AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoPublishing & Adaptation: Staunton’s Off Center is turning Kalela Williams’s novel Tangleroot into a shadow puppet stage piece, with readings and music. Books & Culture: Jesse Bernard’s memoir Escaping Babylon uses a mixtape-like structure to trace the roots and branches of Black British music. Poetry Day Ireland: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s poem “The House Remembered” anchors Poetry Day Ireland’s 2026 theme, Home. Literary Community: Eckhart Teen Library’s 2026 teen poetry contest winners will be published in an anthology. Fiction Spotlight: A Bay Area Video Coalition feature spotlights Tamika Thompson’s The Curse of Hester Gardens, blending ghost-story elements with systemic oppression and a scandal. Health & Science (publishing-adjacent): Sanofi’s venglustat gets US priority review for type 3 Gaucher disease; Basilea wins $13.3M from BARDA to advance an oral antibiotic; and VERAXA secures $27.5M in senior secured notes to push next-gen cancer therapies. AI & Reading: A report questions how reliable AI text detectors are, as demand for authorship transparency keeps rising.
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