Sarah Wolberg

Shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and Society of Authors’ Encore Award for best second novel are announced. The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso wins the Baltimore Science Fiction Society’s Compton Crook Award for best debut. Kirkus launches a new indie award. Whoopi Goldberg is starting a publishing imprint at Blackstone. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon, Rainbow Rowell, and Susan Page.

Winners are announced for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards; Nell Irvin Painter wins a lifetime achievement award. Recipients of the Whiting Award for Emerging Writers are announced. LA Times looks at the Gen Z and millennial readers reimagining book clubs. Plus, new title bestsellers and an LA Times profile of S. A. Cosby.

Shortlists for the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards, the Dublin Literary Award, and the Nota Bene Prize are revealed. Said Khatibi wins the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Recipients of the Writing Freedom Fellowship are named, and Jonathan Maberry and Lisa Morton will receive lifetime achievement awards from the Horror Writers Association. Paramount has formed a new publishing imprint, while Farrar, Straus & Giroux will close the MCD imprint. Ana Huang’s “Gods of the Game” sports romance series will get a three-film adaptation. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with Mary Fariba Afsari and V. E. Schwab and Cat Clarke.

Winners of the Windham-Campbell Prizes and the Indies Choice Book Awards are announced. The pseudonymous Freida McFadden reveals her identity. The Trump administration has withdrawn its appeal of the IMLS case. LA Times has a package on book clubs, while LJ offers its 2026 graphic novels preview. Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower will be adapted as a movie by Warner Bros. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Annabelle Gurwitch, Kathryn Paige Harden, and Tim Blake Nelson.

Finalists for the Christian Book Awards and the UK’s Romantic Novel of the Year Awards are revealed. A Tennessee library director was fired for refusing to move LGBTQIA+ children’s books to the adult section. Publishers Weekly reports from the opening day of the PLA 2026 conference. Meryl Streep will star in Netflix’s adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. Plus, Page to Screen and a profile of Ben Lerner, author of Transcription.

Winners of the PEN America Literary Awards are announced. André Alexis’s Other Worlds: Stories wins the Story Prize. The Guardian has writers and readers share the books they enjoyed in March. Globe Pequot acquires the crafts-focused Linden Publishing. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Álvaro Enrigue, Colm Tóibín, Jenny Lawson, and Gisèle Pelicot.

Winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards are announced. Luminous by Silvia Park wins the Otherwise Award. The NYT Book Review Book Club will discuss Kenan Orhan’s The Renovation in April. A judge has denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against the Department of Defense Education Activity over book removals. The publisher Callaway Arts & Entertainment has filed for bankruptcy. Plus, Page to Screen and a Lord of the Rings adaptation from Stephen Colbert.

The six-book shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction is announced. Ghost Driver by Nell Osborne and Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group by Rebecca Gransden win the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize. Partridge Boswell wins the UK’s National Poetry Competition. Gloria Steinem will publish a memoir, An Unexpected Life. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Arsenio Hall and Wil Wheaton.

BIO reveals the longlist for the Plutarch Award for best biography. The shortlist for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize is announced. Hachette has cancelled Mia Ballard’s horror novel Shy Girl over the author’s suspected use of AI. The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce is advancing the national book ban bill, HR 7661. Jane Fonda will star in a film adaptation of Virginia Evans’s The Correspondent. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with Fab 5 Freddy and Christina Applegate.