Sarah Krasnostein wins $125,000 at Australia’s richest literary prize
When Sandra Pankhurst first read the manuscript of her extraordinary life – life spent first as a son, husband and father, then as a sex [Read More]
Month: February 2018
National Book Awards Add Category Honoring Works In Translation
For the first time in more than two decades, the National Book Foundation is adding a new category to its annual slate of literary prizes: [Read More]
The Globalization of the National Book Awards
It’s not the first time the National Book Awards has broadened its scope. In the 1960s and 1970s, an array of new categories were added, [Read More]
Ottawa school board pulls Fraser Institute essay contest asking if minimum wage hike is a bad idea
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board circulated, then pulled, an essay contest that asked students to write about whether or not hiking minimum wage is a [Read More]
How to Find, Research and Evaluate Literary Agents •
Every author knows the value of an agent. None of the Big 5 publishers will consider a manuscript without a literary agent, for instance (although [Read More]