Hinton Publishing is providing a place for Seattle writers with marginalized experiences to publish their books. Marcus Green and long-time librarian Maggie Block joined forces to create Hilton ...

Boston poet laureate Porsha Olayiwola isn’t just a wordsmith—she’s a community builder. Her latest project, justBook-ish, an independent bookstore in Dorchester, Massachusetts, is as much about ...

Some literary critics receive widespread recognition, while others, despite their significant contributions, remain underappreciated. W. Lawrence Hogue, who recently retired from the University of ...

Abrams has announced the inaugural Abrams Amplify Award, a contest created to “honor and uplift the voices of children’s book creators from marginalized communities.” The contest, which begins on ...

Last November, my home state of Iowa saw a flurry of activity relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), both positive and negative. A group of plaintiffs filed suit against the state over a ...

If you’re keeping up with the headlines, you know that book bans are on the rise across the country. According to advocacy group PEN America, book bans in public schools increased 33 percent last ...

How much drama could possibly erupt on Goodreads, an online platform where people make reading lists and talk about books they’ve read? As it turns out, a whole lot. The Amazon-owned book ratings ...

A few months after posting a message on Goodreads about the imminent release of a new book, Indie author Beth Black woke up to an all-caps ransom email from an anonymous server, demanding that she ...

MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATES, November 3, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Steven Nickodemski, the author of ‘The Marginalized Passenger’, a self-published ...

In a recent study, a team of faculty and students in the University of Wisconsin Department of Life Sciences Communication revealed the absence of Black and Latinx communities’ perspectives in ...