awards

  The spirit of resistance … is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.” — Thomas Jefferson Each year, the American Energy Society selects the people, publications and media that did the most to influence energy and the environment in that calendar year. The Climate Warriors are the 2019 winners of this […]

Sometimes it can feel very lonely trying to prove that sexism exists, that we haven’t achieved basic equality for women around the world. Tonight is an oomph that shows me that it truly matters.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie     Bestselling Nigerian author and feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was honored this week in New York City at the annual “Make Equality a Reality” gala, hosted by international women’s rights organization Equality Now. Each year, […]

The Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction has announced its shortlist. The annual award is given to a writer whose work is set in the South, exemplifies the tenets of Southern literature — quality of prose, originality, and authenticity of setting and characters — and reflects, in the words of its namesake, Willie Morris, “hope for belonging, for belief in a people’s better nature, for steadfastness against all that is hollow or crass or rootless […]

The longest for the 2019 Booker Award have been announced. Competition for the £50,000 international award is high. This year the favorites include The Testament, Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale; Oyinkan Braithwaite’s brilliant debut, My Sister, The Serial Killer and Salman Rushdie’s beautiful Quichotte. From the Guardian: Most readers will have to wait until September to find out what happens in Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, but the Booker judges have […]

The 50th Man Booker Prize has been awarded to Anna Burns for the novel Milkman (Faber & Faber). Burns, 56, who was born in Belfast and lives in East Sussex, drew on the experience of Northern Ireland during the Troubles to write Milkman. Her first acclaimed novel, No Bones, was also set in this period. She saw off competition from two British writers, two American writers and one Canadian writer. Set in an unnamed city, […]

Eden Robinson has been awarded the Copper Cylinder Award, a prize given annually for Canadian literature of the fantastic, selected by members of the Sunburst Award Society for books published during the previous year. Additionally, the 2018 Copper Cylinder Young Adult Award is shared by two works, Scion of the Fox by S.M. Beiko published by ECW Press, and Weave A Circle Round by Kari Maaren from Tor Books. Robinson received the prize for Son […]