Sunday study session: Writer Beware’s year in review

Posted on 01/19/2020 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...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Contests, Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, Writer Beware

Congratulations to the 2019 Poetry Out Loud winner!

Posted on 05/02/2019 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

Teens square off in tonight's Poetry Out Loud championship

Posted on 05/01/2019 at 04:00 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...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Contests, NPR, Poetry

Meet the nominees for the 2019 Philip K. Dick Award

Posted on 01/14/2019 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

Tagged As: Awards, Contests, Science fiction

Meet the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards winners!

Posted on 12/04/2018 at 02:00 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

"The Joy of Waterboiling" is officially the oddest title of 2018

Posted on 11/28/2018 at 08:00 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...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Contests, Just for fun, The Bookseller, The Guardian

Vote in the final round of the Goodreads Choice Awards

Posted on 11/15/2018 at 04:00 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,...

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Tagged As: Contests

Goodreads Choice Awards moves on to the semifinals

Posted on 11/06/2018 at 05:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The tenth annual Goodreads Choice Awards have moved on to the semifinal round! Voting began today and runs through Sunday,...

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Tagged As: Awards, Contests

Here's your chance to be in a Lee Child or Margaret Atwood novel

Posted on 11/01/2018 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Several big-name authors are using their fame to improve the lives of torture victims. The Guardian reports that Lee Child...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Contests, The Guardian

It's time to pick the funniest book title of 2018!

Posted on 10/26/2018 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

There’s tons of talk about whether one should judge a book by its cover, but much less so about judging...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Contests, The Bookseller, The Guardian