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We Need Diverse Books Opens Nominations for Bookseller Award
We Need Diverse Books, the organization promoting multicultural books and authors, has opened nominations for its inaugural WNDB Bookseller of the Year Award.
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When They Got the Call: PW Speaks with the 2017 Newbery and Caldecott Winners
PW spoke with this year's Caldecott and Newbery Medal winners about what they were doing when the committee called with the good news.
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'A Very Incredible Day': Javaka Steptoe on His 2017 Caldecott Medal
“This has been a very incredible day,” said Javaka Steptoe, referring to the hours following the announcement that he had won the 2017 Caldecott Medal.
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'Completely Gobsmacked': Kelly Barnhill on Her 2017 Newbery Medal
Kelly Barnhill was "dead to the world" when her cell phone rang very early Monday morning.
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Barnhill, Steptoe, 'March: Book Three' Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz
Kelly Barnhill won the Newbery Medal for 'The Girl Who Drank the Moon,' Javaka Steptoe won the Caldecott Medal for 'Radiant Child,' and John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell won the Printz Award for 'March: Book Three.'
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IPA Seeking Nominations for $10,000 Prix Voltaire
The International Publishers Association has opened the call for nominees for its freedom to publish award, which last year was renamed The Prix Voltaire.
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Reported Trump Spending Cuts Would Kill NEH, NEA
In an effort to shrink federal bureaucracy by cutting spending, President-elect Donald Trump and his administration reportedly intend to eliminate the National Endowments for the Humanities and the Arts.
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Zadie Smith, Ann Patchett Among 2016 NBCC Finalists
Thirty finalists, including the author of 'Swing Time,' Zadie Smith, 'LaRose' author Louise Erdrich, and 'Commonwealth' author Ann Patchett, are up for NBCC Awards.
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NBCC Launches Fellowship for Emerging Book Critics
The National Book Critics Circle is launching the NBCC Emerging Critics Fellowship to develop and nurture emerging book critics with training and guidance for one year.
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NEA Announces 2017 Creative Writing Fellowships, Grants
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the recipients of its Creative Writing Fellowships for fiscal year 2017, as well as its grants to nonprofit organizations for literary publishing projects.
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Chapel Hill Restaurant's Book Prize Nourishes Southern Writers, Booksellers
The Crook's Corner restaurant in Chapel Hill has sponsored a literary award since 2013, and recently increased the prize to $5,000 for the best debut novel about the South.
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Village Books Owners to Receive Rittenhouse Award
PubWest has named Chuck and Dee Robinson, owners of Village Books in Bellingham and Lynden, Wash., recipients of the 2017 Jack D. Rittenhouse Award.
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'March: Book Three' Wins 2016 NBA for Young People's Literature
Members of the publishing industry gathered at Cipriani Wall Street for the 67th National Book Awards, where John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell won for 'March: Book Three.'
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'March,' Borzutzky, Kendi, and Whitehead Win 2016 National Book Awards
At the 67th National Book Awards, held at Cipriani New York in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday night, the junction where politics and publishing meet was in the spotlight from the start.
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Madeline Thien Wins 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Thien has won the Canadian literary prize, which comes with a C$100,000 purse, for her novel 'Do Not Say We Have Nothing.'
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'New York Times Book Review' Announces Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2016
The 'New York Times Book Review' has revealed the 10 titles on its 64th annual list of Best Illustrated Children's Books.
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Paul Beatty Wins 2016 Man Booker Prize
Paul Beatty has won the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 'The Sellout,' making him the first American author to win the award.
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Exploring Bob Dylan's Slim Bibliography
Rounding up all 'PW' coverage of books penned by the 2016 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan.
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Internet Reacts to Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
The Internet proved predictably opinionated upon learning that Bob Dylan had been chosen as the 2016 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Bob Dylan Wins 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature
Songwriter and lyricist Bob Dylan was named the 109th laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 13, for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
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