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Hadley Franklin has been named the winner of the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize 2023 for "Falling", a story exploring “the strange celebrity of death and the exploitation of vulnerability surrounding loss".

Penguin Random House UK Children’s has announced a new YA festival in partnership with Waterstones, House of YA x Waterstones BookFest. 

Zadie Smith attended a preview evening hosted by Hamish Hamilton on Tuesday 4th July, to introduce her first historical fiction novel, The Fraud. 

Picador has announced the promotions of Sophie Jonathan and Orla King.

Winners of inaugural Martha Mills Writing Prize revealed

Oliver Jeffers and Helen Oyeyemi will join Jacqueline Wilson at the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival 2023 alongside stars such as Patrick Stewart and Jada Pinkett Smith.

Ellen Gleeson, currently an associate publisher at Bookouture, has been promoted to publishing director. In her new role, she will be joining Bookouture’s publishing board and will take on further line management responsibility.

The Society of Authors has welcomed legal action from authors in the US, who are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement of their works in training ChatGPT.

The Society of Young Publishers (SYP) is relaunching the Spare Room Project in line with its commitment to deliver nationwide support for publishing hopefuls.

Leanne Pinnock, Oti Mabuse and Fats Timbo are among a star-studded roster of writers confirmed for this year’s Black British Book Festival.