'By systematically excluding junior staff from attending, those who gatekeep access to these parties make us feel devalued, discouraged and disengaged'

Despite junior staff powering so much of publishing's success, they rarely get to join the celebrations buff.ly/45t5aub

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.TikTok UK is launching its own book awards for the UK and Ireland, with the aim of 'celebrating titles, authors, content and creators of BookTok'.

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How To Kill Men and Get Away With It is back to No.1 in the The Bookseller Heatseeker chart this week!

Leading figures in the trade have questioned the industry’s commitment to publishing commercially successful Black writing after it emerged there has been a downturn in the number of bestselling Black-authored books published in 2022.

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Feels surreal that I’m on the cover of the Black Issue 2023 of The Bookseller 😭 thank you to Trapeze Books and Sareeta Domingo for believing in me. A published author is loading! Read the feature for free with the link. 💛

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Once Upon A Time, There Was A Girl Who Really Loved Books.
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In his keynote for the Association of American Literary Agents programme at Publishers Weekly’s US Book Show, James Daunt shared home truths about 'evolving' Barnes & Noble.

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So we interviewed everyone at the #Nibbies about their outfits for the night and managed…not to film their outfits. What can we say - we’re book people, not fashion people. But take our word for it, everyone looked FABULOUS! #BritishBookAwards

✍🏾 For The Bookseller I wrote about how the loss of gal-dem is a loss for the publishing industry

With a vital incubator and pipeline for young, Black talent gone, how will publishing, an industry with a dubious track record with black authors, respond?

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📚 Celebrating Victories! 🎉✨ We are thrilled to share that the we. had a major breakthrough yesterday! The Bookseller has devoted TWO full pages to highlight the remarkable tale of our festival and our organization. Get ready for some BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS! 🙌🏾📖✨

'Poetry seems to exist in a bubble that excludes access economically, geographically, and physically/mentally'

Aaron Kent is not surprised Caffè Nero’s new awards have ignored poetry, when the poetry establishment ignores most of the UK buff.ly/3q9zIRM

A pipeline for young, Black talent in the writing and journalism sectors, online magazine gal-dem recently announced it would close owing to economic concerns. What does the loss of gal-dem mean for the book publishing industry?

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.Aisha Bushby 🌻 has won the inaugural The Adrien Prize for A Flash of Fireflies (@FarshoreBooks), with judges praising 'the inventive storytelling and the authentic portrayal of the young narrator'

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'If I was going to sum up the findings in this issue with one word, it would be “disconnect”. The breadth and luminosity of books due to be published in the next 12 months contrasts with bleak findings in our Lead Story about such books not finding their way to readers'

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10 years after it was founded, London-based charity Children’s Book Project (@Lonbookproject) is celebrating gifting its one millionth book this week.

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'We all need to be part of the whole industry, so that it is not a novelty to have in-house Black personnel... No one should feel marginalised or peripheral'

Margaret Busby, the UK’s first Black woman publisher discusses how the industry has changed since she embarked on her…

'We’re all cogs in a machine. But the publishing party scene seems to suggest that some cogs are more important, and more worthy of celebrating, than others.'

A contributor asks why junior publishing staff rarely get to join the celebrations: buff.ly/45t5aub

'Our responsibility, first and foremost, is to Black British writers.'

The Black Writers’ Guild has pledged to represent all Black authors, no matter what their background, experience or genre of writing.

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'I consider the feel of fabric in the hand, how the book opens, the turn of the page and its thickness, and the weight of the book'

With her new micropress Forty-Four Words, Amanda Boachie wants to give consumers a unique reading experience buff.ly/3WBkbGE

Thank you, Richard Coles, for coining this new verb. We will be using 'to nib' at all future #BritishBookAwards - can we get it added to the Oxford English Dictionary, please? #Nibbies