and more.
-
PEN America Cancels 2024 Literary Awards Ceremony
Following mass withdrawals of books from consideration, PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, previously slated for April 29. Two cash prizes will still be conferred, and the $75,000 purse accompanying the PEN/Stein Book Award will be donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
-
PW Sales Rep of the Year 2024: Patricia Nelson
This year’s winner was nominated for the award an impressive eight times and praised for her encyclopedic knowledge, intelligence, curiosity, and diligence.
-
PW Bookstore of the Year 2024: Warwick’s
This year’s top honor goes to a 128-year-old store that is beloved by its community, plays host to vibrant literary events for authors large and small, and serves as an anchor business for the Village of La Jolla, Calif.
-
PW Bookstore of the Year 2024 Finalist: Writer’s Block Bookstore
In the past decade, Writer’s Block, which sells new books for both adults and children, has become a literary hub of the Greater Orlando metro area.
-
PW Sales Rep of the Year 2024 Finalist: Sherry Virtz
The Penguin Random House district sales manager, who handles indie bookstores from Pennsylvania through North Carolina, is celebrated for her personal touch.
-
Helen Elaine Lee, Joseph Plaster Among 2024 Publishing Triangle Award Winners
The winners of the 36th annual Triangle Awards, which honor the year’s best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature published in 2023, were honored at a celebration held at the New School in New York City on April 17.
-
PW Bookstore of the Year 2024 Finalist: Red Balloon Bookshop
The Red Balloon, founded in 1984 in St. Paul, Minn., specializes in books for children of all ages. It has been a community gathering space for decades.
-
PW Sales Rep of the Year 2024 Finalist: Andrea Tetrick
The Ingram sales rep “represents a dizzying array of imprints” and is “a tireless partner in smoothing hitches in the supply chain,” according to one bookseller partner.
-
PW Bookstore of the Year 2024 Finalist: Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore and Gallery
Cofounded in Calle 24, San Francisco’s Latino cultural district, in 2021, the bookstore specializes in radical literature, poetry, and Spanish-language titles, and embodies the Mission District’s storied revolutionary spirit.
-
PW Sales Rep of the Year 2024 Finalist: Julie Isgrigg
Isgrigg, a sales rep at Hachette whose territory comprises Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Washington, D.C., has been a nominee for the award for two years running.
Looking for more stories? Browse Archive