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Translations in the news

26 October 2015

Two of our links this week relate to AmazonCrossing's announcement of $10m to be spent on publishing translations, an impressive figure which shows how much translations are entering the mainstream. Whatever your view about Amazon's initiative, there's no doubt that translations in general are garnering much more international attention than they used to.  Read more

So what are fiction editors looking for in 2015?

26 January 2015

So what are fiction editors looking for in 2015? A handful of British editors have contributed to a recent article in the Bookseller, speaking up for home-grown talent, strong debut novels and - perhaps surprisingly - books in translation.  Read more

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Devon & Cornwall International Novel Prize 2020

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Closing date: 
31 December 2020
Entry: 
Open to everyone, regardless of their nationality or location in the world. Entry fee £15
Prize: 
First Prize £2,000, a trophy and online publishing contract, two shortlistees will win a publishing contract

The 2020 DEVON & CORNWALL INTERNATIONAL (DCI) NOVEL PRIZE has launched

The winner will be announced the 31st of March 2021.  Read more

'To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.'

— Susan Sontag

Writing has so much to give

6 July 2020

‘I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.  Read more

29 June 2020 - What's new

June 2020
  • 'Like any social media platform, the more you use Twitter the more you will get out of it. So keeping your account as active as possible - i.e. tweeting as often as possible - is perhaps the most valuable tip of all. But that raises a common anti-Twitter excuse: "Oh, I wouldn't know what to talk about...
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Why and How Writers Should Embrace Twitter

29 June 2020

Like any social media platform, the more you use Twitter the more you will get out of it. So keeping your account as active as possible-i.e. tweeting as often as possible-is perhaps the most valuable tip of all. But that raises a common anti-Twitter excuse: "Oh, I wouldn't know what to talk about..."
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