Posted on August 10, 2022 at 10:38 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Alliance of Independent Authors has a lot of news that will likely make your eyes roll in its weekly...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Posted on April 27, 2022 at 9:04 AM by Guest Author

Today's guest post comes from Edward Trayer, organizer of The Wishing Shelf Book Awards. The well-known Wishing Shelf Awards is...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Posted on November 12, 2020 at 9:06 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The twelfth annual Goodreads Choice Awards kicked off late last month, when many of us were ... um ... distracted,...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Contests

Posted on January 19, 2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The folks behind Writer Beware would hate to hear that any author missed one of their alerts. So Victoria Strauss...

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Posted on May 2, 2019 at 10:21 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A Minnesota high-schooler has won this year’s Poetry Out Loud competition. You can listen to Isabella Callery recite "Thoughtless Cruelty"...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Contests, NPR, Poetry

Posted on May 1, 2019 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

National Poetry Month may be over, but the celebration of the art form isn’t quite over. Tonight, nine high-schoolers from...

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Tagged As: Contests, NPR, Poetry

Posted on January 14, 2019 at 12:49 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

More literary award news: The nominees for the 2019’s Philip K. Dick Award have been announced. According to the award’s...

Categories: Today in Books

Posted on December 4, 2018 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Goodreads has announced its 2018 winners for its reader choice awards! Here they are: Fiction: Still Me, by Jojo Moyes....

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Tagged As: Contests

Posted on November 28, 2018 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Bookseller has crowned a winner in its annual oddest-title competition. The Joy of Waterboiling, a German cookbook, contains a...

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Posted on November 15, 2018 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The tenth annual Goodreads Choice Awards are now in the final round! Voting began Tuesday and runs through November 26,...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Contests