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Congratulations to the diverse* young adult books honored today at the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards!

How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by Hadley Hooper (Dial Books) — Coretta Scott King (Author) Honor

How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon (Henry Holt and Company) — Coretta Scott King (Author) Honor

• Read Kekla Magoon’s DiYA guest post
  

When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) — Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award

• Read Jason Reynolds’s DiYA guest post

I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosín, illustrated by Lee White (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) — Pura Belpré (Author) Award Winner

• Read Marjorie Agosín’s DiYA guest post
  

Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin (Candlewick Press) — Stonewall Honor

Girls Like Us by Gail Giles (Candlewick Press) — Schneider Family Book Award Winner

Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw (Roaring Brook Press) — YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults (Finalist)

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook Press) — YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults (Finalist)

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero (Cinco Puntos Press) — William C. Morris Award Winner

• Read Isabel Quintero’s DiYA guest post

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (Dial Books) — Michael L. Printz Award Winner, Stonewall Honor

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith (Dutton Books) — Michael L. Printz Honor

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki (First Second) — Michael L. Printz Honor, Randolph Caldecott Honor

• Read Mariko Tamaki’s DiYA guest post

And congratulations to Sharon M. Draper, honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults!

Check out all the winners of ALA’s Youth Media Awards here.

* Diverse = A book about a main character who is of color, disabled, and/or LGBTQ; or a book written by an author who is of color, disabled, and/or LGBTQ.

Congratulations to our National Book Award honored authors— Jacqueline Woodson, Steve Sheinkin, Andrew Smith, Gail Giles, and Marilyn Nelson— as well as our 2014 Young People’s Literature Panel Chair Sharon M. Draper!

(via artepublicopress)

National Book Award Winner Nathaniel Mackey wins Yale University’s 2015 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry

Bollingen Prize judges praised Mackey’s decades-long serial work as "one of the most important poetic achievements of our time.”

Nathaniel Mackey won the 2006  National Book Award for Poetry for Splay Anthem. 

Read Megan Snyder-Camp’s National Book Foundation essay on Mackey here.

Excerpts from Splay Anthem
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Photo credit: Gloria Graham Nathaniel Mackey” by Onehandclapping - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - 

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(From top, left to right)

1. Horse racing: The Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon (Bret Anthony Johnston interviews Jaimy Gordon here.)

2. Baseball: The Ballpark, William Jaspersohn 

3. Baseball: Underworld, Don DeLillo 

4. Wrestling: The Pugilist at Rest, Thom Jones 

5. Baseball: Almost Famous, David Small 

6. Basketball: Rabbit Run, John Updike (Amity Gaige on Rabbit here.)

7. Wrestling: The World According to Garp, John Irving (Deb Caletti on Garp here.) 

8. Boxing: The Big Smoke, Adrian Matejka (Shara Lessley interviews Matejka here.)

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