May 10, 2019

The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize hasn’t had the best form since its inauguration in 2000. The only big award in the UK to celebrate comic literature, it has shamefully just three… Read more »

Awards and ceremonies

New Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will pay big for women and nonbinary authors — Alyea Canada
When love turns sour: Romance awards cancelled amidst ongoing race row — Nikki Griffiths
Galley Beggar press turns to the public to recoup unexpected loss . . . human spirit prevails — Ryan Harrington
Greta Thunberg named TIME person of the year; jointly scoops Waterstones book of the year — Tom Clayton

Day of the shred: interactive PC game invites you to destroy a book

Tom Clayton

In a move that will prompt shocked-face emojis across the publishing world, Bristol-based indie game developer Alistair Aitcheson has released The Book Ritual, an “interactive art-piece played using a real-world book of… Read more »

Testing out Google’s poem generator

Michael Seidlinger

Earlier this week, Google launched its AI poem generator, PoemPortraits, and you bet people all over the internet are tossing everything they can at it. How it works? It’s really… Read more »

Melville House Books

Are women funny? Prize news confirms yes, of course they bloody are

Nikki Griffiths

Day of the shred: interactive PC game invites you to destroy a book

Tom Clayton

Testing out Google’s poem generator

Michael Seidlinger