British writer Mick Herron, best known for his Slough House series beginning with Slow Horses, has been awarded the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger award for lifetime contribution to crime writing.... Read more »
Applications for the Royal Literary Fund’s (RLF’s) hardship grants for professional writers increased by 400% between last year and this year, the charity has said. There was a nearly fivefold increase in... Read more »
Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI Nov 26 2024 Writers and publishers are criticising a startup that plans to publish up to 8,000 books next year... Read more »
On the wall of a Ramsgate house owned by Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo hangs a large-scale cover of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. It might just as well read “A... Read more »
Charlotte Wood, author Lioness, the latest from New Zealander Emily Perkins, is about social aspiration and the traps lying in wait for women when money and marriage menacingly collide. Perkins is one... Read more »
The annual short story award run by the Guardian and publisher 4th Estate is open for entries from unpublished writers of colour based in the UK. The 4thWrite prize, now in its... Read more »
Northern writers still face a struggle to make it in the London-centric literary world, the organisers of a regional literary prize have said. Claire Malcolm, founder and chief executive of New Writing... Read more »
For decades, the Romance Writers of America (RWA) served as a champion for the mostly female authors of one of the country’s most popular – and denigrated – genres of fiction. Source... Read more »
For decades, the Romance Writers of America (RWA) served as a champion for the mostly female authors of one of the country’s most popular – and denigrated – genres of fiction. But... Read more »