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Joy Harjo Named U.S. Poet Laureate
Harjo, an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, is the first Native American poet to hold the post, as well as the nation's first poet laureate from the state of Oklahoma. She succeeds Tracy K. Smith.
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New Award for Self-Publishers Announced
IngramSpark, Ingram’s self-publishing platform, 'Publishers Weekly,' and BookBrunch, the daily online news service for the U.K. book industry, are launching the Selfies Awards for U.S.self-published authors.
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Dick Robinson Calls Reading a 'Civil Right' at PEN Gala
The Scholastic CEO was this year's publishing honoree at the PEN America Literary Gala, held Tuesday night at the Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Amazon Literary Partnership Awards $1M in Lit Funding
The Amazon Literary Partnership has awarded $1 million in support to 66 literary nonprofits, in addition to awarding grants of $120,000 each to the Academy of American Poets and to the Community of Literary Presses and Magazines.
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Patti Smith Wins 2019 'One Book, One New York' Vote
Rock star and author Smith's 'Just Kids' is the winner of the 2019 'One Book, One New York' contest.
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The Mystery Writers Have Their Night
Among the winners, Walter Mosley won the Edgar for Best Novel for 'Down the River Unto the Sea,' while Robert Fieseler took home the prize for Best Fact Crime for 'Tinderbox.'
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This Year's Triangle Award Winners Announced
Alexander Chee, Hieu Minh Nguyen, and Imani Perry are among the winners of the 31st annual Triangle Awards, honoring LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature published in 2018.
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Inaugural Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships Announced
The Academy of American Poets has announced the recipients of its inaugural fellowships,awarding 13 poets laureate across the U.S. with a combined $1,050,000 in recognition of their literary merit and to support civic programs.
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Powers, Blight, Stewart Win Pulitzers in Fiction, History, Biography
The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters were awarded in the book categories of fiction, history, biography poetry, general nonfiction, and criticism on Monday afternoon at the Columbia University School of Journalism in Manhattan.
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Bologna 2019: Bart Moeyaert Wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Flemish author Bart Moeyaert is the winner of the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book prize.
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Bologna 2019: Best Children’s Publishers Selected in Six Regions
The winners of the 2019 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year were announced at a ceremony Monday night in Bologna.
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2019 Pannell Award Winners Announced
The Women’s National Book Association has announced the winners of its 2019 Pannell Awards, which are presented annually to two bookstores that enhance their communities by fostering a love of reading.
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2019 Carle Honors Announced
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art has revealed the recipients of its 2019 Carle Honors.
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2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Award Winners Announced
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard have named the five winners and the two finalists of the 2019 Lukas Prize Project Awards.
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Trump Budget Calls for Closing the NEA
In what has become an annual rite under the Trump administration, the president’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Burns, Smith Among 2019 NBCC Award Winners
A milestone-packed evening saw Anna Burns's 'Milkman,' already the 2018 Man Booker Prize winner, win the prize for fiction, and Zadie Smith take home the criticism award.
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Bologna's 2019 Children's Publishers of the Year Nominees
The Bologna Children’s Book Fair, in association with the Association of Italian Publishers, has announced the nominees for the seventh annual Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year.
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Finalists, Achievement Winners Announced for 2019 Triangle Lit Awards
Finalists for the 31st annual Triangle Awards, which honors the best LGBTQ literary works published in 2018, have been announced by the Publishing Triangle, the LGBTQ publishing organization.
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After Changes, the Nobel Prize for Literature Returns
This fall the Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded for both 2018 and 2019, after changes were made to how laureates are chosen in the wake of scandals that forced the literary prize to be cancelled in 2018.
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Adeyemi, Turpin Win Top Award at 2019 Audies
The big award at the 24th Annual Audie Awards, for Audiobook of the Year, went to 'Children of Blood and Bone' (Macmillan Audio), written by Tomi Adeyemi and narrated by Bahni Turpin.
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