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Republic Of Consciousness Prize
The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses is an annual British literary prize founded by the author Neil Griffiths. It rewards fiction published by UK and Irish small presses, defined as those with fewer than five full-time employees. The prize money – initially raised by crowdfunding and latterly augmented by sponsorship – is divided between the publishing house and the author. Winners, shortlists and longlists 2017 The shortlist for the 2017 award was announced on 11 January 2017. The winner was announced on 9 March 2017. *Winner: John Keene, ''Counternarratives'' (Fitzcarraldo Editions) *Elnathan John, '' Born on a Tuesday'' (Cassava Republic Press) * Mike McCormack, ''Solar Bones'' (Tramp Press) *KJ Orr, ''Light Box'' (Daunt Books) * Anakana Schofield, ''Martin John'' (And Other Stories) *Paul Stanbridge, ''Forbidden Line'' (Galley Beggar Press) * Diane Williams, ''Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine'' (CB Editions) *Lara Williams, ''Treats'' (Freight Books) Runner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Prize
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a Sponsor (commercial), corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Influx Press
Influx Press is an independent British publishing company, based in north London, founded in 2012 by Gary Budden and Kit Caless. They are known for publishing "innovative and challenging fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from across the UK and beyond". Background Influx Press was founded by Gary Budden and Kit Caless as an independent publishing company based in North London. The first title to be published, in 2012, was ''Acquired For Development By…'', edited by Budden and Caless, an anthology of commissioned short stories and poetry inspired by the London Borough of Hackney. Budden has said that he had not originally intended to set up a publishing company, "but after an internship at Richmond Literary Festival working with people like David Starkey and Quentin Letts, I realised I wanted to do something different to the mainstream", so with local donations and advice from other small publishers such as Penned in the Margins and Five Leaves, Influx Press was started. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stinging Fly
''The Stinging Fly'' is a literary magazine published in Ireland, featuring short stories, essays, and poetry. It publishes two issues each year. In 2005, ''The Stinging Fly'' moved into book publishing with the establishment of The Stinging Fly Press. Magazine ''The Stinging Fly'' magazine was founded in 1998 by Declan Meade and Aoife Kavanagh. Kavanagh departed after two issues, leaving Meade as sole editor. Eabhan Ní Shúileabháin became poetry editor in September 2001. From 2014 to 2016, Thomas Morris was the magazine's editor. Sally Rooney was editor from December 2017 until January 2019, and is now Chair of the Stinging Fly Board. Danny Denton succeeded as editor in 2019. In June 2022, novelist Lisa McInerney was announced as the new editor, the sixth editor in the magazine's twenty-five-year history. The enterprise was initially inspired by David Marcus and the publication of the Fish Anthology. The stated founding objective was to provide a forum for the very best n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daša Drndić
Daša Drndić (10 August 1946 – 5 June 2018) was a Croatian writer. She studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade.Profile , fraktura.hr; accessed 6 June 2018. Life and career Drndić was born in , in 1947 into a middle-class family. Her father, a former , was a diplomat working in , |
Alex Pheby
Alex Pheby (born 1970) is a British author and academic. He is currently a professor at Newcastle University and lives in Scotland. He studied at Manchester University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Goldsmiths. and UEA. Career Pheby's second novel, ''Playthings'', was described as "the best neuro-novel ever written" in ''Literary Review''. The novel deals with the true case of Daniel Paul Schreber, a 19th-century German judge affected by schizophrenia, who was committed to an asylum. In 2016, ''Playthings'' was shortlisted for the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize. His third novel, ''Lucia,'', concerning the suspected schizophrenic daughter of James Joyce, released in 2018 was joint winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize. He is also the author of ''Grace'', published by Two Ravens Press. '' Mordew'', published in 2020 by Galley Beggar Press, is the first of a trilogy of fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Publishing
Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched ''Salt Magazine'' in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics. Over the next decade, Kinsella, together with Tracy Ryan, went on to develop Folio(Salt), publishing and co-publishing books and chapbooks focused on a pluralist vision of contemporary poetry which extended across national boundaries and a wide range of poetic practices. Noted for awarding the Crashaw Prize, named in honour of 17th-century metaphysical poet Richard Crashaw. Overview In 1999 John Kinsella, Clive Newman and Chris Hamilton-Emery formed a partnership to develop Salt Publishing. When Newman left in 2002 and the original partnership was dissolved, Jen Hamilton-Emery, a senior manager in the National Health Service, joined Chris Hamilton-Emery to take over the ownership of Salt, relaunching the business in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Myers
