Pulitzer News

We heard it through the grapevine: On Wednesday March 26, 2025, Pulitzer on the Road will rev up its (proverbial) 1966 Pontiac GTO and motor into Detroit on a James Jamerson bass line ("Bernadette," please!) for a conversation with recent Pulitzer winners and finalists on cultural criticism today. The event (in partnership with Michigan Central and with support from the Knight Foundation's Detroit Office) will be held at the city's iconic Michigan Central Station.

Unfortunately Cristina Rivera Garza cannot be with us in Chicago. We're delighted to welcome 2005 General Nonfiction finalist Luis Alberto Urrea to join the conversation with Pulitzer Board member and 2007 Poetry winner Natasha Trethewey and and 2019 Fiction finalist Rebecca Makkai in Chicago this coming Wednesday March 5, 2025.

The entry portals will close at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time on January 3, 2025. The deadline for eligibility remains December 31, 2024.

The 2024 class of Pulitzer Prize winners gathered at Columbia University's Low Library on October 24 for a ceremony celebrating their awards.

2023 Fiction winner Hernan Diaz's Pulitzer-nominated 2017 debut novel is available for the first time in a hardcover edition from Riverhead Books.

Journalists John Archibald of Alabama’s AL.com, Gina Chua of the global news site Semafor, and poet Natasha Trethewey have been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.
 

Entrants may now submit work in the Music category. The eligibility deadline is December 31, 2024.

Entrants may now submit eligible work that opened this year in the Drama category. The eligibility deadline is December 31.

The final deadline for all eligible books (published between January 1 and December 31, 2024) is Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Columbia University has announced the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.