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Little Free Library Announces 2023 Outstanding Achievement Awards
The five winners of this year's awards are individuals and organizations that "embody LFL’s mission to build community, inspire readers and expand book access for all."
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'Demon Copperhead,' 'Trust,' 'His Name Is George Floyd' Among 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Novelists Barbara Kingsolver and Hernan Diaz tied for the fiction prize, and 'Washington Post' journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa took home the nonfiction prize at this year's Pulitzer Prize ceremony on May 8.
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LGBTQ Writers Find Their Voice at Lambda Literary Retreat
Lambda’s Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices returns to an in-person format this summer.
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Top Mystery Writers Honored at the 77th Edgar Awards
Stirring speeches by Michael Connelly and Crime Writers of Color cofounder Kellye Garrett were a highlight of this year's Edgar Awards, where 'Notes on an Execution' by Danya Kukafka was named best novel.
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BAWiP Advances DEI Professionals with First Slate of Seaman Award Winners
Bay Area Women in Publishing and the family of the late Robin Seaman announced seven winners of the inaugural Robin Seaman Award, highlighting diversity, inclusion, and women and nonbinary publishing professionals.
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Stu Abraham Receives 2023 Kay Sexton Award
The founder of the Midwest commission rep group Abraham Associates was named the 2023 Kay Sexton Award winner by the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library. Abraham will receive the award on May 2.
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2023 Whiting Award Winners Recognized as Emerging Talents
Ten award winners were announced in the categories of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama at an in-person ceremony held in New York City.
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2023 Audie Awards Return to New York, Celebrate Viola Davis
At the Audio Publishers Association's first in-person Audie Awards ceremony since 2020, Viola Davis's 'Finding Me' took home the prize for Audiobook of the Year.
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2023 PW Bookstore and Sales Rep Finalists Named
The five finalists for PW's 31st Bookstore of the Year and 25th Sales Rep of the Year awards have been selected. Winners will be announced at the U.S. Book Show, which is set for May 22-25.
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The National Book Critics Circle Awards Return to Manhattan
This year's National Book Critics Circle Awards, honoring books published in 2022, returned to its in-person format for the first time since 2019 to present awards to Joy Harjo, Hua Hsu, Ling Ma, and more.
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2023 Walter Dean Myers Awards: Life Changing Literature and Book Bans
The eighth annual Walter Awards Ceremony and Symposium took place as a hybrid event at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C., and online on March 17.
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Bank Street Launches Margaret Wise Brown Board Book Award
The Center for Children's Literature at Bank Street College held a virtual event for the inaugural Margaret Wise Brown Board Book Award on March 9.
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PW's Jim Milliot Wins BISG Lifetime Service Award
The Sally Dedecker Award for Lifetime Services recognizes book publishing professionals whose "tireless and persistent" work has made a positive impact on the book publishing industry. Milliot is recognized for his "decades-long commitment to reporting on the book industry."
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Bologna 2023: Laurie Halse Anderson Wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
American author Laurie Halse Anderson is the winner of the 2023 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book prize.
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SCBWI Announces 2023 Golden Kite Awards
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators announced its annual Golden Kite Awards on February 24, along with the annual Sid Fleischman Humor Award.
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Tara Dorabji Wins S&S's Books Like Us First Novel Prize
As the winner of the second annual Books Like Us First Novel Prize, Dorabji will receive a $50,000 book deal with Simon & Schuster.
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Mellon Foundation Pledges $125 Million to Combat Effects of Mass Incarceration
Among the organizations receiving funding are Freedom Reads and the New York Public Library.
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With Award Announcements, SCBWI's Impact and Legacy Fund Buoys Nascent Careers
Hot on the heels of the American Library Association's award announcements, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' Impact and Legacy Fund announced the recipients of two awards this week.
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2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists Announced
Finalists in six categories for the annual awards honoring the best books of the previous publishing year have been announced. 'New York Times' critic Jennifer Wilson, poet Joy Harjo, and City Lights Booksellers & Publishers have won special awards.