Ling Ma, Morgan Talty, Boris Dralyuk and Isaac Butler are among the winners of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards announced during a ceremony Thursday night at the New School in New York City. Read more
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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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The award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.” Read more
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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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LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful. Watch trailer
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Cindy Juyoung Ok, whose manuscript “Ward Toward” was hailed for its inventiveness and frankness, has received America’s longest-running poetry prize. Read more
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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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Founded in 1982 at San Jose State University in California, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels. Read more
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Harvard professor Tiya Miles’s book about the history of an enslaved mother and her daughter has won this year’s US$75,000 Cundill History Prize. Read more
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The list, selected by AudioFile editors each year, recognizes audiobooks in nine categories: fiction, nonfiction and culture, mystery and suspense, memoir, biography and history, science fiction and fantasy, romance, young adult, and children and family listening. Read more
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