Posted on March 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Fiona McFarlane has won the 21st annual Story Prize, which goes to an outstanding collection of short fiction, for Highway Thirteen (Literary Hub).
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The Women’s Prize for Nonfiction shortlist has been released; the winner of the £30,000 (about $38,660) prize will be announced June 12 (The Guardian).
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See the twenty writers who have received the second-ever round of Writing Freedom Fellowships; the collaboration between Haymarket Books and the Mellon Foundation aims to support writers impacted by the criminal legal system (Literary Hub).
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Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murder Club series, is rallying his fellow writers affected by Meta's use of a pirated-book database to train AI models; Osman declared online that "it’ll be incredibly difficult for us, and for other affected industries, to take on Meta, but we’ll have a good go!" (The Guardian).
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The joint archive of Joan Didion's and John Gregory Dunne's papers is finally open at the New York Public Library (NPR and Vulture).
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