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2023 Miami University Novella Contest Opens

2023 Miami University Novella Contest Opens

The deadline for The Miami University Novella Prize for 2023 is drawing near.  The Prize is awarded annually to a novella-length manuscript of original fiction (18,000–40,000 words). The winner will receive $750, a standard contract, publication by the University of...

Unleash Press Offers Full-Length Novel Prize

Unleash Press Offers Full-Length Novel Prize

Unleash Press is offering a $1,000 advance and standard contract for one winning manuscript in 2023. Novels, poetry collections, short story collections, and creative nonfiction manuscripts are accepted. Full-length, completed manuscripts only, minimum of 30,000...

Short List Books Picked for Alice Award

Short List Books Picked for Alice Award

The Alice Book Prize Short List Announced Alphawood Foundation (Chicago, IL) Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece Edited by John Vinci with Tim Samuelson, Eric Nordstrom, and Chris Ware. Designed by Studio Blue. The Art Institute of...

The Indie Bestseller  List

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List – Published Wednesday, July 6, 2022 (for the sales week ended Sunday, July 3, 2022). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.

Books to Read: First Born by Will Dean

Books to Read: First Born by Will Dean

Books to Read: First Born, Will Dean, Atria/Emily Bestler Books – From the acclaimed author of The Last Thing to Burn, a psychological thriller about the dark secrets that emerge when a woman’s twin sister is murdered

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List – Published Wednesday, June 22, 2022 (for the sales week ended Sunday, June 19, 2022). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.

2022 Booker Prize Dates Announced

2022 Booker Prize Dates Announced

Get your diary out! The key dates for the 2022 Booker Prize have been announced. The 2022 longlist will be announced on 26 July, the shortlist on 6 September and the winner on 17 October. More details will be revealed, all in good time. This year, cultural historian,...

Bard College Starts Writing Residency Program

Bard College Starts Writing Residency Program

The Zora Neale Hurston Writing Fellowship at Bard College Welcomes Seven Writers for its Inaugural Summer Residency Program ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.— The new Zora Neale Hurston Writing Fellowship at Bard College welcomes its inaugural cohort of seven...