The Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize is an annual contest held for University of Connecticut students, named after the modernist poet who resided in Hartford. This year was the 59th reading event for the ...

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her “intense poetic prose.” Nobel committee chairman Anders Olsson ...

The citation commended Han Kang's "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." She won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian in 2016.

Launched in December 2023, 200 incarcerated individuals voted on a winner. The first U.S. book prize comprised of incarcerated judges has announced its first-ever winner: Imani Perry’s for her ...

For the first time in its 13-year history, the Stella Prize shortlist features books exclusively by women of colour. There are three fictional works, including the genre-bending Theory & Practice ...

Bumble and Snug and the Shy Ghost by Mark Bradley (Hachette Children's Group). Mark Bradley said: "I am beyond thrilled to be one of the winners of the inaugural Scholastic Graphic Novel Prize. As ...

Alice Oseman's 'Heartstopper Volume 5' was among the winners at the inaugural Scholastic Graphic Novel Awards, held at London's Cartoon Museum on October 7. The prizes were voted on by students at ...

The English Department’s Writers on Campus series presents Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Elizabeth Strout on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. in Comley-Lane Theatre at Mahoney Hall on South ...

For the first time in its 13-year history, the Stella Prize shortlist features books exclusively by women of colour. There are three fictional works, including the genre-bending Theory & Practice ...