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Black Book Bash draws authors to Jacksonville amid literary backlash
This weekend’s Black Book Bash may be an antidote to the antagonistic position policymakers and some publishers show toward Black authors and stories. The inaugural festival will bring more than 150 authors to Jacksonville for three days of...
Holguín writer wins National Poetry Prize
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Holguín-born poet, journalist, researcher, and art critic Erian Peña Pupo won the Main Prize of the National Poetry Contest Entre Dos Aguas with his book, Fresco de Pompeya, as announced by the Holguín branch of the National Union of Writers and...
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Qatar serves as Guest of Honour at Baku Book Fair
The Baku International Book Fair kicked off in Azerbaijan, with Qatar serving as the Guest of Honour. The event will run until Oct 7. Qatar's participation in this fair, represented by the Ministry of Culture (MoC), reflects its commitment to...
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Diane Abbott admits declaring £42k of book earnings late
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Yahoo News - United Kingdom
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Diane Abbott has admitted declaring more than £40,000 of earnings from her book late. The former Labour MP reported £22,500 of earnings from Viking Penguin, the publisher of her memoir A Woman Like Me, in November 2024, having received the money...
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Yale announces 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the twenty-seventh annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for global studies of...
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Inaugural book festival coming to Las Cruces
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The Las Cruces Bulletin - New Mexico
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By Serena Johnson Imagine this. It’s Oct. 11 between the hours 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. The Doña Ana Student Resource Building on the community college’s East Mesa campus is filled with authors from the Southwest region. Children are gathered around a...
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Looking for a Milwaukee area book club? Try one of these 12
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Wisconsin
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Whether you are into to fantasies, romance, non-fiction, all of the above or something else entirely, there's a book club in Milwaukee waiting for you. Looking to get your read on and make new friends? Here are 12 book clubs in the city that meet...
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Well isn't that 'Swell?': Local poetry publisher Six Ft. Swells building up for 20th anniversary
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The Union - California
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When three poets—Todd Cirillo, Julie Valin, and Matt Amott—met up 20 years ago in a local bar they had an idea, though not yet a plan, that they should start a publishing house which would serve likeminded writers. That is to say, they wanted to...
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Former News-Miner reporter wins national poetry award
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Alaska
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Former Fairbanks Daily News-Miner education reporter Weston Morrow is one of five winners of the 2025 National Poetry Series Open Competition. The National Poetry Series is a literary awards program that sponsors the publication of five books of...
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Book Review: Generation After Generation
Generation After Generation by Heather Gafkay Genre: Literary Fiction / Historical Fiction ISBN: 9798891327993 Print Length: 242 pages Publisher: Atmosphere Press Reviewed by Samantha Hui “In one day, just like that, Naomi, Ana, and Johan, the...
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Two leading Skibbereen pioneers lauded in book
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The Southern Star
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THE latest in a series of biographies celebrating the extraordinary work and contribution of philosophers, mathematicians, engineers and code breakers includes four Cork entries – two from Skibbereen. Irish STEM Lives is compiled by the Royal...
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New English Publisher Crossed Hearts Reveals 3 Manhwa Licenses, License of
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Anime News Network
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New Japanese manga, Korean webcomics, Asian novels publisher plans to debut 30+ series in 2026 Crossed Hearts, a new California-based global English publisher, has announced the worldwide English-language print launches of three Korean manhwa...
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Yury Felshtinsky's Book "Natallia Radzina's Belarus" Has Been Published In The Ukrainian Language
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Charter 97
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Now it can be bought in Ukraine. A new book by the famous American historian and publicist Yuri Felshtinsky "Natallia Radzina's Belarus: Journalist vs. Dictator" has been published in Ukrainian by the publishing house "Oleg Fedorov's Drukarsky...
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Noted mystery writer Craig Johnson to appear at book signing at Logan Library on Oct. 10
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Cache Valley Daily - Utah
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LOGAN – The Logan Library will host another of its author book signings on Oct. 10. The featured writer for that event will be noted mystery author Craig Johnson. Johnson is best known for his popular writings about Sheriff Walt Longmire of the...
Owner: Kent Frandsen
From Facebook to fiction: How Paige Nick turned online book clubs into comedy gold
From Facebook to fiction: Paige Nick turns online book clubs into comedy gold in her new novel. Photo: Liza van Deventer After her novel, Unpresidented, came out in 2017, novelist and columnist Paige Nick had no idea what to write next. Then, one...
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Santo Domingo International Book Fair draws crowds with vibrant cultural program
Santo Domingo.- The Santo Domingo International Book Fair 2025 (FILSD 2025) is drawing record crowds and an atmosphere of enthusiasm at the Juan Pablo Duarte Cultural Plaza, with weekday attendance surpassing expectations. Dedicated to historian...
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Riyadh International Book Fair to Kick off on Thursday
The Riyadh International Book Fair 2025 will kick off on Thursday at the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University. Running through October 11, the event is being organized by the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission. Featuring over...
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2025 dates announced
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Gulf News
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Celebrating Greece as Guest of Honour The official Guest of Honour, the Republic of Greece, will enrich the fair with a diverse program focused on "edutainment." The Greek offerings will include theatrical works, creative performances, interactive...
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Review: Louis Catlett’s ‘Say What Ewe Sea – A Very Silly Visual Puzzle Book’
The back cover blurb on ‘Say What Ewe Sea’ invites you to wrap your brain around the cryptic nonsense of these daft but clever puzzles. That sums it up rather well. Louis Catlett has concocted around a hundred pages of mind-benders for you to...
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November 25: New book says Cunhal tried to avoid armed conflict
The book titled ‘Breve História do 25 de Novembro,’ authored by Filipe Garcia, a journalist from Lusa, is being released today by the publisher Ideias de Ler. In a statement, the author explained that the book explores, “predominantly through the...
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