News - Literary Awards

News - Literary Awards

March 15, 2024

CJ Leede's debut novel MAEVE FLY has been nominated for two awards: KillerCon's Splatterpunk Award for Best Novel and the Horror Writers of America's Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. The Splatterpunk Award finalists will be chosen by a panel of judges and named at KillerCon Austin in June, while the 2,000+ members of the Horror Writers of America will vote on their winners, who will be announced at the Annual Bram Stoker Awards Banquet during StokerCon™ 2024 in San Diego, California. MAEVE FLY was published by Tor/Nightfire on June 6, 2023.

March 15, 2024

Monica Heisey’s breakout debut novel REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY has been shortlisted for The British Book Award for Debut Fiction. The awards ceremony will take place on May 13 at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House London and will be streamed online. William Morrow published the novel in the US and Fourth Estate published the novel in the UK on January 17, 2023.

February 23, 2024

COUPLETS by Maggie Millner is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. The awards ceremony will take place on April 19 at USC’s Bovard Auditorium on the eve of the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on February 7, 2023.

February 23, 2024

SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS by Ed Park is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. The awards ceremony will take place on April 19 at USC’s Bovard Auditorium on the eve of the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Random House published the book on November 7, 2023.

February 2, 2024

Antonia Angress is a National Endowment for the Arts 2024 Creative Writing Fellow in Prose. In a statement, Angress said: “When I received the call informing me that I had been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, I was six months pregnant with my first child, knee-deep in revisions on my second novel, and consumed with worries about the future. Once my initial elation and disbelief had worn off, I felt a great weight lift from my shoulders. Even amidst the huge life changes coming my way, the NEA Literature Fellowship will give me financial security, sustained time to focus on my novel-in-progress, and the freedom to immerse myself in the work I love. I am so grateful for this support, this vote of confidence. What an honor. What a tremendous gift.” Ballantine published Angress’ novel SIRENS & MUSES on July 12, 2022.

February 2, 2024

Erica Berry’s WOLFISH is a finalist for the Literary Arts Oregon Book Award’s Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction. The 2024 Oregon Book Awards ceremony takes place April 8, 2024. Flatiron Books published WOLFISH on February 21, 2023.

February 2, 2024

Library of Michigan selected GIRLS AND THEIR MONSTERS by Audrey Clare Farley as one of its 2024 Michigan Notable Books, praising it as “intimate and compassionate.” Grand Central Publishing published the book on June 13, 2023.

January 20, 2024

Idra Novey's TAKE WHAT YOU NEED was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, which is “one of the most significant literature prizes in the world.” The winner will be announced as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin 2024 in May. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED, which publishes in paperback in February, was longlisted for 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023, a Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, NPR, The Guardian Author Pick, and Today. Viking published the book on March 14, 2023.

December 9, 2023

Tyriek White’s acclaimed novel WE ARE A HAUNTING is the winner of The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize. Astra House published the book on April 25, 2023.

December 9, 2023

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant selected Edna Bonhomme as a 2023 Grantee in the category of Short-Form Writing. The grant program “supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging with the visual arts…uplift[ing] the diverse perspectives of writers whose fine-tuned attention to the content and context of contemporary art-making helps to keep artists at the center of cultural conversations and debates—where they belong.” Bonhomme will write “a series of essays animating the reproductive lives of people of African descent as portrayed by contemporary Black feminist artists, filmmakers, and sages.” Atria/One Signal Publishers will publish Bonhomme’s forthcoming nonfiction debut, A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES, on December 3, 2024.