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Byline: Gavin Meichelbock Tim and Peanut Louie Harper are helping kids climb John Wooden's Pyramid of Success one page at a time. Harper for Kids is a nonprofit organization that [...]

Junior Daniella Hernandez recently took her passion for bomba to the global stage, performing at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards and publishing a bilingual children's book, 'Bomba Bebé,' that [...]

Byline: Sean Smith content'class='sno-story-body-content sno-no-cap'> Illustrators and literary minds came together in Hattiesburg for the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival on April 10 through April 12. Both emerging and [...]

By Florinda Gjypi | September 25, 2023 UAlbany President Havidán Rodríguez (left), State Author Jacqueline Woodson (middle), and Writers Institute Executive Director Paul Grondahl (right). Photo Credit: Florinda Gjypi / [...]

Byline: Emily Rosenbaum Emma Rund Editor's note: This is the first in a Summer Reading Series featuring notable books, author Q&As and more. The University of Chicago boasts several well-known [...]

Dr. Brad East's small office is filled to the brim with books - and I mean filled. Stacked on top of a completely full wall-length bookshelf are more books, and [...]

Byline: Sophia Traylor San Diego City College students and faculty gathered in the Educational Center on Oct. 4 to hear guest speaker Reyna Grande introduce her new book 'A Ballad [...]

Byline: Lauren Bramlett Many Americans hear 'Jamaica' and see a series of tropical images flash through their minds: palm trees, frozen drinks, sun beating down on white sand. What is [...]

Byline: Bridget Janis With her new book, Oakland University Assistant Professor of Human Resource Development Chaunda L. Scott has added being a co-editor of an award-winning book to her accomplishments. [...]

Byline: Mark Bertumen Martin Lopez / Highlander Over 40 books in 30 years, and all his struggles in between UCR held its 43rd annual Writers Week all throughout the week [...]

A book by UNC Charlotte Africana Studies associate professor Oscar de la Torre, 'The People of the River: Identity and Environment in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945,' has received the inaugural Outstanding [...]

Byline: Victoria Bell The 16th annual 'Great Writers, Great Readings' series featured its third guest speaker of the fall semester on Wednesday, Nov. 13: Colson Whitehead, who spoke about his [...]

Byline: Noelle Walker Written Aubrey Brumblow and Noelle Walker Photos by Noelle Walker Georgia Southern University is home to many powerful women. From professors to department chairs to students, each [...]

Byline: Ryan Welch The National Book Awards Festival is coming to Sam Houston State University April 9-16. The events begin with a Memoir Workshop called 'How to Tell Your Story' [...]

Byline: Madeline Boulanger 'The Music of the Soul Lives On: A Henry Mackaman Experience,' a book published to honor a University of Wisconsin student who passed away in 2013 from [...]

Byline: Molly Schiff, Executive Last week, the National Book Award released its finalists for 2017, and a book published by the Wesleyan University Press has made the cut. 'In the [...]

Seawanhaka | April 8, 2017 | no comments By: Wandera Hussein  Brooklyn native, and former Seawanhaka reporter Edward Hershey, will make a return visit to campus to share stories [...]

Byline: AMANDA FINN afinn@madison.com 'asset-content' data-asset-uuid='f6cd3759-b5a1-5a3d-b892-718a622fbfec'> Lori Rader-Day's newest novel, 'The Day I Died,' almost didn't make it. After beginning as a short story in 2007, the work spent a [...]

Byline: Amit Anand The Los Angeles Times selected English and creative writing professor Thomas Sleigh as a finalist for the 1999 LATimes Book Prize in poetry for his anthology 'The [...]

Byline: Yun Kyung (Anny) Kim A UCLA professor will receive an award for her book on the political struggles of modern Jewish people. The Jewish Book Council announced Wednesday that [...]

Two Texas Tech University Press publications will be recognized at the Women Writing in the West Conference for being finalists in the WILLA Literary awards. The publications being recognized are [...]

Byline: Claire Oxford by Claire Oxford Claudia Rankineâs powerful, provocative words in Citizen: An American Lyric engaged listeners on Sunday during a marathon reading of the book in the back [...]

Byline: Hannah Buffington Literary Artsâ annual award ceremony of Oregonâs most accomplished and successful writers will gather on the evening of April 11, from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. to celebrate [...]

Byline: Lisa Herdman Ryan Thompson Amy Fleury, a writer from Nemaha County, received the Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award at 4 p.m. on March 28 at the Mabee Library on [...]

