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ABOUT THIS EVENT
A celebration of literary excellence honoring the 2019 award winners and announcing the 2020 award finalists.
Please join President David Varno and the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors for a virtual celebration of literary excellence honoring our 2019 award winners, whose celebration was cancelled last March due to COVID-19. We will also be announcing the he winners of the 2020 Sandrof and Balakian awards, and the finalists for the 2020 book prizes.
The National Book Critics Circle honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature. The organization was founded in April 1974 at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, by John Leonard, Nona Balakian, and Ivan Sandrof, among others. The NBCC gained 501(c)(3) status in October 2006 and has since received grants from the NEA and Amazon Literary Partnerships to support its work. Today the NBCC serves nearly 800 member critics, authors, student members, and friends. Its Emerging Critics fellowship offers mentorship and education to a class of about a dozen aspiring critics each year.
Members of the NBCC receive access to a membership directory for finding and communicating with other critics, a continuously updated guide to publications that publish reviews, the ability to nominate titles for our annual awards and elect board members, and a variety of discounts on literary magazines. Members' reviews and career notes are published weekly in our Critical Notes newsletter.
Sustaining members, both voting and nonvoting, subscribe to a program of annual giving to support our work.
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MORE ABOUT NBCC
The National Book Critics Circle honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature.
The National Book Critics Circle was founded in April 1974 at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, with founding members John Leonard, Nona Balakian, and Ivan Sandrof intending to extend the Algonquin round table to a national conversation. The NBCC gained 501(c)(3) status in October 2006, and in 2010 received an NEA grant to support the website and its literary blog, Critical Mass.
The NBCC serves nearly 800 member critics, authors, literary bloggers, book publishing professionals, student members, and friends. Membership is open to freelance and staff book reviewers, associate nonvoting members, student members, and friends. Full members receive access to tips on book reviewing, an annually updated guide to publications that accept freelance pitches for reviews, the ability to nominate titles for our annual awards and elect board members, plus a variety of discounts on literary magazines.
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