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Ling Ma’s ‘Bliss Montage’ Wins $20,000 Story Prize

Ling Ma’s “Bliss Montage,” a collection which blends the real and the surreal, has won the Story Prize for best short fiction … The two other finalists, Andrea Barrett for “Natural History” and Morgan Talty for “Night of the Living Rez,” each will get $5,000. Read more

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Winners of PEN America Literary Awards Announced

Since 1963, the PEN America Literary Awards Program has honored outstanding voices in fiction, poetry, science writing, essays, biography, children’s literature, translation, drama, and more. With the help of our generous partners and supporters, this year PEN America conferred over 20 distinct juried awards, grants, and prizes, awarding more than $350,000 to more than 40 writers and translators. Read more

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Julie Otsuka, Ed Yong Win ALA’s 2023 Carnegie Medals

The American Library Association has announced that The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (Knopf) has won the American Library Association’s 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, while An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong (Random House) took home the medal for nonfiction. Read more

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