The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British children’s book publisher John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, the Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Fatimah Asghar's Brotherless Night has won the 2024 Carol Shields Prize, a literary award that celebrates creativity and excellence in fiction by women and non-binary writers in Canada and the United States.
The New York Public Library announced that Patricia Evangelista is the winner of the 2024 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism for Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country.
Ben Fountain has been named the Recipient of the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize awarded to a mid-career author of fiction.
The 2024 Pulitzer Prizes were announced last week. Established in 1917 by provisions in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. For our purposes, we'll skip the journalism awards and focus on the book categories. But don't let that stop you from visiting the Pulitzer Website and exploring all the awards.
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars) are presented every spring by the Mystery Writers of America to honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, and film.
On April 25th, the Aspen Words Literary Prize was awarded to Isabella Hammad for her novel, Enter Ghost.
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez has won the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
It was announced last week that the winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for most distinguished original science fiction paperback book published in 2023 is These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs. Special citation was given to The Museum of Human History by by Rebekah Bergman.
The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon as won the 2024 Story Prize, an annual award which recognizes the best short story collection.
Since 1936, the Anisfield-Wolf Awards have recognized books that make important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity. Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book awards in honor of her father, John Anisfield, and husband, Eugene Wolf, to reflect her family’s passion for social justice.
Founded in 1974, the National Book Critics Circle Awards are given annually to honor outstanding writing and to foster a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature. The awards are open to any book published in the United States in English. The National Book Critics Circle comprises more than 700 critics and editors from leading newspapers, magazines and online publications.
In 2006, in honor of real estate developer and philanthropist, Sami Rohr's 80th birthday, his children, George, Evelyn and Lillian, found a way to salute two of Sami’s driving values, the importance of encouraging emerging talent and his love of Jewish literature--by establishing the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award is awarded for a full-length work of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry by an author aged 18 – 35 years. The award for 2024 has been given to Tom Crewe for his novel, The New Life.
The Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History is an American literary award given annually by the New-York Historical Society for an adult non-fiction book on American history or biography.
The National Book Foundation announced its annual 5 Under 35 honorees, a selection of five fiction writers under the age of 35 whose debut work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape. Each honoree was selected by a literary luminary previously honored by the National Book Foundation. Honorees are writers from around the world, under the age of 35, who have published their first and only book of fiction—either a short story collection or a novel—within the last five years.
In 2006, in honor of real estate developer and philanthropist, Sami Rohr's 80th birthday, his children, George, Evelyn and Lillian, found a way to salute two of Sami’s driving values, the importance of encouraging emerging talent and his love of Jewish literature--by establishing the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, presented by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, recognizes superb examples of nonfiction writing that exemplify the literary grace, commitment to serious research, and original reporting that characterized the distinguished work of the award’s namesake, J. Anthony Lukas.
The Aspen Words Literary Prize is an annual award given by the nonprofit literary organization Aspen Words in partnership with NPR for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture. This year, three novels and two short story collections are on the shortlist of nominees.
The Nero Book Awards, maintained by Caffè Nero in partnership with The Booksellers Association, Brunel University London and Right To Dream recognize books written by authors based in the UK and Ireland.
The Libby Book Award winners have been officially announced, making history at the first-annual Libbys ceremony, presented on YouTube by the popular podcast duo, the Professional Book Nerds.
The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature. In the Literary category, prizes are awarded to best fiction, nonfiction, debut author, biography/autobiography, instructional, poetry, children's, and teens.
PEN/Faulkner is a nonprofit literary organization that promotes a lifelong love of reading and a connection to writing through public events, in-school education, and public promotion of exceptional literary achievement. The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is one of the highest honors available to American fiction writers.
