15 September 2014 - What's new
15 September 2014
- 'So just how do you go about promoting poetry and poets? There are lots of answers to this and many poets are very successful at promoting themselves through a combination of their publisher's efforts or self-publishing, through readings, performances and getting their work into poetry magazines, online or other kinds of promotion...' This week's News Review looks at a big new poetry promotion - Next Generation Poets 2014.
- Next Generation Poets 2014 press release has the full list of 20 poets and details of the promotion, including video material of the poets, 23 events and a British CouncilThis government-supported body is best-known for its activities overseas, but in fact provides a great deal of information which is of interest to writers. http://www.britishcouncil.org/
Their UK Literature Festivals provides a full listing, but this is only as up to date as the information supplied by the individual festival organizers. international tour to follow. - If you're more interested in how to get your own poetry out there, we have Getting your poetry published.
- A new page on Which Report? gives the lowdown on the three reports we offer.
- 'I think I will write, in my 70s, more novellas. I love the idea of sitting down to read something in three hours - about the length of an opera, or a long movie, or a play where all of its structure can be held in the mind. A novella is a great length, and it's a demanding genre in which things have to be settled quickly.' Ian McEwan, author of The Children Act, in the Observer, quoted in our Comment column.
- We've updated our New Articles listing, which directs you to new material on the site.
- Our Writing Opportunity this week is the Troubadour International Poetry Prize, smaller than the National Poetry CompetitionAnnual poetry prize run by the UK-based Poetry Society established in 1978; accepts entries from all over the world; over 10,000 poems submitted each year but with an equally generous first prize and closing on 20 October.
- Our links this week: the latest chapter in the Amazon/Hachette saga, Authors United threatens next Amazon move | The Bookseller; changing times in East Africa, East African Writers Embrace Self-publishing and Promotion | Publishing Perspectives; what difference have the new Man Booker rules made? Has the Man Booker prize really opened up? | Books | The Guardian; her own take on diversity in children's writing, Author Malorie Blackman on Diversity in Children's Books | Publishing Perspectives; and market-savvy responses in the latest literary agent interview from Publishing Perspectives, Literary Agent Q&A: Madeleine Milburn, UK | Publishing Perspectives.
- The WritersServices Glossary gives an A-Z listing of every name on the site and is another way of finding what you're looking for.
- To complete a poetry-heavy week: 'The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.' T S Eliot in our Writers' Quotes.
