Events

                                (L-R): David Mura, Lisa Teasley, Myriam Gurba, Erik Gleibermann Just as astute fiction writers build their racial awareness to portray racial realities outside their own, discerning literary critics can develop such awareness to review books with unfamiliar racial experience.

The Guild Literary Complex and the National Book Critics Circle present: Exhibit B No. 8 - Sept. 11 at 4:30 p.m. CDT. Exhibit B is an experimental performance series featuring accessible, multimodal art by diverse, community-conscious artists in Chicago and beyond. This performance—the collective's eighth—will be at Printer's Row Lit Fest and feature performances by Ignatius Valentine

Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, 1:00 pm Mountain Time The Montana Book Festival and the National Book Critics Circle are hosting a conversation with Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and Kristiana Kahakauwila about how the history (read: violence) of the American West is mined in order to write contemporary literature toward and about the region today. NBCC

  A 40-minute conversation and a 20-minute moderator-led Q&A between Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (The Disordered Cosmos, 2021), Nicole Chung (All You Can Ever Know, 2019 Finalist for NBCC Award for Autobiography), Lacy M. Johnson (The Reckonings, 2018 Finalist for NBCC Award for Criticism). Moderator: Ruben Quesada, NBCC Vice President, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Free.  7:00 pm

When: Wednesday, September 29 from 7:30 to 8:30pm Where: The Center For Fiction, auditorium Proof of vaccination and masks required Join the National Book Critics Circle for an evening of readings from John Leonard Prize for Best First Book finalists/winners Raven Leilani, Julia Phillips, and Brandon Taylor, hosted by Maris Kreizman.  We’ll see you IRL* to

Sponsored by Yerba Buena Community Benefit District Co-presented by The National Book Critics Circle Join author Ricco Villanueva Siasoco in a conversation with three debut novelists about the process of building alternative histories of the American West, from the Gold Rush through World War I. Patty Enrado’s A Village in the Fields highlights a compelling but buried

    On Thursday, November 18th at 8 PM EST, Adam Dalva will moderate a conversation with the team of a new forthcoming magazine, Astra Magazine. Editor-in-Chief Nadja Spiegelman (former web editor of the Paris Review), Deputy Editor Sam Rutter, and Poetry Editor Aria Aber will give a behind the scenes look at the work that goes

The National Book Critics Circle is pleased to announce that it will be launching a new prize for work in translation starting with the 2022 publishing year. The Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize will honor the best book of any genre translated into English and published in the United States. In honor of the

January 20, 2022. 7 pm EST Please join President David Varno and the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors for a virtual panel celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing followed by the announcement of the Balakian award by 2015 winner Carlos Lozada and of the finalists for

Top row, L-R: Raven Leilani (photo by Nina Stubin), Carmen Maria Machado (photo by Art Streiber). Bottom row, L-R: Kirstin Valdez Quade (photo by Holly Andres), David Varno. Friday, March 25, 2022, 3:20pm-4:35 pm Eastern. A Literary Partner event. Celebrating the National Book Critics Circle's First Book Award A literary partner featured event focused on

121BC, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level Saturday, March 26, 2022 12:10 pm to 1:25 pm Eastern https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/21792 The medium of comics is well-established as presenting works of literary value, but critical writing can be mired in a defensive position (not just for kids; not just illustration; not just a fad). Critics and culture writers discuss