Fiction

2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (89+ words) HarperCollins Publishers Australia has announced the longlist for the Australian Fiction Prize 2026. The longlisted titles are: The Australian Fiction Prize is an annual prize for an unpublished, book-length work of fiction. The winner will receive an advance of $15,000 and publication…...

21+ hour, 49+ min ago   (208+ words) TORONTO — Four debut novels are on the short list for the Writers' Trust of Canada's fiction prize. Toronto's Téa Mutonji and Zak Jones are among the nominees for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize that awards $70,000 to the best…...

13+ hour, 56+ min ago   (383+ words) The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. Three of the six books on this year’s Booker Prize shortlist explore masculinity and male sexuality. Interestingly, last year’s Booker Prize winner, David Szalay, also placed modern masculinity at the centre of his story, Flesh. The…...

3+ hour, 38+ min ago   (302+ words) Published 3:45 pm Wednesday, September 23, 2026 Scappoose readers are in for a treat this October with two events hosted at the Scappoose Public Library. The Scappoose Public Library Authors Festival and the Friends of the Scappoose Public Library used book sale are…...

9+ hour, 7+ min ago   (126+ words) KGMI’s Jason Upton speaks with Bellingham author Cori Winrock, who was one of seven authors to win a Washington State Book Award this fall. Cori won in the Creative Nonfiction/Memoir category for her work titled “Alterations.” The fire was…...

3+ hour, 6+ min ago   (128+ words) The 2026 NT Literary Awards winners have been announced. The winning works in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in August, are: Brown’s Mart Theatre Award CDU Creative Nonfiction Award Kath Manzie Youth Award NT Writers’ Centre Poetry Award Zip Print…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (170+ words) « Back to Omni Articles Five books – four of them debut novels – have been shortlisted for the 2026 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. The winner of the annual prize recognizing the best short story collection or novel by a Canadian author…...

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10+ hour, 18+ min ago   (373+ words) THAT is the title of the selected letters of Carlos Bulosan, published locally more than 20 years ago. Few writers embody the intertwined histories of migration, colonialism, race and labor as powerfully as Bulosan. Born in Pangasinan province and arriving in…...

5+ hour, 56+ min ago   (401+ words) SALT LAKE CITY — An award-winning author, poet and long-time creative writing teacher has been selected as the inaugural poet laureate for Utah's capital city. The Salt Lake City Arts Council and the Mayor's Office named Joel Long to the brand-new…...