Fiona McFarlane has won the 21st annual Story Prize for her collection Highway Thirteen. The Story Prize’s $20,000 prize is among the largest first-prize amounts of any annual U.S. book award for fiction.The judges—writer and editor Elliott Holt, writer Maurice Read more >
In 2024, Haymarket Books, along with the Mellon Foundation, launched a new fellowship aimed at supporting and uplifting writers impacted by the criminal legal system: The Writing Freedom Fellowship. Today, they’ve announced their second annual cohort of fellows, twenty writers whose Read more >
On this day, approximately 6175 years ago, Frodo Baggins completed his quest to return the One Ring to the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged. The exact details have been muddled by time and legend—reports of Baggins’s ultimate Read more >
On a recent lark to New York’s storied newsstand, Casa Magazines, I was struck by a deep peace. There’s just something about that IRL weekly. Perhaps because unlike scrolling, rifling through pages is a soothing experience. In the best magazines, Read more >
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
The wheel of the year continues, as ever, to turn, and, also, as ever, to feel at once too fast and too slow, a year in which there has been so much daily political chaos that it feels as if Read more >
The eight winners of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced. This annual prize recognizes excellence in fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry written in the English language from anywhere in the world, and is offered as an unrestricted grant of Read more >
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
The world is a vampire. Perhaps you’ve heard! But as doomerism serves none of us, I’ve been looking for the sunny side—if only to rustle up energy for the fights ahead. This being Lit Hub, we’re accustomed to getting our Read more >
The great minds behind Cave Canem, the literary non-profit celebrating poets of the African diaspora, have commissioned a new study tracing the history of Black American arts organizations. “Magnitude and Bond: A Field Study on Black Literary Arts and Service Read more >
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
Lapham’s Quarterly, the magazine of history and ideas founded by the legendary editor Lewis Lapham, who died in July of 2024, announced today that it will relaunch this year under the stewardship of Bard College and its Hannah Arendt Center Read more >
Tonight, in a ceremony at the New School in New York City, the National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its 2024 awards, narrowed down from a long list of finalists in six categories: Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Fiction, Nonfiction, Read more >
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
The Climate Fiction Prize, a new award that means to acknowledge “the best novel-length work of fiction published in the UK engaging with the climate crisis,” has announced its first shortlist. A panel of industry judges assembled a “genre and Read more >
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
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