- 2025 Dec 10
Kinsey Wins CFF First Novel Prize
Darrell Kinsey’s Natch has won this year’s First Novel Prize, presented by Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction.
- 2025 Dec 09
AUPresses Honors Brett Bobely
The former NEH digital director has received the Association of University Presses’ 2025 StandUP Award for individuals or groups that have “supported, defended, and celebrated the university press community and mission.”
- 2025 Dec 08
Nonfiction YA Award Finalists
Ann Bausum and Candace Fleming are among the five finalists for the Young Adult Library Services Association’s Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award.
- 2025 Dec 05
Winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards
Fredrik Backman’s My Friends and Emily Henry’s Great Big Beautiful Life are among the winners of this year’s Goodreads Choice Awards, selected by more than 7.5 million voters.
- 2025 Dec 04
Watty Award Winners
Sapphic sports romance Behind the Camera is the grand prize winner of this year’s Watty Awards, presented by Wattpad.
- 2025 Dec 03
PEN America Names Grant Winners
The organization has announced this year’s recipients of grants for works in progress, including the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants and the PEN/Bare Life Review Grants, among others.
Libro.fm Bookseller Choice Award Winners
Audiobooks of Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has Roots and John Green’s Everything Is Tuberculosis are among the winners of this year’s Libro.fm Bookseller Choice Awards, as selected by indie bookshops around the world.
- 2025 Dec 02
PSLA Launches Writers Scholarship
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, P.S. Literary Agency has launched its Emerging Writers Scholarship, which offers $1,000 and one-on-one mentorship to support unpublished and underrepresented writers.
Tom Paulin Wins PEN Heaney Prize
The author’s Namanlagh has won this year’s PEN Heaney Prize, presented by the U.K.-based English PEN, the Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann, and the Estate of Seamus Heaney.
- 2025 Nov 21
Maya Angelou Book Award Winner
Alison C. Rollins’s Black Bell has won this year’s Maya Angelou Book Award, presented by the Kansas City Public Library.
Nommo Award Winners
Tlotlo Tsamaase and Suyi Davies Okungbowa are among the winners of the 8th annual Nommo Awards, presented by the U.K.’s African Speculative Fiction Society.
- 2025 Nov 20
Inaugural Alderbrink Awards
Alderbrink, the online magazine launched earlier this year with a focus on fine press books, has selected titles across nine categories as the winners of its inaugural book awards.
- 2025 Nov 19
Little Free Library Wins Service Award
The nonprofit has received a 2025 Gold Anthem Award for granting 200 Little Free Library book-sharing boxes and 40,000 books to Title I schools across the U.S.
- 2025 Nov 18
Cercador Prize Winner
Jazmina Barrera’s The Queen of Swords, translated by Christina MacSweeney, has won this year’s Cercador Prize, which recognizes works of literary translation as selected by indie booksellers around the U.S.
Gailey Award Winner
Sarah Lazin of Aevitas Creative Management has won the Association of American Literary Agents’ highest honor, named after former president Gail Hochman.
AALA’s Impact Award Winners
The Association of American Literary Agents’ inaugural Impact Award for Committee Service has recognized three members “whose behind-the-scenes volunteer work has strengthened the organization.”
- 2025 Nov 14
Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist
S.A. Cosby and Angela Flournoy are among the 15 longlisted authors for this year’s Aspen Words Literary Prize, presented by the Aspen Institute.
- 2025 Nov 12
Ibrahim Nasrallah Wins Neustadt Prize
The Palestinian poet and novelist is the 29th recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, presented by the University of Oklahoma’s World Literature Today magazine.
Andy Award Winners
Gotham Ghostwriters and the American Society of Journalists and Authors have announced winners across four categories for this year’s Andy Awards for Nonfiction Book Collaboration.
- 2025 Nov 10
American Library in Paris Award Winner
Sue Prideaux’s Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin has won this year’s American Library in Paris Book Award for a work originally published in English that draws on France as a source of inspiration.
- 2025 Nov 07
BMI Award Winners
James Wisotzkey of Maple Press and Bruce Jacobsen of Bridgeport National Bindery won this year’s Distinguished Master Bookman Award and Signature Award, respectively, presented by the Book Manufacturers’ Institute.
- 2025 Nov 06
World Fantasy Award Winners
Robert Jackson Bennett and Mariana Enríquez are among the winners of this year’s World Fantasy Awards, presented at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, England.
