We're so excited to see two Stelliform titles make the absolutely stacked BSFA Longlist! Rebecca Campbell’s “Wider Than the Sky, Deeper Than the Sea” (The Other Shore) is nominated in Best Short Fiction and Syr Hayati Beker’s What a Fish Looks Like in Best Shorter Fiction.
See the full list here: https://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-longlist
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How being a judge for the #BookerPrize changed Sarah Jessica Parker: "The process altered her reading habits, she said, made her question how she judged fiction and gave her the confidence to argue for novels she loved."
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Sarah Jessica Parker Describes Her Year as a Booker Prize Judge https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/books/sarah-jessica-parker-booker-prize.html
The Hidden Stories Behind Winning the Premio Planeta
The article reveals how the prestigious Premio Planeta literary award, the most lucrative in the world with one million euros for the winner and 200,000 euros for the runner-up, has evolved from purely merit-based juried decisions into a process influenced by pressures and negotiations. Initially de... [More info]
In Taunton today? Pop along by Brendon Books for an evening of author chats and discover new books at the Tauton Literary Festival!
Starting at 6:30, tickets GBP 8
brendonbooks.org/author-events-taunton-literary-festival-2025
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Julia Gillard to Chair 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Julia Gillard, Australia's first and only female prime minister, will chair the UK's Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2026. This annual award recognizes the best full-length novel written in English by a woman and published in the UK. The prize, worth £30,000, has been awarded since 1996 under various n... [More info]
Michelle de Kretser, Rick Morton, among 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners
de Kretser, who's novel Theory & Practice (which I'm currently reading), and Morton's book, Mean Streak, about the previous Australian government's controversial Robobot debt recovery scheme, are respective winners of the fiction and non-fiction categories. Others recipients, who were announced last Monday, 29 September 2025, include The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems, by David Brooks in poetry, and The Invocations, by Krystal Sutherland in young adult. See the full list of […]https://disassociated.com/michelle-de-kretser-rick-morton-2025-prime-ministers-literary-award/
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