Our weekly round-up of literary news here at Catalyst and beyond, is brought to you by our intern Naomi Valenzuela. Naomi is from Phoenix, Arizona and El Paso, Texas, and is majoring in Creative Writing and minoring in English & American Literature at the University of Texas, El Paso, with plans of working in the publishing business after graduation.
Editor’s Note: One additional item in this week’s news is that in honor of Women’s History Month, all titles by the talented women authors of Catalyst are on sale! Visit our shop to order.
The New York Times covers how bookstores are coping with the current events and how they adapted to keep their businesses going.
Read It Forward has some tips on how to lend a hand to your communities’ booksellers, and how to help authors and readers alike.
Also at The New York Times, new novelists share their promotion plans before the pandemic and what they are doing now to promote their books.
The Guardian shares this year’s winners of the Windham and Campbell prize and some of their thoughts on the current crisis.
Need more reading material for Women’s History Month? Lit Hub has got you covered with 10 new books about women’s history, dealing from generational stories to anti-immigration.
Brittle Paper has a compilation of helpful and/or motivational tweets of African authors and their reactions to the pandemic.
Over on Strange Horizons, there’s an issue titled “100 African Writers of SFF,” where Geoff Ryman interviews African writers while focusing on the cultural life of African cities.
If you’ve been at home with your children, reading can be a great pastime with them. Book Riot has a great article on what you can do when reading aloud to them.
Catalyst’s own David Muirhead (