As any budding author who has tried will know, it’s not easy to get published. And that’s an understatement.

It just got a bit easier in the digital realm, however, as Amazon has extended its Kindle self-publishing facility from a US only affair to a worldwide one.
Amazon’s Digital Text Platform allows those with the rights [...]

Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, has hit out at critics of creative writing courses and those who claim that students cannot be taught to become authors. Currently over 50 universities offer MAs in creative writing and that excluding the many hundreds of other courses available at institutions of higher education.

With ‘names’ teaching [...]

The Derwent Poetry Festival launches nine new titles from Templar, including the four winning pamphlets from the 2009 Pamphlet Prizes, by David Morley, Nuala Ni Chonchuir, Paul Maddern and Dawn Wood. There are readings from the annual anthology poets and first collections launched by Maggie O’Dwyer and Katrina Naomi.

Nigel McLouglin, the new Editor [...]

Author Dan Brown is a friendly, normal guy — not the type you’d expect to have created the dark world of “The Da Vinci Code.” The book, published in 2003, has sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, and the 2006 movie starring Tom Hanks grossed over $758 million.

It also generated enormous controversy: Catholic [...]

Bridport Prize – the international competition for creative writing – has attracted a record number of entries this year.

Organisers at the town’s arts centre report 14,500 entries, up 40 per cent on 2008, with the renowned judges Ali Smith and Jackie Kay being a major factor.
In addition, online entries doubled indicating that the internet [...]

A CELEBRATION of the artistic talents in Lewes and surrounding areas begins on Saturday, August 29.

Artwave 2009 kicks off this weekend giving art lovers the chance to visit open houses across the district.
The event, which is organised by Lewes District Council, runs from August 29 to September 13 and will showcases creative works by [...]

College students from the three major island groups of the Philippines were the winners of an essay writing competition coinciding with World Trade Week in the United Kingdom.

“World Trade Week UK is an annual platform for a wide range of regional, national and international activities to demonstrate the vital importance of trade and the [...]

Just the mention of Dan Brown’s name was enough for the Vatican to ban Ron Howard from filming at any of Rome’s churches for the film version of Angels and Demons. So how did Ron deal with the ban, when he needed large amount of footage?

He had to resort to stealth measures. Howard sent [...]