Reminder: Deadline for Drama and Music Entries Is December 31
The entry site will close on December 31, and digital submissions now are permitted in both categories due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The entry site will close on December 31, and digital submissions now are permitted in both categories due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Due to the COVID pandemic’s effects on the performing arts, requirements for consideration for 2021 Prize in Drama have been altered to accommodate the challenges faced by playwrights and theaters in producing new works this year.
For consideration in the 2021 Fiction, Poetry, Biography, Nonfiction and History Prize categories, please submit eligible work online by October 1, 2020. This year, all entries must be sent as ebooks. Read below for full details.
The Pulitzer Prizes exclusively will accept books entered in electronic form for the 2021 awards. The change will affect the Biography, General Nonfiction, History, Fiction and Poetry Prize categories.
Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-chief of ProPublica, and Aminda Marqués González, president, publisher and executive editor of the Miami Herald, have been elected as co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Carlos Lozada is the nonfiction book critic of The Washington Post. He has also served as The Post's economics editor, national security editor and Outlook editor. He received the 2015 National Book Critics Circle's citation for excellence in reviewing. Previously, he was managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine and a Knight-Bagehot fellow in economics and business journalism at Columbia University.
Lozada joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2019.
David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992. He has written hundreds of pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Bruce Springsteen, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, Benjamin Netanyahu, Leonard Cohen, and Mavis Staples. He also serves as the host of the magazine’s national radio program and podcast, “The New Yorker Radio Hour.”
Nicole Carroll is Editor in Chief of USA TODAY. She was named to her current position in March 2018. Prior to that, she served as Vice President/News and Editor of The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com.
Katherine Boo, a former staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, was a reporter at The Washington Post when her series on mistreatment of mentally challenged people in Washington, DC, resulted in the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for The Post. The Pulitzer citation praised her work for exposing "wretched neglect and abuse in the city’s group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms."
The Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have elected Elizabeth Alexander to be the Foundation’s next President, effective March 2018. Alexander will succeed Earl Lewis, who has served as President since 2013.