It’s 1540s, and a dying man’s final wish to have a chantry chapel built in his memory goes against the edict of the king. Hear author Francesca Kay on the story behind her #WalterScottPrize novel THE BOOK OF DAYS @swiftpress.bsky.social #booksky

Publishers, publicity peeps, take note, I'm back in the saddle for Wigtown Book Festival 2026. Please send catalogues, AI sheets, proofs. Using [email protected] email again (after a year off). Writers, please have publishers get in touch! www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/welcome...

Come and work with us! www.hachette.co.uk/landing-page...

Delighted to announce we will be publishing. _A Dream To The Sleeping Soul_ by Devika Ponnambalam Spring 2027. This is Devika's second novel with us Her debut _I Am Not Your Eve_ was shortlisted for 3 prizes @walterscottprize.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social Saltire @thebookseller.com

@gavreads.co.uk Thank you for spreading the word! We are so excited for our 2026 list.

Kevin Barry’s #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE HEART IN WINTER (@canongate.co.uk) itself has a fascinating history. It would take 22 years from when Kevin first researched and drafted the novel until it found its final form. Have you read it? #booksky

Publishers, thank you! Our #WalterScottPrize submissions window may have closed for this year, but we might just have to wedge our door open to make space for the bumper crop of entries as we unbox. Watch for our longlist announcement coming next February. #historicalfiction #booktok #literaryprize

Discover Kevin Barry’s #WalterScottPrize shortlisted #THEHEARTINWINTER (@canongate.co.uk). All this season we’re spotlighting the superb Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2025, perfect for avid readers on your Christmas list. Have you read THE HEART IN WINTER?

Our #WalterScottPrize winner THE LAND IN WINTER is now available to US readers from @europaeditions.bsky.social This magnificent novel is also shortlisted for @thebookerprizes.com. Have you read it yet?

Enjoy @thebookerprizes.com feature on #WalterScottPrize winner #AndrewMiller and his novel THE LAND IN WINTER (@sceptrebooks.bsky.social) which is shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize. https://loom.ly/lxIRkYc#WalterScottPrize#AndrewMiller

Publishers, you have until 31 October to send us your best historical fiction for consideration for the #WalterScottPrize 2026.The submissions deadline is almost upon us, and the shelves are very nearly full... https://loom.ly/6f5mw0k

Andrew Miller, author of #WalterScottPrize winning THE LAND IN WINTER, offers this advice to young writers. Don't forget, it’s the last chance for writers aged 11 to 19 to submit to the #YoungWalterScottPrize. Enter by post, before 31 October. Learn more: https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w#WalterScottPrize

Ferdia Lennon offers his advice to writers 11-19 entering this year’s #YoungWalterScottPrize. Ferdia wrote the marvelous #WalterScottPrize shortlisted GLORIOUS EXPLOITS, set in Syracuse in 412 BC. Learn how young writers can enter this year’s prize https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w#YoungWalterScottPrize

Francesca Kay author of #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE BOOK OF DAYS @swiftpress.bsky.social says sensory detail is vital when writing #historicalfiction. Do you know a young writer who should enter the #YoungWalterScottPrize? Learn more https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w

Angharad Hampshire, author of #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE MARE, says putting yourself into the shoes of your characters is essential when you’re writing historical fiction. Young writers, enter the #YoungWalterScottPrize by 31 October: loom.ly/7gJ82-w #amwriting

Excellent advice to writers entering this year’s #YoungWalterScottPrize from Kevin Barry, author of #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE HEART IN WINTER @canongate.co.uk. Writers 11-19, enter the Young Walter Scott Prize before 31 October: https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w#YoungWalterScottPrize#WalterScottPrize

The brilliant and much-missed Hilary Mantel, who twice won the #WalterScottPrize for her Cromwell trilogy books, offers this advice to young writers approaching #historicalfiction for the first time. Writers aged 11-19 can enter the #YoungWalterScottPrize now. Learn more https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w

The #HAMNET film, based on Maggie O'Farrell's #WalterScottPrlze shortlisted novel, is a front-runner to win an Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress for Jessie Buckley: loom.ly/VEvwoA8

Over the next six days we want you #Librarians to take a photo - or several - showing what your library service looks like today. This snapshot of library life in 2025 is part of our celebrations of the 175th anniversary of the Public Libraries Act. www.librariesconnected.org.uk/projects/lib...

