The National Book Foundation announced the five writers under 35 whose debut novels or short story collections promise “to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.” This year’s 5 Under 35 honorees are short story writers, prose-poets, and novelists who have won numerous honors and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-04-02 16:05:40 UTC ]
Tonight, the National Book Foundation celebrates the 75th anniversary of the National Book Awards. To mark the milestone, we’ve compiled archival images from the awards’ history and asked former and current leaders of the foundation to recount highlights from their tenures. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
Following the publication of two articles critical of several titles in the Black Classic Press backlist, the National Book Foundation confirmed that it will move forward with honoring its founder, W. Paul Coates, with its lifetime achievement award at this year’s National Book Awards ceremony. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
The United States' National Book Foundation releases its 2024 slate of five shortlists for the 75th National Book Awards cycle. The post The US National Book Awards’ 2024 Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-10-01 14:33:15 UTC ]
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards in all five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. The finalists were selected from a starting total of 1,917 books submitted by publishers this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-10-01 14:15:26 UTC ]
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2024 National Book Award shortlists. The winners in each of the five categories will be announced at an awards ceremony on November 20. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Foundation is announcing the 2024 National Book Award longlists this week. Five finalists in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature—will be named October 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Foundation has revealed the 2024 National Book Award longlist for Young People's Literature. The five finalists will be named on October 1, and the winner will be announced during the 75th awards ceremony on November 20 in New York City. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Hawthornden Foundation has made possible these grants going to 49 nonprofit programs serving readers and writers. The post The US National Book Foundation Issues $350,000 in Grants appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-08-14 22:42:47 UTC ]
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the 2024/25 recipients of the National Teacher Fellowship, a program, only in its second year, “that supports and celebrates 6th-12th grade teachers using innovative methods to make reading for pleasure a part of their students’ school day... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-08-14 14:00:55 UTC ]
The National Book Foundation program, launched in 2017, has distributed more than two million free books to young people and families in public housing communities across the United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
If you’re reading Lit Hub, it’s a fair guess that you have fond memories of school reading challenges over summer break, those individual and classroom-wide challenges to log your summer’s reading, show off, and maybe earn a prize in September. I definitely remember logging my books every... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-29 14:30:35 UTC ]
Ah, 35, that mystical line between emerging writers and… old ones. Though I move ever further in the wrong direction from said line I am nonetheless happy to celebrate this latest crop of “young” writers, announced today by the National Book Foundation, as they contemplate the imminence of their... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-03-19 14:46:03 UTC ]
Today, the National Book Foundation announced a change in the eligibility criteria for the annual National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. Beginning with the 75th National Book Awards, submissions for which open on March 13 of this year, the prizes... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-15 15:30:03 UTC ]
“The world here beats faster than a hummingbird’s wings,” writes Alexandra Chang in her new collection Tomb Sweeping. Chang, the author of Days of Distraction and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 recipient, writes poignantly about tenuous connection. In these stories, a wealthy housewife... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-11-02 11:00:00 UTC ]
The actor and literacy advocate will host the ceremony after the National Book Foundation dropped its original host, Drew Barrymore. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-10-13 14:37:31 UTC ]
Today, the National Book Foundation announced their finalists for the 2023 National Book Awards in five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. Five winners will be selected from the twenty-five finalists and announced on Wednesday, November... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-10-03 14:15:17 UTC ]
The National Book Foundation has revealed the five finalists for the 2023 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2022 National Book Award longlists. Five finalists in each of the five categories will be announced at an awards ceremony on November 15. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction. The ten titles on the longlist were selected from a pool of 496 books submitted for consideration by their publishers; this year’s judges for Fiction are Steph Cha, Calvin Crosby, Silas... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-09-15 14:15:56 UTC ]