Orion Book Award Finalists: Free Samples
Snubbed by the Pulitzer Prize board, novelist Karen Russell has been named one of the five finalists for the Orion Book Award.
Check it out: “Each spring near Earth Day, an important work of fiction or nonfiction is presented with the Orion Book ...
E.L. James Makes TIME 100 List
Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James debuted on TIME magazine’s TIME 100 list this year, joining comedians turned writers and Steve Jobs’ biographer on the prestigious list.
TIME editor-at-large Brenda Luscombe wrote: “Six months ag...
No Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Awarded
There was no Pulitzer Prize for fiction awarded this year. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, Swamplandia! by Karen Russell and The Pale King by David Foster Wallace were all nominated.
Stephen Greenblatt won the General Nonfiction award for The Swerve: ...
Huffington Post Wins Pulitzer Prize; Read the eBook
The seven-year-old Huffington Post has won its first Pulitzer Prize for “Beyond the Battlefield,” a ten-part series about veterans by military correspondent David Wood. The series is also collected in a $4.99 eBook published by The Huffing...
Guggenheim Fellows Revealed for 2012
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has released its list of 2012 Fellows for the U.S. and Canada and the list includes a number of literary winners.
Robert S. Levine won the fellowship for American Literature. The English Literature fellow...
Free Samples of Indies Choice Book Award Winners
The American Booksellers Association (ABA) has revealed the winners of the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, books that show “the spirit of independent bookstores.” Below, we’ve linked to free sample...
P&W Lists Top Literary Grants
As a publication dedicated to serious players in the publication and literary world, Poets & Writers is packed with inspiration and expert guidance needed for all stages of the writing process. There are no articles promising unrealistic fame and...
Nominate a Young Editor for the Ashmead Award
Publishing professionals can nominate their favorite young editor for the 2012 Ashmead Award. The winner will get a trip to the Yale Publishing Course in July.
Last year’s winner, Whitney Frick, was recently promoted to editor at Simon & Schuster...
Patrick deWitt Wins the Tournament of Books
Patrick deWitt has won The Morning News’ annual Tournament of Books.
The contest pits novels in a competitive bracket like basketball teams during the NCAA tournament. The two finalists this year were deWitt’s The Sister Brothers and Teju ...
Four Book Bloggers Will Win Free Trip to BEA
To celebrate the role book bloggers play in the industry, Association of American Publishers members and Goodreads have teamed up for the Independent Book Blogger Awards.
Four bloggers will win a trip to BookExpo America (BEA) along with “free ai...
NBCC Awards on C-SPAN This Weekend
This year's NBCC Awards will be broadcast three times this weekend on C-SPAN's BookTV. Here are the dates (all times Eastern):
Saturday, March 31, 8 a.m.
Sunday, April 1, 4:30 a.m.
Sunday, April 1, 3 p.m.
Starting Monday the broadca...
David Mitchell Gets $20,000 Award for Stay in U.S.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has given novelist David Mitchell the $20,000 E.M. Forster Award. The prize intended to help “a young writer from the United Kingdom or Ireland for a stay in the United States.”
In all, the academy g...
