Andrew Garfield, Percival Everett and Attica Locke are among the finalists for the 45th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-02-19 11:00:10 UTC ]
'The breadth, quality, bravery, and importance of political writing:' the Publishers Association's Dan Conway on the Westminster Book Awards The post London’s Westminster Book Awards: The 2025 Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-02-13 19:14:42 UTC ]
Out of 1,100 submissions, writer Giada Scodellaro’s Ruins, Child has won the 2024 Novel Prize, and will be published early next year. The Novel Prize is awarded biennially to an unpublished work of literary fiction and “rewards novels that explore and expand the possibilities of the form, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-13 18:21:05 UTC ]
This week, the 43rd John Dos Passos Prize was awarded to novelist and editor Angie Cruz (How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water; Dominicana; Let it Rain Coffee) by Longwood University. The Dos Passos Prize is the oldest literary award given by a Virginia college or university, and every year... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-07 18:33:55 UTC ]
This Thursday, Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, and the Center for Justice Innovation announced the shortlist for the 2025 Inside Literary Prize. The Inside Prize is the first-ever US-based literary award to be given by currently incarcerated people. Imani Perry was the inaugural... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-31 20:40:40 UTC ]
Hooray, a spot of good news! The Gotham Book Prize, given annually to recognize a new book about New York City, has just released its list of finalists. Formed in 2020 by Howard Wolfson of Bloomberg Philanthropies and Bradley Tusk, who owns the indie bookstore P&T Knitwear, the Gotham Prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-31 16:59:30 UTC ]
Scotland's Highland Book Prize longlist features nonfiction, fiction, and poetry this year, an award for trade publishers and authors. The post Scotland’s Highland Book Prize Names Its Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-01-30 12:36:09 UTC ]
The winners of this year's Youth Media Awards, influencers attempt to predict the next big book thing, Bookshop.org sells eBooks, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-29 16:00:00 UTC ]
'10/7: 100 Human Stories,' Lee Yaron's account of the October 7 attack on Israeli civilians, was named the Jewish Book Council's Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
Barry Blitt, Jack Ohman, and Jen Sorensen discuss the promise and many perils of their chosen artform. Editorial cartoons and illustration are fairly niche topics—or so I once thought. On Jan. 3, cartoonist Ann Telnaes published Why I’m quitting the Washington Post on her Substack. It detailed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-01-21 11:00:00 UTC ]
Newly released longlists from the Zayed Award are in categories of translation, criticism, and 'contribution to nation building.' The post UAE: Sheikh Zayed Book Award Releases Three More Longlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-12-17 18:43:11 UTC ]
Sex and the City star says it is ‘the thrill of a life’ to be appointed to 2025 panel alongside Roddy Doyle, Kiley Reid and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to pick year’s best novelHer Cosmopolitan-sipping, Manolo-wearing, wise-cracking Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City was a generation-defining star turn.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-12-14 14:00:18 UTC ]
The author's YA novel, 'Eat and Get Gas,' was selected from among hundreds of submissions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
'Tis the season for Best Books of the Year lists! Here are some of the picks for the best children's books of 2024, plus more kidlit news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-12-12 13:00:00 UTC ]
Joseph Earl Thomas won this year’s Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for his book God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer. Congratulations! The novel has made it onto several best-of-2024 lists, and has been praised as “a powerful examination of every day black life–of health and sex, race and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-12-11 16:36:55 UTC ]
Sex and the City star says being asked ‘felt very daunting’, as she signs up to pick the year’s best novel with Roddy Doyle, Kiley Reid and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀Sarah Jessica Parker is on the judging panel of the 2025 Booker prize, it has been announced today.Though on the face of it, the American... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-12-10 11:48:06 UTC ]
The actress and publisher will help decide the 2025 winner of the prestigious British book award. It is “the thrill of a life,” she said. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-12-10 09:13:22 UTC ]
Richard Adams Carey’s study of the caviar industry scores a narrow victory over How to Dungeon Master ParentingThe Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire has been crowned the winner of the Diagram prize for the oddest book title of the year.The book, by Richard Adams... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-12-09 14:29:45 UTC ]
The 19th Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces its new longlists in the categories of Literature, Young Author, Children’s Literature, and Editing of Arabic Manuscripts. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Four of 10 Categories s is the norm for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-12-07 02:13:52 UTC ]
In the narrowest win in the award’s history, the 2024 Bookseller’s Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year goes to The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire, a study of the mysterious and endangered fish, its eggs, and their significance by Richard Adams... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-12-06 17:29:25 UTC ]