National Poetry Day announces 36-book trade promotion as the Nation gets ready for mass celebration of poetry
National Poetry Day, the UK’s greatest celebration of poetry, will see verse spilling into every aspect of our lives this October, as hundreds of thousands of people, schools, libraries, pubs, bus companies, museums and railway stations prepare to share, read, write and celebrate poetry. There will be hundreds of events across the UK and Ireland on Thursday 4 October, 2018 with the nation invited to share a poem on social media.
Paul Beatty kicks off new digital hub for emerging and aspiring writers from The Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award
Anne Enright, Ian Rankin and Nick Hornby among authors to write articles, alongside ‘Top Tips’ and a monthly ‘How To’ series, written this year by AL Kennedy
Noirwich Crime Writing Festival celebrates 5th year with blockbuster line-up
2018 speakers to include Val McDermid, Nicci French, Paula Hawkins, Ruth Ware, Robert Thorogood and Elizabeth Hayes
Trinidadian writer Kevin Jared Hosein wins 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize with "immediately and uniformly admired" short story
Nicosia, Cyprus – The author Kevin Jared Hosein, from Trinidad and Tobago, is tonight announced the overall winner of the world’s most global literary prize.
Polari First Book Prize Shortlist Revealed
he shortlist for the Polari First Book Prize was announced at the Polari Literary Salon in London’s Southbank Centre on July 24, 2018. Now in its eighth year, the Prize is awarded annually to a writer whose first book explores the LGBT experience, whether in poetry, prose, fiction or non-fiction.
Reflecting Realities: new study calls for better ethnic representation in children’s books
Figures released from ‘Reflecting Realities’, a pioneering new study commissioned by national charity the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), show a significant need for better ethnic representation in children’s literature.
Regional Winners of 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize challenge notions of identity, place and society in "extraordinary" short fiction
Five short stories tackling issues from abortion to transgender identity, from religion to mental illness have been chosen as the regional winners for the world’s most global literary prize.
Polari Prize announced 2018 Longlist and celebrates record year for submissions
Prize received four times the number of entries this year, with a significant rise in submissions from major publishers.
Kamila Shamsie, Susan Hill and Andrew Holgate to judge The Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award 2018
The award-winning novelist Kamila Shamsie, who has just won the Women’s Prize for Fiction with Home Fire, and the novelist and non-fiction writer Susan Hill will join Andrew Holgate on the judging panel of The Sunday Times / Peter Frasers + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, in association with the University of Warwick.