The next quarterly Henshaw Competition, for short stories up to 1,000 words, closes on 30 June. There are prizes of £100, £50 and £25, and the entry fee is £5. Website: www.henshawpress.co.uk
Newsquest announced it was launching free weekly the Burnley Star, the name of a former evening title last published in 1983.
2018 Pulitzer Prize winners: fiction, Less, Andrew Sean Greer; history, The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea, Jack E Davis; biography, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Fraser; poetry, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016, Frank Bidart, FSG; general non-fiction, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, James Forman Jr.