News - Literary Awards
News - Literary Awards

Derek B. Miller’s book THE GIRL IN GREEN has been nominated for The Gold Dagger, awarded to the best crime novel of the year by the Crime Writers’ Association. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published the book January 3, 2017.

David D. Levine’s debut novel receive a Nebula Award, the annual awards given by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. The book received the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy. Tor Books published the book on July 12, 2016 and they will publish the sequel ARABELLA AND THE BATTLE OF VENUS on July 18, 2017...

Idra Novey’s debut novel was awarded the Sami Rohr Prize by the Jewish Book Council. According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the $100,000 award is given to “emerging writers who articulate the Jewish experience as determined by a specific work, as well as the author’s potential to make significant ongoing contributions to Jewish literature.” The paperback edition of WAYS TO DISAPPEAR was published on January 17, 2017.

Maggie Nelson’s book was named on the shortlist for the Rathbones Folio Prize, formerly the Folio Prize, an award given for the best work of literature regardless of form. Melville House UK published the book in the UK on April 7, 2016.
Jamie Lauren Keiles has been nominated for a 2017 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award in the Wines, Spirits, and Other Beverages category for her Eater article, “The 24-Year-Old Coca-Cola Virgin...”

Idra Novey’s novel was named a finalist for The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction a book prize given by the LA Times. Little Brown & Co. published the book in paperback on January 17, 2017.

David Levine’s ARABELLA OF MARS has been nominated for the Andre Norton Award, which recognizes the best YA science fiction/fantasy published and is run by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The book was published by Tor on July 12, 2016.

Ed Yong’s acclaimed book was named a finalist for an LA Times Book Prize in the Science & Technology category. Ecco published the book on August 9, 2016.

BATS OF THE REPUBLIC won Print Magazine’s Best of Region for the Southwest in PRINT’s 2016 Regional Design Awards, where the editor called it “a brilliant—and brilliantly interactive—testament to the power of print, and how design can elevate a classic form to the extraordinary.” Doubleday published the book on October 16, 2015.

Idra Novey’s acclaimed debut novel won the second annual Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, an annual prize from the Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn booksellers given “to works of fiction and nonfiction by authors who have lived in Brooklyn, portrayed the borough in their work or addressed themes relevant to its life and culture.” Little Brown published the book on February 9, 2016.