News from Sarah Painter
-
Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize
This one’s just for the ladies, I’m afraid. The prize is £1000 plus an editorial report and ‘advice about publication from the judges’, Sophie Hannah and Professor Janet Todd. The five short-listed entrants get a ritzy prize-giving dinner at Lucy Cavendish College on Thursday 9 June. Any genre is accepted,…
-
Soon, my pretty, soon
I feel dreamy today. I have a ton of work on my desk (not literally, that would be bad), a mundane really-must-do list, and the WIP is batting its eyelashes at me, but I’m not really here. My mind certainly isn’t, anyway. It’s floating on the tide to this magical…
-
Sad news: Diana Wynne Jones
I heard some sad news (via Neil Gaiman’s Twitter feed) on the weekend. The wonderful writer Diana Wynne Jones passed away, aged 76. Where I grew up we had a very small library. I was a voracious reader and by the time I had finished primary school I’d exhausted the…