Weekly Roundup: February 3rd-9th

Happy monday from Bologna Global Rights Exchange!

This week's selection of articles and blog posts is definitely exciting and thought provoking. We hope you will find some time in your busy schedule to brows through them and get an idea of how the publishing industry is developing and what are the latest news related to the field.

In the meantime, with the start of February, it means the Bologna Book Fair gets closer and closer (we might have to start a countdown soon).

Buona giornata! 

• YA Book Prize 2025 submissions open

• Giller Prize Breaks Ties with Scotiabank - Publishers Lunch

• MyPoolitzer launches AI writing competition with Quantifiction and Blue Denim Press

• Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2025 shortlist revealed

 

• Simon & Schuster's flagship US imprint won't require authors to obtain blurbs for their books

• Authors Guild Sue State of Idaho over Book Banning Law

• The Bookseller - News - Jamie Oliver fries to the top of the charts

• Jeanette Winterson hits out at UK government over AI plans, arguing books shouldn't be 'fodder for Big Tech'

• AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library

 

• I Want to Talk to You by Diana Evans review – a fascinating overview of a writer’s evolution

• Orphans, Institutions, and Adventures Out West: Five Books Featuring Unconventional Families ‹ Literary Hub

• The war diary of late Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina, introduced by Margaret Atwood

 

• Lettura è comunità, ma occhio alla pressione performativa sui social. La libreria? Uno spazio di libertà

• Premio Strega 2025: in arrivo un nuovo riconoscimento dedicato alla saggistica. Tutte le novità

• Feltrinelli compie 70 anni: il 10 febbraio, a Roma, la Giornata Gattopardesca, poi un tour di eventi anche all'estero - ilLibraio.it

• Biblioteche coraggiose alla riscossa - la Repubblica

 

- Lara Abrahams