- 2024 Apr 24
Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist
Anne Enright and V. V. Ganeshananthan are among the six authors shortlisted for one of the U.K.'s most prestigious literary prizes for women authors.
Kotynska Wins Drahomán Prize
Polish scholar Katarzyna Kotynska has won the 2023 Drahomán Prize for her translation of Ukrainian writer and literary critic Oksana Zabuzhko's book 'The Longest Journey.'
- 2024 Apr 23
NYPL Cullman Fellows
Authors Heather Clark, Isabella Hammad, Leslie Jamison, and Eric Orner are among the New York Public Library’s 2024–2025 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
O. Henry Prize Winners
Jai Chakrabarti, Kate DiCamillo, and Allegra Goodman are among the winners of this year's O. Henry Prizes for Short Fiction.
- 2024 Apr 22
L.A. Times Book Prize Winners
Roxanna Asgarian, Claire Dederer, Ed Park, and Ivy Pochoda are among the winners of this year's Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.
- 2024 Apr 19
Joudah Wins $100K Jackson Poetry Prize
Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah has won the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize, awarded annually by Poets & Writers to "an American poet of exceptional talent." This year's judges were Natalie Diaz, Gregory Pardlo, and Diane Seuss.
- 2024 Apr 18
NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and C Pam Zhang are among the five finalists for the New York Public Library's 24th annual Young Lions Fiction Award.
- 2024 Apr 17
2024 AJL Award Winners
The Association of Jewish Libraries has announced the winners of its Judaica Reference and Bibliography Awards.
- 2024 Apr 16
Kessler Wins Sami Rohr Prize
Oren Kessler's 'Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict' is the winners of the the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature's nonfiction award.
CrimeFest Award Shortlists
The finalists for the U.K's crime book awards have been announced.
- 2024 Apr 15
Gotham Book Prize Finalists Announced
Tyriek White and Colson Whitehead are among the 11 finalists for this year's Gotham Prize, which honors books set in or about New York City.
Kushner to Receive PEN Award
Playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner will receive the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award at this year's PEN America Literary Awards.
- 2024 Apr 12
2024 Guggenheim Fellows
Ned Blackhawk, Jamel Brinkley, Beth Nguyen, Tracy K. Smith, Justin Torres, and Ed Yong are among the writers to receive this year's Guggenheim Fellowships.
- 2024 Apr 11
PublisHer Excellence Awards Winners
The winners of the inaugural awards, which "celebrate women who have brought positive change to the international publishing industry," were announced at the 2024 Bologna Children’s Book Fair this week.
- 2024 Apr 10
Carol Shields Prize Shortlist
Eleanor Catton and Claudia Day are among the five women authors shortlisted for this year's Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
Oregon Book Award Winners
Patrick de Witt and Erica Berry are among the winners of the 2024 Oregon Book Awards, hosed by Portland's Literary Arts.
- 2024 Apr 09
International Booker Prize Shortlist
'Kairos' and 'Crooked Plow' are among the six works of fiction shortlisted for this year's International Booker Prize. The winner will be announced on May 21.
PEN America Literary Award Longlists
Mary Jo Bang, Maya Binyam, Catherine Lacey, and Christina Sharpe are among the authors longlisted for for PEN America's six literary awards, with winners to be announced on April 29.
Plutarch Award Shortlist
Jonathan Eig and Howard Fishman are among the shortlisted authors for the Biographers International Organization's 2024 Plutarch Award.
Sophie Castille Awards Expand
The second annual Sophie Castille Awards, recognizing the best translation of graphic novels into English, will be held this fall, and Italy, Poland, and Slovenia are launching their own iterations of the prize.
- 2024 Apr 04
Walter Wins First Poetry Book Award
Robin Walter’s debut poetry collection 'Little Mercy' is the winner of the Academy of American Poets’ First Book Award.
- 2024 Apr 03
Jiménez Wins 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award
Claire Jiménez’s 'What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez' has been selected as the winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
- 2024 Apr 01
IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Finalists
The finalists have been announced for the 36th annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, with winners in each category to be announced on April 26.
Hugo Award Finalists
The finalists have been announced for this year's Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer.
2024 Philip K. Dick Award Winner
'These Burning Stars' by Bethany Jacobs (Orbit) has won the award, honoring a "distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2023 in the U.S.A."
- 2024 Mar 28
Kunzru Wins Chowdhury Prize
Hari Kunzru is the winner of the $20,000 Chowdhury Prize for Literature, awarded by the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
- 2024 Mar 26
Joyce Carol Oates Prize Finalists
Jamel Brinkley, Patricia Engel, Ben Fountain, Idra Novey, and Bennett Sims are the finalists for the eighth annual Joyce Carol Oates Prize for mid-career authors.
