- 2025 Aug 15
First-Ever Founders Historian Laureate
Robert A. Caro has been named as the first-ever Founders Historian Laureate by the New York Historical.
- 2025 Aug 14
Kukula Award Finalists
Dan Kois and Emily Wilson are among the 10 finalists for this year’s Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing, presented by Washington Monthly.
- 2025 Aug 13
Harvey Award Nominees
Charles Burns and Whitney Gardner are among the 41 nominated authors and illustrators across seven categories for this year’s Harvey Awards.
- 2025 Aug 12
B&N Children’s, YA Book Award Winners
Devin Elle Kurtz, Sangu Mandanna, and CG Drews are the winners of Barnes & Noble’s 2025 Children’s and YA Book Awards.
Brooklyn Public Library Prize Longlist
Mosab Abu Toha, Tony Tulathimutte, and Yasmin Zaher are among the 20 longlisted authors for this year’s Brooklyn Public Library Prize.
Aurora Award Winners
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association has announced the 10 winners of this year’s Aurora Awards.
Wainwright Prizes Shortlist
Alice Mah and Helen Scales are among the 42 shortlisted authors across six categories for the U.K.-based Wainwright Prize for nature and conservation writing.
Polari Prize to Undergo ‘Full Review’
After more than half of its longlisted authors withdrew due to the nomination of self-described TERF John Boyne, the Polari Prize plans to move forward with this year’s award but will still undergo a “full review” of its selection process.
- 2025 Aug 11
Authors Withdraw from Polari Prize
At least 11 authors and two judges have withdrawn themselves from the U.K.-based Polari Prize after author and self-proclaimed TERF John Boyne was named on the longlist.
- 2025 Aug 04
Sophie Castille Nominees Announced
Ryan Holmberg and Diana Schutz are among this year’s English-language nominees for the Sophie Castille Awards for Comics in Translation.
- 2025 Jul 31
Lambda Literary Awards Finalists
Alan Hollinghurst, Casey McQuiston, Morgan Parker, and Carl Phillips are among the 130 finalists across 26 categories for this year’s Lambda Literary Awards.
Winners of the Colorado Book Awards
Barbara Nickless and Ian Patterson are among the five winners of this year’s Colorado Book Awards, presented by Colorado Humanities.
- 2025 Jul 30
Greathead Wins Gabe Hudson Prize
Kate Greathead’s novel The Book of George has won this year’s $10,000 Gabe Hudson Prize, administered by McSweeney’s.
German Book Trade Peace Prize Winner
Author Karl Schlögel has won the 2025 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, presented by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association.
Momentum Grant for Translators Winner
Melody Makeda Ledwon has won this year’s Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators, presented by Words Without Borders.
- 2025 Jul 28
Cundill History Prize Longlist
Tiya Miles and Sophia Rosenfeld are among the 15 longlisted authors for this year’s Cundill History Prize, presented by McGill University in Montreal.
- 2025 Jul 25
Lucy Steeds Wins Waterstones Prize
Steeds’s The Artist has won the British book retailer’s Debut Fiction Prize.
- 2025 Jul 24
PEN Translates Winners
English PEN has announced the 14 winners of this year’s PEN Translates Award, with titles in Arabic, Danish, and Portuguese, among others.
- 2025 Jul 23
First Novel Prize Longlist
Addie E. Citchens, Michael Clune, and Yrsa Daley-Ward are among the 29 longlisted authors for this year’s First Novel Prize, presented by the Center for Fiction.
DAG Prize for Literature Winner
Michael Zapata’s The Census Taker has won the inaugural DAG Prize for Literature, presented by the DAG Foundation.
- 2025 Jul 18
Niu Wins Vanderbilt University Prize
Stephanie Niu’s I Would Define the Sun is the inaugural winner of the Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, awarded annually to the author of a full-length collection of poetry.
