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The publishing workshops taking a red pen to AI

Dec 01 2025: In the past several years, AI-powered developmental editing platforms such as AutoCrit, Editrix, and Anthropic’s Claude have emerged with the promise to make the revisions process faster and more accessible. Though autom…

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£15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds

Nov 27 2025: Footnote Press and Counterpoints Arts have announced a new fiction award celebrating writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds, offering a £15,000 prize and a publishing deal for the winner.

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In November’s school board elections, voters stood with librarians

Nov 25 2025: In districts that held competitive school board elections this November 4, voters leaned toward candidates who emphasized equity and consensus-building, and rejected division and censorship. Becky Pringle, president of t…

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More than half of UK novelists believe AI will replace their work

Nov 21 2025: More than half of published novelists in the UK believe artificial intelligence could eventually replace their work entirely, according to a new report from the University of Cambridge.

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National Book Award Winners

Nov 20 2025: Winners are up! You can see them all here: Major Book Awards And watch the ceremony here if you didn’t catch it last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKMIbjd39s I didn’t watch all of it, but did see the speeches…

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Politics loom large at 2025 National Book Awards

Nov 20 2025: On the evening of November 19, attendees to the 76th National Book Awards crowded into Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan in their black-tie best to witness the announcement of publishing’s highest honors. Grammy Award–wi…

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Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs

Nov 19 2025: The books of two award-winning New Zealand authors have been disqualified from consideration for the country’s top literature prize because artificial intelligence was used in the creation of their cover designs.

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Aspen Words Literary Prize 2026

Nov 19 2025: Aspen Words Literary Prize 2026 This is one of my favorite lit prize lists for getting a good overview of the best in publishing. I’ve rarely dnf’d a book from past years and of the six I’ve read from this year’s list I…

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