Creative Scotland has confirmed it is to reopen Open Fund for Individuals, after receiving additional funding requests for ...

A graduate who was accepted onto the Penguin Random House work experience programme and the General Portfolio Sessions scheme ...

Simon & Schuster has announced a partnership with Foundation Media Partners with a first-look deal to develop children’s film ...

Authors from the Midlands and the North have dominated the shortlist of the 10th BBC Young Writers’ Award, which is run with ...

South African writer Nadia Davids has won the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing for her outstanding short story, “Bridling ...

Erskine’s “brutal, tender and rigorously intelligent” debut novel follows Frankie, Miriam and Bronagh, all mothers to 18-year ...

Bloomsbury and the UK charity Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) are publishing a series of open access academic books on the ...

Viking has acquired A Sharp Scratch, the second novel from bestselling writer Heather Darwent, scheduled for May 2025.

Quercus has acquired PS: I Hate You and one further untitled novel by author Lauren Connolly. Editorial director Emma Capron ...

New Island has signed literary editor and debut Irish author Seán Farrell in a two-book deal. Aoife K Walsh, commissioning ...

Trapeze, an imprint of Orion, has acquired the rights to the “incisive” debut by journalist and campaigner Adele Zeynep ...

This year’s Booker Prize shortlist features the highest number of women in its 55-year history, with five women—Samantha ...