Inklings shortlisted for FutureBook Awards!
We’re pretty excited to share the news that: our Inklings series has been shortlisted for the Discover Award at 2021’s FutureBook Awards. More on the shortlist from The Bookseller:
The Working-Class Writers Festival, spearheaded by Natasha Carthew, is one of the projects up for the Discover category, a new award for 2021. WriteNow, Penguin Random House’s mentoring scheme for writers from underrepresented backgrounds, is also shortlisted as is 404Ink Inklings, pitched as “big ideas in small books” and I Belong Here, a foundation inspired by Anita Sethi’s book of the same name charting her tour across northern England.
Other nominations for Discover include Bad Form Review, a literary journal by and about Black, Asian, and racialised community writers, founded by Amy Mae Baxter, as well as the Spare Zoom Project, which matches publishing hopefuls with hosts in the industry, founded by publisher and editor James Spackman. Finishing off the shortlist is Lit in Colour, run by PRH and the Runnymede Trust, which recently revealed only 0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour.
It may be a cliché to say: it’s just an honour to be nominated. But truly: everyone else on this shortlist is a powerhouse organisation or initiative who we greatly admire, so it really is very cool to see our little series in these ranks. And s/o to our Inklings authors whose amazing work made this happen: Emily Garside, Casci Ritchie, Liam Konemann, James Coe, Katie Goh, Arusa Qureshi, Maud Rowell and Anne East.
