Guggemheim Fellows
Congratulations to Airea D. Matthews and Mai Der Vang who were named 2024 Guggemheim 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.
Center for Fiction
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Jamila Minnicks, Elizabeth Acevedo longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2023 First Novel Prize.
CLMP
Congratulations to Douglas Kearney and Jenny Xie who are finalists for the 2023 Firecracker Award in nonfiction and poetry. Peruse other authors here.
National Humanities Medal
President Biden awarded a National Humanities Medal to Richard Blanco for work representing “a mosaic of our past, our present, and our future.”
Lambda Literary
Congratulations to all long listed for the Lambda Literary Awards, with a little extra confetti for Akil Kumarasamy, Bushra Rehman, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan.