Women Poets’ Prize announces first ever shortlist
Nine “subtle, transformative, distinctive and powerful” poetic voices have made it onto the shortlist for the inaugural Women Poets’ Prize.
World Book Day announces 13 new titles for 2019 and more range than ever before, plus 'Share A Story takes centre stage
World Book Day is putting more books than ever into its campaign to provide every child and young person in the country with a book of their own. Catering for all age groups, from toddler to teen, the expanded list of 13 new £1 titles announced today for World Book Day 2019 was created to appeal to the widest possible range of children and young people, tastes and abilities, and features characters from all over the world.
Dulwich Literary Festival 2018: Programme Announced
Jo Brand, Nick Hewer, Kamal Ahmed, Ben Macintyre and John Suchet will headline main weekend, 7th – 11th November. Two additional events to take place at November ’s West Norwood Feast.
Short story writers, novelists, playwrights and poets from five Commonwealth regions to judge world’s most global literary prize in 2019
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize today announced the international panel of writers that will judge the world’s most global literary prize in 2019. Representing the five regions of the Commonwealth, the panel will be chaired by the Kittitian-British novelist, playwright and essayist Caryl Phillips.
OUT NOW - Little by Edward Carey (Gallic Books)
From little beginnings: the extraordinary story of a bloodstained, diminutive crumb of a servant girl who would go on to become the world’s most famous wax sculptor.
OUT NOW - After the Peace: Spoils of War, Book 2 by Fay Weldon (Head of Zeus)
The fifth novel in the Dilberne family saga – in which the author traced the life and times of both Upstairs and Downstairs, from the end of Queen Victoria’s reign through the first half of the twentieth century – jumps now into the bright new female light of the twenty-first.
Poetry is the UK’s new force for change - National Poetry Day 2018
Public perception of poetry, formerly the Cinderella of art forms, has changed: it is now valued as an effective way of engaging disadvantaged young people, combating memory loss in care homes, and even training army officers to become better leaders. A new National Literacy Trust report, A Thing That Makes Me Happy: Young People and Poetry 2018, published today for National Poetry Day, explores the links between enjoyment of poetry among 8-18 year olds and the proliferation of fresh ways of engaging with it.
Poets celebrate the changes that really matter on National Poetry Day
A secret love affair in Cornwall, a tree slung with trainers in Brighton, and the disappearance of the Geordie word “muckle”: a nationwide call-out for stories of the changes that really matter to BBC Local Radio listeners has inspired 12 new poems for National Poetry Day (Thursday 4th, October).
Birkbeck's The Mechanics' Institute Review launches one-day short story festival at Waterstones
Hot on the heels of publishing the latest issue of their annual anthology, The Mechanics’ Institute Review, the short-story champions of Birkbeck, University of London, are collaborating with like-minded organisations and individuals to put short-fiction expertise and enthusiasm centre stage at Waterstones Gower Street.
John Boyne wins the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2018 for his 'sweeping masterpiece' The Heart's Invisible Furies
John Boyne has been awarded The Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2018 for his sweeping, poignant and comedic odyssey of post-war Ireland The Heart’s Invisible Furies.