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To celebrate one of my favourite writers joining Twitter I’ve succumbed to one of life’s simplest pleasures, making a list. If you’re not familiar with the micro blogging site, Twitter is a way of communicating in under a 140 characters, in real time. Its a great space for writers to connect with a wider audience, fellow writers and to follow agents and publishers.
Here’s the start of our Twitter list with inside info on their Twitter style. We hope to add to this list so please get in touch in the …
21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its future. His offer to buy and tear down a weathered tower block, making way for luxury apartments, will make each of its residents rich – if all agree to sell. But not everyone wants to leave; many of the residents have lived there for a lifetime, many of them are no longer young. As tensions rise among the once civil neighbours, one by one those who oppose …
A Chinese blog which was turned into a book and feature film has been published in English.
The Ai Mi blogs were first seen on the Chinese blogosphere where they became an instant hit with readers. The author, whose identity remains anonymous, won a traditional publishing contract and went on to sell a million copies of the book in China.
Published by Virago in the UK last month, Under the Hawthorn Tree tells the story of Jingqiu who falls passionately in love with a boy nicknamed ‘Old Three’. Jingqiu is from a …
Poet and fiction writer Kavita Jindal has won this year’s Haruki Murakami short story competition. Organised by Foyles, and judged by Haruki Murakami’s publisher, Liz Foley of Harvill Secker. Haruki picked a line from his latest work, 1Q84 and writers were invited to write a short story of no more than 1500 words with the opening line “Carrying a single bag, the young man is travelling alone at his whim with no particular destination in mind.”
Kavita Jindal’s entry was picked as the winner. You can read it here.
