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Elvira Gonzales' HURDLES IN THE DARK (Roaring Brook, Macmillan), represented by Zeynep Sen, has been named a Commending Title in the 2025 Américas Award. CLASP founded the Américas Award in 1993 to encourage and commend authors, illustrators and publishers who produce quality children’s and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinx cultures in the United States, and to provide teachers with recommendations for classroom use. CLASP offers up to two

Author Cait Levin's IMPOSTER (Charlesbridge Teen), represented by Chip Rice, has won the Mathical Book Prize. Now in its 12th year, The Mathical Prize is selected annually by a committee of PreK-12 math and language arts teachers, librarians, mathematicians, early childhood experts, and others and is awarded by The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath)

Author Charles B. Fancher's debut novel, RED CLAY (Blackstone Publishing), represented by Chip Rice, has won the 2026 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author award. The NAACP Image Awards is presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Elvira Gonzales' HURDLES IN THE DARK has been nominated for the 2026 Washington Evergreen Teen Book Award in their high school category! The Evergreen Teen Book Award, sponsored by the Washington Young Adult Review Group, has been sharing books with teens since 1992. Each year the Evergreen Committee, made up of school and public librarians, selects from a list of titles nominated by librarians and educators for consideration. The committee looks for a variety of titles tha

April 2026 WordLink Author Zeenath Khan's SIRENS OF SEPTEMBER (Penguin India) has been longlisted for the S.L. Bhyrappa Prize. The prize recognizes excellence in literature and history and is part of a broader initiative, the Annual History Prizes 2026, which highlights Indian historical studies and literature. The FIHCR unveiled the 2026 longlist in April 2026, which included books on Indian history.

WordLink Author Katherine Bryant’s GIVE MY LOVE TO BERLIN has been named a finalist in the 38th annual IBPA Book Award program in the following category: LGBTQIA2+ Communities. The IBPA Book Awards (formerly known as the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards) are one of the highest national honors given to independent publishers and have been since 1985. The awards are administered by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) with the help of over 170 book publishing profe