The American Academy of Poets launched National Poetry Month in 1996. Since then, April has been synonymous in some circles with verse. Even before that, the dawn of spring has felt poetic. Eliot called it the cruelest month, well before Read more >
It’s April 1st, the first of the month in a year that has felt like living out political headlines better suited to April Fool’s Day, but I fool you not when I say that today is a special day, indeed, Read more >
Spring is soiree season. You heard it here first. And a few recent books—like Aria Aber’s novel Good Girl, or Emily Witt’s investigative memoir, Health and Safety—have revived an age-old character about which the soiree orbits. The party girl. I 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 >
Beloved indie magazine The Rumpus will be getting new owners on May 1st. Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman are set to take over from Alyson Sinclair, who has been running The Rumpus since 2022. Roxanne Gay has been working with the Read more >
This week, the Lit Hub staff is thriving off IRL engagements—podcast tapings, baby book clubs, canvassing, and music fests. If there’s a theme, it’s congregation. If there’s a theme song, it may be Bjork’s “Human Behavior.” (Emphasis mine.) We hope you 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 >
April is here, the fourth (and, for Eliot, the cruelest) month in a year that has felt like many cruel years already, dense with the weight of so much political tumult. But it may also be a month of beauty 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 >
These are dire times. Human rights, and especially the rights of trans folks, are under attack. And thankfully, some of the crime fiction community has come together to fight back. For the next week, leading up to the March 31st Read more >
Callaloo, the journal of writing and art from the African diaspora, announced that it will be partnering with Brown University and its Department of Literary Arts. It’s an exciting next step for the nearly 50-year-old publication, and this new home 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 >
Today, the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction—founded last year “to amplify female voices, whilst celebrating books that inform, challenge, disrupt, and offer solace and connection”—announced its 2025 shortlist: six books, whittled down from a longlist of 16, that span subjects from Read more >
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 >
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