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Women in Publishing co-founder Faith Evans dies aged 83

Editor, translator and agent Faith Evans, a co-founder of the Women in Publishing group, died on 30th October, aged 83.

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Conscious Style Guide is on Bluesky! What to expect: posts that help you think critically about language and design as tools for equity and self-expression.

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Hi Fiona, I commission writers to work on features (mainly artist interviews) for the Southbank centre's website. I've a healthy list of freelancers across most art forms, but I'm short on writers who have an interest/focus on classical music if you know of anyone looking for opportunities.

Waterford home of international travel writer Dervla Murphy bought by local council A treasured piece of Irish literary history has been acquired in perpetuity for the public in Waterford following a long-running campaign

Waterford home of international travel writer Dervla Murphy bought by local council
A treasured piece of Irish literary history has been acquired in perpetuity for the public in Waterford following a long-running campaign

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Feel like I've been writing about new BoM website for 3 years now (because I have, and it is even later than that) but covering the go-live of the new site for this weekend's paper. I've learned some stuff. If you know more, internally or as a user I'm: rickjamesmorton@protonmail.com

Countdown #1 to #100 - Radio National's Top 100 Books - ABC Radio National We're counting down Radio National's Top 100 Books of the past 25 years. Here's the list, from 1-100.

Greatly enjoying ABC Radio National's countdown of the Top 100 Books of the 21st Century. The website is being updated live as books are announced across the weekend.

Many of the titles are international bestsellers but it is particularly interesting to see which Australian books make the list.

Asking for a colleague, is there literature out there on using police interview transcripts as a historical source, particularly from a methodological perspective?

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Free Creative Writing Workshop on Saturday 1 November at 12 to 2 pm. Inspired by the resilience, creativity and activism of the Black Parents Movement. Free for Haringey Residents At the Marcus Garvey Library, Tottenham N15 4JA Email info@georgepadmoreinstitute.org to book your place.

Calling Haringey Residents!

Free Creative Writing Workshop celebrating Black Haringey History 365

Inspired by the creativity, resilience and activism of the Black Parents Movement.

Saturday 1 November at 12 to 2pm. Venue: Marcus Garvey Library.

Book: email us at info@georgepadmoreinstitute.org

Hilary Mantel championed emerging writers - a new prize in her memory will help them get published Judged by Maggie O’Farrell, Ben Miles and Chigozie Obioma, the Hilary Mantel prize will recognise emerging talent, and pay tribute to the Wolf Hall author’s legacy

Hilary Mantel championed emerging writers - a new prize in her memory will help them get published

Food publisher Eye to Eye Media enters liquidation Food publisher and content agency Eye to Eye Media went into liquidation at the end of August, according to former employees.

The publisher of Delicious magazine, Eye to Eye Media, has ceased trading pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/m...

Covid questionairre 20/20

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Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

Meanjin Journal is 85 years old; older than the Sydney Opera House. Closing it down is cultural vandalism of the highest order, roughly equivalent to demolishing the above mentioned opera house.

I am disgusted

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hello! we want to speak to authors who have hated their own book covers. you will be anonymous (unless you are feeling brave) - please DM me!

The best recent translated fiction – review roundup Discontent by Beatriz Serrano; Hunter by Shuang Xuetao; Blurred by Iris Wolff; Cooking in the Wrong Century by Teresa Präauer

“Smack your head and let the words come out.” A book where people always need to pee; an office worker facing the worst horror of all (a team-building retreat); a pocket history of Romania; and a book that notes how Hugh Grant these days “looks like an old woman.”

My roundup of translated fiction:

I'm looking for another authenticity/sensitivity reader, this time for dissociative identity disorder.

It's for feedback on a character in a graphic novel I'm translating.

Ideally they'd have experience with SR, comics, and historical fiction.

Got any recs?

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In her latest book, acclaimed memoirist, teacher and mentor @lilydunn.bsky.social shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir.

'Into being' shows readers how to turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery - one that can be shared with the whole world. #booksky #memoir

Writers, what's the strangest fact or tidbit of information you've encountered while researching? #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Coming up 2nd September at @waterstones.bsky.social Gower Street

Reading replies and remembering many of these from 1980s Brisbane. Blue Nun was well marketed.

We are recruiting a new Commissioning Editor for fiction. Like all Faber editors, they will publish with dynamism and creativity, sensitivity and bravery – apply by 7 September.

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'Delulu' and 'tradwife' among 6,000 new words added to the Cambridge Dictionary

A total of 6,212 new words have been added to the Cambridge Dictionary, including "skibid", "delulu", "tradwife" and "broligarchy" 👇 #BookSky

The Angel in the House An experienced senior editor explores the dire state of the publishing industry.

Editors "are readers, writers, number crunchers, first-aiders, seconds in a duel ... Aim for perfection, acknowledge inevitable defeat, try anyway. You love words, and the people who make them and entrust us with them."

Incredible piece from @radiomoderation.bsky.social on editing and publishing

Why Cheap Promo is No Bargain: One Unusually Prolific Example - Writer Beware A literary agent recently reached out to me to let me know that one of their authors (a well-known literacy advocate) was being impersonated via a message falsely sent out under the author’s name. The...

I've just been followed (along with 30k others) by @allkidsbooks.com which looks to be one of many promo sites run by Alwin Gnanaraj.

@victoriastrauss.com‬ has written all about him on writer beware.

writerbeware.blog/2025/02/21/w...

You can still buy a virtual ticket to help even more Palestinian refugees from Gaza to find safety in Australia and to settle in Australia by buying a virtual ticket with 100% of proceeds going to PARA, here: events.humanitix.com/philoxenia-f...

New publisher set up to 'provide a safe and secure home' for Unbound authors Will Atkinson, the former head of Atlantic Books, has set up a new publishing company, Wilton Square, to initially "provide a safe and secure home" for authors previously publishing by Unbound.

ICYMI: Will Atkinson, the former head of Atlantic Books, has set up a new publishing company, Wilton Square, to initially "provide a safe and secure home" for authors previously publishing by Unbound 👇

Death of a publishing dream: how the Unbound revolution b... The literary disrupters enjoyed great success with their crowdfunding model, signing authors that other publishers overlooked. And then the money ran out…

The Observer takes on the collapse of Unbound - some truly shocking allegations, almost all of which I have seen compelling evidence of as a member of the Unbound author WhatsApp group and through my own experience of being published by them observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Enormous respect to the entire @byronwritersfest.bsky.social family. You’ve made us all feel so welcome, challenged and connected. Australia urgently needs a festival insurance scheme that guarantees against loss for extreme weather events because climate crisis. Let’s strengthen the arts. Fast.