- 2025 Jul 17
Forward Prize for Poetry Shortlists
Simon Armitage and Zoë McWhinney are among the 20 poets shortlisted for this year’s Forward Prizes, presented by the U.K.-based Forward Arts Foundation.
Jewish Literary Foundation Starts Prize
The U.K.-based Jewish Literary Foundation’s £3,000 Freudenheim Translation Prize will recognize translated fiction and nonfiction about Jewish life, culture, and ideas.
- 2025 Jul 16
Rushdie Wins Sun Valley Conference Award
Salman Rushdie has won the 2025 Writer in the World Prize, presented by the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference to “a writer whose work expresses a rare combination of literary talent and moral imagination.”
- 2025 Jul 15
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists
Percival Everett, Kaveh Akbar, and Annie Jacobsen are among the 12 finalists for this year’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
- 2025 Jul 14
School Library Association Honors List
The U.K.-based School Library Association has announced this year’s Honors List, spanning awards for school librarians, primary libraries, and library enterprises.
- 2025 Jul 11
Dobby Gibson Wins Four Quartets Prize
Gibson’s poem Hold Everything has won this year’s Four Quartets Prize, presented by the T. S. Eliot Foundation and the Poetry Society of America.
Inside Literary Prize Winner
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain-Gang All-Stars has won this year’s Inside Literary Prize, presented by Freedom Reads.
- 2025 Jul 10
Leila Aboulela Wins PEN Pinter Prize
The novelist, playwright, and short story writer has won English PEN’s 2025 PEN Pinter Prize.
- 2025 Jul 09
David Thompson Award Winners
Lucinda Surber and Stan Ulrich have won this year’s David Thompson Memorial Special Service Award, presented by the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention.
- 2025 Jul 08
Silver Falchion Award Finalists
The Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference has announced the finalists across 17 categories for its Silver Falchion Award.
- 2025 Jun 27
Scott W. Berg Wins Chicago Book Award
Berg’s The Burning of the World won this year’s Chicago Book Award, presented by the Newberry Library and the Pattis Family Foundation.
- 2025 Jun 26
Oxbelly Announces 2025 Fiction Fellows
The Oxbelly Fiction Writers program has selected 10 emerging writers to attend its 10th annual retreat, slated for June 28–July 6 in Messinia, Greece. Featured guests and advisors include Katie Kitamura and Namwali Serpell.
Publisher Trio Reteam on Poetry Prize
The Poetry in Translation Prize will include a $5,000 advance and a simultaneous book deal with New Directions, the U.K.’s Fitzcarraldo, and Australia’s Giramondo. The program will run alongside the three publishers’ other joint award, the biennial Novel Prize.
Orwell Prizes Announced
Ukrainian war crimes investigator Victoria Amelina posthumously won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for Looking at Women, Looking at War, and Irish author Donal Ryan’s Heart, Be at Peace won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
- 2025 Jun 25
‘Air Mail’ Rolls Out Tom Wolfe Prize
The weekly magazine will launch the Tom Wolfe Prize for Fiction and Reportage, with the help of Montblanc.
Margaret Bryant Wins ACP Award
The former sales director at Orca Book Publishers won this year’s President’s Award, presented by the Association of Canadian Publishers.
- 2025 Jun 24
Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Winners
Hilary Horder Hippely, Randy Ribay, and Candace Fleming are the three winners of this year’s Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, which celebrate excellence in children’s and young adult literature.
- 2025 Jun 23
Locus Awards Winners
Alexander Boldizar, Chuck Tingle, and Isabel J. Kim are among the 16 winners of this year’s Locus Awards, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation.
- 2025 Jun 20
U.K. Carnegie Award Winners
Margaret McDonald and Olivia Lomenech Gill are the respective winners of this year’s Carnegie Medal for Writing and Carnegie Medal for Illustration, the U.K.’s longest-running awards for children’s and young adult books.
