The National Association of Science Writers and its Awards Committee are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards. This year, NASW is awarding prizes in six categories: Books, Science Reporting, Science Features, Longform Narratives, Series, and Commentary. ...
The winner of the 2025 Award is Tina Ehsanipour of San Mateo, California. “Between a Dream and a Curse,” follows 17-year-old Azadeh, who, after being visited by a strange woman in a dream, learns of a family curse that has claimed young women for generations. Ehsanipour...
At the center of these meetings are discussions to gather support for the Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act (VACRA) which is based on a white paper that ASMP was the lead author on in 2024 and 2025. At the heart of VACRA is the awareness that...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to be a hot topic in children’s publishing. Publishers Weekly recently spoke with SCBWI Executive Director Sarah Baker about Google’s AI Gemini Storybook app, which lets users create personalized, illustrated storybooks with read-aloud narration....
The Graphic Artists Guild has endorsed the California bill AB-412, introduced by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan. The legislation seeks to increase transparency around the use of copyrighted materials to train generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). It requires model developers to provide copyright owners a means by which...
Over the last few days, a potential settlement has been announced in the class action litigation resulting from the unsanctioned use of hundreds of thousands of books. Mystery Writers of America is following the matter closely, and there are steps our members must take to...