Whiting Award
Congratulations to Aisha Sabatini Sloan, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Nonfiction!
The Republic
Chigozie Obioma has joined The Republic as Fiction Editor to launch a new era for the publication as it embraces storytelling in all its forms.
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.
TIME
Read Danté Stewart’s latest opinion piece with TIME Magazine: Progress is not a given. It is won.
NYT
Read Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s op-ed on the resiliency of butterflies in the face of adapting to dramatic changes in climate, food availability and urban development.
Poets.org
Read “1951” by Brenda Hillman, a new poem from her fourth book about time—the final volume of a temporal tetralogy—forthcoming in 2026.
BAFTA
Mr. Loverman, the BBC’s adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s novel, receives 3 BAFTA nominations.
Best Fiction of the Century
Eula Biss, Hisham Matar, Deesha Philyaw, George Saunders, and others among (some!) of the Best Books of the 21st Century (so far).
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Congratulations to Hisham Matar for winning the NBCC Award for Fiction with his novel, My Friends.