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by harrisrh | November 23, 2024 · 2:20 pm

2024 Literary Awards for Fiction

Literary Awards Season = Lots of Gift Choices

So it’s time to start shopping for holiday novels, assuming your friends, relatives, and colleagues have the time and interest in reading fiction. If you should find yourself to be so fortunate as to have a flamboyance not of flamingos but of bibliophiles in your life, you might consider some of this year’s top literary award winners and finalists. To simplify the process, I’ve put a few of them together here for your viewing pleasure. Happy shopping — and reading!

2024 Booker Prize (Winner: Orbital by Samantha Harvey)

Shortlist: James (Percival Everett), Creation Lake (Rachel Kushner), Held (Anne Michaels), The Safekeep (Yael van der Wouden), Stone Yard Devotional (Charlotte Wood)

2024 Nobel Prize for Literature (Winner: Han Kang)

Translated Works (English): The Vegetarian (2007), Greek Lessons (2011), Human Acts (2014), The White Book (2016), We Do Not Part (2021)

2024 Giller Prize (Winner: Held by Anne Michaels)

Shortlist: What I Know About You (Éric Chacour), Curiosities (Anne Fleming), Prairie Edge (Conor Kerr), Peacocks of Instagram (Deepa Rajagopalan)

2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (Winner: Batshit Seven by Sheung-King)

Shortlist: What I Know About You (Éric Chacour), Prairie Edge (Conor Kerr), Code Noir (Canisia Lubrin), Hi, It’s Me (Fawn Parker)

2024 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction (Winner: Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel)

Shortlist: Code Noir (Canisia Lubrin), The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island (Kent Monkman, Gisèle Gordon), Her Body Among Animals (Paola Ferrante), Naniki (Oonya Kempadoo)

2024 National Book Award for Fiction (Winner: James by Percival Everett)

Finalists: Ghostroots (‘Pemi Aguda), Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar), All Fours (Miranda July), My Friends (Hisham Matar)

2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Winner: Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips)

Finalists: Same Bed Different Dreams (Ed Park), Wednesday’s Child (Yiyun Li)

International Booker Prize 2024 (Winner: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck)

Shortlist: Not a River (Selva Almada), The Details (Ia Genberg), What I’d Rather Not Think About (Jente Posthuma), Mater 2-10 (Hwang Sok-yong), Crooked Plow (Itamar Vieira Junior)

November: National Novel Writing Month

Yep. If you haven’t stated yet, crack out your quills, attach your feather to a tether, and get writing! The month of November is National Novel Writing Month – subtitle “The world needs your novel.” – or NaNoWriMo for short. (And by “National” they mean “International.”)

Per the blog at IngramSpark, understandably a big supporter of the event:

“In July of 1999 a small group of would-be-authors had the novel idea of each trying to write their own book. They lovingly called it “noveling.” What they didn’t know, was they were laying the foundation for what would soon become one of the world’s most widely participated mass-writing events.

NaNoWriMo was established in 2005 as a nonprofit built on the belief that everyone has a story inside. To motivate people to embrace their creativity and bring their stories to life, NaNoWriMo challenges participants to write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November.

While the challenge gives NaNoWriMo a fun and untraditional twist to noveling, the real purpose behind the month-long event is to support and inspire those around the world to share their voice. NaNoWriMo, along with its subprograms (Camp NaNoWriMo, Young Writers Program, Come Write In, and “Now What” Months) champion the power of the human mind to make the world a better place.”

9 Tools That Will Help You Become a Better Writer

For many of us in the writing business – whether writing fiction, non-fiction, academic papers, copywriting, business proposals, or simply writing for fun – we often focus on the creative process and constantly think about ways to be more creative/productive. However, from a technical standpoint there are numerous software programs out there that help grease the wheels of the creative process, improve your grammar, and force you to meet goals (one program actually erases everything you’ve written if you don’t reach your word count/time target!)

A thoroughly eye-opening piece was published on medium.com (@Medium) today on how to sharpen and hone your skills as a writer through computer programs. Titled “9 Tools That Will Help You Become a Better Writer,” it’s worth checking out, especially if you find yourself lacking the drive to write or could simply use new ideas on how to come up with fresh ideas.

Tag Archives: writing

2024 Literary Awards for Fiction

November: National Novel Writing Month

9 Tools That Will Help You Become a Better Writer

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