The annual short story award run by the Guardian and publisher 4th Estate is open for entries from unpublished writers of colour based in the UK.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 »
Deirdre Madden, Kathryn Scanlan and Hanif Abdurraqib are among the eight recipients of this year’s Windham-Campbell prizes, worth $175,000 (£140,000) each. Madden, who is from Northern Ireland, was recognised for her eight... Read more »
In early 2021, the writer Lucy Sante sent an e-mail to her closest friends. Its subject was “A Bombshell,” which Sante later joked was an unintentional pun. In the text she attached,... Read more »
A novel with the title “Martyr!” arrives on the scene preloaded and explosive. The word is fraught, even more so now than when the book’s author, the Iranian American poet Kaveh Akbar,... Read more »
Matt Lloyd-Rose, author Having worked as a carer, primary school teacher and volunteer police officer, I’m always on the lookout for literary non-fiction that explores big social questions: searing, lyrical books like... Read more »
The deputy chair of the Melbourne writers festival, Leslie Reti, has resigned over a poetry session on Aboriginal and Palestinian solidarity in this year’s program. The festival’s artistic director, Michaela McGuire, has... Read more »