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Choi, Desai, Kitamura Among Booker Prize Finalists
The six finalists include Americans Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura as well as previous winner Kieran Desai. The winner will be announced November 10.
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Self-Publishers Rise Up at 2025 Ignatz Awards
While Fantagraphics took home two of the evening’s biggest prizes, independent creators made a strong showing at the 28th annual Ignatz Awards, presented on September 13 at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Md.
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2025 National Book Award Longlists Announced
The National Book Foundation has unveiled the longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards. The five finalists in each category will be named on October 7, and winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony in New York City on November 19.
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NEA’s Creative Writing Fellowship Program Canceled
On August 22, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying that the program had been “withdrawn.”
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2025 American Manga Award Winners Announced
Kodansha and Square Enix each took home two of the night’s six awards, which were launched last year to honor outstanding achievements in the world of Japanese comics. The ceremony, held August 21, coincided with the first day of this year’s Anime NYC convention in New York.
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2025 Booker Prize Longlist Announced
This year’s longlist comprises 13 novels by authors representing nine different nationalities. Among the longlisted titles are Susan Choi’s Flashlight and Katie Kitamura’s Audition.
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Hulls, Sacco, Yang Take Home 2025 Eisner Awards
Tessa Hulls’s Feeding Ghosts, Joe Sacco’s The War on Gaza, and Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham’s Lunar New Year Love Story won big at the 37th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, held July 25 at San Diego Comic-Con.
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The Novelry Offers $100,000 Prize to Break Publishing Barriers
The Novelry, an online creative writing school founded by author Louise Dean, has launched the Next Big Story competition, a $100,000 prize aimed at reaching writers outside traditional publishing circles.
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2025 American Manga Award Nominees Announced
Anime NYC and Japan Society have announced the 35 nominees for the second annual American Manga Awards, set to take place on August 21.
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Young Lions Fiction Award Celebrates 25 Years
The annual award, founded in 2001 and presented by the New York Public Library’s Young Lions, a membership organization for library supporters in their 20s and 30s, celebrates works of fiction by authors ages 35 and younger. At a ceremony last night at the NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, this year’s prize went to Alexander Sammartino’s Last Acts.
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