National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Congratulations to Hisham Matar for winning the NBCC Award for Fiction with his novel, My Friends.
Yale Library’s Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry
Congratulations to Major Jackson for being awarded the Yale Library’s Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry for his poetry collection, Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2023).
2024 National Book Awards
Congratulations to Hisham Matar (Fiction finalist for My Friends), Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (Poetry winner for Something About Living), and Rowan Ricardo Phillips (Poetry longlist for Silver).
2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards Nominations
Congratulations to Hisham Matar (Fiction finalist for My Friends) and Dawn Lundy Martin (Poetry nominee for Instructions for the Lovers).
Guggenheim Fellows
Congratulations to Airea D. Matthews and Mai Der Vang who were named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows in Poetry.
NAACP
Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo whose Family Lore won a NAACP, alongside the work of nominees Terrance Hayes and Nicole Sealey.
Windham-Campbell
Congratulations to m nourbeSe philip, who is among the recipients of the Windham Campbell Award for Poetry.
Publishers Weekly
Charif Shanahan’s Trace Evidence among 2024 National Book Critics Circle finalists.
ALA
Congratulations to Ibi Zoboi whose Nigeria Jones wins 2024 Coretta Scott King Book Award.
Poetry Foundation
Congratulations to Kimiko Hahn, Cornelius Eady, and Douglas Kearney who were among the 2023 Pegasus Awards winners.