Hollinghurst Wins Cohen Prize
Alan Hollinghurst has been awarded the £40,000 David Cohen Prize for Literature, one of the U.K. and Ireland’s most prestigious literary honors for lifetime achievement in fiction.
Rose Wins Goldsmiths Prize
C.D. Rose has won the U.K.-based award for experimental literary fiction for his novel We Live Here Now.
PROSE Awards Entry Period Extended
The entry period for the Association of American Publishers’ PROSE Awards has been extended to November 20.
- 2025 Nov 05
Baillie Gifford Prize Winner
Helen Garner’s How to End a Story has won the U.K.-based Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.
- 2025 Oct 31
Lyndal Roper Wins 2025 Cundill Prize
The historian’s Summer of Fire and Blood has won this year’s Cundill History Prize, presented by McGill University in Montreal.
- 2025 Oct 30
Waterstones Book of the Year Shortlist
Suzanne Collins, RF Kuang, and Arundhati Roy are among the shortlisted authors for this year’s Waterstones Book of the Year Award, presented by the British bookstore chain.
- 2025 Oct 28
Sisters in Crime Pride Award
Lizabeth Engelmeier’s novel-in-progress, Soft Little Monsters, has won this year’s Pride Award for Emerging LGBTQ Crime Fiction Writers, presented by Sisters in Crime.
Reedsy to Host Novel Writing Contest
Participants who write 50,000 words in Reedsy Studio this November can win up to $5,000 in cash prizes.
- 2025 Oct 27
Joint Winners of the Forward Prize
Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie have been named joint winners of this year’s £5,000 Forward Prize for Poetry, presented by the U.K.-based Forward Arts Foundation.
Goddard Book Prize Winners
Copaganda by Alec Karakatsanis and Young Change Makers by Stacy C. Bauer have won this year’s Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize and Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize, respectively.
- 2025 Oct 24
Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlist
Susan Choi, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and Megha Majumdar are among the 45 authors longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals, presented by the American Library Association.
Dos Passos Prize Finalists
Gish Jen and Chinelo Okparanta are among the five finalists for this year’s John Dos Passos Prize, presented by Longwood University.
- 2025 Oct 23
PEN Heaney Prize Shortlist
Don Mee Choi and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha are among the six shortlisted poets for this year’s PEN Heaney Prize, presented by English PEN, Irish PEN, and the Estate of Seamus Heaney.
- 2025 Oct 22
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize Winner
Vajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall has won this year’s Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
Cramer Center Book Award Winner
Tye Farrow’s Constructing Health is the overall winner of the inaugural Cramer Center Book Awards, presented by the Cramer Center for Design & Innovation at Northern State University.
- 2025 Oct 21
Diamond Forde Wins James Laughlin Award
The poet’s The Book of Alice has won this year’s James Laughlin Award, presented by the Academy of American Poets.
OUP’s First Book Prize Winners
Oxford University Press has announced the 10 recipients of its inaugural First Book Prize, awarded to emerging scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
- 2025 Oct 20
Wallace Stevens Award Winner
Cornelius Eady has won this year’s Wallace Stevens Award for Lifetime Achievement, presented by the Academy of American Poets.
Ringo Award Winners
Comics creators Eric Powell and Kelly Thompson are among the winners of this year’s Ringo Awards, presented at Baltimore Comic Con.
- 2025 Oct 16
Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellows
The Center for Fiction has announced its 2026 class of Susan Kamil fellows, comprising nine early-career writers.
- 2025 Oct 14
The Next Big Story Prize Winner
Stella Donovan has won the inaugural $100,000 Next Big Story Prize, presented by the Novelry.
Leila Aboulela Wins PEN Pinter Prize
The Sudanese author has won this year’s PEN Pinter Prize, presented by English PEN.
- 2025 Oct 10
B&N Discover Prize Winner
Katie Yee’s Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk into a Bar has won this year’s Barnes & Noble Discover Prize.
Page One Media Book Grant Winner
Malavika Kannan has won this year’s Page One Media Pro Bono Book Publicity Grant.
- 2025 Oct 09
Orange Receives MacArthur Fellowship
Novelist Tommy Orange has been selected as a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, and is the only writer to receive one of this year’s “genius grants.”
Kirkus Prize Winners
Scott Anderson, Thao Lam, and Lucas Schaefer are the winners of this year’s Kirkus Prizes, presented by Kirkus Reviews.
New Awards to Honor Jack Kirby’s Legacy
ComicArtFans.com, the Kirby Estate, and the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center have launched the Jack & Roz Kirby Awards, named for the legendary comics creator and his wife. The inaugural awards will be presented in February at the Original Art Expo.
