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Spring Ulmer on Political Poetry, Personification, and Translating as Gardening
Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Spring Ulmer. Spring...
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Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.
Last month, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in English—announced its 2025 shortlist. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in...
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From Michael Douglas to Bivalve Memoirs: 10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in...
Each month, we here at Lit Hub pore over literally hundreds of nonfiction titles—here are ten coming out in May that are worth your time. (Sign up to our weekly nonfiction newsletter for evidence of...
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Bernardine Evaristo has been awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction’s...
Today, the Women’s Prize Trust announced Bernardine Evaristo as the recipient of the Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award, a unique prize meant to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Women’s...
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Translator Karen Leeder has won the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Today, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in English—announced its 2025 winner, chosen from an illustrious shortlist of five. Karen...
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Jess Walter Eats Breakfast Three or Four Times While Writing (and Other...
Jess Walter’s novel, So Far Gone, is available now from Harper, so we asked him a few questions about writer’s block, writing advice, unexpected routines, and more. * Who do you most wish would read...
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Here are the winners of the 2025 Women’s Prizes in Fiction and Nonfiction.
Today, the UK’s Women’s Prize Trust announced the winner of the 30th Women’s Prize for Fiction, which “champions excellence, originality, and accessibility in women’s writing,” and is awarded to the...
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Making sense of the chaos: 12 Orwell Prize finalists on why they write.
The Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction reward books that meet “George Orwell’s own ambition ‘to make political writing into an art.'” This year, the finalists...
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Here’s the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which awards $25,000 each year to the author of a book who best represents the legendary...
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Diana Arterian on Agrippina the Younger, Writing Historical Women, and Poetry...
Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Diana Arterian. Diana...
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