Byline: Jordan Schulte Grand Rapids, like many larger cities in the Midwest, has gone through civil rights movements that aren't as widely talked or taught about. Todd E. Robinson, a [...]

Byline: Jennifer Tharp 'Ladies and gentlemen, ghosts and children of the state, I am here because I could never get the hang of Time,' reads the first line of 'Lighthead's [...]

NEW YORK -- Ta-Nehisi Coates' 'Between the World and Me' and Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' are finalists for the National Book Critics Circle prize. New Yorker literary critic James [...]

NEW YORK -- Ta-Nehisi Coates' 'Between the World and Me' and Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' are finalists for the National Book Critics Circle prize. New Yorker literary critic James [...]

Savannah Norton, Lifestyle Editor Internationally bestselling novelist Diana Gabaldon will be appearing at the opening night on September 27 at 6:30 p.m. to accept the 2015 Mason Award in Concert [...]

Byline: Nina Clevinger Award-winning book artist and letterpress Amy Pirkle instructs three book arts courses in the Honors College at the University of Alabama. The classes range from two different [...]

Byline: Nick Caruso Three professors from Fairfield University are finalists for the 2005 Connecticut Book Award for fiction, which presents its awards Sunday Dec. 4 at the Hartford City Hall. [...]

Byline: Kathryn Miller The University of Southern Mississippi will honor children's literature at the 48th Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Wednesday through Friday at the Thad Cochran Center. The [...]

Byline: Sara Pisak 2014 National Book Award winner for Fiction, Phil Klay, visited the campus on Feb. 10, as part of the Spring Writers Series, an English Department event sponsored [...]

This month, Warren St. John joined the ranks of Alabama's acclaimed nonfiction writers in receiving the prestigious Clarence Cason Award from The University of Alabama's journalism department. This award has [...]

Byline: Madeline Happold Author James McBride's sooth- ing voice echoed through the Connelly Cinema as he read the first lines of his book, 'The Good Lord Bird.' The read- ing [...]

'Violins of Hope,' authored by Department of Music Chair James Grymes, has earned a National Jewish Book Award, considered the most prestigious honor in the country for Jewish-themed books. A [...]

Soft-spoken and tranquil are two words synonymous with Stephen Ratcliffe's personality and poetry, the latter of which was honored with a special award on campus. Ratcliffe received the Poetry Center's [...]

Diversity in writing style is the focus of the ninth In Print Festival of First Books, a two-day creative writing event. This year features novelist Mario Alberto Zambrano, poet Natalie [...]

Dr. Robert Johnson, a professor of rhetoric, composition and technical communication in the department of Humanities at Michigan Tech, has been recognized for his new book, 'Romancing the Atom: Nuclear [...]

Columbia's faculty continues to gain accolades as one of its members recently received a Book of the Year award in the category of nontraditionally published nonfiction from the Chicago Writers [...]

Byline: Alexis Leiker The sixth annual Mock Caldecott competition was held at the Manhattan Public Library Saturday to discuss the year's most distinguished picture books and vote on a winner. [...]

Byline: Rebecca Hare After being honored with the Walt Whitman Award last spring, Rasmussen's book, Black Aperture, became one of five finalists for the National Book Award in Poetry this [...]

Ursinus Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Carlin Romano has been named Chair of the Jury for the 2014 'J. Anthony Lukas Book Award,' jointly administered by the Nieman Foundation at [...]

Byline: Chandler West James McBride, a distinguished writer in residence at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, was presented the National Book Award in Fiction on Nov. 20. His Civil [...]

Tom Cronin, McHugh Professor of American Institutions and Leadership here at Colorado College, recently won the 2013 Outstanding Leadership Book Award for his recent book 'Leadership Matters: Unleashing the Power [...]

Emporia High Schoolâs drum line and cheerleaders pump up the crowd before the award ceremony begins at the William Allen White Childrenâs Book Award Ceremony in the morning on Saturday, [...]

Byline: JENNA MCLAUGHLIN On Sept. 19, the Universityâs Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities, Alice McDermott, was nominated for the National Book Award longlist for fiction. This is the [...]

Byline: Chris Stadtler âI was confounded because the standard explanation didnât seem to correspond to what I was finding in the archives,â said associate professor of history Seth Jacobs. âSo [...]

Gustavus comes together in celebration of the achievements of once student and now faculty member, Matt Rasmussen '98. English Professor Rasmussen's book, Black Aperture, was announced as part of the [...]

Byline: Jessica Yang, Contributing Reporter The literary world descended upon Cleveland on Sept. 12, when select authors came for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ceremony held at the Ohio Theatre. The [...]