The National Book Foundation today announced the Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction with The New Yorker.
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2026 Longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction:
Hannah Lillith Assadi, Paradiso 17
Knopf / Penguin Random House
Kimberly Blaeser, Red Ants
Counterpoint Press
Edwidge Danticat, Dèy
Knopf / Penguin Random House
Julián Delgado Lopera, Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company
Louise Erdrich, Python’s Kiss
Harper / HarperCollins Publishers
Marlon James, The Disappearers
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
Valeria Luiselli, Beginning Middle End
Knopf / Penguin Random House
Alexander Maksik, Passengers
Europa Editions
Kenan Orhan, The Renovation
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers
Morgan Thomas, Mad Eden
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers
Visit: https://www.nationalbook.org/longlist-for-the-2026-national-book-award-for-fiction/
Poets & Writers hosts an evening of poetry and conversation with
MARIANNE BORUCH
winner of the 2026 Jackson Poetry Prize
in conversation with
PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 | 7PM EDT
THE GREENE SPACE, NEW YORK CITY
The event will also be livestreamed.
Tickets required.
MORE INFO HERE: https://secure.givelively.org/event/poets-writers-inc/2026-jackson-poetry-prize-reading-with-marianne-boruch
Cecily Parks's The Seeds
(Alice James Books)
has won the 2026 UNT Rilke Prize.
POSTED 9/7/2026
Cecily Parks's The Seeds (Alice James Books) has won the 2026 UNT Rilke Prize. The $10,000 prize recognizes a book written by a mid-career poet and published in the preceding year that demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision. Parks will visit the University of North Texas on November 4th and 5th for a reading and book signing.
In her third collection, The Seeds, Cecily Parks's poems wander landscapes where the natural and the human overlap, trailing along a fence line, an alleyway, through a woods that is "parkland" and therefore "public," or a field that echoes with thought and experience. Her speaker turns a poet's and often a mother's eye to the infiltrated natural spaces that trouble her rich meditations, impelling her to negotiate how we can sustain hope in a world marked by beauty and plenty but also by corruption and pain. Always, the speaker's curiosity yields vivid accounts of the flora and fauna she encounters, whether in the wild or in her own yard. Sometimes, though, her curiosity is foiled, as when she recognizes that her children's "questions are the same" as her own "in that they have no answers, / though the lessons of damage / are everywhere." Still, such questions about endurance and survival enliven The Seeds, born of a mother's desire to confront and understand the damage scarring the world even as she attends to its abundance.
More information here: https://class.unt.edu/english/creative-writing/unt-rilke-prize.html