Dublin Literary Award Shortlist
Jonathan Escoffery and Alexis Wright are among the six authors shortlisted for the €100,000 Dublin Literary Award.
Telgemeier Wins Zarrow Award
Graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier is the winner of the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers’ Literature, given by Oklahoma's Tulsa City-County Library.
Kostash Wins Kobzar Book Award
'Ghosts in a Photograph' author Myrna Kostash is the winner of the $25K Kobzar Book Award, which recognizes Ukrainian stories in Canada.
Tolase Talks Cave Canem Prize
Ajibola Tolase, the winner of this year's Cave Canem Prize, discusses his journey to winning one of the nation's biggest prizes for Black poetry.
- 2024 Mar 21
BISG Industry Award Honorees
The Book Industry Study Group will recognize Ingram executive Phil Ollila, author Walter Mosley, and digital retailer Scribd with awards at its Annual Meeting in New York on April 12.
Tolase Wins Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Ajibola Tolase will receive $1,000 and publication of his poetry manuscript, '2,000 Blacks,' by the University of Pittsburgh Press in fall 2024.
Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist
Caleb Azumah Nelson, K. Blakemore, and Catherine Lacey are among the six authors shortlisted for the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize.
Bator Wins Austrian Literary Prize
Polish writer Joanna Bator has won the 2024 Austrian State Prize for European Literature.
Etchebarne Wins Ribera del Duero Award
Argentine writer Magalí Etchebarne’s 'La vida por delante' has won the eighth Ribera del Duero Award for Spanish-language short story writers.
- 2024 Mar 20
ABA Silver Gavel Award Finalists
Authors Sam Lebovic, Joanna Schwartz, and Cliff Sloan are among the finalists for the American Bar Association's 2024 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts.
Lukas Prize Winners
Ned Blackhawk's 'The Rediscovery of America' and Lorrain Boissoneault's 'Body Weather' are among the winners of the 2024 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards.
Eig Wins NYHS Zalaznick Book Prize
Jonathan Eig's 'King: A Life' has won the New-York Historical Society’s 2024 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize for American history or biography.
Crewe Wins U.K. Young Writer Award
Tom Crewe has been named the winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award for his debut novel 'The New Life.'
O'Neill Wins Canada Reads
Heather O'Neill has won Canada Reads 2024, championing the novel 'The Future' by Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou.
Sendak Fellows Announced
The Maurice Sendak Foundation has announced this year’s Sendak Fellows: Charlotte Ager, Rocío Araya, and Cozbi A. Cabrera.
- 2024 Mar 19
NBF 5 Under 35
Antonia Angress, Maya Binyam, Zain Khalid, Tyriek White, and Jenny Tinghui Zhang are this year's National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honorees.
Sami Rohr Prize Nonfiction Finalists
Jeremy Eichler and Natalie Livingstone are among the nonfiction finalists for the 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
Publishing Triangle Award Finalists
The finalists for the 36th annual Publishing Triangle Awards, as well as the winners of four special awards, have been announced.
- 2024 Mar 18
Acad. of Arts and Letters Lit Awards
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announces the 18 recipients of its 2024 Awards in Literature, including Maya Binyam, Boris Dralyuk, Gayle Jones, and Elizabeth McCracken.
Murray Wins Inaugural Nero Prize
'The Bee Sting' by Paul Murray is the winner of the U.K.'s Nero Prize, which launched last year after the Costa Book Awards were discontinued. The novel was also announced as the fiction category winner in January.
- 2024 Mar 15
Nebula Award Finalists
Vajra Chandrasekera, T. Kingfisher, and Nghi Vo are among the finalists for this year's Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.
Marfield Prize Finalists
The finalists for the 18th Marfield Prize for Arts Writing, presented by the Arts Club of Washington, include Joanna Biggs, Patrick Bringley, and Scott Eyman.
- 2024 Mar 14
Writers' Prize Winners
Liz Berry, Laura Cumming, and Anne Enright are the winners of this year's Writers' Prize, formerly called the Rathbones Folio Prize.
McCracken Wins Wingate Prize
Elizabeth McCracken has won the U.K's Wingate Literary Prize for 'The Hero of This Book.'
- 2024 Mar 13
Inaugural Libby Book Award Winners
R.F. Kuang, Jesmyn Ward, and Rebecca Yarros are among the winners of the first-ever Libby Book Awards, chosen by a panel of more then 1700 librarians worldwide.
- 2024 Mar 12
British Book Awards for Indie Bookshops
The U.K.'s Brick Lane Bookshop, Book-ish, and the Poetry Pharmacy are among the nine winning independent bookshops crowned ahead of the British Book Awards in May.
