Posted on May 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM 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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Canisia Lubrin has won this year's Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for her debut fiction collection, Code Noir (NPR).
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Author Candice Carty-Williams, who founded the 4thWrite Prize when she was working as a marketing executive, will be part of this year's judging panel (The Guardian).
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Dracula Daily, a newsletter that sends the text of Bram Stoker's classic novel in real time, will start tomorrow since the novel begins on May 3 (Substack).
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Kelly Jensen examines the state of US civics education and how it relates to the increase in book ban attempts, in the opening to her weekly collection of censorship news (Book Riot).
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United Kingdom writers have issued a letter of solidarity with the trans and nonbinary community, in response to a court ruling that drops them from certain legal protections (Google).
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