American Acacemy of Arts and Letters Awards:

John Updike Award. Tom Sleigh. $20,000.

Benjamin H. Danks Award. Karen Russell. $20,000.

E.M. Forster Award. Rachel Seiffert. $20,000.

Arthur Rense Poetry Prize. David Wagoner. $20,000.

Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award. Thomas Mallon. $10,000.

Award of Merit Medal for Drama: John Patrick Shanley. $10,000.

Addison M. Metcalf Award. Matthea Harvey. $10,000.

Rosenthal Family Foundation Award. Monique Truong. $10,000.

Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. Brando Skyhorse. $5,000.

Rome Fellowships in Literature. Matt Donovan & Suzanne Rivecca.

National Book Critics Circle Awards:

Fiction: Jennifer Egan for A Visit From the Goon Squad published by Knopf.

Nonfiction: Isabel Wilkerson for The Warmth of Other Suns published by Random House.

Poetry: C.D. Wright for One with Others published by Copper Canyon Press.

Autobiography: Darin Strauss for Half a Life published by McSweeney’s.

Biography: Sarah Bakewell for How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer” published by Other Press.

Criticism: Clare Cavanagh for Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West published by Yale University Press.

2010 Phillip Levin Poetry Book Prize. Lauri Bedikian for The Book of Lamenting. $2,000 and publication by Anhiga Press. Judge: Brian Turner.

2010 Anderbo Poetry Prize. Jendi Reiter for “Bullies in Love.” $500 prize and publication on anderbo.com. Judge: Linda Bierds.

2010 Los Angeles Book Prize Finalist. Ed Robertson for To See the Earth Before the End of the World published by Wesleyan University Press.