The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize is an annual award given by the Center for Fiction, a nonprofit group in New York City, to the best first novel. From 2006 to 2011, the prize was named the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize, honoring John Turner Sargent, Sr.
The Carter G. Woodson Book Award is an American literary award started in 1973 by the Racism and Social Justice Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies. Its goal is to help children and young adults learn about different cultures.
The Bram Stoker Award is an award given every year by the Horror Writers Association (HWA). It recognizes outstanding work in dark fantasy and horror writing.
The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a special award given to an American poet. It is given every two years to honor a poet for their best new book of poems or for their lifetime accomplishments. The award is given by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and it does not require nominations or submissions from poets.
The Best Translated Book Award was an American literary award that honored the best original translations into English from the previous year. Each year, it recognized one book of poetry and one book of fiction. The award began in 2008 and was given out by Three Percent, an online literary magazine linked to Open Letter Books, which is a book translation press at the University of Rochester.
The Best American Poetry series is made up of annual poetry collections. Each collection has seventy-five poems.
The Banipal Prize, officially called the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, is an annual award given to a translator or translators for creating an English version of a full-length Arabic literary work. This prize was started in 2006 by the Banipal literary magazine, which works to share modern Arabic literature with English readers through translations. It is also supported by the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature.
The Bancroft Prize is given every year by the leaders of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was created in 1948 through a gift from Frederic Bancroft, to honor him and his brother, Edgar Addison Bancroft, who was a diplomat and lawyer. The prize is widely seen as one of the most respected awards for writing about American history.
The Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (APAAAL) are a group of literary awards given each year by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA). APALA was created in 1980 to help Asian/Pacific American librarians and those who work with Asian/Pacific American communities. Before APALA, there was a group called the Asian American Librarians Caucus (AALC), which was part of the American Library Association (ALA).
The Asian American Literary Awards are given out each year by The Asian American Writers’ Workshop since 1998. These awards recognize outstanding work in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, selected by a group of judges from literature and schools. There is also a Members’ Choice Award, which is decided by the Workshop’s members from the entries of that year.