Wallace Stevens Award
Congratulations to Cornelius Eady, winner of the Academy of American Poets 2025 Wallace Stevens Award for a lifetime achievement in Poetry.
Congratulations to Cornelius Eady, winner of the Academy of American Poets 2025 Wallace Stevens Award for a lifetime achievement in Poetry.
The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, announced that it will award George Saunders with the 2025 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL), which will be presented at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner.
Ibi Zoboi’s (S)Kin (Versify / HarperCollins Publishers) has been longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
Mahogany L. Browne’s A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe (Crown Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House) has been longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
The shortlisted novels include Obioma’s The Road to the Country, This Motherless Land by Nikki May, and Sanya by Oyin Olugbile. The winner will be announced in October 2025.
Mahogany L. Browne has been nominated for a NY Emmy for her debut film How to Build A City.
Congratulations to Aisha Sabatini Sloan, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Nonfiction!
Congratulations to Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Congratulations to Marie Howe, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and to Danez Smith, a finalist in poetry for Bluff.
Mr. Loverman, the BBC’s adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s novel, receives 3 BAFTA nominations.