The Pulitzer Prizes

"James" by Percival Everett, which recently received the 2025 Fiction Prize.

ICYMI: @samfragoso.bsky.social's revelatory interview with Percival Everett is now available as a bonus episode in the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast feed! Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p....

YouTube video by The Pulitzer Prizes 2025 Pulitzer Prize Announcement Livestream

The 2025 Pulitzer winners and finalists will be announced at 3 pm Eastern time! Watch the livestream here.

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Preemptive "And still there are no @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social for crossword commentary."

In the season finale of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, 2024 Fiction winner @jayneannephillips.bsky.social and Pulitzer Board member @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social discuss writing about war and the transformative power of literature. Listen here: pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/jay....

ICYMI: 2024 winners @jonathaneig.bsky.social and Yohance Lacour offer a master class in the reportorial arts, their winning works (and an elucidating dollop of Chicago history!) in this week's episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast. Available on all major platforms.

30 years ago, writer Carol Shields won the @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social for The Stone Diaries. We are proud to continue her legacy! Read more: carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/prizenews/30-years-stone-diaries-pulitzer

What to Read to Wrap Your Head Around the Climate Crisis These visceral reported accounts will help readers better understand the new ecological status quo.

So psyched and honored to see Fire Weather in such wonderful company: "What to Read to Wrap Your Head Around the Climate Crisis"
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Quote from 2024 Audio Reporting staff contributor Yohance Lacour.

In this week's episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, 2024 winners @jonathaneig.bsky.social and Yohance Lacour discuss the role journalism can still play in helping America heal from the past. Available here (or wherever you get your podcasts):

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ICYMI: In this episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, we hear from winners who have covered the migrant experience in the early 2020s, including photojournalists Iván Valencia & Gregory Bull and two-time Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Hannah Dreier. Listen wherever you get podcasts.

Podcast episode quote from Hannah Dreier.

In this episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, we hear from journalists who covered the migrant experience: 2024 Feature Photography staff contributors Iván Valencia & Gregory Bull and 2024 Investigative Reporting winner Hannah Dreier: pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/han...

ICYMI: In this week's episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Sarah Conway discuss their 2024 Local Reporting Prize-winning Missing in Chicago series with 2022 Criticism winner Salamishah Tillet. Available on all platforms! pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/tri...

In this week's episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Sarah Conway discuss their 2024 Local Reporting Prize-winning Missing in Chicago series with 2022 Criticism winner Salamishah Tillet. Don't miss it! pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/tri...

ICYMI: In this week's episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, Drama winners Sanaz Toossi and Lynn Nottage discuss alternate career paths, negative reviews and "really [leaning] into the pleasure of writing." Available here (and on all platforms):

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In this week's episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, join Drama winners Sanaz Toossi and Lynn Nottage for a thoughtful dialogue about the political valences of contemporary theatre. Available below (or wherever you get your podcasts).

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ICYMI: This week's episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast features an illuminating conversation between @justincchang.bsky.social and Joe Morgenstern at the cinematic mother lode that is the Egyptian Theatre. Available below and on all platforms.

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In this week's episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, @justincchang.bsky.social and Joe Morgenstern offer a master class in film criticism, from the birth pangs of the New Hollywood era to 'Oppenheimer' and beyond. Listen here: pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/jus....

ICYMI: This week's episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast (available on all platforms) showcases
@lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social's 2024 Breaking News Prize-winning coverage of a climate disaster on their home turf. In this clip, reporter Hillary Ojeda recalls difficulties faced by residents.

Amazing stuff here. Give it a listen.

Parabola | Scottish Chamber Orchestra Pekka Kuusisto Conductor / ViolinSimon Crawford-Phillips Conductor / PianoDolphin Boy DJ Pekka Kuusisto and British pianist/conductor Simon Crawford-Philli

@timoandres.bsky.social's 'The Blind Banister'—a 2016 @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social finalist—is performed by pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips & @scomusic.bsky.social at The Queen's Hall in Edinburgh tonight and Glasgow's City Halls Friday: www.sco.org.uk/events/parab...

In this week's episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, 2024 Breaking News Reporting Prize-winning staff members at @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social discuss their timely and percipient coverage of a local climate catastrophe. Listen below!

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ICYMI: @vkaramurza.bsky.social and @anneapplebaum.bsky.social discuss the former's release in the largest US-Russia prisoner exchange in decades and the inevitable blossoming of democracy in the Season 2 debut of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast.

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About last night…

“Writing the Big Impossible Thing” was impossibly inspiring. All we wanted to do when it was over was go home and write. And so we did. ✍️✍️✍️✍️

Big thanks to @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social for letting us be part of this great event.

In the revelatory S2 debut of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, Vladimir Kara-Murza discusses what it was like being released in the largest US-Russia prisoner exchange since the Cold War with @anneapplebaum.bsky.social. Listen here: pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/pod....

Very excited for tomorrow's at-capacity Chicago Pulitzer on the Road panel (with @storystudiochicago.bsky.social)! 2005 Nonfiction finalist/Pulitzer juror/Chicago's own @urrealism.bsky.social will be pinch-hitting for Cristina Rivera Garza. More here: pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/events/upcom...

If you're coming to the (sold out, but you can register for the waiting list) Pulitzer on the Road ( @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social ) event on Wednesday, we have a list minute substitution -- @urrealism.bsky.social will now be on the panel!

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Chicagoland friends: We're partnering with @storystudiochicago.bsky.social for a FREE Pulitzer on the Road panel on March 5 with the inimitable likes of Natasha Trethewey, Cristina Rivera Garza and @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social! Click here to register: pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/events/upcom...

“I think of local journalists as super heroes,” said @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social winner Caitlin Dickerson at Delta College’s Pulitzer on the Road with students. “Democracy doesn’t work without strong local journalism.”

Cover of Cristina Rivera Garza’s Liliana’s Invincible Summer. Deep as blue backdrop with picture of solitary woman swimmer diving into the water. Award graphics including the Pulitzer Prize.

Dear @barnesandnoble.com: I ask that you stock Cristina Rivera Garza’a *Liliana’s invincible Summer* - I went to a MI B & N to purchase yesterday and they had only one copy and we fruitlessly searched for it btwn Biography & True Crime. Belonged with award winners - 2024 @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social!

Don't miss tomorrow's *free* Pulitzer on the Road event at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton! Board member Nicole Carroll and recent winners @caitlindickerson.bsky.social & Anna Wolfe will explore the the importance of local media + much more. Register: www.deltacollege.edu/event/pulitz....

Why Suzan-Lori Parks Always Goes to the 'Stinky Places' With three new projects including her first on-stage role, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright talks candidly about "the love I work"

2.5 years ago, I interviewed @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks about her writing process for TDF Stages.

Her words of wisdom continue to help me navigate my struggles. I share them w you now: go to the stinky places. Esp if they scare you.
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