2021 Robert F. Kennedy Book and Journalism Awards Now Open for Submissions

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has announced that it has opened its 2021 RFK Book and Journalism Awards for submissions. The deadline for all entries is February 1, 2021. The annual competition highlights the best work across student and professional categories on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy's concerns, including human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action. Last ye…   read more

Librarians Throughout the Midwest to Judge Midwest Book Awards

For the first time in the Midwest Independent Publishers Association's thirty-year history, the judging panel for the 2020 Midwest Book Awards is comprised almost entirely of librarians.This year's judges are approximately 95 percent librarians or library directors, 3 percent independent booksellers and 2 percent university staff (who were hand-picked for their subject matter expertise). The libra…   read more

2015 Prizes for Contributors to POETRY Magazine Announced

Prizes awarded to poets, critics, and essayists featured in the magazine over the past year

Poetry magazine awards eight annual prizes for the best work published in Poetry during the past 12 months. Nine poets: Rae Armantrout, Terrance Hayes, Tarfia Faizullah, Jillian Weise, Ming Di, Jennifer Stern, Amy Newman, Jenny Zhang, and Maya Catherine Popa will receive the 2015 prizes for their poems, translations and prose that appeared in Poetry.“Every year, Poetry recognizes the wo…   read more

2020 Audie Award Winners Announced

The Audio Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners for its 2020 Audie Awards® competition, the only awards program in the United States devoted entirely to honoring audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. Winners will be announced at the Audies Gala on March 2, 2021.This year's Audiobook of the Year went to The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11.See a listing of all…   read more