The longlists have been selected for the 35th annual Reading the West Awards, sponsored by the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association and honoring books set in MPIBA states or by authors or artists living in the region. Booksellers will select a shortlist from the nominated titles, and category winners will be determined by bookseller and public voting. See the more than 200 titles in eight categories here.
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The Women's Prize Trust has released the longlist for the 2025 Women's Prize for Nonfiction, sponsored by Findmypast. The award, which is "open to all women writers across the globe who are published in the U.K. and writing in English," is a sister prize to the Women's Prize for Fiction. The inaugural Women's Prize for Nonfiction in 2024 was won by Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. See the complete 2025 longlist here.
This year's shortlist will be unveiled March 26, with the winner named June 12 at the Women's Prize Trust's summer party in London. The winner will receive a cheque for £30,000 (about $37,255) and a limited-edition artwork known as the "Charlotte," both given by the Charlotte Aitken Trust.