Announcements

The annual Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, devoted to the support and encouragement of emerging critics, was awarded on Saturday, April 17, at the Conference on the Future of Criticism

Congratulations to Eleanor Ross Taylor, who has received the Poetry Foundation's $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievment. Her collection Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008 (LSU Press)

Tune in on Sunday to BookTV to see the taped broadcast of the NBCC Awards ceremony. For the truly ambitious, the broadcast airs at 6 AM (EST) Sunday, March 28,

Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End won the National Book Critics Circle award in autobiography last week. At the awards ceremony on March 11, her W.W. Norton editor, Tom Mayer,

The Business of Book Reviewing: Changes and Challenges, a panel of NBCC members, coming up at Virginia Festival of the Book: Fri. March 19th, 2010 – 4:00 PM With Ron

National Book Critics Circle Announces Its Winners for the Publishing Year 2009 On Thursday, March11, 2010, at the New School’s Tishman auditorium in New York, the National Book Critics Circle

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 NBCC Awards Finalists Reading 6:00 p.m. The New School University 's Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th St., New York   Come hear NBCC finalists including Rae

NBCC at the University of Illinois Early Spring Literary Festival “The Next Decade in Book Culture: The Rise of the E-Book.“ Jane Ciabattari, Philip Graham, Harriett Green (University of Illinois

Annual NBCC Membership Meeting, March 11, 10:00 am-12:30  The New School. The LangCenter, 55 West 13th Street.  Lunch afterward at Cafe Loup (tickets here).   Program: 10 am. Membership meeting.

A reminder to mark the date: NBCC Finalists will read from their work at the New School (66 W. 12th Street) on Wednesday, March 10, at 6 PM. Free and