Don't miss Maggie O'Farrell's reading recommendations, thoughts on the #HAMNET film and her advice to writers submitting their work to the new #HilaryMantelPrize, for which Maggie is the chair of judges. https://loom.ly/1-2eUxw#HAMNET#HilaryMantelPrizeriters have until 31 December to enter the Hilary Mantel Prize.

Learn more about the UK 1874 tour of Fisk Jubilee Singers with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy this #BlackHistoryMonthUK, profiling the choir from Fisk University in Tennessee who sang for Queen Victoria. https://loom.ly/Ovj7M3w#BlackHistoryMonthUK#history #walterscottprize

Young writers, there's a month until the deadline for the #YoungWalterScottPrize -- you can print off the entry form from our website http://www.ywsp.co.uk#YoungWalterScottPrize and your story must reach us by post by the closing date of 31 October 2025. What will you write about? #writingcompetition #youngwriters

Our #WalterScottPrize winner THE LAND IN WINTER by Andrew Miller is on the @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Learn more: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

"About 465,000 books are on the list of works pirated by Anthropic" apnews.com/article/anth...

A reminder: you have today, tomorrow and Sunday to grab a copy of the Walter Scott Prize shortlisted The Mare before it goes off sale for the foreseeable. Grab your copy of this unmissable and unnerving historical fiction novel here: share.google/xztqREaaPADC...

Congratulations to the mighty Andrew Miller, #WalterScottPrize winner 2025! THE LAND IN WINTER @sceptrebooks.bsky.social has just been shortlisted for @thebookerprizes.com

Congratulations to Kevin Barry and THE HEART IN WINTER, shortlisted for this year's #WalterScottPrize, and now a @waterstones.bsky.social paperback of the year!

Watch live! @thebookerprizes.com shortlist announced tonight. Fingers crossed for THE LAND IN WINTER, our brilliant 2025 #WalterScottPrize winner by #AndrewMiller @sceptrebooks.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6VO...

#Writers, the Hilary Mantel Prize offers an exceptional new opportunity. The late author, who twice won the #WalterScottPrize, was committed to championing emerging talent, and the winner receives a cash award plus mentoring. Submissions are open through 31 December. See https://loom.ly/NFsTZjE#Writers

Fascinating writing inspiration for young writers thinking of entering this year's #YoungWalterScottPrize – imagine inventing the first seismograph...

It’s time to get writing… #Discoveries2026 is now open for entries! Discoveries is our free writer development programme and prize that supports unagented and unpublished women in the UK and Ireland to write their first novels. Hear more from our 2026 judging panel here: youtu.be/c1eO73MNnEU

Our Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction remain open for submission until 5pm on Monday 22 September. Apply online today for your chance to win a prize of up to £10,000 to support your first commissioned work of non-fiction: rsliterature.org/rsl-giles-st...

"I was staring out of the window on a long and delayed train journey when a sentence appeared in my head: 'His father was ever a man of few words.'" #MaggieOFarrell describes the genesis of her new novel LAND, publishing June 2026, came into her mind. Read more https://loom.ly/myocHIk#MaggieOFarrell#amwriting

Recorded on 4 Sept 2025 – Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels” #C19th #romanticism www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvr...

