Bare Lit Festival launches in UK to celebrate BAME writers
The advocacy group Media Diversified is launching the “first ever literature festival for writers of color” in the UK next month. The Bare Lit Festival will take place the 27th… Read more »
Berkeley’s Revolution Books relocating with help from crowd-funding
Revolution Books, an institution in Berkeley, CA, is looking to move to a new location, and are hoping a crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo will help them make the transition. Emily… Read more »
The Wake is the Book of the Year
Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake was the surprise winner of the Book of the Year award at the Bookseller Industry Awards on Monday night. The Wake was originally published through the crowd-funding publishing… Read more »
White guilt: it’s not just for selling shoes anymore
We briefly mentioned new publishing startup site Pubslush back in December, and since then they’ve garnered a bit of press and a committed corps of users. Pubslush takes the normal… Read more »
The efficient new way to pay Margaret Atwood to sketch your dog
Margaret Atwood, beloved writer, and self-appointed high priestess of the science fictional, has just launched a campaign on crowd-funding site Indiegogo to help fund a new venture called Fanado. Fanado… Read more »