Helen Donohoe on the importance of YA Fiction

What makes YA fiction stand out? Helen Donohoe writes about the magic of this genre in this blog post…  ‘Young..

London’s Bookshops: Children’s Bookshop

We’re kickstarting our London’s Bookshops feature this year with a visit to Muswell Hill in North London. The Children’s Bookshop..

Guy Ware, Winner of the London Short Story Prize 2018

Launched in 2013, the London Short Story Prize seeks to discover, publish and profile the best stories and writers coming..

Young People’s Laureate for London Tour
17-22 October 2018

Credit to Hayley Madden, Tabatha Fireman and Kevin Lake for these fantastic photographs taken in Brent, Bromley, Kingston, Sutton, Redbridge,..

The rise of the short story

Short stories are in the ascendant. As a literary genre it flourished in the nineteenth century, was popular amongst modernist..

London Writers’ Week 2018 is GO!

London Writers’ Week is an annual week long celebrating of new writing in the UK. The week is overseen by..