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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Well, 2024 was fairly bad, and 2025 may in fact be worse. Regardless, we will be reading. Here are the books the Lit Hub staff is most excited to pick up in the (first half of the) year ahead. JANUARY...
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A new $20,000 prize will recognize innovative prose by early-career writers.
Today, The DAG Foundation for the Arts, established by musicians Alyssa and Douglas Graham, announces the DAG Prize for Literature, a new annual prize that will award $20,000 to “an early-career prose...
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Announcing the 2025 class of Periplus fellows.
Every year, Periplus awards 48 mentorships to writers of color living and working in the United States, pairing each one with a member of the collective, an established writer who will meet monthly...
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Danielle Legros Georges on Docupoetics, the Nuances of Haiti, and...
Danielle Legros Georges is the author of several collections of poetry, including Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti–Congo Story (Beacon Press, 2025), and the translator of the anthology...
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Here are this year’s finalists for The Story Prize.
This morning, The Story Prize—which seeks to recognize the best short story collection published every year—announced its three 2025 finalists, chosen from a total of 107 submissions. “Each of these...
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Here are this year’s National Book Critics Circle Award finalists.
Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced their finalists for the best books published in 2024—30 books in six categories—as well as the finalists or winners of five special annual awards: two...
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Meet the 2025 United States Artists Writing Fellows.
Today, Chicago-based arts organization United States Artists announced their 2025 USA Fellows, a group of 50 artists, including seven Writing Fellows, each of whom will receive a cash award of $50,000....
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Angie Cruz has won the 2024 John Dos Passos Prize.
This week, the 43rd John Dos Passos Prize was awarded to novelist and editor Angie Cruz (How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water; Dominicana; Let it Rain Coffee) by Longwood University. The Dos Passos...
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If Brigitte Giraud Wasn’t a Writer, She Would’ve Been a Pop Star
Brigitte Giraud’s novel, Live Fast, is available now from Ecco Books, so we asked her a few questions about writing, reading, alternate careers, and more. This interview was translated by Cory...
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Lit Hub Daily: February 13, 2025
TODAY: In 1881, the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert. “With his authoritarian orders, the president—and his unelected South African...
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From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal
When Tom Fitzharris met Edward “Ted” Gorey in 1974, the two quickly struck up a friendship. Over the next year Gorey sent a total of fifty letters to Fitzharris. Every envelope Fitzharris received was...
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The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: Round of 32 Assholes
Welcome to the second round of Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket: The Best Villains in Literature. After a vigorous first round of voting, 32 villains advance and 32 have been...
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Karen Russell Received an Ice Bucket as a Courtship Gift, and Other Literary...
Karen Russell’s novel, The Antidote, is available now from Knopf, so we asked her a few questions about writing, reading, procrastination, and more. * What time of day do you write (and why)? These...
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The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Not-So-Sweet 16
Welcome to the third round of Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket: The Best Villains in Literature. We’re halfway through voting and things are really starting to heat up. A lot...
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The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Hateful 8
Welcome to the fourth round of Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket: The Best Villains in Literature. Things are coming down to the wire here for our villains, and eight of the...
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Here are the finalists for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize.
Today, Aspen Words announced its five finalists for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, which awards $35,000 each year to “a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and...
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The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Fearsome 4
Welcome to the fifth, semifinal round of Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket: The Best Villains in Literature. It’s come to this, just four remaining. We’ve finally found out who...
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If Torrey Peters Wasn’t a Writer, She Would Build Saunas (and Other Literary...
Torrey Peters’s novel, Stag Dance, is available now from Random House, so we asked her a few questions about writing, reading, alternate careers, and more. * Which of your characters is your favorite?...
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The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Final Showdown
Welcome to the final round of Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket: The Best Villains in Literature. This is it: the final villains matchup, our top two going head-to-evil-head. After...
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Here are the finalists for the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
This week, the Cleveland Foundation announced the ten finalists for the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which honor “books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our...
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