If you have an annual subscription to one of our Listings databases (click here to find out more), then you’ll be pleased to know that the publishing industry contacts from the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2024 and the Children’s Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2024 have now been added and are fully searchable.
And while we're here, a reminder of the recent display changes and extra functionality available within the Listings area of the site.
About the 2024 Yearbook data
A quick run-through of why our Listings subscriptions remain the ultimate database of publishing industry contacts:
- 1000s of contacts, including online-only entries
- 342 literary agencies
- 1239 book and audio publishers
- 120 self-publishing providers
- 736 magazines and newspapers
- 116 creative writing courses
- 452 awards, prizes and festivals
All fully searchable, and with functionality in place to bookmark and annotate entries.
Display changes:
- More entries now appear on each page, with an entry summary on display too.
- When you run a search or apply a filter, the search results pages now display the number of results at the top of the list (e.g. Page 1 of 197 results, as in the image below).
- We now offer the option to choose whether to sort entries alphabetically or by relevance. Entries are sorted alphabetically by default, but when you have run a search (rather than simply applying a filter), sorting by relevance will potentially be useful in that it uses the contents of the entry to determine how relevant each entry is to the search terms you’ve entered, and sorts the entries accordingly. This sorting option can be found on the right-hand side of the page along with…
- … if you are a WAYB+ subscriber, the number of entries that appear within each yearbook (CWAYB or WAYB). This display and the related filter will help you more easily identify and narrow in on entries which relate to children’s writing, as opposed to more general entries.
Improvements to filters:
- Applying and clearing filters is now much easier. Clicking on the up/down arrow to the right of ‘Filter by entry type’ and ‘Filter by genre(s)’ opens/closes the list of available filters, which can then be ticked as required, before pressing ‘Apply’. Filters can either be removed individually (by clicking on the cross next to the individual filter) or across the board (by clicking the ‘Clear all’ button).
- As you’ll see from the image above, it’s now possible to filter by a specific genre, e.g. ‘Fiction > Historical’ or ‘Non-fiction > Travel’. This obviously applies most to Publishers and Literary agencies. (Note: If you tick the top-level ‘Fiction’ and then press ‘Apply’, it will bring up entries with ALL fiction genres: you can then either press ‘Clear all’ to cancel all these filters or clock on the cross next to each individual filter to remove them. Ditto if you tick the top-level ‘Non-fiction’ box and then press ‘Apply’.) The previous functionality where a user could use the ‘Search’ field to search for mentions of genres within entries also still applies.
- It’s now also possible to filter by entry type and by sub-category across the whole Listings database. For example, this means you can focus in on ‘Regional newspapers UK and Ireland’ in Scotland, or ‘Literary agencies overseas’ in the USA, or specifically on ‘Major regional libraries’. (Note: if you are filtering by a sub-category, e.g. ‘Literary agencies UK and Ireland’, there is no need to tick the top-level ‘Literary agencies’ box. Just tick the category/sub-category you actually want to review and press ’Apply’.)
Self-publishing providers
- The same improvements to display, the ability to sort entries, and functionality around applying/clearing filters and searches have also been applied to the self-publishing provider section of the site.
Hopefully this all makes sense and you will see these changes as an improvement to this part of the site. Do let us know by email (writersandartists@bloomsbury.com) if anything’s unclear, or if you have any suggestions for further improvements.
James
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