Riot Senior Campaigns Manager Hephzibah Kwakye-Saka on how to promote books by black authors
This article first appeared in the Bookseller on 24th July 2020 As a black publicist with more than seven years in culture and entertainment publicity, I have sat in many all-white creative meetings where the genuine answer to making a campaign diverse was to give Stormzy a call (before that it was Tinie Tempah). If you […]
Never-seen-before manuscript by Philip Pullman revealed on 25th anniversary of Northern Lights
“When I wrote Serpentine, I had no idea that I was going on to write another trilogy, showing Lyra as an adult, but she and her world wouldn’t leave me alone.” – Philip Pullman Serpentine, a new book featuring a teenage Lyra Silvertongue, will be published in October 2020 Academy Award-winning actress Olivia Colman to narrate audiobook edition […]
Derek Owusu wins 2020 Desmond Elliott Prize with “groundbreaking” debut That Reminds Me
Taylor Beidler wins the inaugural UEA New Forms Award and Michelle Perkins receives the first Laura Kinsella Fellowship The National Centre for Writing (NCW) has today (2nd July) announced Derek Owusu’s That Reminds Me as the winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2020. The novel-in-verse, praised by judges as a ‘transcendent work of literature’, is […]
