Whiting Award
Congratulations to Aisha Sabatini Sloan, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Nonfiction!
Guggenheim
Congratulations to Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Pulitzer Prizes 2025
Congratulations to Marie Howe, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and to Danez Smith, a finalist in poetry for Bluff.
BAFTA
Mr. Loverman, the BBC’s adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s novel, receives 3 BAFTA nominations.
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.