Idra Novey's TAKE WHAT YOU NEED was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, which is “one of the most significant literature prizes in the world.” The winner will be announced as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin 2024 in May. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED, which publishes in paperback in February, was longlisted for 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023, a Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, NPR, The Guardian Author Pick, and Today. Viking published the book on March 14, 2023.

Tyriek White’s acclaimed novel WE ARE A HAUNTING is the winner of The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize. Astra House published the book on April 25, 2023.

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant selected Edna Bonhomme as a 2023 Grantee in the category of Short-Form Writing. The grant program “supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging with the visual arts…uplift[ing] the diverse perspectives of writers whose fine-tuned attention to the content and context of contemporary art-making helps to keep artists at the center of cultural conversations and debates—where they belong.” Bonhomme will write “a series of essays animating the reproductive lives of people of African descent as portrayed by contemporary Black feminist artists, filmmakers, and sages.” Atria/One Signal Publishers will publish Bonhomme’s forthcoming nonfiction debut, A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES, on December 3, 2024.

Erica Berry’s WOLFISH was shortlisted for the 2024 Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Book Award. The winners will be announced in January. Flatiron published the book on February 21, 2023.

Y/N by Esther Yi was shortlisted for The Center for Fiction’s 2023 First Novel Prize. The shortlisted authors will be celebrated at The Center for Fiction First Novel Fête on December 1, 2023, and the winner will be announced at The Center for Fiction Annual Awards Benefit on December 5, 2023.

WE ARE A HAUNTING by Tyriek White was shortlisted for The Center for Fiction’s 2023 First Novel Prize. The shortlisted authors will be celebrated at The Center for Fiction First Novel Fête on December 1, 2023, and the winner will be announced at The Center for Fiction Annual Awards Benefit on December 5, 2023.

Eliot Duncan’s debut novel PONYBOY was longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction. W.W. Norton & Company published the book on June 13, 2023.

Jayne Anne Phillips’ latest novel, NIGHT WATCH, was longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction. Knopf published the book on September 19, 2023.

WE ARE A HAUNTING by Tyriek White was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2023 First Novel Prize. The shortlist will be announced this fall, and the winner will be announced on December 5, 2023 at The Center for Fiction Annual Awards Benefit. Astra House published the book on April 25, 2023.

Lakiesha Carr's debut novel AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SKIN was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2023 First Novel Prize. The shortlist will be announced this fall, and the winner will be announced on December 5, 2023 at The Center for Fiction Annual Awards Benefit. Pantheon published the book on February 28, 2023.