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The 20th anniversary Ondaatje Prize for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that 'evok[es] the spirit of place' announces its 2024 longlist. The post The UK’s Ondaatje Prize: A 2024 Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Author Anna Vaught is seeking funding to run the Curae prize for a second year and launch a new literary festival in 2026. 

Puffin has revealed the logo and publishing programmed for its new graphic novel imprint, Puffin Graphics, aimed at 6+ readers.

Horror is experiencing a literary boom with a record-breaking year of sales, as editors and agents reveal a rise in submissions from the scarier side of fiction.

Jenny Niven, the new director of The Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF), has outlined its “disruptive” new strategic priorities amidst the “decimated” state of public funding and Glasgow festival cancellations.  

Borough Press has announced the second novel from author Bella Mackie, following her British Book Award-shortlisted debut How to Kill Your Family.  

Quarto Kids has unveiled the name and logo for its new YA illustrated and non-fiction imprint, Holler, which will be led by publisher Debbie Foy.

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Lynne Reid Banks, author of the The Indian in the Cupboard, has died of cancer aged 94.

The late illustrator’s elephant hero is to star in a new ecological fable after the discovery of a rough manuscript and drawingsFrom the depths of his extraordinarily vibrant imagination, he famously conjured up Mr Benn, Not Now, Bernard, King Rollo and Elmer the patchwork elephant.Now a manuscript and rough sketches for a new illustrated story…