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Sigrid Nunez, Anne Enright Among 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize Winners
The eight winners span the categories of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, and each will receive a purse of $175,000. Since their establishment in 2013, the Windham-Campbell Prizes have awarded more than $19 million in prize money.
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Abdurraqib, Carson, Matar Among 2025 NBCC Award Winners
Hanif Abdurraqib, Anne Carson, and Hisham Matar are among the winners of the 50th annual National Book Critics Circle Awards, presented at a ceremony in Manhattan on March 20.
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‘My Name Is Barbra’ Wins Audiobook of the Year at 2025 Audie Awards
At the 30th annual Audies, presented by the Audio Publishers Association and held in New York City on March 4, winners across 28 categories were announced. Barbra Streisand’s memoir took home the night's biggest honor, Audiobook of the Year.
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AAP Announces 2025 Prose Award Category Winners
The Association of American Publishers has announced the 37 category winners for the 49th annual PROSE Awards honoring professional and scholarly works published in 2024.
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2025 International Booker Prize Longlist Announced
This year's 13-book International Booker Prize longlist comprises 11 novels and two short story collections translated from 10 languages. The six-book shortlist will be revealed on April 8, and the winner will be named on May 20.
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Spotify Launches Mental Health Fiction Awards with the Black List, Jed Foundation
Spotify has partnered with the Black List and the Jed Foundation on the Spotify x JED Impact Award, a program that will award five $10,000 grants to authors of unpublished manuscripts featuring mental health narratives.
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Future of Libraries, Arts Agencies Unclear Amid Federal Funding Freeze
An order to freeze all federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance has been rescinded for now, but the Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Endowment for the Arts, and other agencies are preparing for potential cuts to their funding.
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When They Got the Call: PW Speaks with the 2025 Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz Winners
The annual Youth Media Awards were announced on January 27 during the American Library Association’s final LibLearnX conference. See our interviews with the winners of the three top prizes.
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Samuel Teer and Mar Julia's Printz Win: 'Hooting and Hollering'
When Samuel Teer and Mar Julia, author and illustrator of 'Brownstone', received word on Sunday that their graphic novel had won the 2025 Michael L. Printz Award, neither was anticipating the call.
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Rebecca Lee Kunz’s Caldecott Win: 'Beyond Grateful'
Artist Rebecca Lee Kunz's three daughters—ages 11, 14, and 17—were making art on the family’s kitchen table when she received the call that her debut picture book, 'Chooch Helped,' had won the Caldecott Medal. “At first, I wasn’t sure what was going on—it was surreal,” she told PW.
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