The internet has made journalism a two-way conversation. At Guardian Books, we have enjoyed the most joyful side of this – we are privileged to get regular contributions from a knowledgeable, diverse and engaged community with expertise in a vast range of subjects. But our resources are not infinite, and there are so many more areas we’d love to cover – so we are teaming up with some of the sites we like best around the world to share their enthusiasm and knowledge with our readers.
The Guardian books network will offer a curated selection of literary content to complement our coverage, and to give our partner sites the benefit of our international reach. Our launch partners include translation-dedicated journal Asymptote Journal, US literary sites Electric Literature, Literary Hub and Blunderbuss Magazine, Canadian site Hazlitt, literary magazines Tin House and Public Books, the Australian journal Kill Your Darlings, and blogs MsAfropolitan, Brittle Paper and Little Library Café.
Essays on what writers’ lives are like in countries around the world, flash fiction, translated extracts from multiple languages, blogs about African feminism and culture, the story behind the story of creating a novel, interviews with bookshops, recipes inspired by fiction, columns about notebooks, and literary mixtapes – these are just some of the treats we have in store. Stay tuned!
- As always, we would love to hear from you. If you run a literary site or blog and would like to put yourself forward, please nominate it below. And if you’re a fan of particular site that you think other Guardian Books readers would love, do nominate them too. We’re open for all suggestions but we’re especially interested in sites from the rest of Europe and from outside the English-speaking world – do bear in mind that, at this stage, they have to be in English.
