We are officially open for submissions for our Fiction and special call for Eco-Nonfiction!! There are limited spots for admissions, so submit now before space runs out! Good luck to you all! For more details and to submit, check out shenandoahliterary.org/submissions/ 🥳

THREAD: Today we open submissions for #JhalakPrize2025 with an expanded portfolio of THREE awards including the inaugural #JhalakPoetryPrize along with our extraordinary panels of judges. These shall be our ninth awards and we could never have foreseen this journey!

Starting tomorrow you can listen to Literary Hub staffers talk books, publishing, and arch-nemeses on THE LIT HUB PODCAST. Hosted by Drew Broussard Isn't Here ep. 1 features me and Emily Temple talking about book lists and the weirdos who hate them, along with Kristen Arnett on literary assholes.

A hip-hop syllabus—for fans, by fans. lithub.com/a-hip-hop-syll… via Literary Hub #hiphop

There was no better reader than #JamesEarlJones lithub.com/there-was-no-b… via Literary Hub

Here’s the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for #Nonfiction lithub.com/heres-the-long… via Literary Hub

What to do about that embarrassing #DeathlyHallows tattoo. lithub.com/what-to-do-abo… via Literary Hub

Here’s the shortlist for the 2024 #BBC National Short Story Award. lithub.com/heres-the-shor… via Literary Hub

National Novel Writing Month: Inside the A.I. controversy tearing a writing community apart. #nanowrimo #ai slate.com/technology/202…

Ten Books That Reveal #Myanmar for the Complex Mosaic It is recommended by Elizabeth Shick lithub.com/ten-books-that… via Literary Hub

On the #Yemeni Jewish Tradition of Musical #Storytelling by Ayelet Tsabari إيلت صباري lithub.com/on-the-yemeni-… via Literary Hub

Posting Truth to Power: In Praise of a #Publishing Gossip Site lithub.com/posting-truth-… via Literary Hub

"New Jhalak Poetry Prize makes its debut as prize scheme for writers of colour expands to 'provide greater attention to a genre that is producing some of the most powerful and essential literature today" bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-arti… at BookBrunch

How 19th-century #fiction writers popularised tourism, and also poked fun at rich European tourists scroll.in/article/107305… via Scroll.in

Why We Make #Book Lists lithub.com/why-we-make-bo… via Literary Hub

Language, Love and Visibility: Looking Back on an Immigrant Childhood by daisy hernandez lithub.com/language-love-… via Literary Hub

The Messiness of Black Identity | The New Yorker newyorker.com/culture/critic…

What Researchers Learned From the World’s Oldest #Cookbook Atlas Obscura atlasobscura.com/articles/world…

Why We Need More (and Better) Depictions of Old People in #Literature lithub.com/why-we-need-mo… via Literary Hub

In Defense of Books Lists (but Not Literary Assholes): Introducing the Lit Hub Podcast lithub.com/literary-assho… via Literary Hub