Divya Victor has been selected as a recipient of a 2025 Creative Capital Award for her essay project KIN. The applicants, chosen from a pool of 5, 683 applications, will be provided up to $50,000 each in unrestricted funding to complete their work.

Advance praise for THE BOMBSHELL by Darrow Farr includes blurbs from Chang-Rae Lee, who calls it “sexy, kinetic and dazzling” and “an amazing, unforgettable novel”; Adam Johnson, who praises it as “lush, cinematic and propulsive[…]filled with sex, violence, glamor and a true revolutionary spirit. It’s a towering literary achievement. THE BOMBSHELL is certain to be the debut of the year, a true must-read”; Gabriela Garcia, who hails it as “[A]n electrifying exploration of personal and political revolution… [A] complex, unflinching portrait of youthful transformation and the dangerous allure of fame that announces Darrow Farr as an exciting new voice to watch”; and Emma Knight, who declares: “THE BOMBSHELL will explode into your psyche and keep you happily captive until the last word. Farr’s complicated heroine, by turns overconfident and touchingly vulnerable, will force you to constantly reassess your convictions. I didn’t want this fascinating, nuanced, beautifully drawn novel to end.” Publishers Lunch also selected the novel as one of its “Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Winter” list picks. THE BOMBSHELL will be published by Pamela Dorman Books on May 27, 2025.

SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS by Kailee Pedersen has been selected as a 2025 Libby Book Awards finalist in the Best Horror category. The winners will be announced on March 5. SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS was published by St. Martin’s Press on August 20, 2024.

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AN IMMENSE WORLD was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Prize for 2025. The committee’s citation reads: “Ed Yong’s AN IMMENSE WORLD: HOW ANIMAL SENSES REVEAL THE HIDDEN REALMS AROUND US challenges readers to regard the world through different eyes—not to mention sensory hairs, electroreceptors, and lyriform organs. It is an exemplary work of science writing—prodigiously reported, sharply crafted, and packed with information. Like all the best works of nonfiction, AN IMMENSE WORLD is rigorously grounded in fact and, at the same time, invites us all to be open to the great mysteries of life.” AN IMMENSE WORLD was published by Random House on June 21, 2022.

THE LAST ANIMAL was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Prize for 2025. The committee’s citation reads: “With tremendous skill, Ramona Ausubel shows how a newly-single mother and her two teenage daughters survive while trying to help save the planet. Sharp and delightful, the novel explores how science works—and doesn’t work—and the sexism so pervasive that even those not working in the field understand the need to navigate its imposed limitations. THE LAST ANIMAL is a tour de force that takes readers around the world and asks if we should resurrect those we’ve lost, how to move on without them, and to which part of this globe we belong.” The award consists of a $10,000 prize, and the winners will be celebrated at a ceremony in March. THE LAST ANIMAL was published by Riverhead on April 18, 2023.

Edward Ashton’s novel MAL GOES TO WAR has been selected as a 2025 Audie Award finalist in the Science Fiction category. The Annual Audie Awards are the “premier awards program recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.” The winners will be announced at the 2025 Audies Gala in New York on March 4th. MAL GOES TO WAR was published by St. Martin’s Press on April 9, 2024.

AMERICAN WINGS by Sherri L. Smith has been nominated for a 56th NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens. The award aims to “continue its tradition of excellence, uplifting values that inspire equality, justice, and progressive change, and highlighting artists committed to these values.” AMERICAN WINGS was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers on January 16, 2024.

PEARL by Sherri L. Smith was featured on The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books’ “2024 Blue Ribbons” list. The graphic novel was published by Graphix on August 20, 2024.

Culture critic Jeremy Gordon’s debut novel, SEE FRIENDSHIP, is receiving fantastic press ahead of its release. A positive review from Kirkus reads: “Explored throughout are millennial culture, indie rock, and ‘the psychically fallow Bush years.’ Totally of their time, these characters spend a lot of time smoking weed pens, playing video games, and posting on social media. A frequently funny meditation on memory and loss.” Debutiful named it one of “The Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2025,” with reviewer Adam Vitcavage praising: “Gordon gets humanity and writes subtle moments with gorgeous prose.” The novel was also listed on Bookshop.org’s “50 Preorder Picks: Books We Can’t Wait to Read.” Lastly, The Millions published an essay by Gordon titled “A Year in Reading.” Harper Perennial will publish the book on March 4, 2025.