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A retired primary school headteacher has won the inaugural, Debut Writers Over 50 Award organised by the Jenny Brown Associates Literary Agency. 

'To expand our thinking, advance our empathy,' the Amazon Literary Partnership announces almost $1 million in grants to nonprofits. The post Amazon’s Literary Partnership’s 2023 US Beneficiaries appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The Basel-based Karger, founded in 1890, has partnered with the UK's Kortext on an NHS-England digital publishing program. The post Switzerland’s Karger and Kortext: Research for England’s National Health appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The police have appealed for help in finding the missing writer Gboyega Odubanjo.

The Bookseller has unveiled a packed Children’s Conference programme featuring Cally Poplak, m.d. and publisher at HarperCollins Children’s and Farshore, managing director of Sourcebooks Dominique Raccah and Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho.

The award-winning children’s indie is celebrating three decades of publishing.

Lviv BookForum has partnered with Hay Festival for a second year to produce a free, hybrid programme of events featuring 50 writers and thinkers in 30 conversations and performances encompassing art in times of conflict, memory, gender equality, loss, corruption, imperialism and hope.

Clear and well-spaced text, attractive covers and sensory elements are key to making books more accessible, audiences at Edinburgh International Book Festival heard. 

Manchester-based author Danielle Jawando has been crowned winner of this year’s YA Book Prize for her coming-of-age novel When Our Worlds Collided.

Arabella Stein has announced she is stepping down as managing director of the Bright Agency.