Good news for the arts in NYC: "My administration is proud to make a historic, record-level investment in NYC's arts and cultural organizations. Because we believe the people who make this city what it is should be able to build their lives here.” —Mayor Mamdani hyperallergic.com/nyc-mayor-ma...

This month saw the launch of The Porter Square Review of Books. The store’s booksellers and writers-in-residence have begun publishing weekly book reviews on its website. www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/book...

"A lesson of this historic season is that one could love basketball all year, not just when the games are being projected on the sides of bodegas...Here’s what to read if you’re almost ready to commit to basketball." —Brittany Allen lithub.com/what-to-read...

Inspired by the encouragement of this year’s fantastic judging panel - Sarah Moss, Yomi Ṣode, Romalyn Ante, WN Herbert, & Michael Mullen - we’re delighted to be releasing our longlists for the very first time ahead of shortlist announcements in mid-July. Congratulations to all the longlisted poets!

Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy

Here's a new stat that's makes plain the economic challenges authors face: they earn $10,000 annually on average. This amount has "declined about 42% since 2009" though "books are available in more formats..." More from the Authors Guild and Codex Group: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

The Literary Arts Fund has launched a new grant opportunity to support innovation, the first of its kind for nonprofits supporting literature and writers. A total of $1 million will be awarded in what is anticipated to be a highly competitive process. The deadline is August 17, 2026. More info here:

Marjane Satrapi captured profound human emotions – and paved the way for a generation

I'm honored to help share this news and shine a light on the important work being done by literary arts nonprofits to champion writers and reading.

✨We’re delighted to announce 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 (@aaknopf.bsky.social) by Kevin Young as the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize winner. ✨Young received C$130,000 in prize money, and the other finalists were each awarded C$10,000.

There's a surge in the number of independent bookstores, which Kelley Hartnett of Double Dog Bookshop in Wentzville, Missouri attributes to people "craving connection, especially in-person connection." apnews.com/article/inde...

It’s an important time to back books— especially those published by the dedicated staff at nonprofit literary presses, where adventurous literature lives.

‘It’s a captivating, slyly sophisticated novel’ We're delighted to announce the winner of the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, is Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King. Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

An impossible assignment: name only 15 books "most vital" to American literature. Here's Publishers Weekly's take. What's missing? www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

One of humanity’s great art forms, literature is a lot to lose. For too long, literature and writers, and the literary arts nonprofits that champion them both, have not been supported by philanthropy. There’s a huge opportunity to make a difference. May this be a moment of change.

"...There is value in banding with the poets, and fighting for the value of being curious and trying to articulate the world with whatever tools are available to us." —Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, physicist www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

"I think of characters as ways for me to ask questions and explore ideas. I see them as instruments. At the same time, they gain lives of their own and gain, hopefully, a certain vitality on the page which exceeds what I’m able to consciously construct." —Megha Majumdar therumpus.net/2026/05/04/w...

The nonprofit literary arts field supports creative writers and contributes to literary culture in uniquely impactful ways.

The winners and nominated finalists of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today by administrator Marjorie Miller. buff.ly/BD6yBad

For poets and writers wondering what to do with your archives and how... The WashU Libraries’, with support from the Mellon Foundation, have created an incredibly helpful guide for you on digital preservation practices. library.washu.edu/research-sup...

On Thursday, May 7 at 2 p.m. ET, join the Literary Arts Fund for an info session covering budget best practices. Free and online. Tips shared during this session may be useful to literary arts nonprofits interested in applying for a Literary Arts Fund grant. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"Like the field, humans require periods of rest, of fallowness, because the fallow gives rise to the fertile. That before one can sing, one needs to understand the power of silence." —Lauren Groff lithub.com/lauren-groff...

Happy Indie Bookstore Day! Independent bookstores help ensure a robust literary culture, offering spaces where writers’ work can find readers. Visit an indie bookstore near you: www.indiebound.org/independent-...

"I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing the Freakin’ Work. Read the book, not the summary. Write the piece, not the prompt. Suffer like the artist you are. It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing." —Colson Whitehead www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

We're thrilled to announce our 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. Huge congratulations to these 223 exceptional individuals in the Creative Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and a range of interdisciplinary fields. You can find out more at www.gf.org. 🎉

Janklow & Nesbit has launched the David Bellos Translation Prize, “celebrating outstanding translations of fiction into English and championing global literary voices” 👇 #BookSky

A new three part series about Charles Dickens “has been pitched as a come-up story, with emphasis on Dickens’s flâneur tendencies.”

It is almost impossible to make a living as an author from selling books alone. Less than 1% of authors do it.

‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books

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Join the Literary Arts Fund for a field scan exploring a segment of the U.S. nonprofit literary arts sector. Free and online. April 7, 2026, 2 pm ET. Register here: bit.ly/4t96yxd ASL interpretation and closed captioning will be provided. A recording will also be available on literaryartsfund.org.

"For authors, this is not just a technology, it’s a moral issue. Authors feel their work has been stolen." —Seth Fishman www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

A slate of new book podcasts launched in early 2026, driven, creators say, by a “yearning” for “more analogue living, long-form, in-depth content,” and "curiosity, community and joy.” 👇 #BookSky

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” —Toni Morrison #LiteraryArts

"I ambled toward Sixth Avenue, passing a stationery store on the south side of the street. The people inside browsed through notebooks, recapturing an analog age. In our different ways, we’re all deciding how we want the story to turn out." —Joshua Rothman www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"This is not a victimless crime – generative AI competes with the people whose work it is trained on, robbing them of their livelihoods." —Ed Newton-Rex www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Poetry can be a source of healing." —Dr. Joshua Bennett @mit.edu @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social www.wabe.org/who-belongs-...

The National Association of Black Bookstores aims to “amplify Black voices, and preserve Black culture by increasing the visibility, sustainability, and impact of Black bookstores and booksellers.”

“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” —Hilton Als lithub.com/the-weight-o...

Literary arts friends, the Pulitzer Prizes are seeking a Manager of Operations. opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/manager...

Writers, beware— "the current swirl of swindles has created 'the worst environment for writing and publishing scams that I’ve ever seen.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

"If you can hear us, Mr. Silverblatt—your rigorous reading will be missed." —Brittany K. Allen @britt-kathryn.bsky.social lithub.com/five-great-e...

"What we’ve seen in the last decade is diminishing coverage for books across the entire country, and it is really devastating for writers." —Cleyvis Natera @poynterinstitute.bsky.social www.poynter.org/business-wor...

"I think (Toni) Morrison wanted to go back to what she described as village literature, which is a notion that literature is a social form, it's a community form... It has to open up questions so that we can talk about it as a community." —Namwali Serpell www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

"Change me, drastically if possible. Transform me. Make me other. That’s what I ask of books—both when I read them and when I write them." —Cristina Rivera Garza lithub.com/cristina-riv...

"We believe that everyone in our country deserves meaningful access to the veracity, beauty, imagination, and continual revelation that the arts and humanities provide." —Elizabeth Alexander, President of @mellon.org, a co-founder of the Literary Arts Fund

Writers George Saunders, Roxane Gay, and Jodi Picoult, among others, have joined the Human Artistry Campaign's "Stealing Isn't Innovation" effort to protest tech companies using copyrighted creative work without permission to build AI language models. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

then let us believe the product of our lives is greater than the sum of us —Elaine Mintzer www.scientificamerican.com/article/poem...

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is releasing her memoir, "The Flower Bearers," after enduring profound personal tragedies.

“Writing, which is a kind of paying attention, can be an act of love, an illumination...” —Larissa Pham @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/writing-towa...