Helena Towers
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Comms and Events Manager at The Women’s Prize Trust.
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Lit Hub
8 months ago
UK’s Women’s Prize Trust has announced the winners of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction.
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Here are the winners of the 2025 Women’s Prizes in Fiction and Nonfiction.
Today, the UK’s Women’s Prize Trust announced the winner of the 30th Women’s Prize for Fiction, which “champions excellence, originality, and accessibility in women’s writing,” and is awarded to th…
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Kit de Waal
12 months ago
‘Who tells the story determines the story that gets told.’ In 2017 Common People, an anthology of working class memoir was our attempt to offer alternative narratives. So much yet to be done. See the work of
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social
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Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/feb/21/working-class-creatives-dont-stand-a-chance-in-uk-today-leading-artists-warn
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Helena Towers
Women's Prize
about 1 year ago
The 2025
#WomensPrize
for Non-Fiction longlist. We cannot wait to hear what you think of these 16 incredible books!
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Helena Towers
Women's Prize
about 1 year ago
We are so excited to announce that the third
#WomensPrize
Book Club event will be with bestselling author
#PaulaHawkins
, this April!
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Kit de Waal
about 1 year ago
Stop your Monday scrolling!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Women's Prize
about 1 year ago
One more sleep until the
#WomensPrize
Book Club with Sarah Waters🤩 The livestream of tomorrow's event will be available to ticket holders to watch on catch-up for month after the live event – just book your tickets before 4pm tomorrow!
bit.ly/SarahWatersB...
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Women’s Prize Book Club with Sarah Waters - Women's Prize
In conversation with Simon Savidge Dear Book Lovers, We are thrilled to invite you to the second Women’s Prize Book Club event! The Women’s Prize Trust is partnering with Storyhouse […]
https://bit.ly/SarahWatersBookclub
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Helena Towers
Bookshop.org UK
about 1 year ago
📣 To celebrate
#InternationalWomensDay2025
, we've teamed up with the Women's Prize Trust
@womensprize.bsky.social
to donate 10% of every book sale to their important work in improving access to books and creating equity within writing communities 📚
uk.bookshop.org/lists/women-...
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Women's Prize
about 1 year ago
Calling all
#lastminute
writers! This is your official reminder that this is your last weekend to write your
#Discoveries
submission⏰ Learn more about Discoveries and enter your writing, here:
www.womensprize.com/discoveries
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Eleanor Anstruther
about 1 year ago
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Join Elizabeth Kuligowski and Preethi Nair and me for this discussion on non-traditional publishing, chaired by literary agent Jamilah Ahmed.
#BookSky
@womensprize.bsky.social
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Publishing Your Own Way - Women's Prize
Whilst traditional publishing still dominates bookshops and bestseller lists, many writers are increasingly finding alternative ways to reach readers, so they can earn an income and feel empowered to ...
https://womensprize.com/event/publishing-your-own-way/
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Kit de Waal
about 1 year ago
Writing West Midlands has some great affordable writing courses including From Pitch to Publication live zoom sessions starting in January. Details of all courses at
writingwestmidlands.org
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Writing West Midlands - Supporting Creative Writers | UK
The literature development agency for the region, funded by Arts Council England. We work across the West Midlands with writers aged 8+, and run Birmingham Literature Festival.
https://www.writingwestmidlands.org
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Anna Pallai
about 1 year ago
Some of my (non-work) books of the year - including 3 from this year’s
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Bit sad that other people have snow and I’ve just got relentless South London drizzle…
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