Bravo Andrew Miller, our #WalterScottPrize winner 2025, for his shortlisting in the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University! Listen to Andrew's story, RAIN: A HISTORY, broadcast live on BBC Sounds on Monday 15 Sept https://loom.ly/8gRonuM#WalterScottPrize #AndrewMiller #TheLandInWinter #BBCNSSA

Young writers, find inspiration at the #YoungWalterScottPrize website -- there's a list of writing competitions, samples of YWSP winning stories, and video interviews with tips from authors like Maggie O’Farrell, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin and Joseph O’Connor. https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w#YoungWalterScottPrize#youngwriters

Did you see that #RobertHarris, winner of the 2014 #WalterScottPrize, has a new novel AGRIPPA coming next year? After Julius Caesar's death, his nephew Octavius and Octavius's best friend Agrippa will find their lives changed forever. https://loom.ly/SI35VTo#RobertHarris#WalterScottPrize

"Elizabeth I was rarely painted without pearls." If you're fascinated by the Tudors, or you need ideas for this year's #YoungWalterScottPrize, read this piece about how the Tudors wore jewels, and what it meant. http://loom.ly/0DN_7sU#YoungWalterScottPrizevia @hmalagisi.bsky.social

WOMEN POETS WANTED For a new collection that "scans the breadth of lived experience across identities, cultures & generations reflecting the richness of women’s experiences today." Deadline: 12 Oct 25. For details/how to submit visit the RSF website: www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org/anthology-of...

It's not too late to sign up for tomorrow's Tudor Times summit - the first of three this autumn. The session will provide a fascinating insight into powerful Tudor marriages. Taking a look at the women as well, and how they operated in what was essentially a man's world.

🚨In one week🚨: Calling all Scottish BPOC writers: want to write with us? Don't miss our next write-in hosted on Discord: 📅12th September 12:30pm – 1:00pm BSL is available. Sign up & learn more: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/community-di...

All our #YoungWalterScottPrize winners, like Connie, get to see their stories in print in a special anthology. If you or someone you know is aged 11 to 19, why not enter this year's prize? See more at bit.ly/YWSPenter. Entries must be sent by post and received no later than 31 October.

Superb advice for young writers entering this year's #YoungWalterScottPrize from THE SAFEKEEP author Yael van der Wouden, who was shortlisted for the 2025 #WalterScottPrize. Remember the deadline for this year's #YoungWalterScottPrize for writers aged 11-19 is 31 October: visit bit.ly/YWSPenter

Are you re-reading Maggie O'Farrell's HAMNET? Shortlisted for the 2021 #WalterScottPrize, the book comes to screens this December, co-authored by Maggie with director Chloe Zhao. It's so exciting to see these first-look images Photo credit: Agata Gryzbowska / Copyright 2025 Focus Features LLC

Publishers, the #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction is now open for 2026! Remember the majority of the book must be set at least 60 years before its publication date, 1965 or earlier. Learn more and see past winners at www.walterscottprize.co.uk/about-the-prize #bookprize #booksky

"O'Farrell's language is haunting, and she draws you into a world of catastrophe from the very first page." HAMNET by Maggie O'Farrell, shortlisted for the 2021 #WalterScottPrize, gets a superb review here. Are you reading HAMNET, ahead of the screen adaptation?loom.ly/X6ixRSg

Writers 11 to 19, the #YoungWalterScottPrize is open for your entries! You could win a £500 travel grant, see your work in print, and visit one of the UK's best book festivals. Learn more at https://loom.ly/gr8Lmfk#YoungWalterScottPrize #ywsp #creativewriting #writingcompetition #AndrewMiller #SophieBerry

Writers, the #YoungWalterScottPrize is open for entries! You could win a travel grant plus a weekend in the Scottish Borders, like our 2024 winners Katherine White (left) and Sophie Berry (right), here at Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott. Learn more https://loom.ly/gr8Lmfk #creativewriting

The #Penzance Literary Festival hosts #AndrewMiller on 2 July, discussing his #WalterScottPrize winning THE LAND IN WINTER @sceptrebooks.bsky.social Get your ticket here loom.ly/Tv_vIZw Photo: Andrew Miller by Abbie Trayler-Smith #TheLandinWinter

"Flattered, but slightly daunted is probably the best description of my reaction to being asked to judge this wonderful prize." Don't miss this from one of our newest #WalterScottPrize judges, Rosamund de la Hey loom.ly/ZJaSkdo #histfic #historicalfiction #booktok