Spotify x JED Award Winners Announced
The award, which grants $10,000 to five fiction writers to support their “unpublished, mental health–driven manuscripts,” was launched in partnership with the Black List, which began expanding into fiction last year.
- 2025 Oct 08
Giller Prize Shortlist
Mona Awad and Souvankham Thammavongsa are among the five shortlisted authors for the 2025 Giller Prize for Canadian writers.
- 2025 Oct 07
Chowdhury Prize in Literature Winner
Memoirist and critic Claire Dederer has received this year’s Chowdhury Prize in Literature, presented by the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation.
Columbia Book Award Winners
Gerald Markowitz, Rosalind C. Morris, and David Rosner have won this year’s Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award.
T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlist
Isabelle Baafi and Tom Paulin are among the 10 shortlisted poets for this year’s T.S. Eliot Prize.
AWP Award Series Winners
Chital Mehta and Adam Peterson are among the four winners of this year’s AWP Award Series, presented by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.
- 2025 Oct 06
Voice of the Heartland Winner
Ross Gay has won this year’s Voice of the Heartland Award, presented by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association and Midwest Independent Booksellers Association.
- 2025 Oct 03
Inaugural Tom Wolfe Prize Winners
Meghan Daum and Vincenzo Latronico are the winners of the inaugural Tom Wolfe Prize for Fiction and Reportage, presented by Air Mail and Montblanc.
Royal Society Science Book Prize Winner
Our Brains, Our Selves by neurologist Masud Husain has won this year’s Trivedi Science Book Prize, presented by the Royal Society.
- 2025 Oct 02
Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist
Jason Burke and Helen Garner are among the six shortlisted authors for the U.K.-based Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.
Tausif Noor Wins Holt Prize
The critic and curator has won this year’s Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing, presented by Lambda Literary.
Allen R. Wells Wins Randall Kenan Prize
The author has won this year’s Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction, presented by Lambda Literary.
- 2025 Oct 01
Jim Duggins Prize Winners
R.O. Kwon and Carter Sickels have won this year’s $5,000 Jim Duggins Prize, presented by Lambda Literary.
Center for Fiction First Novel Shortlist
Rickey Fayne and Mariam Rahmani are among the seven shortlisted authors for this year’s First Novel Prize, presented by the Center for Fiction.
PRH Opens Writing Awards Submissions
Penguin Random House and We Need Diverse Books have opened submissions to their annual Creating Writing Awards, which provide $60,000 in scholarships to college-bound high school seniors.
- 2025 Sep 30
Cundill History Prize Finalists
Marlene L. Daut, Lyndal Roper, and Sophia Rosenfeld are the three finalists for this year’s Cundill History Prize, presented by McGill University in Montreal.
- 2025 Sep 29
Southern Prize Winner
Poet Aurielle Marie has won this year’s Southern Prize for Literary Arts, presented by South Arts.
The Next Big Story Finalists
Eight finalists have been announced for this year’s Next Big Story Prize, presented by the Novelry.
- 2025 Sep 26
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners
Kaveh Akbar, Sunil Amirth, and Salman Rushdie are the recipients of this year’s Dayton Literary Peace Prizes.
- 2025 Sep 25
FT Book of the Year Shortlist
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is one of the six shortlisted titles for this year’s Business Book of the Year, presented by the U.K.’s Financial Times and Schroders.
- 2025 Sep 24
Inaugural Kenny Fries Award Winner
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson has won the inaugural Kenny Fries Disabled Writer Literary Award.
Hilary Mantel Prize Launches
Named for the British author, the Hilary Mantel Prize for Fiction will recognize emerging talent, and will accept submissions from unpublished writers living in the U.K. and Ireland until December 31.
- 2025 Sep 22
American Library in Paris Shortlist
Rachel Kushner and Sue Prideaux are among the four shortlisted authors for this year’s American Library in Paris Book Award.
Inaugural British Audio Awards Shortlist
Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo and Sarah Wynn-Williams’s Careless People are among the shortlisted titles across 16 categories for the inaugural Speakies Awards, presented in the U.K. by the Stage and the Bookseller.
Ilse Schwepcke Prize Shortlist
Kapka Kassabova and Ursula Martin are among the four shortlisted authors for the inaugural Ilse Schwepcke Prize for Women’s Travel Writing, administered by the U.K.’s Society of Authors.
