The long-running biennial Festival America, originating in France, announces its first London installation, a four-day event with political and international social issues at the forefront.
Times Literary Supplement Opens New Digital Archive with Exact Editions
The new digital archive from the Times Literary Supplement uses the UK’s Exact Editions content management platform. The new archive is to carry content from 2012 forward.
Bookoli and Australia’s Hinkler Books Open a New Brand in England’s West Country
In a 50-50 cooperative venture called Curious Universe UK, Melbourne’s Hinkler Books and the new Somerset-based startup Bookoli will work the UK, Iriish, and co-edition markets.
How Much Do Writers Earn in the UK? ALCS Report Offers New Input
Despite questions about its accuracy, a new report from the ALCS based on author surveys offers insight into the question how much do writers earn in the UK? And publishers are speaking up.
Commonwealth Prize Regional Winners: Samoa, Trinidad, UK, India, and Nigeria
Taking on topics from mental illness to abortion, and from happiness to love, the Commonwealth Prize regional short story winners contend next for the overall award.
Kamila Shamsie Joins Susan Hill in Judging the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award
Fresh from her win of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, Kamila Shamsie is joining Susan Hill and Andrew Holgate in judging the Young Writer of the Year prize.
Finnish Digital Media Fund IPR.VC Backs Development of YA Book Series for Television
With plans for multiplatform development to follow, the allegorical fantasy writings of Italian author Roberto Ricci are coming first to television.
An Exclusive New Column Series: Richard Charkin on the Vocabulary of Publishing
If “unputdownable” means “putdownable” and “educational publishing” is “anything that’s not trade publishing,” what does “quality” mean in an insider’s lexicon of the book industry? Ask Richard Charkin.
UK National Poetry Day and BBC Commission 12 New Poems on Change
Poetry can ‘focus our attention and become a small present (in both senses of the word) in the middle of change,’ says one of the 12 poets selected for the UK’s BBC Local Radio participation in Forward Arts’ National Poetry Day 2018.
In Norwich, the National Centre for Writing Formally Opens at Dragon Hall This Week
Dedicated to ‘exploring the artistic and social power of creative writing,’ Norwich’s National Centre for Writing, is having its formal launch week in its redeveloped new home that includes the 15th-century Dragon Hall.