This week at Midas: 13th-17th January
A brand-new podcast season, judging panel reveals, exciting new partnerships and a huge LBF announcement! Here’s what’s been happening at Midas this week:
Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2025 Judging Panel Announced?
This week the 2025 judging panel for the world’s largest and most prestigious literary prize for young writers – the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize – was announced, ahead of the longlist announcement on Thursday 23 January. Worth ￡20,000, this global accolade recognises exceptional literary talent aged 39 or under, celebrating the international world of fiction in all its forms including poetry, novels, short stories and drama. last year's prize was awarded to Caleb Azumah Nelson for his novel?Small Worlds.
Chaired by?Namita Gokhale, the multi-award winning Indian writer of more than twenty five works of fiction and non-fiction (Paro: Dreams of Passion,?Things to Leave Behind) and the co-director of Jaipur Literature Festival, the panel also includes –
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·?????? Professor Daniel Williams,?Director of the Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales and Co-Director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales at Swansea University
·?????? Jan Carson, award winning novelist and writer (The Fire Starters, The Raptures)
·?????? Mary Jean Chan, Costa Book Award winning author?and former Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize shortlistee?(Flèche,?Bright Fear)
·?????? Max Liu, literary critic and?contributor?to the?Financial Times,?the i?and?BBC Radio 4
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Bookshop.org and Women’s Prize Trust join forces for International Women’s Day
On Thursday,?Bookshop.org?unveiled an exciting new charitable partnership with the?Women’s Prize Trust, to mark International Women’s Day. Thanks to the charity drive,?10% of every book sale?made on?Bookshop.org?the weekend of 8–9 March 2025 will be donated to the charity, while also supporting independent bookshops.
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LBF Announces Seminar Highlights and Charity of the Year for 2025
On Thursday,?The London Book Fair?unveiled a flurry of Seminar Programme highlights, including David Shelley,?James Daunt, and Merky Books authors?William Rayfet Hunter?and?Taylor-Dior Rumble?among the keynotes on its popular Main Stage.
Meanwhile,?The Reading Agency?has been appointed as the Charity of the Year for 2025, following an exceptionally strong year for applications.
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Windham-Campbell Prizes New Podcast Season
This week the Windham-Campbell Prizes have announced that they will be launching a new season of the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast on January 29 2025, as part of an ongoing partnership with literary website LitHub.
The new season will comprise of four episodes featuring Windham-Campbell Prize alumni: André Alexis, author of the critically acclaimed series The Quincunx Cycle (Canada/Trinidad & Tobago, Fiction, 2017), Olivia Laing, award-winning novelist of Crudo and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (United Kingdom, Nonfiction, 2018), Dionne Brand,University Research Chair at the University of Guelph and Toronto’s former Poet Laureate (Canada/Trinidad & Tobago, Fiction, 2021), and Helen Garner, award-winning author of Monkey Grip and one of Australia’s most cherished writers(Australia, Nonfiction, 2016).
Hosted by Mike Kelleher, Director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes, each episode is a conversation centred around a work chosen by each recipient, where they also share insights into their writing lives and careers.
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