Mona Awad's WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY shortlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize

We’re very excited that We Love You, Bunny (Marysue Rucci Books US, Scribner Canada) by Mona Awad is one of five titles on the shortlist for the 2025 Giller Prize, Canada’s most prestigious literary award!

The Giller Prize awards “the boldness, inventiveness, and transformational power of Canadian literature.” The judges of this year’s prize offered the following beautiful citation for We Love You, Bunny:

A delightfully deranged tale of rivalries, rabbits, murder, desperation and madness. We Love You, Bunny is an unhinged waltz through the corridors of creative academia, blending satire and surreal magical chaos as artistic creations stumble through the night with axes and fall in love, frat parties end in murder, and creative jealousies fuel uncanny powers. As hilarious as it is inventive, Awad’s novel is refreshingly original, bold in imagination and daring in its execution, asking us to consider: What do we owe to art, and what, if anything, does art owe us in return?

The ceremony honouring the 2025 Giller finalists and announcing the winner will take place on Monday, November 17, at 9 p.m. ET on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) TV in Canada and CBC’s YouTube channel.

See the full list of finalists here and discover We Love You, Bunny from Marysue Rucci Books/Simon & Schuster US here!

David Szalay's FLESH shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

We’re thrilled that FLESH by David Szalay (Scribner US, Jonathan Cape UK) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize!

The novel is one of six finalists for the most prestigious literary prize in the UK, with Szalay a previous shortlister for his novel ALL THAT MAN IS. The Booker judges wrote the following about FLESH:

In many ways István is stereotypically masculine–physical, impulsive, barely on speaking terms with his own feelings (and for much of the novel barely speaking: he must rank among the more reticent characters in literature). But somehow, using only the sparest of prose, this hypnotically tense and compelling book becomes an astonishingly moving portrait of a man’s life.

—2025 Booker Judges

The 2025 Booker Prize will be awarded on November 10th at a ceremony in London. See the full Booker shortlist here, and discover David Szalay’s FLESH, published in the US by Scribner, here.

Caolinn Hughes a finalist for the BBC National Short Story Award 2025

Congratulations to Caoilinn Hughes, whose short story “Two Hands,” published by The Paris Review, is a finalist for the BBC National Short Story Award 2025!

The BBC National Short Story Award is one of the UK’s most prestigious short fiction prizes. Judges, all of whom are past winners and who read the stories blindly, selects the recipient from five finalists.
Each of this year’s shortlisted stories will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with an abridged version of “Two Hands” airing the week of September 15th.

The winner will be revealed on September 30th on the BBC program, Front Row.

Carys Davies's CLEAR the 2025 Wales Book of the Year in Fiction

Congratulations to Carys Davies, whose novel CLEAR (Scribner US and Granta Books) has been named the 2025 Wales Book of the Year in Fiction!

The Wales Book of the Year awards program, bestowed by Literature Wales, “plays an essential part in Literature Wales’ programme of activity and contributes to its strategic aim of celebrating and representing Wales’s writers, its heritage and rich literary culture. The prize offers an invaluable platform to both emerging and established writers.”

The judges’ panel wrote the following about Carys Davies’s CLEAR:

“We all loved this book, for its story, for its ambition, for its sentences, for its relevance to our world today. It is an intricately crafted, passionate and remarkable novel. Excellence is always the only criteria, in the end, for a prize, and that’s true for this winning book. Congratulations to Carys Davies, author of this year’s winning book, Clear.”

Learn more about the Wales Book of the Year awards here.

And learn more about Clear here.

Wally Lamb's THE RIVER IS WAITING an Oprah's Book Club selection

Congratulations to Wally Lamb, whose latest novel, THE RIVER IS WAITING, has been selected as part of Oprah’s Book Club!

The news was announced on June 10th on CBS Mornings, followed by an interview with Wally Lamb, Oprah, and the CBS Mornings anchors. See it here, and watch an extended conversation between Oprah and the author for The Oprah Podcast here.

The selection of THE RIVER IS WAITING marks Wally Lamb’s record-breaking third appearance on the Oprah’s Book Club list. (His novel SHE’S COME UNDONE was the book club’s very first selection, in 1997.)

See the official announcement page here, and discover THE RIVER IS WAITING, published by Marysue Rucci Books/Simon & Schuster, here.

Alexandra Fuller a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography

Congratulations to Alexandra Fuller, whose FI: A MEMOIR OF MY SON was one of three finalists for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography!

The Pulitzer committee deemed the memoir “[a]n elegiac meditation on motherhood and grief, written from the rage and pain of losing a child, but in a voice that ultimately resonates with beauty and hard-won acceptance.”

Find the full citation here, and discover FI, published by Grove Press, here.

Marie Howe wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Enormous congratulations to Marie Howe, who has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, published by W.W. Norton!

The Pulitzer committee writes that the collection, “drawn from decades of work,” “mines the day-to-day modern experience for evidence of our shared loneliness, mortality, and holiness.”

Find the full citation page here, and discover Marie Howe’s NEW AND SELECTED POEMS here.

Aria Aber shortlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction

Aria Aber’s GOOD GIRL has been shortlisted for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction!

The Women’s Prize is awarded annually to female writers in the English language and is known as “the greatest celebration of female creativity in the world.”

The winner from among the six nominees will be announced in London on June 12th.

See the shortlist here, and learn more about GOOD GIRL, published in the US by Hogarth, here.

Aria Aber longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction

Aria Aber’s GOOD GIRL is longlisted for the UK’s 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction!

The Women’s Prize is awarded annually to female writers in the English language and is known as “the greatest celebration of female creativity in the world.”

Finalists will be announced April 2nd with a winner reported on June 12th in London.

See the full longlist here, and learn more about GOOD GIRL, published in the US by Hogarth, here.

Isabella Hammad receives the 2024 Encore Award

Congratulations to Isabella Hammad, who has received the Royal Society of Literature’s 2024 Encore Award for ENTER GHOST! The Encore Award celebrates “the achievement of outstanding second novels” by UK writers.

The judges’ citation for ENTER GHOST is below. Find more information about the Encore Award at the Royal Society of Literature online—and discover ENTER GHOST (Grove 2023) here.