PEN America’s Award-Winning Titles
In recognition of both Insurrections and What Is Not Yours is Not Yours winning the PEN America Robert Bingham award for debut fiction and the Open Book award for authors of color respectively, we are offering […]
Book News
Press Release: Announcing Kimbilio’s Book Prizes!
Kimbilio is proud to announce an incredible addition to our programming. Partnering with our friends at Four Way Books and Braddock Avenue Books, Kimbilio will be awarding two annual publication prizes. Published by Four Way […]
Award-Winning Novel Purple Hibiscus is the 2017 One Maryland One Book
(Baltimore, MD)—Maryland Humanities is pleased to announce the selection of Purple Hibiscus by award-winning Nigerian author and MacArthur Genius Award recipient Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as the 2017 One Maryland One Book. The novel was chosen […]
Penguin Random House Acquires Obama Books
Penguin Random House has won the auction for books from former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama. PRH CEO Markus Dohle announced Tuesday evening that the company had acquired world publication rights […]
Press Release: Victor LaValle’s Destroyer brings a new horror to BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios is proud to announce VICTOR LAVALLE’S DESTROYER, an all-new monthly comic book series debuting in May 2017 from best-selling horror novelist Victor LaValle (The Ecstatic, The Devil in Silver, Big Machine) and artist […]
Scholastic to Publish Activism Book by Marley Dias, 12-Year-Old #1000BlackGirlBooks Founder
New York, NY—February 2, 2017—Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education, and media company, has acquired world rights to an activism book written by Marley Dias, the 12 year-old social activist behind #1000BlackGirlBooks—an international […]
Press Release: Black Teen, Sasha Ariel’s Book Encourages Girls To Be More Tech Savvy
*Sasha Ariel, an African-American teen from Washington, DC, has written a children’s book aimed at girls called “Sasha Tech Savvy Loves to Code.” Coding is computer programming. She was first inspired to write the book […]
2017 PEN America Debut Fiction Literary Award Finalists
Congratulations to Bro. Rion Amilcar Scott and Sisters Yaa Gyasi and Brit Bennett for making it to the Finalists level of the PEN literary award for Debut Fiction. It’s fantastic to witness three new voices from […]
2017 PEN America Debut Author Long List Announced
The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise. The winner receives a cash award of […]
Get to Know Princess Planet: Part IV
Over the last three weeks we have been profiling the Princess Planet series of books. We began this process because we believe in books that promote positive images for our beautiful Black children. It is imperative as their parents […]