English PEN, has appointed Jo Glanville as its new Director following Jonathan Heawood’s departure to a new role after six years in post. Jo joins the charity from Index on Censorship where she has served as an award-winning Editor since 2006. Her previous roles include BBC current affairs producer for Radio 4 and the World Service. She will take up the Directorship of English PEN on 3 September.
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The turning point for libel laws?
The Defamation Bill, announced in last week’s Queen’s Speech, has been published. Click here for coverage – http://www.libelreform.org/news/524-libel-reform-is-in-the-queens-speech
The Libel Reform Campaign, consisting of nearly 100 organisations and 60,000 individuals, has been calling for this since December 2009. Now the work begins to examine whether the reforms will do away with the bullying effects of the current laws. The campaign continues to fight for:
- a public interest defence so people can defend themselves unless the claimant can show they have been malicious or reckless;
- a strong test of harm that strikes out claims unless the claimant can demonstrate serious and substantial harm and they have a real prospect of vindication;
- a restriction on corporations’ ability to use the libel laws to silence criticism;
- provisions for online hosts and intermediaries, who are not authors nor traditional publishers.
So what exactly is ideas4writers?
Whenever a writer has a book published, everyone wants to know ‘Where do you get your ideas from?’ So for all those aspiring writers in search of great ideas, we created ideas4writers – the ideas and inspiration website.
You’ll find more than 5,000 ready-made ideas, which you can use immediately, adapt as you wish, or use as a starting point for your own ideas. Novels, short stories, children’s books, articles, screenplays, stage plays, comedy, horror, science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, thrillers, poetry, and more – they’re all covered.
For non-fiction writers, we have thousands of newsworthy anniversaries for you to write about: events, discoveries, inventions, births and deaths, all listed months in advance.
If you’ve always wanted to write a book but don’t have the time, we’ll show you how to write exactly the same book in just days or weeks, not months or years (without skimping on quality).
Reprinted by kind permission of www.ideas4writers.co.uk
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