- 2025 Jun 18
Leslie Jamison Wins Weston Award
The American author and essayist has received this year’s Weston International Award, presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada.
Mehdi Khawaja Wins Armory Square Prize
Mehdi Khawaja’s translation of Akhtar Mohiuddin’s To Each Their Own Hell has won this year’s Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation.
Society of Authors Award Winners
Jo Hamya, Ashani Lewis, and Elif Shafak are among this year’s winners of the U.K.’s Society of Authors Awards.
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize Shortlist
Vajra Chandrasekera and Nalo Hopkinson are among the eight authors shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
- 2025 Jun 13
Women’s Prize Winners
Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke are the respective winners of the U.K.-based Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction.
Andrew Miller Wins Walter Scott Prize
Miller’s The Land in Winter won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, managed by the U.K.-based Abbotsford Trust.
Reading the West Award Winners
Louise Erdrich, Amanda Churchill, and Rebecca Nagle are among the eight winners of this year’s Reading the West Book Awards, presented by the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association.
- 2025 Jun 12
Weija Pan Wins Levis Reading Prize
Pan’s debut poetry collection Motherlands (Milkweed Editions) has won this year’s Levis Reading Prize, presented by the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.
- 2025 Jun 11
Inaugural British Audio Awards
In the U.K., the Bookseller and the Stage have launched the British Audio Awards, or the “Speakies,” celebrating outstanding achievement in audiobooks and audio drama across 17 categories.
- 2025 Jun 10
David Means Wins PEN/Malamud Award
Means, the author of six story collections, is the winner of this year’s PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award, which recognizes writers who have “demonstrated exceptional achievement in the short story form.”
- 2025 Jun 09
Nebula Award Winners
A.D. Sui and John Wiswell are among the winners of this year’s Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.
Plutarch Award Winners
Cynthia Carr’s Candy Darling (FSG) and Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s Scapegoat (Harper) have won the Plutarch Award for the Best Biography of 2024, presented by the Biographers International Organization.
Seidler Wins Phillis Wheatley Book Award
Margaret Seidler’s ‘Payne-ful’ Business: Charleston’s Journey to Truth (Evening Post Books) has won this year’s Phillis Wheatley Book Award in nonfiction, presented by the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage.
- 2025 Jun 06
Polefrone Wins Harvard Fellowship
Philomena Polefrone, the associate director of the ABA’s American Booksellers for Free Expression initiative, has received Harvard’s Carr-Ryan Fellowship to research “the role of independent bookstores as the vanguard and final line of defense for the right to read in the United States.”
- 2025 Jun 05
Spivak Wins Holberg Prize
Indian scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the recipient of the 2025 Holberg Prize, awarded by the government of Norway, for her groundbreaking work in the fields of literary theory and philosophy.
- 2025 Jun 04
Bernardine Evaristo Wins Women’s Prize
The English author has won the £100,000 Outstanding Contribution Award, a one-off honor presented by the U.K.-based Women’s Prize for Fiction to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
- 2025 Jun 02
Judy Blume Receives 2025 WNBA Award
The Women’s National Book Association has presented Blume with this year’s WNBA Award, which is given every other year to a “living American woman who has done meritorious work in the world of books.”
Winners of the James Tait Black Prizes
Lucas Rijneveld and Lamia Ziade are the winners of this year’s James Tait Black Prizes, the only major British book prize to be judged by literature scholars and students.
- 2025 May 30
NAIBA Book Award Winners
Percival Everett, Chanel Miller, and Zoë Schlanger are among the five winners of this year’s NAIBA Book of the Year Award, presented by the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association.
- 2025 May 29
CWA Dagger Awards Shortlists
Tana French, Don Winslow, and Asako Yuzuki are among the shortlisted authors for this year’s Dagger Awards, presented by the U.K.’s Crime Writers’ Association.
