arm of the online retailer Bookshop recently surpassed a total of £2 million (approximately $2.7 million) in money earned for independent bookstores.
Among the most valuable items is a broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence. Later this year the personal collection of rare book dealer William Reese, who died in 2018, will go up for auction and is expected to fetch between $12 million and $18 million. At his new firm, Bogaards Public Relations LLC, he will “help writers broaden their readership through careful analysis of their work and by developing long arc campaigns for their books and identities.” ( Shelf Awareness) Paul Bogaards is venturing into independent publicity right on the heels of his retirement from Knopf, where he served as executive vice president, publishing and marketing, and deputy publisher. Each fellow will also meet with Gay monthly and receive up to $15,000 in services from Substack, such as editorial support and design assistance. Three writers will receive a $25,000 stipend to develop and publish a Substack newsletter. Roxane Gay has partnered with Substack to launch the Joel Gay Creative Fellowships, named in honor of her late brother. or Ireland and comes with a purse of £25,000 (approximately $34,357). Eliot Foundation, the prize is open to poetry collections published in the U.K. Eliot Prize is C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor, which chair of the judges Glyn Maxwell praised as a “blazing book of rage and light, a grand opera of liberation from the shadows of indifference and oppression.” Administered by the T. Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines-publishing reports, literary dispatches, academic announcements, and more-for all the news that creative writers need to know.