- 2025 Sep 19
FAWC Announces Writing Fellows
The Fine Arts Work Center has announced 10 new writing fellows under this year’s fellowship program.
Kamil Emerging Writers Prize Winners
Two booksellers have been selected to receive the $12,500 Susan Kamil Emerging Writers Prize, presented by Binc.
- 2025 Sep 18
Webtoon Contest Winners
Covenant Once Given and My Dear Watson are among the four winners of this year’s Webtoon Contest.
- 2025 Sep 17
Legacy Award Finalists
Essie Chambers and Percival Everett are among the 22 finalists across five categories for this year’s Legacy Award, presented by the Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright Foundation.
Discover Prize Finalists
Rob Franklin and Stephanie Wambugu are among the six finalists for this year’s Discover Prize, presented by Barnes & Noble.
Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize Shortlist
Robert McGill and Maria Reva are among the five finalists for this year’s Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, recognizing the best novel or short story collection by a Canadian author.
Maureen Duffy Wins Pioneer Prize
The 91-year-old author won the £100,000 prize, which recognizes female British writers over 60 and was established by Bernardine Evaristo with her Women’s Prize funds.
- 2025 Sep 16
Booker Prize Teams with BookKind
The Booker Prize Foundation is partnering with BookKind, a new U.K.-based online bookstore that donates 10% of every sale to charity, to raise funds.
Kate Medina to Receive Editorial Award
Biographers International Organization will present the publishing veteran, who spent four decades at Random House and has edited such authors as Jon Meacham and Isabel Wilkerson, with its Editorial Excellence Award.
- 2025 Sep 12
Michelle Adams Wins MAAH Stone Award
The Containment won this year’s MAAH Stone Book Award, presented by the Museum of African American History and the Stone Foundation.
Boa Short Fiction Prize Winner
Baird Harper has won this year’s Boa Short Fiction Prize, presented by Boa Editions.
- 2025 Sep 11
New America Announces 2026 Fellows
Jake Bittle and Grace M. Cho are among the 10 Class of 2026 New America fellows.
- 2025 Sep 10
Ed Park Wins Deborah Pease Prize
The author of An Oral History of Atlantis and Same Bed Different Dreams is the recipient of this year’s Deborah Pease Prize, presented by A Public Space.
- 2025 Sep 09
British Academy Book Prize Shortlist
William Dalrymple and Sophie Harman are among the six shortlisted authors for this year’s £25,000 British Academy Book Prize.
PEN Presents x Intl’l Booker Winners
English PEN and the Booker Prize Foundation have announced the six inaugural winners of this year’s PEN Presents x International Booker Prize, which celebrates the art of translation.
Tennessee Book Award Winners
Vic Sizemore, Jared Sullivan, and Didi Jackson are the winners of this year’s Tennessee Book Award in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, respectively, presented by Humanities Tennessee.
- 2025 Sep 08
BPL Prize Winners
Emet North’s In Universes and Mosab Abu Toha’s Forest of Noise have won the 2025 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize for Fiction and Nonfiction, respectively.
- 2025 Sep 04
Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist
Barbara Demick and Yiyun Li are among the 12 authors longlisted for this year’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.
Aficionado Award Winner
India’s Seagull Books has won this year’s Aficionado Award, presented by Frankfurter Buchmesse.
- 2025 Sep 03
Heartland Booksellers Award Winners
John Green and Nghi Vo are among the five winners of this year’s Heartland Booksellers Awards, presented by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association and the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association.
Winners of the Mass Book Awards
Jedediah Berry and Kellie Carter Jackson are among the seven winners of this year’s Mass Book Awards, presented by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
- 2025 Sep 02
2025 Cundill History Prize Shortlist
Emily Callaci and Greg Grandin are among the eight shortlisted authors for this year’s Cundill History Prize, presented by McGill University in Montreal.
- 2025 Aug 29
20th Anniversary Killer Nashville Awards
The crime writing conference announced its picks for best book and best manuscript of 2024 last weekend in Franklin, Tenn.
- 2025 Aug 27
Geraldine Brooks Wins LoC Prize
The Memorial Days author will be awarded the 2025 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction at the National Book Festival on September 6.
Kirkus Prize Finalists Announced
Derrick Barnes, Allegra Goodman, and Imani Perry are among the finalists for this year’s Kirkus Prizes, presented by Kirkus Reviews.
- 2025 Aug 20
Raz-Shumaker Prize Winners
Adam O. Davis and Micah Dean Hicks have won this year’s Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Prizes, presented by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s national literary quarterly.
