Publishers Weekly
Read this review of Fady Joudah’s Exhibit G: “This is an unflinching and vital book of witness.”
Academy of American Poets Fellowship
The Academy honors Tim Seibles with the 2026 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, which recognizes distinguished poetic achievement.
National Book Awards
Fady Joudah and Brenda Hillman join the shortlist of poets named as finalists for this year’s National Book Award in Poetry.
Macarthur Award
Layli Long Soldier named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow (commonly known as the “genius grant”) from the MacArthur Foundation.
Kirkus Prize
Elizabeth Acevedo’s Anger Is Only a Shadow wins the 2026 Kirkus Prize for Young Reader’s Literature.
BOMB Mag
Tina Chang and Hồng-Ân Trương in conversation with Eugenia Leigh on Lion, photography and poems which reimagine Asian American womanhood.
The New Yorker
Read “New Shoes” a new short story from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hisham Matar.
Center for Fiction
Nafissa Thompson-Spires’ The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford is shortlisted for The Center for Fiction’s 2026 First Novel Prize.
Neustadt Prize
Elizabeth Acevedo wins NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature.
Poetry Foundation
Congratulations to Meg Day, inaugural recipient of the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize for Sound Lasso; and to Stephanie Burt for Super Gay Poems, a finalist in Criticism.