- 2024 Mar 08
Carol Shields Prize Longlist
Eleanor Catton, Nicole Cuffy, and C Pam Zhang are among the 15 authors longlisted for the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for fiction by women and nonbinary people, the largest award of its kind.
British Book Award Shortlists
Yomi Adegoke, Prince Harry, Colleen Hoover, Richard Osman, Dav Pilkey, and Gabrielle Zevin are among the finalists for this year's British Book Awards.
Ghosh Wins Erasmus Prize
Amitav Ghosh is the winner of this year's Erasmus Prize, awarded by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for exceptional contributions to culture, society, or social science in Europe.
Inaugural Tennessee Book Award
The Tennessee State Library and Archives and Humanities Tennessee have launched the first-ever award for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written by residents of the state.
Scanlan Wins U.K.'s Burn Prize
Kathryn Scanlan has won the £10,000 Gordon Burn Prize for her novel 'Kick the Latch.'
- 2024 Mar 07
WMG's 50th Anniversary Awards
Marie Dutton Brown, Amber Oliver, the Brooklyn Public Library, We Need Diverse Books, and more will be honored at the Women's Media Group's 50th Anniversary Gala.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists
The shortlists for the 18th annual Sheikh Zayed Book Award, presented by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, include 24 authors and institutions from 16 countries across seven categories.
- 2024 Mar 06
2024 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists
Jamel Brinkley and Alice McDermott are among the five finalists for this year's PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist
Among the authors longlisted for the U.K.'s Women's Prize for Fiction are Maya Binyam, Anne Enright, Ganeshananthan, and Aube Rey Lescure.
Spring-Summer MacDowell Fellows
MacDowell will welcome 155 artists to its six-week spring and summer residencies this year, including writers Lan Samantha Chang, Bruna Dantas Lobato, Alexandra Kleeman, and Sarah Weinman.
- 2024 Mar 05
2024 AAP PROSE Award Category Winners
The Association of American Publishers has announced the 41 category winners and 118 finalists for the 48th annual PROSE Awards honoring scholarly works published in 2023.
Virginia Book Festival Award Winners
The Virginia Festival of the Book, taking place later this month, will present awards to Mario Ariza, David Folkenflik, Dwight Garner, Miranda Green, and Emily Strasser.
- 2024 Mar 04
2024 Stella Prize Longlist
The longlist for Australia's $60,000 Stella Prize for women and nonbinary writers includes Stephanie Bishop, Emily O'Grady, and Alexis Wright.
- 2024 Mar 01
Academy of Arts and Letters Inductees
Novelists Alice McDermott and Olga Tokarczuk are among the 19 new members of American Academy of Arts and Letters.
- 2024 Feb 29
PubWest 2023 Book Design Award Winners
'The Unfortunate Life of Worms' by Noemi Vola, whose cover was designed by Jefferson Quintana, won the Judges Choice award this year, among other winners.
- 2024 Feb 28
Lukas Nonfiction Prize Shortlists
The shortlisted authors for this year's J. Anthony Lukas Prizes for Excellence in Nonfiction, presented by Columbia Journalism School, include Ned Blackhawk, Jonathan Eig, and Yepoka Yeebo.
- 2024 Feb 27
British Academy Book Prize Wins Grant
The British Academy Book Prize has received funding from the U.S.-based Hawthornden Foundation to support new authors.
- 2024 Feb 23
2024 Walter Scott Prize Longlist
Zadie Smith and Tan Twan Eng are among the 12 novelists nominated for the U.K.'s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
Audies Announce 2024 Host
Nia Vardalos will host this year's Audie Awards, which will be held in Los Angeles on March 4. Lake Bell, Felicia Day, Samira Wiley, and Constance Zimmer will serve as presenters.
- 2024 Feb 22
Bram Stoker Award Finalists
Amy Chu, Grady Hendrix, Stephen Graham Jones, and Victor LaValle are among the finalists for this year's Bram Stoker Awards, presented by the Horror Writers Association.
Inaugural Libby Book Award Finalists
David Grann, Rebecca Ross, Barbra Streisand, and Jesmyn Ward are among the finalists nominated by a panel of librarians for Libby's inaugural book awards.
- 2024 Feb 21
L.A. Times Book Prize Finalists
S.A. Cosby, Yiyun Li, Ivy Pochoda, Christina Sharpe, and Justin Torres are among the finalists for the newspaper's 44th annual book prizes.
- 2024 Feb 20
Int'l Prize for Arabic Fiction Shortlist
The six finalists for the 2024 International Prize for Arabic fiction include authors from Egypt, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.
