Nominations for the BSA Awards 2026 are out now!

Here are the nominations for the BSA Awards 2026:

Best Graduate Student Paper/Presentation

“‘Who Scribbled All Night’: The Aesthetics of Cool in Ginsberg’s ‘Howl'” (The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture) by Daniel Wartham

Best Professional Article

“María Lucrecia Barquera: The Third Wife of William S. Burroughs” (Beatdom) by Thomas Antonic

“‘Jess ‘Maginary Lines in People’s Heads’: How Jack Kerouac’s Archive and His Problematic Novella Rewrite the Myths of On the Road” (Contemporary Literature) by Brett Sigurdson

Best Edited Scholarly Collection

Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, Reappraisals (Bloomsbury Academic) edited by Erik Mortenson and Tomasz Sawczuk

Best Monograph

A Remarkable Collection of Angels: A History of the 6 Gallery Reading (Beatdom) by David S. Wills

The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties (Da Capo) by Dennis McNally

Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans (Bloomsbury Academic) by Steven Belletto

Best Translation/ Scholarly Edition

Roosevelt After Inauguration Redux (Moloko)by William S. Burroughs, edited by Oliver Harris

Congratulations to all the nominees!

Winners will be announced in October.