analysis of Nielsen BookScan sales. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing and literary figures from Bangladesh, Sweden, Hong Kong, Iran, the UK, Hungary, and Cameroon are among the shortlist for the 2018 Prix Voltaire from the International Publishers Association's Freedom To Publish committee. The post Freedom To Publish: The Prix Voltaire 2018 Shortlist... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Adam Kay has been shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2017 for his junior doctor diaries, This Is Going to Hurt (Picador). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London-based Iranian e-publisher Azadeh Parsapour and missing Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai have been shortlisted for the 2018 Prix Voltaire, which rewards "exemplary courage in upholding the freedom to publish and in enabling others to exercise their right to freedom of expression". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Forty-three titles have been shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, which celebrate the "broad scope" of travel writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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