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Enormous congratulations to Paul Yoon, winner of the 2023 Story Prize for his collection THE HIVE AND THE HONEY (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books 2023)!
The Story Prize recognizes the best short story collection of the year; the prize’s three-person judging panel lauded THE HIVE AND THE HONEY for “its widely varied settings, skillful prose, profundity, and restrained but poignantly evocative tone.” The full text of the judges’ citation can be read at Lit Hub.
Discover THE HIVE AND THE HONEY here.
Congratulations to Isabella Hammad, whose novel Enter Ghost is one of five finalists for the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize!
The Aspen Words Literary Prize is an annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.
The 2024 winner will be announced on April 25th at an awards ceremony at the Morgan Library.
View the full shortlist here.
And discover Enter Ghost (Grove, 2023) here.
Congratulations to Isabella Hammad and Megan Nolan, whose latest novels are longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction! The Women’s Prize for Fiction recognizes “ambitious, inspiring, and thought-provoking novels written by women in English.” Winners in all prize categories will be announced on June 12th.
Read more about the Women’s Prize and view the full longlist here.
Explore Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost (Grove, Atlantic, 2023) here.
Discover Megan Nolan’s Ordinary Human Failings (Little, Brown, 2024) here.
Congratulations to Paul Yoon and Hernan Diaz, who have just been named finalists for the 2024 National Magazine Awards, recognized in the Fiction category!
More information on the National Magazine Awards and a full list of 2024 finalists and winners are available here.
And read the authors’ recognized stories at the links below:
Paul Yoon’s “Valley of the Moon,” in The New Yorker
Hernan Diaz’s “Triptych,” in Harper’s
Congratulations to Megan Nolan, whose ORDINARY HUMAN FAILINGS has been shortlisted for the 2024 Gordon Burn Prize and Nero Book Awards in the UK!
The Gordon Burn Prize recognizes innovative new literature across genres, including “novels which dare to enter history and interrogate the past.” The prize will be awarded in March; the full shortlist is available here.
The Nero Book Awards honor outstanding British and Irish writing. Winners in each category will be announced on January 30th and the Awards’ Book of the Year will be named on March 14th. The full shortlists are available here.
We’re delighted that Matthew Zapruder has been named a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Autobiography for THE STORY OF A POEM! The full list of 2023 finalists for the prize, presented to “the finest books published in English,” is here. Winners will be announced at the 2024 NBCC ceremony on March 21st.
We’re thrilled that Paul Yoon’s THE HIVE AND THE HONEY was just named one of three 2024 finalists for The Story Prize, which recognized the collection’s “seven meticulous stories set in far-ranging times and places that survey the contours of otherness”! Read more about the honor here.
We’re thrilled that Jennifer Haigh’s MERCY STREET has won the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Read more about the honor here.
We are immensely honored to report that Hernan Diaz’s TRUST has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Read the full announcement here.
We’re very proud to announce that Kathleen Alcott has won a 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction with “Temporary Housing,” originally published by Harper’s Magazine. The piece will be included in an anthology forthcoming from Anchor September 2023.
Read the prize-winning story here and Editor Lauren Groff’s essay on her rigorous selection process here.
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