Gesa Stedman rounds up the news, from defunct as well as new literary prizes to delivery crises, slow successes in the North to the huge impact of TikTok on publishing. Read more
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The Four Nations of the UK – How the Literary Field Works Beyond London
Gesa Stedman explores the complex connections and the colonial legacies which characterise Read more
“Hope Lives Here” –
Address Book by Neil Bartlett
Today, I have the great honour to join the blog tour for Neil Bartlett’s Address Book, published on 4 November by the fabulous indie publisher Inkandescent, with this review. In Address Book, we experience seven different stories set in different times and places, including a flat in Clerkenwell in 1891 […] Read more
“Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing” Studie – jetzt auch auf Deutsch
Es ist soweit: rechtzeitig zur Frankfurter Buchmesse erscheint heute die deutsche Übersetzung des „Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing” Reports! Denn bei allen Unterschieden, die es zwischen den Buchbranchen in Großbritannien und Deutschland gibt, so sind doch auch viele Parallelen auszumachen, gerade was die Unterrepräsentation von Schwarzen Autor*innen und Autor*innen of Colour […] Read more
Birmingham Literature Festival – Digital Edition
This year’s Birmingham Literature Festival is already in full swing – and an amazing example how you can turn a challenge into an opportunity! For this ‘special’ year, Festival Director Shantel Edwards and Guest Curator Kit de Waal have put together a digital edition of one of my favourite literature […] Read more
Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing – Now Go Out and Make a Difference
On 23 June 2020, Dr Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths, University of London) and I launched our report called Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing. We spent the previous year interviewing 113 people in publishing and bookselling, and we set out to challenge the ways ‘diversity’ was talked about. And we wanted to find […] Read more
Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing – Online Launch Coming Up
Last year on 1 May (which is not a public holiday in the UK, as I learned) I started to work with Dr Anamik Saha at Goldsmiths, University of London, on our joint project called “Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing”. The idea had been brewing in our heads for about three […] Read more
Happy indiebookday!
In Germany, we celebrate “indiebookday” today – to make independent publishers more visible, to share the stories we enjoyed and, let’s face it, to distract ourselves from the crazy times we’re living in. I have to admit that I have no idea what’s going on in the German literary field […] Read more
Independent Bookshop Week 2018
Im Vereinigten Königreich drehte sich vom 16. bis zum 23. Juni 2018 alles um den unabhängigen Buchhandel (ok, ein bisschen Brexit und Fußball war sicherlich auch dabei…): gefeiert wurde die Independent Bookshop Week! Und hier auch gleich schon eine Aktualisierung: Während ich bei der ersten Version dieses Textes noch nicht […] Read more
Brexit and the Cultural Sector
Before we take a break from blogging and go on a well-deserved summer break, we would like to draw your attention to our latest project; a collaborative ebook on the effects of the Brexit vote on the UK’s cultural sector and its agents: “It’s not just the economy, stupid! Brexit […] Read more
