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.

Laura Warrell’s debut novel SWEET, SOFT, PLENTY RHYTHM was named one of the five finalists for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The winner will be announced in April, and all finalists will be honored on May 11 at the 43rd Anniversary PEN/Faulkner Award Celebration at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington DC. Pantheon published the book on September 27, 2022.

Dionne Irving’s collection of stories THE ISLANDS was named one of the five finalists for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The winner will be announced in April, and all finalists will be honored on May 11 at the 43rd Anniversary PEN/Faulkner Award Celebration at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington DC. Catapult published the book on November 1, 2022.