- 2025 May 27
The Black List Launches Book Award
Furthering its foray into the book world, the Black List’s inaugural Unpublished Novel Award will provide grants to support winning manuscripts across seven genres. The judges include a host of authors, including Roxane Gay and Victore Lavalle, and industry professionals, including Scribner editor-in-chief Kathryn Belden and WME literary agent Eric Simonoff.
- 2025 May 23
Michelle de Kretser Wins Stella Prize
The author’s novel Theory and Practice (Catapult) won this year’s $60,000 Stella Prize, which celebrates women and nonbinary writers in Australia.
- 2025 May 22
Page One Announces 2026 Media Grant
Effective for the 2026 publishing year, Page One Media is shifting from providing three partial grants to providing one fully supported pro bono publicity campaign to an underrepresented writer.
Manya Wilkinson Wins Encore Award
The author’s novel Lublin (And Other Stories) won this year’s £15,000 Encore Award, presented by the U.K.-based Royal Society of Literature.
- 2025 May 21
IBPA Book Award Winners
The Independent Book Publishers Association has named its winners across 59 categories for this year’s IBPA Book Award, which honors independently published books.
Firecracker Awards Finalists
Edwidge Danticat, Don Mee Choi, and Oliver Radclyffe are among the 26 finalists across four categories for this year’s Firecracker Awards, presented by the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses.
- 2025 May 20
Gotham Book Prize Winners
Ian Frazier’s Paradise Bronx (FSG) and Nicole Gelinas’s Movement (Empire State Editions) are the winners of this year’s Gotham Book Prize, which celebrates books either about New York City or that take place in New York City.
Sasha Vasilyuk Wins Sami Rohr Prize
The author’s novel Your Presence Is Mandatory (Bloomsbury) has won this year’s Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
- 2025 May 16
Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees
Tom King, Leela Corman, and Olivier Schrauwen are among the nominees in 32 categories for this year’s Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, presented by Comic-Con.
Center for Fiction Honors Murakami
Haruki Murakami will be receive the Lifetime of Excellence in Fiction Award at the Center for Fiction’s annual awards benefit in Brooklyn on December 9.
Yasmin Zaher Wins Dylan Thomas Prize
The Palestinian author’s novel The Coin has won the Dylan Thomas Prize, which awards £20,000 for writers aged 39 or under.
- 2025 May 15
Galal El-Behairy Wins PEN/Barbey Award
The Egyptian poet and lyricist, jailed since 2018, has been awarded the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award.
Orwell Foundation Prize Finalists
Robert Harris, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Mishal Husain are among the 16 finalists for this year’s Political Writing and Political Fiction Prizes, presented by the U.K.-based Orwell Foundation.
Baifang Schell Book Prize Winners
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Edward Wong are this year’s winners of the inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize, which offers $10,000 awards in nonfiction and translated literature categories and is presented by the China Books Review.
Goethe Translator’s Prize Winners
Paul Reitter and Juliane Scholtz are the winners of this year’s Wolff Translator’s Prize and Gutekunst Prize, respectively, both presented by the Goethe-Institut New York.
- 2025 May 13
British Book Award Winners
Percival Everett, Asako Yuzuki, and Alexei Navalny are among the winners of this year’s British Book Awards, presented by the Bookseller. Margaret Atwood also received the British Book Award for Freedom to Publish.
Todd H. Bol Award Winners
Kristen Berthiaume, Katie Frazier, and Reyna Macias are among the winners of Little Free Library’s Todd H. Bol Awards.
- 2025 May 12
Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winners
Jennine Capó Crucet and Willy Vlautin have won this year’s Joyce Carol Oates Prize, presented by the New Literary Project.
- 2025 May 07
‘Writing the Prado’ Residents
Helen Oyeyemi and Mathias Énard have been named writers-in-residence for the third edition of Writing the Prado, a joint initiative between the Prado Museum in Madrid and the Loewe Foundation.
AUPresses Design Selections
The Association of University Presses has announced the 110 selections for this years’ AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.
