Awards: Whiting; Audiobook of the Year; RITA

The 10 winners of the Whiting Awards, which give $50,000 each based on "early-career achievement and the promise of superior literary work to come" to "10 diverse, emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry," are:

Clare Barron (drama)
Lisa Halliday (fiction)
Jen Beagin (fiction)
James Ijames (drama)
Francisco Cantú (nonfiction)
Tony Tulathimutte (fiction)
Clarence Coo (drama)
Simone White (poetry)
Kaitlyn Greenidge (fiction)
Phillip B. Williams (poetry)

Presentations were made last night at the New-York Historical Society, with a keynote by Pulitzer Prize-winner Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene and The Emperor of All Maladies. The Whiting Awards are sponsored by the Whiting Foundation.

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Finalists for the Audie Awards' Audiobook of the Year are:

Boys in the Trees, written and narrated by Carly Simon (Macmillan Audio)
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, written and narrated by Amy Schumer (Simon & Schuster Audio)
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, narrated by Mariska Hargitay, with the authors (Hachette Audio)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, narrated by Bahni Turpin (Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape)
Year of Yes, written and narrated by Shonda Rhimes (Simon & Schuster Audio)

The winners of the Excellence Awards (see the full list of nominees here) will be announced at the Audio Publishers Association Conference on May 31, in New York. The winner of the Audiobook of the Year will be announced at the Audie Awards Gala on June 1, at the French Institute/Alliance Française in New York City, which will be emceed by Paula Poundstone.

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The finalists for the 2017 RITA Awards, sponsored by the Romance Writers of America and honoring the best in romance fiction, include 84 novels and novellas. Winners will be announced on July 27 during the 2017 RWA annual conference in Orlando, Fla. See the list of finalists here.

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