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“Strange Fruit”
Summer’s the best time for picking. Though the fruit buds and ripens all year round, there’s no better time than the height of summer, the heat radiating off the sidewalks and the car windows, people’s...
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Writing With Four Hands: Anne and Claire Berest on Writing a Novel Together...
As any author will tell you, writing a book with four hands is not easy. Egos, vulnerabilities, and questions of control all come into play. Does being sisters simplify matters? Or, on the contrary,...
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Here’s the shortlist for 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 shortlist, which was winnowed down from a pool of 578...
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Art and Craft: An Illustrated Conversation Between Lena Moses-Schmitt and...
______________________________ Lena Moses-Schmitt is a writer and artist. Her poems, essays, and graphic essays have appeared in Best New Poets, Ninth Letter, The Believer, Ecotone, The Rumpus,...
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Tommy Orange has won the Aspen Words Literary Prize for Wandering Stars.
On April 23, Aspen Words announced the winner of the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, which awards $35,000 each year to “a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates...
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For this Indie Bookstore Day, here are odes to ten of our favorite bookstores.
Tomorrow, Saturday 4/26, is Independent Bookstore Day! And while every day can and should be Independent Bookstore Day (stop buying books from Amazon, stop linking to books on Amazon, stop posting the...
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Forrest Gander on Waiting to Publish, Gateway Poems, and C.D. Wright’s...
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 Forrest Gander. Forrest...
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Shelby Van Pelt Created Her Oddball Octopus in a Low-Key Writing Class (And...
Shelby Van Pelt’s novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures, is available now in paperback from Ecco, so we asked her a few questions about writing, reading, routines, and more. * Who do you most wish would...
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Canisia Lubrin has won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize.
Today, at a live event at the Chicago History Museum, Canisia Lubrin was named the winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction—which honors exceptional novels, short story collections, and...
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From MLMs to Nuclear War: 10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May
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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Kids Are Actually Really Funny, Wise, Weird, and Philosophical
Questions Without Answers is a work of choral philosophy unwittingly composed by hundreds of children, edited by myself, and illustrated by Liana Finck. My chief purpose, in assembling the text of the...
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Margaret Atwood has won the Griffin Poetry Prize’s 2025 Lifetime Recognition...
Today, the Griffin Poetry Prize announced Margaret Atwood as the winner of their 2025 Lifetime Recognition Award, which honors “international artists working in poetry.” Atwood will be in conversation...
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Here are the finalists for the $20,000 DAG Prize for Literature.
Today, the DAG Foundation announced the five finalists for the DAG Prize for Literature, a new annual award that grants $20,000 to “an early-career prose writer whose work expands the possibilities for...
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On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine
As long as there’s been research on AI, there’s been AI hype. In the most commonly told narrative about the research field’s development, mathematician John McCarthy and computer scientist Marvin...
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Here are the guest editors (and covers) for the Best American Series 2025.
The Best American Series is a literary institution. But just in case you’re stumbling upon it for the first time: Each book in the annual series showcases of best short fiction and nonfiction in a...
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Richard Bausch Thinks You Can Never Permanently Ruin a Piece of Writing (And...
Richard Bausch’s collection, The Fate of Others, is available now from Knopf, so we asked him a few questions about writer’s block, rereading, bad writing advice, and more. What time of day do you...
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Dawn Macdonald’s Northerny has won the 2025 Canadian First Book Prize.
Today, the Griffin Poetry Prize announced that Dawn Macdonald has won the 2025 Canadian First Book Prize for Northerny (University of Alberta Press). The prize judges called the book “a blast of crisp...
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Here are the CLMP’s 2025 Firecracker Awards finalists.
Today, the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) announced the finalists for its eleventh annual Firecracker Awards, which celebrate “the best independently published books of fiction,...
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Shitholes, USA: Noel and Liam Gallagher On When Oasis Toured America
Noel: Arriving in New York for the first time, I can look back now and think how it must have been annoying for the rest of the band, because I was like, “I’ve fucking seen Times Square, so I’m going...
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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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