Congratulations to Sudanese writer Bushra al-Fadil, who was announced as the winner of the 2017 Caine Prize for African Writing on 3 July. His story, “The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away”, translated by Max Shmookler, was published...
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Congratulations to PEN SA Member Nakhane Touré who has won the award for Best Actor at Cinema Jove, the Valencia Film Festival, for his role in the movie The Wound. Touré is the author of Piggy Boy’s Blues, published by...
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Deadline: 10 September 2017 We’re Looking For… Stories that are fun and imaginative, but also address current societal issues for children. We want simple stories that mean something and can feed positively into our children’s futures. However, we’re not after...
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On the first night the Circus Basilisk spends outside the Northern England town of Kirkholme, aspiring tightwire performer Flynn Oakley finds out just how easily his hard-earned and well-balanced world can fall apart. Falsely accused of a monstrous crime and...
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Deadline: 5 PM on Sunday, 16 July 2017 Prize: “As in previous years, a longlist of the best entries received will be published in volume 7 of the anthology. A shortlist of three poets is selected from the longlist, and...
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