Overview
- Press Shop PR and its Book Publicity School will run a six-week publicity course with office hours and an online community for current and past Whiting nonfiction grantees.
- The 2025 winners are Paul Bogard, Jason Cherkis, S. C. Cornell, Caitlin Dickerson, Elena Dudum, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Will Harris, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Avi Steinberg, and Raksha Vasudevan.
- Executive director Constantia Constantinou said the initiative extends Whiting’s prior in-house publicity help in response to shrinking publisher marketing and media coverage.
- This year’s projects include work on suicide prevention history, border politics and deportation, and a new Grace Paley biography, with each book under contract in the U.S. or U.K.
- Press Shop founder Leah Paulos emphasized training in platform development, messaging, and media outreach, and grantee Raksha Vasudevan said it will help her balance writing with audience engagement.