the years 2020 and 2021 superimposed on a rainbow

Making Sense of the Book World in 2020 and 2021

2. July 2022Gesa StedmanAllgemein, Festival, Overview, Public readingbook fair, bookselling, creative writing, events, publishing

Gesa Stedman takes a look at the main trends of the key pandemic years when shops were closed, readers turned to fiction again, festivals went online and bookfairs were cancelled. Read more

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Happy in Berlin? English and British Writers and the Berlin Myth

20. June 2021Gesa StedmanNews, Public reading, Publication, women writersCentre for British Studies, events, exhibition; catalogue; British writers

Musa Okwonga, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Kate McNaughton, Rory McLean – the list can be continued easily. All these writers grew up in Britain, or have close ties with the UK, but they live or have lived in Berlin Read more

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Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing – #RethinkingDiversityWeek

23. June 2020Sandra van LenteEvents, News#RethinkingDiversity, #RethinkingDiversityWeek, agents, bookselling, complacency, events, publishing, research

It’s official! We’re online! We’re holding our report in our hands and we’re very much looking forward to sharing our findings with the world (ever so modest). We’re launching our report today, on 23 June! And you can access the e-version here: www.rethinkingdiversity.org.uk We carried out this project and wrote this […] Read more

Brigid Meets Berlin – Irish Women Writers Festival

21. February 2020GuestEvents, Public reading, women writersevents, events; Irish literature; public reading; representation; women in publishing, Irish literature, public reading, representation, Women in Publishing

Sonya Permiakova gives an account of the recent Irish women writer’s festival in Berlin Read more

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“You will always be our brothers and sisters” – Poetry and Indigenous Languages from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

29. November 2019Gesa StedmanEvents, News, Public readingBerlin, events, Ireland; Wales, poetry, public reading, representation, Scotland

“Strength lies in Celtic and European unity” – this could have been the motto of Tuesday’s event entitled Muttersprache which took place at the Centre for British Studies and was co-organised by The Literary Field Kaleidoscope, Read more

Passion and Politics – Ocelot, Not Just Another Bookstore

15. October 2018Sandra van LenteBookshop, Interview#publishersagainstracism, #verlagegegenrechts, #WiT, activism, Berlin, bookshop, communication, enthusiasm, events, indie publishing, indiebookday, political act, social media

Our interview partner for today’s Literary Field Kaleidoscope post is Maria-Christina Piwowarski who runs “ocelot, not just another bookstore” with her team. She runs this exceptional bookshop in the heart of Berlin with an infectious passion, an amazing knowledge of all things bookish, and a political compass that I wish […] Read more

Passion and commerce – an interview with an independent bookseller in Paris

3. May 2017Sandra van LenteInterviewbookselling, events, France, indie bookshops, interview, l'arbre à lettres, Paris

During my last stay in Paris, I had the great pleasure to meet Marie-Claire Pleros, bookseller at the bookshop “l’arbre à lettres”, the book tree, in my quartier in Paris. The bookshop is situated in 62 rue du Faubourg St. Antoine, just a couple of minutes from the Bastille. I […] Read more

Happy New Year!

6. January 2017Sandra van LenteEvents, News#BritLitBerlin, 2017, events, Women in Publishing

Dear readers, we hope the new year has started well for you! We are planning on taking a creative break and then get back to you with reviews, interviews, event reports, critical articles about developments in the literary field, public readings, reports from book fairs, and many more… Coming up […] Read more