Woman’s Weekly women’s magazine lifestyle director Geoffrey Palmer invites reader input. His remit includes recipes, craft makes, puzzles and books. Details: 161 MarshWall, LondonE14 9AP; tel: 0203148 500; email:WomansWeeklyPostBag@ti-media.com;website: www.womansweekly.com
YouWriteOn, the manuscript development community led by Bloomsbury and Orion, which offered critiques from publishers themselves for the highest rated stories, has closed. The website, www.youwriteon.com, remains online as an archive.
Kitty Flanagan has won the inaugural $5,000 Booktopia Favourite Australian Book award, for her book 488 Rulesfor Life. The award, which replaces Booktopia’s annual Australia’s Favourite Author poll, was determined by an online public vote. Kitty beat Rachael Johns’ Just OneWish and the young adult edition of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist ofAuschwitz. She sold 99,500 copies between October and December 2019.