Benjamin Myers (born January 1976) is an English writer and journalist. Early life Myers grew up in Belmont, County Durham, and was a pupil at the estate's local comprehensive school where he become interested in reading and skateboarding. Myers attended his first concert in Durham in March 1990, when he was fourteen. Headlined by Steadfast, it led to him forming the punk rock band Sour Face the next year. The band quickly became involved in the Durham hardcore punk scene, alongside Steadfast, False Face and XdisciplineX. Despite being one of the few bands in the scene that was not straight edge, Sour Face became the mascots of the scene, with their third performance seeing them open for NOFX. Voorhees' first performance was opening for Sour Face in September 1991. As a teenager Myers began writing for British weekly ''Melody Maker''. In 1997 he became their staff writer while residing in the Oval Mansions squat for several years. In 2011 he published an article, about his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arja Kajermo
Arja Kajermo is a cartoonist, born in Finland, raised in Sweden, currently residing in Ireland. Kajermo was born in Kiuruvesi, Northern Savonia, where her family had a small farm. They moved to Stockholm in 1955 when she was six years old. Kajermo moved to Dublin originally as an au pair in the 1970s. Kajermo started working as a cartoonist for the magazine '' In Dublin''. She drew a fortnightly strip for ''In Dublin'' for ten years. Her first book of cartoons ''The Dirty Dublin Strip Cartoons'' (Poolbeg Press) was based on these strips. She contributed cartoons to the feminist publisher Attic Press and occasionally to ''The Sunday Press'' (now gone), ''The Irish Times'', '' Image magazine'', ''Magill'' and others. Her strip ''Dublin Four'' ran in the ''Sunday Tribune''. She also draws the strip '' Tuula'' in the Sunday edition of Swedish daily newspaper ''Dagens Nyheter''. The ''Tuula'' strip was turned into a book, ''En pillig sol i Särholmen'' (Nisses Böcker 2005). It is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathias Enard
Mathias, a given name and a surname which is a variant of Matthew (name), may refer to: Places * Mathias, West Virginia * Mathias Township, Michigan People with the given name or surname ''Mathias'' In music * Mathias Eick, Norwegian Jazz Musician * Mathias Färm, the guitarist of Millencolin * Mathias Lillmåns, Finnish lead singer of folk/black metal band Finntroll * William Mathias, Welsh composer * Mathias Nygård a.k.a. Warlord, Finnish folk metal singer In sports * Mathias Bourgue, French tennis player * Mathias Fischer, German basketball coach * Mathias Jørgensen, nicknamed ''Zanka'', Danish football player * Mathias Kiwanuka, American football player * Mathias Olsson (born 1973), Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman * Mathias Pogba (born 1990), Guinean professional footballer * Mathias Svensson, Swedish professional footballer * Bob Mathias, American decathlete, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and United States Congressman * David Mathias, Indian crickete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And Other Stories
And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign language reading groups to choose the books that it publishes. The company originally operated from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, but is now based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. In 2012, it was nominated for the Newcomer of the Year award by the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG). History And Other Stories was founded in 2009 by Stefan Tobler. And Other Stories first came to the public's attention when its first book, ''Down the Rabbit Hole'' by Juan Pablo Villalobos (translated by Rosalind Harvey), was chosen by the public to be one of the 10 titles longlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award. It went on to make the shortlist and has also been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Deborah Levy's '' Swimming Hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patty Yumi Cottrell
Patrick Cottrell (born Patty Yumi Cottrell, 1981) is an American writer. He is the author of ''Sorry to Disrupt the Peace'' and the winner of a 2018 Whiting Award. He teaches at the University of Denver. Biography Cottrell was born in South Korea in 1981 and was adopted, along with two biologically unrelated younger Korean boys, into a family from the Midwestern United States. He was raised in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Milwaukee. Cottrell started his first novel in his early thirties. In 2012 he received his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After moving from New York to Los Angeles, he completed the novel in 2016. The resulting book, a "stylized contemporary noir" titled '' Sorry to Disrupt the Peace'', was published by McSweeney's in 2017. Cottrell has called the book "an anti-memoir". It tells the story of Helen, a woman adopted from Korea at a young age, who returns to her adoptive parents' home in Milwaukee after her adoptive brother's suicide. Writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
