A proposal for an anonymous exhibition of short stories, mixing amateurs and big names, has made Susan Hill very, very angry. It sounds like a literary version of the Royal College of Art's RCA Secret postcard sale, which so far as I know doesn't generate any great outrage among artists. But when the names behind the works are revealed there, Tracey Emin has the comfort of knowing that her work will re-sell for a lot of money; order will be restored. Hill is offered no such comfort.

• Still making money from literature: the owners of the copyright in Sherlock Holmes. Oh, and the people who claim to own it but don't. Whichever those turn out to be.

• Garth Risk Hallberg proposes a tournament of literary prizewinners. It wouldn't be nearly as bloody as the accompanying tournament of literary prize sponsors.

• The other Winston Churchill was also a novelist.