Open to all writers of 18 and over with an unpublished and not yet submitted story or creative non-fiction piece.
No entry fee
Prize:
The overall winner will receive £2000, all selected contributors will receive £150 and two complimentary copies of the book
Nobrow Short Story Competition for writers! Up to twelve winning entries will be published in our short story anthology, and this beautifully illustrated book will celebrate the best short fiction and non-fiction writing. Read more
Cinnamon Press have nine slots to fill for books that will be published in 2015 and are looking for poetry collections, short story collections or full-length fiction
They have nine slots to fill for books that will be published in 2015 and are looking for books that fit their list and which are poetry collections, short story collections or full-length fiction (novels or novellas). Read more
UK residents or nationals, aged 18 or over, who have a history of publication in creative writing
No entry fee
Prize:
Cash prizes of up to £15,000, and a slot for your story to be read
Cash prizes of up to £15,000, and a slot for your story to be read on BBC Radio 4, are available as part of the BBC National Short Story Award 2016 with BookTrust. Now open for its eleventh year, alumni have included Hilary Mantel, Mark Haddon and Lionel Shriver (please note: entrants must have a history of publication in creative writing). Read more
Jonathan Cape will be open to submissions from "new writers of high calibre and imagination" for a month this summer.
The publisher, an imprint of Penguin Random House's Vintage Books in London, is asking for prose fiction. Writers are asked to submit 50 pages, which can be from a novel or novella, or short stories, and the work can be finished or in progress. Read more
'I was trained by poetry where you can just write ambience and atmosphere. But in a novel, if there's not a story that people are interested in, with characters that they care about, they'll close the book.'
In the third in a series on the implications of AI for publishing, Nadim Sadek argues that effective advertising is now feasible for everyone, and for all kinds of titles
A publishing friend of mine recently told me about a sales report they'd received from a major retailer in which some of their books had zero sales. It turned out that there had been plenty of sales, however-they just all went to counterfeiters. In case you think this is an outlier, it's not. Counterfeiting is a serious, nontrivial problem facing the industry.
If you read the recently unsealed materials from the federal antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, you'll see why the company wanted to keep them under wraps. According to the unredacted notes from one meeting, Jeff Bezos directed his team to stuff more ads into search results, even if it meant accepting more ads internally categorized as irrelevant to what users were looking for. Read more
The U.K. Publishers Association (PA) was established in 1896 and is a cornerstone of the British publishing industry, working with a diverse array of companies to promote innovation, collaboration, and commercial success. Read more
With English as a shared language, there is a natural relationship between the American and British publishing industries. Most of the world's top publishing companies, be they conglomerates or independent publishers, have operations in each country, typically in New York City and London. Literary traffic travels both ways across the Atlantic.
The UK is experiencing a boom in book clubs, according to new data from event listing companies.
Book club listings on the ticketing site Eventbrite increased by 350% between 2019 and 2023 - a "much stronger" growth than the overall increase in UK-based listings over the same period. Between 2022 and 2023 alone, book club listings on the site rose by 41%. Read more
"We don't understand the consequences of AI with regards to copyright," Brazil's Karine Gonçalves Pansa, president of the International Publishers Association (IPA), said, when asked to name the most important issues facing publishing right now. "We can say, very easily, that our content is being used, without permission, and without license, by AI."