Press Releases

Elizabeth Acevedo

Elizabeth Acevedo Wins NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (9/29/2026)

Neustadt Prize Feather

NSK Neustadt Prize Increased to $50,000 (9/25/2026)

The finalists for the 2027 NSK Prize.

World Literature Today Announces Finalists for 2027 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (6/29/2026)

2026 Neustadt Poster Contest Winners Announced, by The Editors of WLT (6/9/2026)

Ibrahim Nasrallah

Ibrahim Nasrallah Wins the 2026 Neustadt Prize (10/21/2025)

Cherie Dimaline to Headline 2025 Neustadt Lit Fest at OU (8/13/2025)

The 2026 Neustadt Finalists

World Literature Today Announces Finalists for the 2026 Neustadt Prize (6/11/2025)

An illustration of a fountain pen leaking a plume of deep space. Text reads: Neustadt Lit Fest. Celebrating excellence and achievement in YA lit. October 20-22, 2025. 2025 NSK Prize winner Cherie Dimaline

2025 Neustadt Poster Contest Winners Announced (5/29/2025)

A photograph of winner Cherie Dimaline

Cherie Dimaline Wins NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (10/23/2024)

An illustration of brightly garbed female figure holding a ceramic lamp. Text reads: 2024 Neustadt Lit Fest. International Books and Culture. October 21-23.

World Literature Today Announces 2024 Neustadt Festival Poster Design Contest Winners (7/10/2024)

A photograph of the 2025 NSK Finalists

World Literature Today Announces Finalists for 2025 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (6/18/2024)

Jury Announced for the 2025 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (6/5/2024)

A photograph of Ananda Devi

Ananda Devi Wins the 2024 Neustadt Prize (10/25/2023)

A photograph of Gene Luen Yang

Gene Luen Yang to Headline 2023 Neustadt Lit Fest at OU (7/28/2023)

2023 NSK Finalist

World Literature Today Announces Finalists for 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature (5/24/2023)