Literature

Taylor Jenkins Reid – NY Times Bestselling Author – and Jonathan Karp of Simon & Schuster, Lemn Sissay, among VIP line up first day of London Book Fair 2024

The largest Spring gathering of the international publishing industry assembled at Olympia today, as The…

Alison Watts wins inaugural Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Prize for ‘beautifully sad’ translation from Japanese

Prizes awarded for translations from seven languages ahead of the 2023 Translation Prizes ceremony later…

Catch Anni Domingo, Reynaldo Anderson & Bougouma Diene at Int. Black Speculative Writing Festival & Conference

This three-day live event celebrates speculative writers of Black British and international descent and is…

Bernardine Evaristo Leads Judges for Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize

Cassava Republic Press is delighted to present the esteemed panel of judges for the first…

Rupi Kaur—Canadian poetry phenom declines invite from Biden White House

Poet who won acclaim from millennials accuses the Biden administration of ‘funding the bombardment of…

BAFTA Nominated Eastenders, Coronation Street Casualty Writes, Ben Tagoe joins the Amplify Project

“writing for Coronation Street…for characters that have been known and loved for decades, and you…

Call for entries – Audio Drama Awards 2024

Deadline: Sunday 1 October 2023 Entries are now open for two of the BBC Audio…

Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies, Available from 22nd August

Serpentine is delighted to announce a new season of its recently relaunched podcast, a curated…

Talawa Firsts 2023: Rubi Alexandra, Malika Booker and Kareem Parkins-Brown and more

After a decade of #Talawa Firsts, the 11th edition sees an expansion of the festival,…

The Caine Prize for African writing announces 2023 shortlist

The Caine Prize for African Writing, an esteemed annual award honouring outstanding African writers, is…

MARGARET BUSBY Appointed President of English PEN

Today, English PEN announced that editor, writer, broadcaster, and literary critic Margaret Busby has been appointed as…

The Mo Siewcharran Prize returns for 2023

Hachette UK’s The Future Bookshelf is running the Mo Siewcharran Prize for its fourth year…

International Woman’s Month: 10 Books to Read by Women Writer’s you should know: Those People Next Door, Breaking the Maafa Chain, Girls Rule, Rose and the Burma Sky, Keisha The Sket and more

Those People Next Door by Kia Abdullah Best-selling author and travel writer, Kia Abdullah, brings a captivating…

Susan Smith BlackburnPrize 10 Finalists include Maryam Hamidi, Zadie Smith and Francisca Da Silveira

 The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced 10 Finalists for its prestigious playwriting award, the oldest and largest…

Intersection: Poetry and Prose – Derek Owusu in conversation with Professor Benjamin Zephaniah : FREE EVENT

Derek Owusu is an award-winning writer and poet from North London. Owusu has written poetry…

Twelve writers appointed in the second year of the RSL International Writers programme

“Literature is knowledge. Fiction is knowledge. It is a particular kind of knowledge – ambiguous,…