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Responding to the Guardian’s piece on “toxic” YA culture, Chelsey Pippin argues that the online YA community’s sensitivity and nuance is being underplayed.  

Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has acquired a magical middle-grade fantasy series by debut author L D Lapinski.

Bonnier Books UK imprint 535 has acquired the third volume of photos from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.

Penguin Random House UK has revealed the nine winners of the 2019 Student Design Award, following a record-breaking number of 2,313 entries.

Paramount Pictures has bought film rights to Adrian McKinty’s upcoming thriller The Chain (Orion) in a seven-figure deal.

Cardiff-based poet Ailbhe Darcy has won the £4,000 Wales Book of the Year Award for her "striking" collection, Insistence (Bloodaxe Books). 

'Words Without Borders' brings together translations from Korean, Chinese, Icelandic, French, and more, all on topics relative to sexuality and identity. The post Words Without Borders June: ‘The Queer I’ in Early Summer appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

As the Macmillan Learning advisory board members called Bedford New Scholars work with the publishing house, the program can work as a kind of fellowship that might interest some graduates in publishing careers. The post Industry Notes: Macmillan Learning Announces Its 2019 Bedford New Scholars Advisors appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

They turned down Ulysses and Animal Farm, but still shaped 20th‑century literatureAll publishing houses have archives, but for anyone interested in 20th-century literature the archive of Faber & Faber is a fabled treasure house. This is the firm that was, as Toby Faber puts it, “midwife at the birth of modernism”. In 1924 Faber’s grandfather,…

Atlantic will publish Elisa Gabbert's essay collection, The Unreality of Memory, next year.