New this year, the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction issues its first six-title shortlist of books exploring art, history, technology, and more.
The UK’s New £30,000 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction Issues Its First Longlist
The Women’s Prize Trust in the United Kingdom releases the first 16-title longlist in its new Women’s Prize for Nonfiction.
Naomi Wood’s ‘Comorbidities’ Wins BBC’s National Short Story Award
Called ‘bang up-to-date and contemporary,’ Naomi Woods’ winning story ‘Comorbidities’ is to be published by Hachette’s Orion in June.
Kamila Shamsie’s Rescinded Nelly Sachs Prize Fuels Criticism
The condemnation of the withdrawal of an award from author Kamila Shamsie on political grounds has gained momentum with a major objection from authors
India’s DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Releases Shortlist
The far-reaching DSC Prize, based in India and devised to support literature in all South Asia, has issued its eighth annual shortlist.
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.
Women Should Be Seen AND Heard: Women Writers from Asia Pacific
Continuing the discussion of femal writers in Frankfurt, a standout panel of women from the Asia Pacific region discussed gender and social perceptions of women.
Kamila Shamsie Wins £30,000 Women’s Prize for Fiction
In the year that Kamila Shamsie once proposed as a ‘Year of Publishing Women,’ the Pakistani-British author has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018 for ‘Home Fire’ in London.