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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The initiative, which offers a $25,000 publishing deal for an unpublished manuscript, marks the Black List’s first collaboration with a book publisher since broadening its scope from screenplays to fiction last year.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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2025 National Book Award Finalists Announced
Omar El Akkad, Yiyun Li, Megha Majumdar, Karen Russell, Patricia Smith, and Bryan Washington are among the finalists for this year’s prizes, awarded in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.
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Choi, Desai, Kitamura Among Booker Prize Finalists
The six finalists include Americans Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura as well as previous winner Kieran Desai. The winner will be announced November 10.
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Self-Publishers Rise Up at 2025 Ignatz Awards
While Fantagraphics took home two of the evening’s biggest prizes, independent creators made a strong showing at the 28th annual Ignatz Awards, presented on September 13 at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Md.
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2025 National Book Award Longlists Announced
The National Book Foundation has unveiled the longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards. The five finalists in each category will be named on October 7, and winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony in New York City on November 19.
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NEA’s Creative Writing Fellowship Program Canceled
On August 22, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying that the program had been “withdrawn.”
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2025 American Manga Award Winners Announced
Kodansha and Square Enix each took home two of the night’s six awards, which were launched last year to honor outstanding achievements in the world of Japanese comics. The ceremony, held August 21, coincided with the first day of this year’s Anime NYC convention in New York.
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2025 Booker Prize Longlist Announced
This year’s longlist comprises 13 novels by authors representing nine different nationalities. Among the longlisted titles are Susan Choi’s Flashlight and Katie Kitamura’s Audition.
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Hulls, Sacco, Yang Take Home 2025 Eisner Awards
Tessa Hulls’s Feeding Ghosts, Joe Sacco’s The War on Gaza, and Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham’s Lunar New Year Love Story won big at the 37th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, held July 25 at San Diego Comic-Con.
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The Novelry Offers $100,000 Prize to Break Publishing Barriers
The Novelry, an online creative writing school founded by author Louise Dean, has launched the Next Big Story competition, a $100,000 prize aimed at reaching writers outside traditional publishing circles.
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2025 American Manga Award Nominees Announced
Anime NYC and Japan Society have announced the 35 nominees for the second annual American Manga Awards, set to take place on August 21.
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