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2020 NBA Longlists Announced
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2020 National Book Award longlists. The five finalists for each award will be named on October 6, and the winners for each will be announced during a virtual ceremony on November 18.
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Two Dollar Radio Wins 2020 Voice of the Heartland Award
Two Dollar Radio, a Columbus, Ohio–based indie press that operates a bookstore/cafe, will receive this year's Voice of the Heartland Award, co-sponsored by the Great Lakes Indie Booksellers and Midwest Indie Booksellers.
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Five Win 2020 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes
The 2020 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes were announced today and were given to 'Conjunctions,' 'Foglifter,' 'Kweli,' 'Nat. Brut,' and 'One Story.'
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PW Star Watch 2020 Honorees Named
'Publishers Weekly' and Frankfurter Buchmesse have named 40 publishing professionals as honorees for PW Star Watch 2020, the annual publishing and bookselling award now in its sixth year.
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Booker Prize Shortlist Highlights Debuts, Women, Indies
Six titles made the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize for Fiction, of which four are debuts. The list is also notably diverse, with four female finalists and four titles coming from independent publishers.
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Clavis CEO Sets Sights on U.S. Talent
Clavis Publisher and CEO Philippe Werck believes there is illustration talent all over the world—and in launching the U.S. Key Colors Competition, he set out to find it. (Sponsored)
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Clavis Inaugurates U.S. Key Colors Competition in Style
The first U.S. Key Colors Competition received 156 entries and culminated in a livestreamed awards ceremony on Aug. 17. (Sponsored)
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First U.S. Key Colors Competition Honors Two Runners-Up
Susie Oh’s Soomi's Sweater and Emma Ward’s Doris’s Dear Delinquents were named runners-up in the inaugural U.S. Key Colors Competition. Both authors will receive publishing contracts from Clavis Publishing. (Sponsored)
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Clavis Names Amal Karzai’s ‘My Key’ Winner of Inaugural U.S. Key Colors Competition
Karzai’s picture book My Key was awarded top honors—$8,000 and a publishing contract from Clavis—in the first-ever Key Colors Competition in the United States. (Sponsored)
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Boston Picks Grace Talusan Story for One City Story
The Boston Book Festival has announced that a short story by Grace Talusan is the 10th annual selection for its One City One Story initiative.
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L.A. Times Book Prize Winners Acceptance Speeches
The 40th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced on Twitter on April 17, and this week, the winners shared video acceptance speeches on YouTube.
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2020 National Book Awards Ceremony Will Be Virtual
This year's National Book Awards ceremony, which is typically a glittery black-tie ball at Cipriani Wall Street in lower Manhattan, will instead be a virtual event, hosted online on November 18.
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Catching Up with C. Spike Trotman
2015 PW Star Watch honoree C. Spike Trotman has expanded her Iron Circus Comics into a number of new areas.
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NEA Awards $1.4 Million to Literary Organizations
The National Endowment for the Arts announced $84 million in grants for 1,144 projects, including 62 for literary arts organizations, worth a total of $1.4 million.
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Selfies Book Awards Announce Shortlist
'Publishers Weekly' and the U.K.'s' BookBrunch' announced the five titles chosen for the shortlist for the Selfies book awards for self-published authors in the U.S.
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2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships Announced
The Academy of American Poets has announced its 2020 Poets Laureate Fellows. The 23 fellowships are intended to help the poets lead civic poetry programs in their communities over the next year.
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2020 Amazon Literary Partnership Grant Recipients Announced
The Amazon Literary Partnership has announced $1 million in grant funding to 66 organizations across the publishing industry.
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RWA Retires RITA Awards, Debuts the 'Vivian' After a Winter of Controversy
The Romance Writers of America will permanently retire its annual RITA Awards, which it has presented annually since 1982, and introduce a new award, the Vivian, following a controversy related to issues of diversity at the organization over the winter.
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Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers
The 2020 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters were awarded in the book categories of fiction, history, biography, poetry, and general nonfiction, for books published in 2019, on May 4 via YouTube.
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PW Star Watch: Looking Back with Superstar Jenn Baker
As we start gathering nominations for this year's annual Star Watch program, we are catching up with some past honorees to see where they are in their careers. First up is Jenn Baker, last year's Superstar.