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Huge congratulations to Sophie Ward ; LOVE AND OTHER THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS has been longlisted for this years Polari Book Prize, which celebrates the very best in LGBTQ+ writing talent in the UK today. Find out more about the prize here.

“This debut is an extremely original, genre-bending novel that...

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We are delighted that Caleb Azumah Nelson has been longlisted for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize for his debut novel, OPEN WATER (Viking, 2021). The longlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2021 has been announced, as selected by chair of the judges, author Denise Mina; writer and poet Derek Owusu;...

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Congratulations to Alice Ash whose debut collection, PARADISE BLOCK , has been longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2021 .

The prestigious prize, now in its 15th year, is the only national literary award to recognise excellence in a published, single-authored short story collection. The 15-strong...

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Caoilinn Hughes has won the £10,000 RSL Encore Award for her "grand feat of comic ingenuity” The Wild Laughter (Oneworld).

The prize is given annually to the best second novel of the year and was judged this time around by Sian Cain, Nikita Lalwani and Paul Muldoon....

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