Romanian author Mircea CÄrtÄrescu and American translator Sean Cotter have won the â¬100,000 Dublin literary award for the novel Solenoid. âBy turns wildly inventive, philosophical and lyrical, with passages of great beauty,... Read more »
PEN America cancels 2024 literary awards ceremony Apr 22 2024 PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, which was previously scheduled to be held at the Town Hall in New... Read more »
Val McDermid, Douglas Stuart and Andrew O’Hagan are among the Scottish authors criticising the cancellation of Glasgow literary festival Aye Write after its funding application was turned down by Creative Scotland. McDermid... Read more »
In 2021, Jack Chadwick, a twenty-seven-year-old barman and part-time go-go dancer, was browsing the shelves of the Working Class Movement Library, outside Manchester, when he spied an arresting book cover. The hand-drawn... Read more »
A first-time poet has won both the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature and the $25,000 poetry category at this year’s Victorian premier’s literary awards, becoming the first poet to win the overall... Read more »
Zooniverse Launches Lives of Literary Characters Project Jan 24 2024 Zooniverse has announced the launch of The Lives of Literary Characters. Volunteers will assist Zooniverse by annotating stories to better understand the... Read more »
David Baldacci Selected as the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion. Jan 19 2024 Author and philanthropist David Baldacci has been selected as the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion. This annual commendation recognizes a lifetime... Read more »
John J Lennon writes for the Atlantic, the New York Times, the New Yorker and Esquire. He’s also serving a life sentence in prison. Each day, he wakes up and sits on... Read more »
“Since you have been here, I have been building some shanties of houses … and likewise some shanties of chapters and essays,” wrote Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne, in 1851, from his... Read more »