Of the 14 titles named to the Portico Prize’s fiction-and-nonfiction 2021 longlist, eight are debut publications for their authors.
Struan Murray, Ben Horslen Win the UK’s Branford Boase Award
The illustrated debut novel ‘Orphans of the Tide’ wins the 2021 Branford Boase Award, which honors both authors and their editors.
Four Debuts Shortlisted for UK’s Times/Warwick Young Writer Award
Two titles from Hachette imprints, one from Pan Macmillan and one from Penned in the Margins are shortlisted for this year’s Young Writer of the Year Award.
The UK’s Young Writer Prize Opens for Submissions and Remixes Its Sponsors
The newly renamed Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award opens today (April 12) for submissions as it announces its new sponsorship regime.
The UK’s Sunday Times/PFD Award Names Adam Weymouth Young Writer of the Year
‘A really outstanding new contemporary British voice’: The Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer Award jurors are adamant in their praise for this year’s winner.
Rights Roundup: An Autumn Collection of Fiction and Bird-Watching
Today’s rights roundup draws on properties from Sweden, Cuba, Argentina, Spain, France, Italy, and Brazil, and covers a range of genres and interests.
The UK’s Sunday Times/PFD Award for Younger Writers Shortlists Four Debuts
In line for the 20th iteration of The Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Prize honor four authors 35 or younger have been named to the program’s shortlist.
Review: William Giraldi’s Fantastic Debut Busy Monsters
The fantastic first line of a fantastic first novel: Stunned by love and some would say stupid from too much sex, I decided I had to drive down South to kill a man.