The UK’s Young Writer Award Gains Charlotte Aitken Trust Sponsorship

The Young Writer Award led by the Sunday Times in the United Kingdom now is sponsored by the Charlotte Aitken Trust. The post The UK’s Young Writer Award Gains Charlotte Aitken Trust Sponsorship appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

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Hachette UK revenues fall 3.7% in first quarter, Lagardère reveals

Hachette parent company Lagardère has reported a 0.9% increase in total like-for-like publishing revenues for the first quarter, but revealed a 3.7% fall in the UK compared to last year's Fire and Fury-fuelled success. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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S&S UK buys Adam Silvera fantasy

Simon & Schuster Children’s UK has acquired two books in the Infinity Cycle series by Adam Silvera. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HBG Has Q1 Sales Gain

Revenue at Hachette Book Group rose 3.3% in the first quarter ended March 31, 2019, over the comparable period in 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Go West: Publisher services operation looks to UK market to fuel growth

After tasking former History Press m.d. Tim Davies to lead its expansion in the UK, Westchester Publishing Services has signed up a number of clients from this side of the Atlantic.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London Library takes on 38 authors for Emerging Writers Programme

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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Kerry Hudson | 'I want to do as much as I can to get this book to young people [who are] like I was'

Following two prize-winning novels, Kerry Hudson has written a redemptive memoir in which she revisits the locations of her poor working-class childhood. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Norwegian reading app to launch in the UK

Poio, an app created to help children learn to read, is launching in the UK in June. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amélie Wen Zhao's controversial young-adult book will be published in the fall

Amélie Wen Zhao's young-adult novel "Blood Heir," which was postponed by the author earlier this year after some Twitter users accused it of being racially insensitive, will be released in the fall, Publishers Weekly reports. Zhao's debut book, the first in a planned fantasy trilogy, came under... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Val McDermid to play Glastonbury with Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers

The Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers will play at Glastonbury, in what lead singer Val McDermid described as “a bit like a fairy story”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spread the Word calls for trade to invest in under-represented writers

Spread the Word has urged for greater investment in under-represented authors from the trade, as it reopens its London Writers Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Calling BAME writers: entries open for 2019 short story prize

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

[ The Guardian | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dialogue Books to take authors on UK tour

Dialogue Books is taking eight of its authors on a tour of the UK in May and November, kicking off with dates in Bristol, Leeds and Glasgow. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller's Library of the Year Award returns

The Bookseller's Library of the Year Award is back for a second year, following Liverpool Central Library's win of the inaugural prize in 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Young people who engage less with reading prefer screens, says NLT report

Print is still the preferred medium for young people but digital formats are growing in popularity amongst those who engage less with reading, according to a new report. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Green New Deal’s supporters hope to harness power of narrative with Federal Writers’ Project

The ambitious proposal echoes the legendary 1930s-era New Deal project that employed such greats as Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, and Zora Neale Hurston. Any collective plan to avert planetary disaster will first need to harness the full powers of storytelling and mythology if it’s going to stand... Continue reading at Fast Company

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This Year's Triangle Award Winners Announced

Alexander Chee, Hieu Minh Nguyen, and Imani Perry are among the winners of the 31st annual Triangle Awards, honoring LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature published in 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Zayed Award Winner Hussain Al Mutawaa on Children and the Habit of Reading

The 2019 Sheikh Zayed Book Award winner in Children's Literature counsels the publishing industry to stop 'riding the wave' of typical entertainment and promote issue-based reality in young people's books. The post Zayed Award Winner Hussain Al Mutawaa on Children and the Habit of Reading... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Nicole Brossard Given Canada’s Lifetime Griffin Award for Poetry

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 Mystery Writers Have Their Night

Among the winners, Walter Mosley won the Edgar for Best Novel for 'Down the River Unto the Sea,' while Robert Fieseler took home the prize for Best Fact Crime for 'Tinderbox.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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New Brick Lane bookshop focuses on women and non-binary writers

The award-winning Pages Bookshop in east London is opening a sister shop, dedicated to titles by women and non-binary writers, in the former space of French-English bookshop Caravansérail. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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