David Goodwillie’s novel KINGS COUNTY is a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize. The annual award was created to encourage and honor writing about New York City in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Avid Reader Press published the book on July 28, 2020.

Namwali Serpell’s STRANGER FACES is a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in the Criticism category. The winners will be announced on March 25, 2021. Transit Books published the book on October 20, 2020.

Cathy Park Hong’s MINOR is a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in the Autobiography category. The winners will be announced on March 25, 2021. One World published the book February 25, 2020.

David Goodwillie’s second novel, KINGS COUNTY, has been short-listed for The Gotham Book Prize. The new annual award was “created to encourage and honor writing about New York City in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.” Avid Reader Press published the book on July 28, 2020.

Rachel Aviv, author of STRANGERS TO OURSELVES, is a recipient of the 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. The grant is awarded to writers in the process of completing a book of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction. The grant jury describes the book as a "potent and timely exploration of how psychiatry, its diagnostics, and its pharmaceuticals have woven themselves deeply into our personal and cultural lives charts completely new territory." The book will be published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

THE MERCIES by Kiran Millwood Hargrave has won the Prix Rive Gauche à Paris for best foreign novel translated into French. Little, Brown, and Company published the book on February 11, 2020.

THE PRETTIEST STAR by Carter Sickels is a finalist for the 2021 Southern Book Prize. The shortlist features bookseller favorites from 2020 that are Southern in nature—either about the South or by a Southern writer. Additionally, O Magazine has named the book as one of their 2020 Best LGBTQ Books of the Year, after featuring it earlier this year on a list of LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2020. Hub City Press published the book May 19, 2020.

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s TIGHTROPE has been nominated for Best Nonfiction in the opening round of this year’s Goodreads Choice Awards. Knopf published the book on January 14, 2020.

WINE GIRL by Victoria James has been nominated in the opening round of the Goodreads Choice Awards in the Food & Cookbooks category. Ecco published the book on March 24, 2020.

Michael Zapata’s debut novel, THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU, has been shortlisted for the Chicago Review of Books’ CHIRBy Awards, which recognize "the best fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and short essays published by Chicago-based writers." Nominees will read short excerpts from their respective works, and winners will be announced at a virtual ceremony on December 3rd. Hanover Square Press published THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU on February 4, 2020.