Authors are staging their own protest amid an extraordinary week of action against Israel’s occupation of Gaza. In solidarity with a free Palestine, a group of 29 writers and translators sent a letter ...

PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, which was previously scheduled to be held at the Town Hall in New York City on April 29, although some awards will still be conferred. The ...

The Lambda Literary Foundation announced the finalists for this year's annual awards in numerous LGBTQ categories. Finalists were selected by judges comprised of 70 avid readers, critics, and literary ...

The Kalinga Literary Festival has announced the shortlists for its 2026 Book Awards in five categories – Fiction, Nonfiction, ...

PEN America has announced that two of its tentpole spring events—the World Voices Festival and Literary Awards—will return this year. The festival and awards were canceled in 2024 after a number of ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – All four Kalinga Literary Awards for the year 2024 have gone to women writers. Hindi novelist Nasira Sharma and former assistant secretary-general at the United Nations, Lakshmi ...

Each year, students from all majors submit their best work for our annual Student Literary Awards. They are judged first by a panel of creative writing faculty members, and then the top choices in ...

Novels by four Irish authors are among the 70 books nominated by 80 libraries around the world for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award, which is sponsored by Dublin City Council. Celebrating excellence in ...

The awards have a short and occasionally contentious history. This year, they were met with strong criticism. Given the “consecrating” value accorded to literary awards, the judging panels are closely ...

The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards took place at Sony Hall in New York on June 11, celebrating the achievements of the LGBTQ+ literary community The 36th annual Lambda Literary Awards – celebrating ...

The 57th Dongin Literary Award, a festival of Korean literature shared with readers, selects its annual winner after accumulating recommended works through monthly meetings. The Dongin Literary Award ...

"The fight for free expression never ceases. It is always, as we know, under attack," Hall said to open the ceremony Eugene Gologursky/Getty Tamron Hall hosted the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards, ...