Monday 9 December The shortlist for The Portico Prize for Literature – the UK’s only award for outstanding literature that best evokes the spirit of the North – is announced today, Monday 9 December. The six books on the shortlist for the £10,000 prize, once described as ‘the Booker of the North’, […]
Spread the Word’s Life Writing Prize 2020 opens for submissions
Monday 4 November Kerry Hudson, Nell Stevens and Sathnam Sanghera to judge 12 longlisted writers to showcase work at Foyles, London Winner’s prize includes £1,500 and Arvon course @STWevents #LifeWritingPrize Spread the Word’s annual writing competition – the Life Writing Prize – opens for submissions today, Monday 4 November. Now in its […]
Toby Green’s ground-breaking history of West Africa wins British Academy’s £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019
#AlRodhan@BritishAcademy_ 20.00 Wednesday 30 October, LONDON: A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by British historian Toby Green is named the winner of the seventh Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019, the British Academy’s non-fiction book prize. The announcement […]
THE PORTICO PRIZE FOR LITERATURE ANNOUNCES 2019 LONGLIST
Monday 30 September 17 Books / Six debuts / Ten independent publishers The longlist for The Portico Prize for Literature – the UK’s only award for outstanding literature that best evokes the spirit of the North – is announced today, Monday 30 September. Once described as ‘the Booker of the North’, the […]
Spread the Word announces 2019 London Writers Awards winners
Nine-month development programme returns for a second year 30 London-based writers from under-represented backgrounds Masterclasses led by writers Abir Mukherjee, Rowan Coleman and literary agent Felicity Trew Publishing industry steps up support for Spread the Word “Spread the Word and The London Writers Awards provide agents and publishers with access to a […]
The British Academy announces
Shortlist for The Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019
The British Academy’s international non-fiction book prize Six writers – from the UK, USA and India Channel 4 News’ Fatima Manji to chair event for shortlisted writers Winner announced 30 October “Each of the writers nominated for this year’s prize encourages the reader to trace the remarkable ways in which ideas are […]
THE PORTICO PRIZE FOR LITERATURE RETURNS
Tuesday 21 May Simon Savidge to chair panel of judges £10,000 award for literature that ‘best evokes the spirit of the North’ New partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University Prize launches with ‘Rewriting the North’ series of events “I am thrilled and delighted to be chairing The Portico Prize this year, as it […]
Michael Wolff’s New Book
Siege: Trump Under Fire
For Immediate Release To be published simultaneously by Little, Brown in the UK and Henry Holt in the US on 4th June 2019 15th May 2019 – Little, Brown UK and Henry Holt in the US will simultaneously publish Michael Wolff’s new book Siege: Trump Under Fire on 4th June, it was […]
Spread the Word announces London Writers Awards 2019 open for applications
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release Wednesday 1 May 2019 “The potential of the London Writers Awards is not only to identify and support under-represented writers through the arduous process to publication, but also to effect positive structural change in the industry itself.” Saeida Rouass, 2019 Judge The London Writers Awards – Spread […]
The British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019 launches at Zee Jaipur Literature Festival
PRESS RELEASE The Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019, the British Academy’s prestigious non-fiction book prize, opens for submissions today, Monday 28 January. The opening of the 2019 prize cycle is marked by a celebratory event at the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival where Kapka Kassabova – winner of the 2018 […]