Baileys replaces Orange as sponsor for women’s fiction prize
The Women’s Prize for Fiction has undergone some changes recently, having lost its funding from telephone company Orange last year (and thus changed its name from the Orange Prize), and… Read more »
Women’s Fiction Prize longlist announced
The Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly the Orange Prize, has announced this year’s longlist. A member of what some call the “trinity” of UK book prizes, including the Man Booker… Read more »
Is writing by women central yet?
Virago Books was founded forty years ago, and an article by Kira Cochrane in the Guardian asks whether the publishing landscape has changed for women since 1973. Carmen Callil started the company… Read more »
The end of the Man Asian
The worth of the Asian Literary Prize is evident enough — exposure to contemporary Asian fiction is woefully limited in the English-speaking world… Read more »