Fictionable is movingMar 4, 2025

… more interesting books:

https://womensprize.com/announcing-the-2025-womens-prize-for-fiction-longlist

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OliDec 9, 2024
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ALLi Blog (unofficial)Nov 25, 2023
Self-Publishing News: 2024 Selfies Awards Open With New General Non-Fiction Category https://selfpublishingadvice.org/self-publishing-news-2024-selfies-awards-open/ #self-publishingprizes #ALLiPartnerMembers #selfiesawards #ALLipartners #IndieAwards #bookawards #bookprizes #bookbrunch #News
Self-Publishing News: 2024 Selfies Awards Open With New General Non-Fiction Category

Bookbrunch is now an ALLi partner member, and the Selfies are now open for submissions with a new non-fiction category in 2024.

Self-Publishing Advice Center from the Alliance of Independent Authors
Dan WagstaffNov 23, 2023

Canadian writers ask Giller prize to drop charges against protesters:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/21/canadian-writers-ask-giller-prize-to-drop-charges-against-pro-palestinian-protesters

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Canadian writers ask Giller prize to drop charges against pro-Palestinian protesters

More than 1,800 writers and publishers have signed an open letter in support of the pro-Palestinian protest at the prestigious literary award last week

The Guardian
Dan WagstaffNov 17, 2023
John Vailliant wins Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize with Fire Weather, a look at the wildfires that struck Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada in 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/16/john-vailliant-wins-baillie-gifford-nonfiction-prize-with-highly-relevant-work-on-wildfires #books #reading #bookprizes #canada #climatechange
John Vaillant wins Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize with ‘highly relevant’ work on wildfires

Fire Weather, which looks at the blazes that ravaged Canada’s prairies in 2016, is a book that ‘forces you to ask some questions of yourself’, judges said

The Guardian
Dan WagstaffNov 16, 2023

The winners of the National Book Awards announced as war, politics grab spotlight

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-11-15/tk-tk-among-winners-of-2023-national-book-awards-tk

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2023 National Book Awards finalists pleaded for a ceasefire in Gaza

Justin Torres and Ned Blackhawk among winners of 2023 National Book Awards, which closed with a collective speech calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Los Angeles Times
Dan WagstaffNov 16, 2023

Melbourne author Jessica Au wins $80,000 fiction prize for her novella Cold Enough for Snow (published by New Directions in N. America). It's Au's third major literary award in 2023:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/16/prime-ministers-literary-awards-2023-winners-jessica-au-cold-enough-for-snow-sam-vincent

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Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2023: Jessica Au wins for lauded novella Cold Enough for Snow

Melbourne author wins $80,000 fiction prize, while other winners include journalist Sam Vincent in the nonfiction category for memoir My Father and Other Animals

The Guardian
Rebecca RomneyJun 8, 2023

Here is one of my more bizarre collections, in honor of the last week for open submissions to the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize: a run of Harlequin’s spectacular failure, their science fiction imprint, Laser Books.

The deadline for submission to the Prize is June 15. Learn how to apply here: https://www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

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Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

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Honey & Wax Booksellers
William ShawFeb 8, 2023
I'm totally behind Kate Mosse's campaign to redress the gender balance in nonfiction prizes and reviews but do we also need to bear in mind the importance of nonfiction in young male literacy? These might not be opposites of course #nonfiction #books #bookprizes #men #literacy
William ClarkJan 19, 2023

Name the Booker Prize trophy and win a Folio Society edition of Wolf Hall and a Montegrappa fountain pen

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/name-the-booker-prize-trophy-and-win-a-folio-society-edition-of-wolf

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