Shortlist

The Waterstones debut fiction prize has shortlisted six first novels representing the “best of the future of fiction”.The prize, now in its second year, is voted for by Waterstones booksellers and open to all debut fiction published in the UK. This year’s contenders include Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopian novel Chain-Gang All-Stars, Colin Walsh’s small-town thriller Kala, and Alice Winn’s first world war love story In Memoriam.Quick GuideWaterstones debut fiction prize shortlistShowThank you for your feedback.Joining…

There are few photography subjects more fascinating and beautiful than the cosmos itself, and the annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition highlights that. The shortlist for 2023 has now been published, starring some stunning shots of the Sun, our majestic Milky Way, and awe-inspiring aurorae.Run by Royal Museums Greenwich in the UK, the Astronomy Photographer of the Year is the world’s largest competition of its kind, and as past galleries attest, it always attracts some incredible images from…

Image via DC Comics As fans wait to see which actor will be the next Clark Kent in Superman: Legacy, reports about who else might be joining the cast are popping up left and right. Superman has a massive supporting cast, after all, and there’s definitely no shortage of actors lining up to play one of his iconic supporting characters and/or villains. While running a story on the ongoing Superman casting situation, which is reportedly down to Nicholas Hoult, Tom Brittney, and David Corenswet, The Hollywood…

The International Booker prize is the UK’s most prestigious award for translated fiction, with previous winners including Han Kang and Olga Tokarczuk. The prize money of £50,000 is divided equally between author and translator. This year’s winner will be announced on 23 May and the judging panel have produced a strong shortlist with a distinctive flavour: four brightly coloured, zestful novels and two, more restrained stories on the theme of motherhood.Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan, translated by Chi-Young Kim (Europa…

Three debut novels will compete against books by two former winners for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, on a shortlist described as “ambitious and hard-hitting” by the chair of judges Louise Minchin.Quick GuideThe Women's prize for fiction 2023 shortlistShowThank you for your feedback.The first-time novelists shortlisted for the prize are Jacqueline Crooks for Fire Rush, Louise Kennedy for Trespasses and Priscilla Morris for Black Butterflies.They are joined by Barbara Kingsolver, who won the prize in 2010 for The…

The shortlist for this year’s International Booker prize has been described by the chair of judges as “a list of remarkable variety” and “very cool and very sexy”.This year’s six chosen books include two translated from languages that have never featured before in the prize: Eva Baltasar’s Boulder is translated by Julia Sanches from the original Catalan while Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov is translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel.Quick GuideThe International Booker prize 2023 shortlistShowBoulder by Eva Baltasar,…

Four debuts have been shortlisted for the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize.The award is for writers aged 39 or under, and is open to all forms of literature. This year’s shortlist of six comprises three novels, two short story collections and one book of poetry.Quick GuideDylan Thomas prize shortlist ShowThank you for your feedback.Di Speirs, chair of the judges and books editor at BBC Audio, said the list exemplified “not only the talent and excitingly fresh, often startling, writing we were seeking, but…

Authors including Jessie Burton, Patrice Lawrence and Sita Brahmachari are part of an all-female shortlist for the Yoto Carnegie medal for writing.The prize awards outstanding achievement in children’s writing and features seven authors. Burton, Lawrence and Brahmachari are all first-time shortlistees as is Manon Steffan Ros. The shortlist is completed by Katya Balen, who won the award in 2022, Louise Finch and Ruta Sepetys.Alongside the prize for writing, the shortlist of six books for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for…

The nominees for the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize have been announced! The eleventh annual Cartoonist Studio Prize is presented by The Center for Cartoon Studies and The Beat. This year, there are thirteen nominees in each the “Print Comics” and “Webcomics” categories. Nominees for Best Print Comic The nominees for the Best Print Comic are: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton Frog in the Fall by Linnea Sterte Geneviève Castrée: Complete Works 1981 – 2016 by Geneviève Castrée Headland by Kate Schneider The…

The shortlists for this year’s Rathbones Folio prize spans three continents and includes Booker prize-shortlisted Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo and Pulitzer prize-winning writer Margo Jefferson’s memoir Constructing a Nervous System.This is the first year in which the new format for the Rathbones Folio prize is running; a winner will be named in each of the three categories (fiction, nonfiction and poetry), with those winners then going on to compete for the overall prize. Category winners will receive £2,000 each, with the…