Each year, the National Book Award Finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature gather the evening before the National Book Awards Ceremony to read excerpts from their honored works.

The 2023 National Book Awards Finalist Reading will be hosted by Parul Sehgal, staff writer at The New Yorker.

The event will be presented in person at NYU Skirball and livestreamed. Purchase tickets here on NYU Skirball’s website. If you’re unable to attend in person, please register for the livestream on the National Book Foundation’s website.

Doors open at 6:30pm, and the program begins at 7:00pm EST.

Presented in partnership with the NYU Creative Writing Program.