A 27-year-old author from York has won independent publisher Route's competition to find a debut novelist.
Sophie Coulombeau's novel, provisionally titled Rites, will be published by Route next summer. The competition, supported by Arts Council England, was aimed at aspiring authors aged between 18-30 and living in Yorkshire.
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Library campaigners have expressed intense disappointment with the Arts Council’s first strategy document on libraries. with one claiming it is not "devised to meet people's needs".
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Members of the Poetry Society, including poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, have started a petition to reinstate Judith Palmer as director of the embattled society in hope of a "new start".
The petition follows the departure of Poetry Society director Judith Palmer, president Jo Shapcott and vice-president Gwyneth Lewis and others, and an extraordinary general meeting earlier this month at which the society's board of trustees also agreed to stand down.
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