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Today, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced the five finalists for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The judging panel, which this year was comprised of Samantha Hunt, Tania James, and De’Shawn Charles Winslow, selected these finalists from a list of 387 eligible novels and short story collections published by American authors in 2025. “The five vital, […]
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May 28, 2025, 10:00am Last month, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in English—announced its 2025 shortlist. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Toronto on June 4th, and will receive C$130,000. Each other shortlisted poet will be awarded $10,000. Article continues after advertisement […]
‘Book Boyfriends’ and ‘Shadow Daddies’: the men cashing in on Romantasy I called Peak Adaptation way too many times. I have done the same with Booktok writ large. I am not making the same mistake with Romantasy. That said, elaborate costume balls that pay dark-haired dudes thousands of dollars to cosplay as fantasy book characters […]
March 12, 2025, 12:00pm Today, Aspen Words announced its five finalists for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, which awards $35,000 each year to “a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.” This year’s shortlist was chosen by a jury consisting of […]
The finalists for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award have been announced. The award honors the best fiction by permanent American residents within a calendar year. For this 45th iteration of the award, three writers—Bruce Holsinger, Deesha Philyaw, and Luis Alberto Urrea—were chosen to serve as judges. They whittled down the potential award winners to a ten-book-long […]
Achievement in Audiobook Production, presented by Audible Matt Bomer (narrator), Kelly Gildea (director, co-producer), Lauren Klein (producer); Giovanni’s Room Narrators: Clare Brown, Ayanna Dookie, Korey Jackson, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Brittany Pressley, Emana Rachelle, Malika Samuel, Heather Alicia Simms, Diana Bustelo, Tyla Collier, Alejandra Reynoso, David Sadzin, André Santana, Shaun Taylor-Corbett; Producer: Allison Light; New Nigeria County […]
The finalists for the 2nd annual Libby Book Awards were just announced February 4th. The awards are chosen by librarians as the books that best ” captivated readers, sparked conversations, and kept us turning pages late into the night.” The award categories include everything from horror to the trending romantasy. One thing we notice that sets […]
January 13, 2025, 11:00am This morning, The Story Prize—which seeks to recognize the best short story collection published every year—announced its three 2025 finalists, chosen from a total of 107 submissions. “Each of these three story collections is so original in conception and brilliantly executed that only the person who wrote them could have done so. […]
