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Souvankham Thammavongsa Wins 2020 Giller Prize
In a ceremony streamed live on Facebook, Souvankham Thammavongsa was awarded the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her collection of short stories 'How to Pronounce Knife.' It comes with a C$100,000 prize.
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Center for Fiction Debuts Susan Kamil Award for Emerging Writers
The Center for Fiction announced the establishment of the Susan Kamil Award for Emerging Writers, a new award to honor the memory and influence of the late Kamil, who was former executive v-p and publisher of the Random House imprint.
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Ford, Mellon Team to Award $1M In Grants to Disability Futures Fellows
The Ford and Andrew W. Mellon foundations have joined forces to launch Disability Futures Fellows, a new funding initiative designed to provide support to and raise the visibility of disabled creatives.
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PW Star Watch 2020 Superstar: Nivia Evans
Nivia Evans, editor at Orbit Books, was named PW Star Watch Superstar at a virtual celebration held over Zoom by Publishers Weekly and Frankfurter Buchmesse on October 13.
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Louise Glück Wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to the American poet Louise Glück, making her the second American laureate in five years after a nearly quarter-century drought. A new collection, 'Winter Recipes from the Collective,' will be released next year.
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These Authors Are MacArthur Fellows for 2020
National Book Award winning author Jacqueline Woodson, acclaimed sci-fi author N.K. Jemisin, and novelist Cristina Rivera Garza were among the handful of authors chosen to receive this year’s 21 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowships.
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Selfies Adds Kids' Category, Announces 2021 Dates
The U.S. Selfies book awards, which recognize self-published authors, has added a children’s prize to go along with its adult fiction award. The 2021 awards submission period opens on January 1, 2021, and closes the night of March 1, 2021.
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2020 NBA Finalists Announced
The finalists for the National Book Awards in five categories have been named, and the winner in each category will be announced at a virtual ceremony in New York City on November 18.
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PW Star Watch 2020 Finalists Announced
Five finalists have been chosen by the jurors of PW Star Watch for 2020 from among a group of 40 honorees. A virtual party and the announcement of this year's Superstar will be held October 13.
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PEN Alters Emerging Voices Fellowships, Prompting Community Protest
A group of writers and others associated with the PEN America community has publicly decried what it calls the "dismantling" of the nonprofit's Emerging Voices fellowships, even as senior leadership at PEN America released a missive over the weekend pledging to implement "a structured program that will be deeply informed by and will expand upon" those fellowships.
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2020 NBA Longlists Announced
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2020 National Book Award longlists. The five finalists for each award will be named on October 6, and the winners for each will be announced during a virtual ceremony on November 18.
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Two Dollar Radio Wins 2020 Voice of the Heartland Award
Two Dollar Radio, a Columbus, Ohio–based indie press that operates a bookstore/cafe, will receive this year's Voice of the Heartland Award, co-sponsored by the Great Lakes Indie Booksellers and Midwest Indie Booksellers.
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Five Win 2020 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes
The 2020 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes were announced today and were given to 'Conjunctions,' 'Foglifter,' 'Kweli,' 'Nat. Brut,' and 'One Story.'
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PW Star Watch 2020 Honorees Named
'Publishers Weekly' and Frankfurter Buchmesse have named 40 publishing professionals as honorees for PW Star Watch 2020, the annual publishing and bookselling award now in its sixth year.
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Booker Prize Shortlist Highlights Debuts, Women, Indies
Six titles made the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize for Fiction, of which four are debuts. The list is also notably diverse, with four female finalists and four titles coming from independent publishers.
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Clavis CEO Sets Sights on U.S. Talent
Clavis Publisher and CEO Philippe Werck believes there is illustration talent all over the world—and in launching the U.S. Key Colors Competition, he set out to find it. (Sponsored)
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Clavis Inaugurates U.S. Key Colors Competition in Style
The first U.S. Key Colors Competition received 156 entries and culminated in a livestreamed awards ceremony on Aug. 17. (Sponsored)
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First U.S. Key Colors Competition Honors Two Runners-Up
Susie Oh’s Soomi's Sweater and Emma Ward’s Doris’s Dear Delinquents were named runners-up in the inaugural U.S. Key Colors Competition. Both authors will receive publishing contracts from Clavis Publishing. (Sponsored)
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Clavis Names Amal Karzai’s ‘My Key’ Winner of Inaugural U.S. Key Colors Competition
Karzai’s picture book My Key was awarded top honors—$8,000 and a publishing contract from Clavis—in the first-ever Key Colors Competition in the United States. (Sponsored)
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Boston Picks Grace Talusan Story for One City Story
The Boston Book Festival has announced that a short story by Grace Talusan is the 10th annual selection for its One City One Story initiative.
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