Debuts dominate the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Longlist
Goldsboro Books today announced the thirteen titles longlisted for the 2018 Glass Bell Award, a prize introduced last year to celebrate the best storytelling across all genres of contemporary fiction.
National Centre for Writing launches in Norwich, heralding new chapter for literary city
The National Centre for Writing launches this week in Norwich, following a £2m extension and restoration of historic Dragon Hall. The new centre, backed by patrons including Margaret Atwood, JM Coetzee, Sarah Perry, Elif Shafak and Ali Smith, will be a physical and digital space to explore the artistic and social power of creative writing, and support the creation and enjoyment of world literature.
National Poetry Day and BBC Local Radio commission 12 new poems – celebrating the changes that really matter.
National Poetry Day and BBC Local Radio are joining forces to celebrate the small changes that really matter to people in 12 specially commissioned poems – one for each of the 12 BBC regions in England.
Eminent jury of world-leading historians to judge Cundill History Prize in record year for submissions
An international jury of eminent historians with research interests as varied as America nationalism, European integration, violence in Africa and women’s history has been announced as the jury of the 2018 Cundill History Prize.
Out Now - The Break by Marian Keyes now in paperback
“One of the most reliably brilliant novelists writing with humour and insight about women’s lives, I think Keyes gets better and better.” - Alice O’Keeffe, The Bookseller’s Fiction preview of The Break
WONDER VALLEY by Ivy Pochoda and SILENCE IS MY MOTHER TONGUE by Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia to The Indigo Press
The Indigo Press, the publishing arm of the MILD group, has today announced two new titles acquired by Publishing Director Ellah Wakatama Allfrey. The Press secured UK and Commonwealth rights to Wonder Valley from Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge & White and World English Language rights to Silence is My Mother Tongue from Isobel Dixon at Blake Friedmann.
MONOCLE expands print commitment with Spring Weekly
Interviews with Dilma Rousseff and François Ozon in Edition 2, out today
2018 Forward Prizes for Poetry announce “urgent, engaged and inspirational” shortlists
Nuclear stand-off, new-born lambs, defiant sex and Hollywood blockbusters, addiction, rage and pity - Britain’s most coveted poetry awards, the Forward Prizes for Poetry, have today announced shortlists dominated by “urgent, engaged and inspirational” voices tackling complex subjects with high-stakes brio.
Rebecca Swift Foundation set up in memory of literary consultant and poet
Foundation launches Women Poets' Prize at Second Home Poetry Festival on Saturday 9 June
SNARE by Lilja Sigurdardottir longlisted for The Crime Writers Association International Dagger Award 2018
Congratulations to Lilja Sigurdardottir, who has been longlisted in The Crime Writers Association International Dagger Award for Snare (Orenda Books), translated by Quentin Bates.