david belbin

West Midlands Young Writers’ Competition

Birmingham-based independent publisher, The Gentlemen Press, has just launched a competition for West Midlands writers aged 13-21. Open for entries from 12th September – 31st October, the judges will be accepting for short stories between 500 and 2,000 words in length. A selection of winning entrants will see their stories published in an anthology. The … [Read more…]

Books!

Books, the bookish, the book; there’s never been a better time to talk about them. Not sitting here there hasn’t, anyway. Indicators are everywhere: books are in flux. Turnover in book publishing is growing slowly, but exports are accounting for a bigger share of the market. Micro-publishers are flourishing yet so are Ebooks. A decline … [Read more…]