Hodder removes Hilderbrand’s Anne Frank reference after criticism

Hodder has removed a passage from American author Elin Hilderbrand’s latest novel after criticism over its reference to Anne Frank. Read more

Bloodaxe takes two nominations in £10K Forward Prizes for Poetry

Two collections from publisher Bloodaxe Books are in the running for the £10,000 Best Collection award at the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Read more

Zimbabwean novelist Dangarembga wins PEN Pinter Prize 2021

Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, filmmaker and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2021 for her "cultural significance" charting "the development of... Read more

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Bhattacharya wins Spread the Word Life Writing Prize

Santanu Bhattacharya has won Spread the Word’s Life Writing Prize 2021, with "The Nicer One", hailed by judges as a "gut-punch of a piece".... Read more
McMullan and Millwood Hargrave win Society of Authors awards

Thomas McMullan, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Fredrik Logevall are among the writers and illustrators who have won awards from the Society of Authors this year. ... Read more
Walker launches third children's sports writing competition

Walker Books is launching its third Young Sportswriter of the Year competition, in partnership with the Guardian and the Football School series of books.... Read more
Bloomsbury and Granta claim three each on Orwell Prize shortlists

Bloomsbury and Granta have three titles each shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and Political Fiction. Read more

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M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman | 'Thinking about how it can sell makes you a better author'

Fresh from winning Children's Fiction Book of the Year at this year's British Book Awards, M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman are gearing up to... Read more
Daisy Lafarge | 'I haven’t lived the events of the novel but I have infused them with my own experiences'

"I wanted to try and be inside the experience of trusting someone and getting it wrong,” says poet Daisy Lafarge of her brilliant and deeply... Read more
Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A Carter: Turning the focus on the next generation

Though Black Girls Book Club (BGBC) founders Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A Carter inked the deal for their upcoming first book last year, it was not... Read more
Mya-Rose Craig | 'If you care and want to change the world, you can go out and do it'

Mya-Rose Craig is a Bristol-based ornithologist who has been blogging about birds as Birdgirl since she was 11. She first gained fame after being featured... Read more