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The winner will receive £1,000, and have their story featured on the Guardian websiteA short story competition run by the Guardian and publisher 4th Estate is open for entries from unpublished writers of colour living in the UK.The winner of the 4thWri…
Only one in three UK children now enjoy writing in their free time – including text messages – with those on free school meals most likely to do soNew research from the National Literacy Trust shows that children’s interest in writing has reached a “cr…
Bill Gates wrote a blog post this week recommending a novel about videogame development. Gates calls Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. “one of the biggest books of last year,” telling the story of “two friends who bond over Super Mario Bros. as kid…
Former children’s laureate tells Hay festival audience that her local library was essential to her career as a writerLibraries should be “ringfenced and protected” to ensure that all children have access to books, the author Malorie Blackman has said.“…
Davis school district says it will assess text after complaint for ‘pornographic or indecent materials’ under law passed last year A school district in Utah that last week banned the Bible from school libraries is now being asked to consider a further …
Plaintiffs argue new law is illegal because it is a direct attack on free speech guaranteed by the US constitutionA coalition of publishers, booksellers, librarians and readers filed a lawsuit on Friday against the Arkansas state government, over a boo…
The Ghanaian playwright and novelist, who also served as her country’s education minister, focused on the modern African womanThe Ghanaian writer and academic Ama Ata Aidoo, whose work focused on the modern African woman, has died aged 81.Ata Aidoo, wh…
In this Help Net Security video interview, Rick Howard, CSO of N2K, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at the Cyberwire, discusses his book – Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics. In the book, Howard challenges the conve…
Hugely successful adaptation of dystopian novel began airing three months after 2016 US presidential electionMargaret Atwood was “the only person who benefited from the election of Donald Trump”, her agent told her soon after the US presidential electi…
Khan, author of two crime series set in India, said he aimed to make the CWA ‘a home for all crime writers’Author Vaseem Khan has been elected as the new chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, becoming the first person of colour to take the role in t…