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May 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
bookcritics.bsky.social
We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/16/2...
Covers of the books on the longlist for the NBCC Award for Fiction.
December 16, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Criticism! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/16/2...
Covers of the books on the longlist for the NBCC Award for Criticism.
December 16, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Nonfiction! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...
Covers of the books on the longlist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction.
December 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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The NBCC criticism longlist is here!
bookcritics.bsky.social National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Dec 16
We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Criticism! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/16/2...
Covers of the books on the longlist for the NBCC Award for Criticism.
December 16, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/19/2...
Covers of the books on the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize.
December 19, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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Big News! Nora Lange’s US FOOLS makes the short list for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction:
January 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Autobiography! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/17/2...
Covers of the books on the longlist for the NBCC Award for Autobiography.
December 17, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry is “Wrong Norma” by Anne Carson! #NBCCAwards @ndbooks.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Congratulations to all of the winners of the NBCC Awards! #NBCCAwards www.bookcritics.org/2025/03/20/n...
March 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
bookcritics.bsky.social
We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Biography! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/17/2...
Covers of the books on the longlist for the NBCC Award for Biography.
December 17, 2024 at 7:00 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
The NBCC poetry longlist is here!
bookcritics.bsky.social National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Dec 18
We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...
December 18, 2024 at 7:03 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
The NBCC criticism longlist!!
bookcritics.bsky.social National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Dec 15
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Criticism
December 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
lioneltrolling.bsky.social
Tell that the NBCC...just kidding! It was honor to be nominated!
signandsight.bsky.social Comrade Questions (Andrew) @signandsight.bsky.social · Mar 21
Having said that, “When the clock broke” is the best work of political history in a decade.
March 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
The NBCC is here and will be posting regularly, you should follow them.
bookcritics.bsky.social National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Nov 18
We’d like to thank all of you who voted in our board election. Congratulations to our new and returning board members: Mandana Chaffa, May-lee Chai, Isabella Corletto, Adam Dalva, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Rebecca Hussey, Wadzanai Mhute, and Elizabeth Taylor. We’re looking forward to working with them!
November 18, 2024 at 2:30 AM
bookcritics.bsky.social
We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...
December 18, 2024 at 7:01 PM
bookcritics.bsky.social
We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
The finalists for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction are Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Godwin by Joseph O'Neill (Pantheon), James by Percival Everett (Doubleday), My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House), and Us Fools by Nora Lange (Two Dollar Radio).
January 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Some news! I’m thrilled to join the National Book Critics Circle Board!
NBCC board announcement of new members.
January 9, 2024 at 9:00 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Congrats to the new NBCC Emerging Critics!!
bookcritics.bsky.social National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Aug 11
Meet the National Book Critics Circle 2025-2026 Emerging Critics Fellows! www.bookcritics.org/emerging-cri...
August 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
The NBCC fiction longlist is out!
bookcritics.bsky.social National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Dec 16
We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/16/2...
Covers of the books on the longlist for the NBCC Award for Fiction.
December 16, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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New tradition: every author buys themselves one gorgeous jacket upon being longlisted by the NBCC
zeets.bsky.social Zito @zeets.bsky.social · Dec 19
Bought a jacket to celebrate. Last jacket I’m buying for some time. Until I at least donate some clothes.
December 19, 2024 at 12:40 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Proud to be a part of the NBCC and to support this statement.
bookcritics.bsky.social National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Feb 5
Statement on the Trump Administration’s January 20, 2025
Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans:
On January 20, the White House issued an executive order stating that the United States government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, as defined “at conception.” The ripple effect of this order will undoubtedly affect public schools, public libraries, and the literature that is shelved in both. Among the many harms it causes, the order targeting transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans threatens unconstitutional censorship that could have a grave impact on literature for years to come. In dismissing trans, intersex, and nonbinary identities, the order blacklists LGBTQIA+ literature and invites the government to dictate the perspectives, beliefs, and identities that can exist in public forums receiving federal funding, amounting to financial coercion through the arbitrary withholding of funds. This censorship may begin with LGBTQIA+ perspectives, but it will not end there: allowing the government to censor one group erodes the First Amendment rights of all Americans, creating a precedent for silencing dissenting voices. If allowed to stand, the order will create new funding requirements imposed not only on federal entities, but private citizens and institutions who contract with them. Those requirements can and will be manipulated to dictate speech. The broader chilling effect on literature could be even harder to undo. Writers rely on funding from sources like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the state-level institutions they fund. Trans, nonbinary, and intersex experience is vastly underrepresented in literature but disproportionately targeted by bans. During the 2022-2023 school year, 30% of books banned included LGBTQIA+ characters or themes. Such censorship robs us of perspectives that enrich the American story. Though the executive order in question tries to paint LGBTQIA+ people and allies as bullies enforcing their perspective on others through “legal and other socially coercive means,” that’s exactly what the order itself does, just as book-banning pressure groups have done since 2020 in school boards and libraries around the country. The fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology, it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression. Government erosion of those rights should concern all Americans, regardless of their investment in LGBTQIA+ literature specifically. This executive order is censorship, pure and simple, and it has no place in a free society. It must be rescinded or stayed as soon as possible, and at the latest, before the earliest implementation deadline, February 19, 2025. Financially blacklisting trans, intersex, and non-binary perspectives will rob us of a vital literature yet to be written while insulting the dignity of LGBTQIA+ people everywhere. This return to McCarthyism by other means is a leap backwards to a grim chapter of American history. Sincerely, the undersigned, American Booksellers Association American Booksellers for Free Expression Andrews McMeel Annie's Foundation Audio Publishers Association Authors Against Book Bans Berry Powell Press Cardinal Rule Press Charlesbridge Publishing Chestnut Publishing House Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Deborah Sloan and Company and Kidsbuzz Developmental Texts Empowering Latino Futures EveryLibrary Firewater Media Group Florida Freedom to Read Project Foreword Reviews Freedom to Read Project Gryphon Publishing Consulting, LLC Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) IngramSpark Judging by the Cover: A Bookstore Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship Lambda Literary Latino 247 Media Group Lee Wind, author Levine Querido Library Futures Livingston Parish Library Alliance Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship Macmillan Children's Publishing Group The National Book Critics Circle National Coalition Against Censorship NorthSouth Books Nosy Crow Patagonia Publishers and Writers of San Diego and Orange County PEN America PFLAG Fresno PubWest Rattling Good Yarns Press Read Freely Alabama Red Comet Press LLC Rutherford County Library Alliance Sara Paretsky, Writer SCBWI SEAT SparkPoint Studio St Tammany Library Alliance Stone Bridge Press Texas Freedom to Read Project Walker Books Group for Candlewick Press, Holiday House Books, and Peachtree Publishing We Need Diverse Books Logos of the organizations that have signed the statement.
February 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
wadzam.bsky.social
Some news! Looking forward to serving on the NBCC Board.
bookcritics.bsky.social National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Nov 18
We’d like to thank all of you who voted in our board election. Congratulations to our new and returning board members: Mandana Chaffa, May-lee Chai, Isabella Corletto, Adam Dalva, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Rebecca Hussey, Wadzanai Mhute, and Elizabeth Taylor. We’re looking forward to working with them!
November 18, 2024 at 3:39 PM
bookcritics.bsky.social
The winner of the NBCC Award for Fiction is “My Friends” by Hisham Matar! #NBCCAwards @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
“My Friends” by Hisham Matar
March 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Over the moon that GREYHOUND by @joannapocock.bsky.social is a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism!
bookcritics.bsky.social National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Jan 20
Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for Criticism!
January 20, 2026 at 4:45 PM