The closing date for entries for this art book prize is 31 July. Kaho Kojima’s ‘A Drop of Cloud’ won the 2011 Exhibition prize.
Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook 2014
This indispensable guide to the publishing industry is now available, also a Children’s Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook is due to be published in August. Orders before 31 July carry a 25% discount.
Book clinic
We’re holding a ‘book clinic’ at Gloucester Green Market, Oxford, next Thursday, 9.00 am to 2.00 pm. If you have a publishing project which you would like to discuss, do call by our stand.
Self Publishing – Lancashire
Self Publishing – Rugby
YouCaxton will be starting regular book clinics in Rugby during 2015. This will provide local writers with the opportunity to discuss their projects in person with one of our editorial staff. We are particularly interested in hearing from writers of books with connections to Warwickshire.
Oxford Self Publishing Workshop
We are running a two-hour workshop to help writers to plan their self publishing project in the Plowman Room at Oxford Town Hall on 6th June, 5.30-7.30.
Sections will include:
*What are your objectives
*Planning the publishing process (activities, time and cost)
*Managing risk (what can possibly go wrong?)
*Managing expectations (the worst case scenario)
*Review (a few real case studies)
This will be an interactive workshop in which participants will be invited to think about their publishing project and share their experience.
The workshop will be chaired by the writer Bob Fowke and will be introduced by a brief talk about the history of self publishing.
Contact us at info@youcaxton.co.uk for further details
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Nerida’s body is to be disinterred in order to ascertain if he was poisoned by orders of the Pinochet regime rather than having died from a heart attack while suffering from cancer of the prostate. Suspicions were first voiced by Neruda’s chauffeur and although they are not backed by Neruda’s widow they have not died down. It is unclear if a post mortem will be able to establish definitively how he died. The Wikipedia article on Neruda gives as good background as any and there’s a piece on the decision to disinter in today’s Guardian.
Jeff Hill
Jeff Hill’s talk took place on 26 March in our Bishop’s Castle shop/office, having been delayed. It was renamed ‘Writing the Game: in praise of masculinity’ and took the audence on an erudite and entertaining tour of various books that have used sport as their dominant theme over the last two hundred years. It was remarkable that sport could be made more so much more interesting than is usually the case by someone who has, by his own admission, no interest in sport for its own sake.