ICAST Presents Its New Product Showcase Category Awards for 2026Recognizing 39 new products in rods, reels, electronics, watercraft, lures, apparel, accessories and tackle storage. The biggest accomplishments included Garmin’s new LiveScope 2 HD, three separate wins tied to the Urchin Bait trend, and multiple category wins from Symantec and St. Croix. But perhaps the biggest
wWhen Patrice Lawrence got the call to become Britain’s next Children’s Laureate, her first reaction was disbelief. “I was absolutely shocked,” she says, laughing. She’s just beginning to process what it means to join a lineage that includes Jacqueline Wilson, Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen, Julia Donaldson, Mallory Blackman and, most recently, Frank Cottrell-Boyce. “So many
Leading literary magazine Granta will no longer publish the winning entries of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize after widespread allegations of the use of AI were made against one of this year’s winners. The magazine said it would no longer engage in “external publishing partnerships” over which it has no editorial control. In a