News of note for readers: March 13, 2024

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!

• Joseph Coelho and Kwame Alexander are among the authors whose works have been shortlisted for Britain's Carnegie Medals for children's books (The Guardian).

• Novelists Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene, and Stewart O’Nan are suing the owner of an AI platform that they say was trained on data that illegally contained their works (Ars Technica).