We are delighted to celebrate that Canisia Lubrin (CRF 2022) has won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction—North America’s largest English‑language literary award for women and non-binary writers—for her debut collection Code Noir. The jurors praised it as “a...
Civitella is pleased to share news of a bilingual Italian/English poetry reading co-sponsored by World Poetry Books, taking place on June 28 at the historic Villa di Geggiano near Siena, Italy. The event, held in conjunction with an art opening, will bring together...
Poet Victoria Chang (CRF 2025) and musician yuniya edi kwon (CRF 2024) will perform at Limelight Poetry’s World Poetry Salon in partnership with New York Public Library on June 21 at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library. Hosted by Patricio Ferrari, the event...
We’re delighted to share the release of The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother, a new memoir by Jill Bialosky (DG 2024). About the book: When Iris Yvonne Bialosky died in an assisted care facility on March 29, 2020, it unleashed a torrent of...
Civitella’s New York staff had the pleasure of attending the 61st annual PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on May 8 in Manhattan, where historian and author Kali Nicole Gross was honored with the 2025 PEN Open Book Award. Her book, Vengeance Feminism: The Power of...
Marie Howe (CRF 2022) has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection New and Selected Poems (2024). The collection gathers over four decades of Howe’s work, including selections from her previous collections — The Good Thief (1988), What the...
