The citation "comes with a $100,000 grant to be administered by the Committee to Protect Journalists for the emergency relief of such individuals and their families."
Entrants may now submit eligible work premiered this year in the Drama and Music categories.
Washington, D.C.-based author and journalist Katherine Boo, New York Times Opinion Columnist Gail Collins and Associated Press Vice President & Editor-at-Large for Standards John Daniszewski have been elected as co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
The 2018 Feature Photography contributor and longtime Reuters photojournalist was killed while covering a skirmish between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants near a border crossing with Pakistan. As the world mourns his loss, view a gallery of his selected work.
Entrants may now submit eligible work published this year in the Fiction, U.S. History, Biography, Poetry and General Nonfiction categories.
Read a fact sheet about the Pulitzer Prizes.
The Pulitzer Prize Board has decided to postpone the 2021 award winners’ announcement. Originally scheduled for Monday, April 19, 2021, the Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music now will be announced on Friday, June 11, 2021 at 1 p.m.
Find inspiration in the current class of Pulitzer winners in Journalism, and learn how to enter. The deadline to submit is January 25, 2021.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam" has died at age 84.
For 2021, the number of items allowed per entry has decreased, and definitions of the Editorial Cartooning and Local Reporting categories have been updated.
