The Latest Breaking News from Kate Clanchy

Washington (AFP) - It's a profession which is increasingly under the spotlight as the culture wars rumble on: "sensitivity readers" -- editors who identify insensitivities or stereotypes in manuscripts -- are becoming a lightning rod for the publishing industry.

The writer, president of the SoA for nine years before he stood down in March, claims the organisation needs ‘investigation from outside’

Kate Clanchy clashes again / Wolf Alice hunt for jet to make Glastonbury / Ben Wallace has an eye on the prize / Talulah Riley puckers up

Kate Clanchy’s memoir about teaching won the Orwell prize. Then, a year later, it became the centre of a storm that would engulf the lives of the author, her critics and dozens of people in the book trade. So what happened?

Move comes in the wake of writer’s controversial comments about Kate Clanchy’s book Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me

Swift Press has acquired Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me after its author and original publisher Picador ‘parted company’ last month following widespread criticism of the book

Publishers and other institutions are turning cowardly and brittle when faced with social media frenzies

Author whose Orwell prize-winning Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me sparked online controversy last summer will no longer be published by Pan Macmillan