Police violence, heritage and love: Forward poetry prizes reveal shortlists ‘made to last’
Native American poet Natalie Diaz among contenders for best collection award with Postcolonial Love Poem, alongside Pascale Petit and Caroline Bird
Comedy Women in Print prize unveils mythbusting shortlist
Marian Keyes, chairing this year’s judges, says finalists ‘showcase different ways that women are funny’ and challenge belief that women can’t write comic fiction
Johny Pitts wins Jhalak prize for ‘beautiful’ history of black Europe
Television presenter and musician wins £1,000 prize for writers of colour, with ‘exceptionally thoughtful’ debut Afropean
Romance Writers of America aims for happy end to racism row with new prize
Association rips up template for prestigious annual awards after facing criticism over its record on diversity
Orwell prize for fiction shortlist replays 2019 Booker prize contest
Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other will vie with Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport for political writing award
Bryan Washington’s ‘kickass’ short stories win £30,000 Dylan Thomas prize
Debut collection Lot, focused on Houston’s marginalised communities, praised for opening up an ‘otherwise unknowable’ world
The City We Became by NK Jemisin review – a fizzing New York fantasy
Hideous apparitions attack NYC, as Jemisin has ‘a little monstrous fun’ after the Broken Earth saga
I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me by Juan Pablo Villalobos review – an eccentric hybrid
Pulpy crime fiction and avant-garde archness combine for an exuberant take on literary life
Bluey: The Beach named book of the year at Australian Book Industry awards
Title in hit series based on TV show becomes first children’s picture book to take the honour
Colson Whitehead and This American Life among Pulitzer 2020 winners
Author wins fiction prize for The Nickel Boys while the first ever prize for audio reporting goes to an episode of the hit podcast
Roger Robinson’s poems of Trinidad and London win Ondaatje prize
A Portable Paradise is the second poetry collection to win £10,000 award for a book that conjures ‘the spirit of a place’
Women’s prize for fiction shortlist led by Mantel, Evaristo and O’Farrell
Finalists for the £30,000 prize announced after ‘a long Zoom meeting’ were praised by judges for engaging with the biggest contemporary issues
International Booker prize postponed due to coronavirus
Publishers of novels shortlisted for the £50,000 prize appeal to organisers as book sales take a battering under lockdown
Jess Hill wins $50,000 Stella prize for See What You Made Me Do, book investigating domestic violence
Journalist’s ‘incredibly powerful’ work the result of four years of research into domestic abuse, with lens turned firmly on perpetrators
Stella prize 2020: watch the $50,000 literary award announcement here
Hosted by Patricia Karvelas, with a speech by Julia Gillard, the ceremony will be streamed below from 8pm AEST on Tuesday 14 April