An accolade just in time for author Patricia Lockwood: she’s now 40, no longer eligible to be proposed for a Dylan Thomas Prize.
Wales’ Hay Festival Announces Julie Finch as New CEO
As its 35th season approaches, Hay Festival gets its second chief executive. Julie Finch is scheduled to join the team in August.
Springer Nature Beefs Up Its Hay Festival Programming Support
The scholarly publishing company Springer Nature presents several events in environmentally relevant work at Hay.
Wales’ Hay Festival 2022: A Program of More than 500 Speakers
Back with an in-person lineup—and without Peter Florence—the 35th iteration of the venerable public-facing festival has tickets on sale now.
Awards: Wales’ Dylan Thomas Prize Names Its Shortlist
A Welsh award regime based at Swansea University, the Dylan Thomas Prize has a six-title shortlist.
Awards: Cal Flyn Wins the £10,000 Young Writer of the Year Honor
Frequently given shortlist and longlist attention, Cal Flyn’s socio-ecological study ‘Islands of Abandonment’ wins Young Writer of the Year.
Awards: Wales’ Dylan Thomas Prize Announces Its 2022 Longlist
The 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize longlist honors a dozen titles by writers 39 or younger, most from independent publishers this year.
Awards: The UK’s Sunday Times Young Writer Award Names Its 2021 Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2021 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust award includes poetry, nonfiction, and three novels.
London’s Young Writer Award of the Year Names Its Jurors
The updated schedule for the United Kingdom’s Young Writer of the Year Award will put its shortlist and winners’ announcements into the new year.
Newberry Library Announces a $25,000 Chicago-Specific Book Award
The new award, with its inaugural presentation set for next summer, is open to submissions both in fiction and nonfiction.