… more interesting books:

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

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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

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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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

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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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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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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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

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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An #introduction from us at the #WalterScottPrize for #HistoricalFiction. It's one of the world's most prestigious #literaryprizes and in its fourteen years has awarded over £300,000 to writers and brought over 150 great #historical novels to wider attention, including to #bookgroups. We also run the #YoungWalterScottPrize, a creative writing prize for those 11-19. We post about #bookprizes #history #writingtips and more. Say hello and tell us - what are you reading now, #histfic or otherwise?