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The incredible Jesmyn Ward has reached a two-book deal with an imprint of Simon & Schuster’s Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Caitlyn Dlouhy Books and Scribner. Ward’s next adult-focused novel, which is still untitled, will remain squarely focused on the South like her previous work. It follows an enslaved woman who is sent from the […]

National Book Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson recently signed a book deal with Riverhead Books, the same company that published best sellers by Marlon James, Junot Diaz, and Mohsin Hamid. Riverhead will publish a fiction novel and a nonfiction book.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty6z9QMFKNw I want to join the chorus of the many in honoring Nikky Finney for being awarded the National Book Award for Poetry. Her written words and the recounting of her words in her own voice are amazing. And, I use the term amazing not in the typical ways in which we use it to […]

National Book Award winning author and four-time Newberry Award winner Jacqueline Woodson has just released an excerpt and cover art from her new book, Harbor Me. Another new book, The Day You Begin is set to release alongside Harbor Me on August 28, four years after her National Book Award winning effort, Brown Girl Dreaming, was […]

According to the LA Times, the National Book Awards will be streamed live on Facebook on November 15th in New York City via the National Book Foundation’s Facebook page. Past National Book Awards ceremonies have been live-streamed on the National Book Awards site, but it is assumed that the change to Facebook Live will open […]

Early Wednesday morning the National Book Awards committees cut down their long lists of forty works to the final twenty book selections across Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction and Young People’s Literature categories. According to NPR, two legacy winners have already been announced: Annie Proulx, who is being honored with the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American […]

Some would say that we’re living in a renaissance of Black art. Whether it be in music, painting or literature, black artists seem to be excelling even more than usual. This belief was further supported on Monday as Pulitzer Prize winners were announced. Out of the 21 writers awarded in New York City for their work, […]

We all know that the writing and entertainment industries rarely uplift and empower Black queer voices. To help challenge that fact, we have compiled a list if writers you need on your shelf this holiday season.

    The following piece is from Salon. It was written by Joanna Rothkopf. By: Joanna Rothkopf Daniel Handler has apologized for his comments via Twitter: My job at last night’s National Book Awards #NBAwards was to shine a light on tremendous writers, including Jacqueline Woodson… -DH [1/2] — Daniel Handler (@DanielHandler) November 20, 2014

By J.R. Yussuf Today marks the 31st anniversary of National Coming Out Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness of civil rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. A main goal of this celebration is to help create an environment where living openly and honestly is possible. But while coming out can be incredibly validating, a […]

By J.R. Yussuf I began prioritizing my mental health shortly after graduating college in 2012. I still felt as though I had to keep it a secret because going to see a therapist was seen as bizarre. But I went anyway because with each passing day, life increasingly felt like a punishment and soon sleep […]

PEN America has announced the 2018 crop of books that made its longlist, which is welcome news in the face of the Trump Administration publicly mulling cutting funding for the National Endowment of the Arts. Programs and spaces like PEN America are vital to the preservation of literary freedom and expression, even more so with […]