Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship for Early-Career Fiction Writers
www2.fundsforngos.org – Saturday September 12, 2026
Deadline: 13-Oct-26
The Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship Program offers a year-long mentorship, classes, professional development opportunities, and a $2,000 stipend to an early-career fiction writer whose work explores experiences of embodied difference.
The fellowship supports writers who have not yet published a book and whose fiction examines the complexities of inhabiting bodies of difference. The programme is open to writers worldwide, regardless of nationality or country of residence.
About the Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship Program
The fellowship is designed to support an emerging fiction writer in developing their craft and advancing a story collection or novel in progress.
BBC Writers Open Call - An Important Update
bbc.co.uk – Friday September 11, 2026
At BBC Writers we're always thinking about how we can make our writer development opportunities more accessible and easier to navigate. As part of our ongoing commitment to discovering and developing new writing talent from across the UK and Republic of Ireland, we're making some changes to the way writers apply for our professional development opportunities in 2026/27.
A Single Point of Entry
The Open Call 26/27 will be a single application route for writers applying to three of our regular talent development programmes:
All applicants will automatically be considered for our Voices and Scripted opportunities as usual, but this year applicants who identify as deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent can also indicate if they would like to also be considered for the Writers’ Access Group.
This single point of entry is designed to make the process clearer and more accessible, while ensuring that we continue to identify and support a broad range of talented writers.
Fresh Words Announces Three International Calls for Submissions for 2026 Anthologies
firstwriter.com – Friday September 11, 2026
Fresh Words – An International Literary Magazine has opened three new calls for submissions for forthcoming global anthologies, inviting poets, flash‑fiction writers, playwrights, and theatre‑makers worldwide to contribute original work. All opportunities are free to enter, open internationally, and accept submissions in English.
The City in Three Lines – Urban Haiku Anthology
Writers are invited to capture the fleeting moments of city life in haiku—everything from rain‑slick streets and crowded buses to rooftop quiet, urban wildlife, and the unexpected beauty found in everyday places. Submit: Up to 7 haiku Deadline: September 30, 2026 Email: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com Publication: October 2026
Tiny Revolutions – Flash Fiction Anthology
This collection seeks 100–300‑word stories exploring small acts of rebellion, courage, resistance, or transformation. Submissions may be contemporary, historical, speculative, surreal, comic, or experimental. Length: 100–300 words Deadline: September 30, 2026 Email: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com
Publishing Industry Sales Up in First Half of 2026
publishersweekly.com – Thursday September 10, 2026
Helped by an especially strong June, in which total sales were up 11% over a year ago, revenue for the 1,416 publishers that report results to AAP’s StatShot program increased 3.9% for the first half of 2026.
Adult fiction sales were up 8.2% for the six-month period, driven by a 19.3% jump in June thanks in large part to strong sales of Theo of Golden, released in October 2025, which sold more than 55,000 copies, according to Circana BookScan. Children’s/YA fiction sales rose 1.7% in June and 2.6% for the first half of the year.
Adult nonfiction sales also rallied in June, up 7.1%, but sales were still down 3.5% for the year-to-date. The much smaller children’s/YA nonfiction category had a 38.3% increase in June sales, and a 24.3% gain for the first six months of the year.
Major UK and US Christian publishers unite in landmark deal
premierchristian.news – Thursday September 3, 2026
Two of the Christian publishing world’s most established names are joining forces after UK based SPCK Group acquired US publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., creating what the companies describe as the world’s leading independent Christian publisher of theology, biblical studies and Christian trade books.
The deal, announced on 2 September, brings together organisations with more than 300 years of combined publishing history and a backlist of more than 5,000 titles.
Under the agreement, SPCK will provide sales, marketing and distribution for Eerdmans titles in the UK and other international markets, while Eerdmans will provide the same services for SPCK Group books in the United States and Canada.
The Ugly Review Opens Submissions for Issue II, Themed “Metamorphosis” | Submit by September 15, 2026
brittlepaper.com – Thursday August 27, 2026
The Ugly Collective has opened its call for submissions for the second issue of The Ugly Review, themed “Metamorphosis.” The editors are seeking fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and photography/art that explores transformation in all its diverse, weird, beautiful, violent, and quiet forms.