- 2025 May 06
Sami Rohr Prize Finalists
Toby Lloyd and Sasha Vasilyuk are among the four finalists for this year’s Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
Trillium Book Award Shortlist
Canisia Lubrin and Maurice Vellekoop are among the 16 shortlisted authors for Canada’s Trillium Book Awards, which recognize Ontario-based writers.
- 2025 May 02
Canisia Lubrin Wins Carol Shields Prize
Lubrin’s Code Noir won this year’s Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the world’s largest English-language literary prize for women and nonbinary authors.
- 2025 May 01
The Novelry Launches New Writing Prize
The Next Big Story competition, run by online writing school the Novelry, will award £75,000/$100,000 to one writer based on the first three pages of their unpublished novel. Judges include Tayari Jones, Emma Roberts, and Julia Quinn.
- 2025 Apr 30
Frankfurt Book Fair’s Newest Fellowship
The Frankfurt Fellowship Network—which combines two former funding opportunities—aims to offer younger professionals from the international publishing industry “an intensive training and networking program.”
- 2025 Apr 29
Plutarch Award Shortlist
Cynthia Carr and David Greenberg are among the five shortlisted authors for this year’s Plutarch Award, presented by the Biographers International Organization.
Oregon Book Award Winners
Rebecca Clarren and Kimberly King Parsons are among the seven winners of this year’s Oregon Book Awards, presented by Literary Arts.
- 2025 Apr 28
Winners of the ‘L.A. Times’ Book Prizes
Emily Witt, Jennine Capó Crucet, and Jesse Katz are among the 13 winners of the 45th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.
- 2025 Apr 24
Orange Wins Aspen Words Prize
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange has won the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, presented by the Aspen Institute.
Monocle Design Award Winners
Good Company Bookshop in Portugal and Swiss publisher Park Books are among the winners of this year’s awards for design across all disciplines given by the London-based magazine Monocle.
- 2025 Apr 23
Minnesota Book Award Winners
Kao Kalia Yang, Danez Smith, and Marcie Rendon are among the eight winners of this year’s Minnesota Book Awards, presented by the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library.
‘Bookseller’ Launches New Adult Prize
The new U.K.-based prize, copresented by the Bookseller, recognizes new adult fiction that addresses the “issues and events that arise from the move from adolescence to early adulthood.”
- 2025 Apr 22
Christopher Merrill Wins Ottaway Award
Merrill, director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, has won this year’s Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature.
- 2025 Apr 21
Collette Wins US Goncourt Prize
Sandrine Collette’s novel Madelaine avant l’aube is the winner of this year’s US Goncourt Prize, selected by a jury of 10 university students.
- 2025 Apr 18
Hugo Award Finalists
Kaliane Bradley, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and T. Kingfisher are among the finalists across 21 categories for this year’s Hugo Awards, presented by Seattle Worldcon.
Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists
‘Pemi Aguda and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio are among the five finalists for this year’s Young Lions Fiction Award, presented by the New York Public Library.
- 2025 Apr 16
Time’s 100 Most Influential People
Miranda July and Percival Everett are among this year’s 100 most influential people, as selected by Time magazine.
- 2025 Apr 15
Pushkin House Book Prize Shortlist
Lucy Ash, Benjamin Nathans, and Alexei Navalny are among the six shortlisted authors for the U.K.–based Pushkin House Book Prize, which celebrates nonfiction books that “examine Russian culture, history, politics, and more.”
Hurston/Wright Foundation Renames Awards
The foundation’s annual Legacy Awards have been rebranded as the Zora Awards, in honor of author Zora Neale Hurston, and will now offer $20,000 to debut fiction winners thanks to an anonymous donation.
- 2025 Apr 10
Athenaeum Literary Award Winners
Philadelphia authors Emma Copley Eisenberg and Elizabeth A. Athens are the winners of this year’s Athenaeum Literary Awards, presented by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.
