The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2026 Locus Awards on May 30, 2026, during the Bay Area Book Festival. Read more
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Category: Awards
‘Hellions’ Author Julia Elliott Wins $150K Fiction Prize
Writer Julia Elliott has won this year’s Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for her short story collection Hellions. The award honors work by women and nonbinary authors in the U.S. and Canada. Elliott, who also authored the novel The New and Improved Romie Futch and the short story collection The Wilds, is known for blending elements of Southern gothic horror, surrealism and fairy tale. Read more
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‘Taiwan Travelogue’ Wins the 2026 International Booker Prize
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue has won the 2026 International Booker Prize, awarded each year to the best work of fiction translated into English. It’s the first work translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker. Read more
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American Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney Wins Dylan Thomas Prize for ‘Blistering’ Debut Poetry Collection
The £20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to Joy Is My Middle Name, a collection about navigating race, addiction and womanhood. Read more
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Marianne Boruch Wins $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize
Boruch is an emeritus professor of creative writing at Purdue University, where she founded the MFA program and taught for more than thirty years. She has written eleven books of poetry, most recently Bestiary Dark (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), as well as essays, memoir, and hybrid work. Her previous honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for The Book of Hours (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) and numerous fellowships. Upon learning that she is this year’s Jackson Poetry Prize winner, Boruch reacted with disarming modesty, asking: “Are you kidding?” Read more
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Here Are the 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon, celebrating two dozen winners across journalism and the arts. Read more
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2026 Edgar Award Winners Announced
Last night in New York City, the Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 80th annual Edgar Awards. Read more
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Winners of the $175K Windham-Campbell Prize Announced
The “financial security” that comes with the grant allows writers “the time, space and creative freedom to think, write and nurture their talent”said Michael Kelleher, director of the Windham-Campbell prizes, adding that the arts are “facing more challenges now than ever before”. Read more
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Andre Alexis Has Won the 2025 Story Prize
“Other Worlds so seamlessly traverses the boundaries of time, of nationality, and of genre that such boundaries seem diaphanous,” noted the judges. “This fleet-footed collection is both rooted in oral and literary traditions and yet entirely contemporary. Being many things at once, full of sly innovations, and quietly upending conventions, Other Worlds is wholly original and wholly itself.” Read more
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National Book Critics Circle Announces 2025 Winners
Winners were chosen based on their ability to cover both timely and timeless topics, according to a press release. Read more
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