Literary awards and honors: October 2, 2024

Today's news of literary awards and honors includes not just announcements, but also the material that earned their authors the accolades.

• Novelist Ross Raisin's "Ghost Kitchen" has won the 2024 BBC National Short Story Award, and you can read it in coverage of the prize (The Guardian).

• This year’s winners of American Short Fiction’s Insider Prize are also available for you to read online (Literary Hub).

• Learn which writers and poets are among those receiving a 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, aka the Genius Grant, and its $800,000 stipend (Book Riot).