The theme spans four broad directions: physical transformation tied to the body, illness, migration, gender, or aging; inner transformation rooted in grief, love, faith, or unlearning; social and environmental transformation touching cities, ecosystems, technology, and revolution; and magical or speculative transformation drawing on myth, portals, and the uncanny. The editors are especially interested in voices from Africa and the diaspora, and work that engages language, culture, and spirituality in new ways.
HarperCollins Launches Manga Imprint
publishersweekly.com – Tuesday August 25, 2026
Amid a momentous week for American manga publishers, which included both the American Manga Awards and annual AnimeNYC convention, HarperCollins announced the launch of a new manga imprint, Kazé.
The publisher is rolling out the imprint in partnership with the existing Kazé publishers in France and Germany, which distribute manga for the European market and were acquired by HarperCollins last year. Kazé US will build on that brand for American readers of all ages.
In the announcement, HarperCollins called Kazé “a collaborative, creator-focused imprint dedicated to publishing the latest and most exciting manga, manhwa, and manhua for English-language readers,” meaning it will publish Korean and Chinese comics in addition to Japanese.
The imprint will officially launch in fall 2027 under the leadership of HarperAlley and Kazé publisher Andrew Arnold. HarperAlley launched in 2020 with a focus on graphic novels for children, before expanding into adult graphic novels, manga, and manhwa in 2024.
The Vanishing Male Novelist
mindingthecampus.org – Tuesday August 25, 2026
Here’s an interesting question: how many white American men born after 1984 have had a literary piece published in the New Yorker? The answer is zero. How did we get here, and who let this happen?
Every literary generation used to produce its Roth, Updike, Bellow, Wolfe, McCarthy, or Franzen. Today’s literary establishment shows no interest in producing young men of comparable prominence, especially if they’re straight and white. This is not a new or underdiagnosed problem; in fact, it appears to be a point of pride for the new generation of literary critics and publishers alike. Penguin Random House has no problem publishing its demographics yearly and celebrating the slow but consistent decline in white editorial staff.
Acclaimed novelist Joyce Carol Oates had no issue tweeting that “a friend who is a literary agent told me that he cannot even get editors to read first novels by young white male writers, no matter how good; they are just not interested.” And, without a hint of irony, followed up that statement with “this is heartbreaking for writers who may, in fact, be brilliant, & critical of their own ‘privilege.’” Although she is willing to recognize that young white men may be talented and barred from literary opportunities, she cannot help but equalize the statement with ludicrous notions of “privilege” where there is anything but.
Author invitation scams: How writers can spot fake offers
bitdefender.com – Tuesday August 25, 2026
Scammers are targeting authors with fake invitations to appear at well-known book festivals, conferences, podcasts and radio programs.
They impersonate real organizations and employees, praise the author’s work and, eventually, demand payment for an appearance, promotion or special placement.
Key takeaways
- Scammers are impersonating real book festivals, employees, interviewers and literary organizations
- The initial invitation may contain personalized praise gathered from online reviews, summaries and author websites
- The scams usually lead to a request for a fee for participation, promotion, placement, production or another supposed benefit
- Authors should verify invitations through the organization’s official website and contact details before responding, paying or sharing files
Real book festivals are being impersonated
Earlier this year, the Edinburgh International Book Festival has warned authors about fraudulent emails inviting them to its August festival.
Call for Submissions: Dominion II Seeks Speculative Fiction of Black Resistance | Submit by February 28, 2027
brittlepaper.com – Tuesday August 11, 2026
Crowne Books, the Black woman-owned independent press behind the acclaimed 2020 anthology Dominion, has opened submissions for its long-awaited sequel, Dominion II: Speculative Stories of Black Resistance from Africa and the African Diaspora. The anthology is edited by the award-winning duo Olivia Nightingale and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, who previously partnered on Dominion and on Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Tordotcom, 2022), the latter of which earned an NAACP Image Award nomination.
Where the first Dominion asked what the legacy and future of Africa and its diaspora might look like, Dominion II poses a sharper question: how do we fight for the future while holding fiercely onto the past? Editors are calling for boundary-pushing, unapologetic Black speculative fiction and poetry grounded in real-world liberation histories work that carries Black joy, communal defiance, and untamed magic across genres like Sword & Soul, Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, Afropantheology, Horror Noire, Steamfunk and Dieselfunk, Black Cli-fi, and more. Stories engaging the global climate crisis are of particular interest to the editors.
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