‘Close Approximations,’ Asymptote’s translation contest, is back with a whopping $4,500 in prizes! Open to translators at the beginning of their careers, this contest invites translations in three genres: poetry, fiction, and—a new category this year—literary nonfiction. Not on
What are the libraries of tomorrow going to look like? Last month, during a dinner, I debated the question with Michael, an architecture student at Gothenburg University. In my view people who lick their fingers to leaf through the pages of books will be an extinct species in future, as printed book
The European Camarade: 20 November 2015, 7:30 pm (Free Entry) at the Free Word Centre. A mini-festival of European poetry in collaboration in the heart of London. Join nearly two dozen poets from across the continent presenting brand new collaborations in the literary and avant-garde traditions, fir
The longlist, or ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize is announced today, Wednesday 29 July 2015. This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges chaired by Michael Wood, and also comprising Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, John Burnside, Sam Leith and Frances O
CReating Other Ways of Dissemination (CROWD) is a self-starting network in the European independent literary scene founded by Lettrétage (Germany), Forum Stadtpark (Austria), Nuoren Voiman Liitto (Finland) and IDEOGRAMMA (Cyprus). Composed of inspiring, independent literary activists, the network
10×10 is a series of 10 minute podcasts with presenter and journalist Rosie Goldsmith commissioned and originally published by the Commonwealth Writers. In each podcast Rosie spends 10 minutes talking to authors from five different parts of the world. The podcasts include Margaret Atwood from Canad
