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Mary Anne Carter Returns to Chair NEA
Carter, who also led the National Endowment for the Arts during President Donald Trump’s first term, has historically supported the agency’s literacy initiatives as well as funding for creative arts therapies.
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NBCC Announces Award Longlists
The National Book Critics Circle has unveiled the seven longlists for its annual awards. Finalists will be announced on January 20, with winners to follow at a ceremony on March 26 in New York City.
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Poetry Foundation Staff Protest Program Cuts, Job Loss
Employees of the foundation and community members say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition to retain the jobs of two staffers set to be laid off.
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Brian O’Leary Receives 2025 Melcher Award
The recipient of PW’s third annual lifetime achievement award is being recognized for his successful 10-year tenure as the head of BISG, in an era when the industry has grappled with massive and near constant change.
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PW Notables 2025: Mary Rasenberger
The longtime Authors Guild CEO has been a leader in the fight against AI companies’ use of copyrighted materials without compensating authors, as well as the ongoing surge in book bans.
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PW Notables 2025: Julie Schaper
The Consortium president, who has been with the company for 30 years and will retire in 2026, is changing book culture one client publisher at a time.
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PW Notables 2025: Mychal Threets
The social media star and PBS “resident librarian” is continuing to spread “library joy” as the host of a Reading Rainbow reboot and, soon, as a children’s book author.
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PW Notables 2025: Carla Hayden
Modeling fortitude and resilience, the former librarian of Congress—who was fired without cause by the White House in March—says “it’s time to regroup” amid uncertain federal funding for literature and the arts.
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PW Notables 2025: Eileen Dengler
The longtime executive director of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association leaves her mark on the entire industry.
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PW’s 2025 Person of the Year: Nihar Malaviya
The Penguin Random House CEO has gone all in on protecting the First Amendment and the freedom to read. For his efforts and those of PRH, he is Publishers Weekly’s Person of the Year.
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Whiting Expands Publicity Training for Nonfiction Grantees
Recipients of the Whiting Foundation’s $40,000 Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress will receive publicity training through the Brooklyn-based firm Press Shop PR. The 2025 grantees were announced today.
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Restless Books’ Immigrant Writing Prize Turns 10
The recently renamed Kellman Prize, which got a new underwriter in September, has served as a launchpad for immigrant writers for nearly a decade.
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The Black List Teams with Blackstone on Manuscript Initiative
The initiative, which offers a $25,000 publishing deal for an unpublished manuscript, marks the Black List’s first collaboration with a book publisher since broadening its scope from screenplays to fiction last year.
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Politics Loom Large at 2025 National Book Awards
At the 76th National Book Awards, held at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan on November 19, many of the evening’s winners—including Rabih Alameddine, who won the award for Fiction, and Omar El Akkad, who won for Nonfiction—remarked on current events, including the crisis in Gaza and immigration crackdowns.
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Souvankham Thammavongsa Wins 2025 Giller Prize
Thammavongsa’s novel Pick a Color took home what is largely considered Canada’s most prestigious award for fiction.
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David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker Prize for ‘Flesh’
The Hungarian-British novelist has won this year’s Booker Prize for his sixth work of fiction, which follows a Hungarian man who attempts to build a new life in the wake of his traumatic adolescence.
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New Fund to Grant $50 Million to Literary Arts Orgs
A coalition of seven charitable organizations led by the Mellon Foundation plans to award at least $50 million to nonprofit literary organizations over the next five years through the Literary Arts Fund, a new initiative headed up by Jennifer Benka.
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Booker Foundation Announces Children’s Prize
Marking the organization's first new prize announcement since 2005, the Children’s Booker Prize will be administered annually beginning in 2027 for a work of fiction aimed at readers ages eight to 12 and published in the U.K. or Ireland.
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37th Harvey Awards Highlight Indie Publishers
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath and Raised by Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn were among the top winners at this year’s ceremony honoring the best in comics, held October 10 at New York Comic Con.
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László Krasznahorkai Wins 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature
The Swedish Academy recognized the 71-year-old Hungarian author, who is published in the U.S. by New Directions, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
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