A fantastic line-up of authors taking part in the first of its kind free Children’s Literary Festival held at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea during the weekend of 7-8 October has...
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Based on Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure, American Fiction takes a critical look at the way art by Black writers is shaped by the expectations and whims of white audiences....
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A children's literature festival will take place in Cornwall in June.The Festival of Children's Literature, hosted annually by the Cornish town of St Austell, celebrates the joys of reading for...
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The poems that engage us are often ones that don’t seem to know they’re poems; it’s as though no one ever told them, “Hey, you’re a poem — start acting...
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Poetry trumped prose at this year’s Saltire Book Awards tonight at Central Hall in Edinburgh, with a collection of poems by Stirling University Professor Kathleen Jamie taking the top prize,...
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How often do you buy a book for your child based on who wrote it? Turns out, more often than you think. When we buy books for our children, we...
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The first day of the International Book Arsenal Festival featured a memorial poetry reading from the book “Testimony” by Victoria Amelina. The book was published by the Old Lion Publishing...
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The Child & the Book Conference Making, Building, Mending: Creativity and Craftsmanship in Children’s Literature and Culture 2-4 May 2024, University of Rouen Normandy, Campus Pasteur CALL FOR PAPERS In...
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Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, John Burnside was known for his poems, novels and short stories 31 May 2024Tributes have been paid to the award-winning poet and novelist John Burnside,...
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