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Here are the winners of the 2022 Nebula Awards.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American (SFWA) has announced the winners of the 2022 Nebula Awards, one of SFF’s most prestigious honors, “given to the writers of the most outstanding speculative fiction works released in 2022.” Here are Read more >

By Emily Temple

One great short story to read today: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's "Friday Black."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Emily Temple

The ghost of Edgar Allan Poe has taken over Eurovision.

It’s this little American’s first time watching the Eurovision Song Contest (streaming on Peacock), an activity I never thought would overlap with Lit Hub dot com… until Austria performed at last night’s semi-finals with their (already TikTok famous) song “Who Read more >

By Eliza Smith

Shailene Woodley is your new Patricia Highsmith.

Move over, Dame Hellen Mirren, there’s a new Patricia Highsmith in town. Shailene Woodley, star of Big Little Lies and [checks Wikipedia] a lot of films I’ve never heard of (sorry, I am old and there are so many YA Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

One great short story to read today: Donald Barthelme's "Rebecca."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Emily Temple

Arinze Ifeakandu has won the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize.

A couple months off winning the Republic of Consciousness Prize, Arinze Ifeakandu was announced as the winner of the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize at an event tonight in London for his debut short story collection, God’s Children Are Little Broken Read more >

By Janet Manley

Pedro Páramo is coming to Netflix.

Shooting is set to begin on Pedro Páramo, a Spanish-language movie adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s seminal 1958 novella about a man who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will travel to Comala to meet his wayward father for Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

See the cover for Kaveh Akbar's novel Martyr!

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Kaveh Akbar’s forthcoming novel Martyr!, pitched as “a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided Read more >

By Literary Hub

One great short story to read today: Wells Tower's "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Raf Richardson-Carillo

One great short story to read today: Lesley Nneka Arimah's "Who Will Greet You at Home."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Emily Temple

Biographer discovers that Martin Luther King’s harshest criticism of Malcolm X was made up.

Writer Jonathan Eig, whose new biography of Martin Luther King Jr, King: A Life, comes out next week, has discovered that King’s harshest rebuke of Malcolm X was conjured out of thin air. The famous criticism, which appeared in a Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

Mother's Day gifts for literary moms.

The most thankless characters in literary history are mothers. They’re always birthing important characters and assuming the shape of overplayed metaphors and even, sometimes, marrying the fratricidal brother of their dead spouse, yet somehow they’re secondary characters when it comes Read more >

By Literary Hub

Author of children's book about grief charged with murdur-durdur.

“How’d you become a children’s book author?” The answer for Kouri Richins, a Utah mom of three who wrote Are You With Me?, a children’s book about coping with grief, is that she allegedly poisoned her husband, then wrote a Read more >

By Janet Manley

One great short story to read today: Rebecca Curtis's "Fish Rot."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Janet Manley

21 new books out today!

As May continues, and as the incredible fact that summer is almost here looms, here are some exciting new books to consider picking up today. Below, you’ll find a wide-ranging list, from new releases of classic tales and retellings of Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Here are this year's Pulitzer Prize winners.

The winners and nominated finalists of the 107th Pulitzer Prizes were announced today via remote video stream. The winners each take home $15,000 dollars and serious bragging rights, not to mention an instant ticket into a very illustrious club. The Read more >

By Emily Temple