Seth Fishman's BAD DRAWER is the Arkansas Diamond Book Award’s Third Place Winner for 2024 - 2025. The award will be formally presented by the Arkansas Literacy Association at Harding University in July 2026. The book was published by Penguin Workshop on October 25, 2022.

Susanna Kwan’s debut novel AWAKE IN THE FLOATING CITY is one of three finalists for the 2026 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. In a statement, 2026 judges Rachel Beanland, Dionne Irving, and Taymour Soomro said: “While these books are very different from one another, they each in their own way speak to loneliness and grief and this sense that, in the midst of so much chaos and loss, we are wired to keep going and to strive for connection and meaning. These books approached some heavy subjects—death, displacement, and even heartbreak—with honesty, humility and humor, and in reading them, we felt cracked open and also maybe, in some small way, hopeful.” The winner will be announced in early April, and all three finalists will be honored on April 26 at the 50th Anniversary PEN/Hemingway Award Ceremony. Pantheon published AWAKE IN THE FLOATING CITY on May 13, 2025.

Eugene Lim is the winner of the 2025 John Dos Passos Prize, the oldest literary award given by a Virginia college or university, which honors “a talented American writer who experiments with form, explores a range of voices and merits further recognition.” Dr. David Magill, chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages at Longwood, said: “Eugene Lim’s work is completely unique in its formal innovations and its elegant yet accessible prose…Lim manages to pack so much into every page, taking us on a wild journey of adventure with each sentence. He is breathtakingly original and a writer not to be missed.” Coffee House Press published Lim’s most recent novel, SEARCH HISTORY, on October 5, 2021. His next novel, SPACE BAR, will be published by Doubleday in 2027.

AWAKE IN THE FLOATING CITY, the debut novel by Susanna Kwan, has won the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association’s award for Asian American Adult Fiction. Pantheon published AWAKE IN THE FLOATING CITY on May 13, 2025.

Haley Mlotek’s debut, NO FAULT: A MEMOIR OF ROMANCE AND DIVORCE, has won the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction: “Deftly combining her personal story with wry, searching social and literary exploration, NO FAULT is a brilliant account of 21st century divorce—its remarkably common yet seemingly singular impact, and what it reveals about our society and our desires for family, love, and friendship. Mlotek asks profound questions about what divorce should be, who it is for, and why the institution of marriage maintains its power, all while charting a poignant and cathartic journey away from her own marriage and towards an unknown future. Brilliant, funny, and unflinchingly honest, NO FAULT is a kaleidoscopic look at marriage, secrets, ambitions, and what it truly means to love and live with uncertainty, betrayal, and hope.” Viking published NO FAULT on February 18, 2025.

Yrsa Daley-Ward’s debut novel THE CATCH has been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. Judge Simon Okotie praises: “THE CATCH is an extraordinary shape-shifting, genre-defying work of fiction. Reading, by turns, as popular fiction, literary fiction and science fiction, it calls all such distinctions into question. An engrossing and thought-provoking work, THE CATCH brings a compulsive, formally inventive logic that is all its own." The winner of the award will be announced on November 5, 2025. Liveright published THE CATCH in the US on June 3, 2025.

Eugene Lim is a finalist for the 2025 John Dos Passos Prize, the oldest literary award given by a Virginia college or university. The winner will be announced at the end of this year. Coffee House Press published Lim’s most recent novel, FOG & CAR, on 7/16/24. Doubleday will publish Lim’s next novel, SPACE BAR, in 2027.

Haley Mlotek’s NO FAULT: A MEMOIR OF ROMANCE AND DIVORCE has been shortlisted for the 2025 Quebec Writers Federation Literary Awards’ Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction. Viking published NO FAULT on February 18, 2025.

Cathy Linh Che's BECOMING GHOST was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. Winners will be announced at the award ceremony on November 19. Washington Square Press published the book on April 29, 2025.

Kevin Moffett’s ONLY SON was longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction. The foundation writes: “Kevin Moffett’s debut novel delivers a bracingly intimate account of fatherhood, and discovery, and the experiences of two men far from home.” Finalists will be announced on October 7 by The New York Times, and the winners will be announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner on November 19. Washington Square Press published the book on April 29, 2025.