Cardinal Poetry Prize Opens to Subs
Wesleyan University Press's Cardinal Poetry Prize, for poets aged 40 and above, is open to submissions through February 29.
- 2024 Feb 16
Women's Nonfiction Prize Longlist
The longlist for the first-ever Women's Nonfiction Prize, an offshoot of the U.K.-based Women's Fiction Prize, includes Anna Funder, Naomi Klein, and Safiya Sinclair.
- 2024 Feb 07
PEN/Faulkner Award Longlist
Among the 10 authors longlisted for the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction are Emma Cline, Henry Hoke, Catherine Lacey, and James McBride.
Plutarch Award Longlist
The longlist for the Biographers International Organization's annual Plutarch Award includes Jonathan Eig, Prudence Pfeiffer, and Yepoka Yeebo.
Amazon Literary Partnership Grants Open
Amazon Literary Partnership is accepting grant applications from nonprofit literary organizations through April 15.
Society of Authors Translation Prizes
Nine U.K–based literary translators and one editor have won this year’s Society of Authors Translation Prizes, including Frank Wynne and Marigold Atkey.
- 2024 Feb 06
Whiting CNF Grant Applications Open
The application window is now open for the 2024 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. Applications are due by April 23.
- 2024 Feb 05
'The Light We Carry' Wins Grammy Award
The audiobook of Michelle Obama's 'The Light We Carry,' published by Penguin Random House Audio, took home the Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling.
NBF Announces Capacity-Building Grants
The National Book Foundation has announced a new one-year funding opportunity for nonprofit literary arts organizations.
CLMP Announces Capacity-Building Grants
The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses has announced a second round of capacity-building support for nonprofit literary publishers.
- 2024 Feb 01
Yee Wins Australia's Victorian Prize
Australian poet Grace Yee has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature—and its $25,000 poetry category—for her debut collection 'Chinese Fish.'
Athenaeum of Philly Award Finalists
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia has announced the finalists for its 74th annual Literary Award, among them Ayana Mathis and Joseph Earl Thomas.
Binc Awards Funds for ComicsPRO Meeting
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation has awarded $750 scholarships for the ComicsPRO industry meeting in Pittsburgh to booksellers Miranda Nordell and Drew Sullivan.
Kodansha to Sponsor Script2Comic Contest
Japanese publisher Kodansha, behind such titles as 'Akira' and 'Attack on Titan,' will sponsor this year's Script2Comic Contest, which adapts winning screenplays into comic books.
- 2024 Jan 31
Acad. of American Poets Recieves $5.7M
The Mellon Foundation will award the Academy of American Poets a historic $5.7 million to support its Poet Laureate Fellowship and the Poetry Collation.
- 2024 Jan 30
Republic of Consciousness Prize Longlist
Kate Briggs, Christine Lai, and Ada Zhang are among the 10 authors longlisted for the second annual $35,000 Republic of Consciousness Prize for books published by small, independent presses.
Inaugural Nero Award Winners
Fern Brady, Beth Lincoln, Michael Magee, and Paul Murray are the winners of the first-ever Nero Awards, launched in the U.K. after the Costa Book Awards were discontinued.
Kalimamukwento Wins Heinz Prize
Mubanga Kalimamukwento is the winner of the University of Pittsburgh Press's Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction. Her collection, 'Obligations to the Wounded,' will be published by the Press in October.
- 2024 Jan 29
Highland Book Prize Longlist
The 12 longlisted authors for the annual Scottish literary prize include Sally Huband, Kapka Kassabova, and John Lister Kaye.
Albertine Translation Prize Winners
Villa Albertine's annual fiction and nonfiction prizes for Francophone literature translated into English went to books by Joseph Kai and Philippe Descolaand and their respective translators, Carolyn Ernst and Catherine Porter.
- 2024 Jan 25
2024 Science + Literature Titles
Books by Brad Fox, Arthur Sze, and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma comprise the selected titles for this year's Science + Literature program, led by the National Book Foundation and Sloan Foundation.
Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist
The international longlist for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for young writers includes Caleb Azumah Nelson's 'Small Worlds,' A.K. Blakemore's 'The Glutton,' and Catherine Lacey's 'Biography of X.'
- 2024 Jan 24
National Jewish Book Award Winners
Benjamin Balint, Jeremy Eichler, Sabrina Orah Mark, and James McBride are among the winners of the 73rd National Jewish Book Awards, presented by the Jewish Book Council.
- 2024 Jan 23
Hugo Nominations Report Raises Questions
A comprehensive report on voting statistics for the 2023 Hugo Awards has created confusion around unexplained rulings on eligibility.