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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
Mary Rasenberger marked her 11th anniversary as head of the Authors Guild in November.
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PW Notables 2025: Julie Schaper
The Consortium president changes the 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The initiative, which offers a $25,000 publishing deal for an unpublished manuscript, marks the Black List’s first collaboration with a book publisher since broadening its scope from screenplays to fiction last year.
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