Posted on September 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Today's news of literary awards and honors is a mix of the formal and informal.
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on October 9, so Emily Temple turned to a UK betting site to see what the odds are of various authors winning (Literary Hub).
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NoViolet Bulawayo has won the Best of Caine Award, honoring the top story from the past twenty-five years of the Caine Prize for African Writing; Bulawayo won the Caine in 2011 for "Hitting Budapest" (The Guardian).
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Colwill Brown has won the BBC National Short Story Award for "You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle," an excerpt of which you can read (The Guardian).
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris's memoir, 107 Days, is on track to be the bestselling memoir published in 2025 based on sales in its first week of publication (X).
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Gen Z words like "dad bod," "doomscroll," and "rizz" are among the 5,000 words being added to the twelfth edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (NPR).
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A different dictionary announced earlier this fall that it would add "skibidi" ... which appeared on the 2025 Banished Words List that, yes, we are quite late on sharing (Lake Superior State University).
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