The North Carolina Book Awards ceremony will take place on December 5th, 2025, at 1:00 PM in Raleigh, N.C. The awards ceremony, which recognizes significant works by N.C. writers, is free and open to the public. Katherine Scott Crawford’s The Miniaturist’s Assistant will be awarded the Sir Walter Raleigh Award, the state’s highest award for fiction.

For more information, go to https://www.dncr.nc.gov/news/press-releases/2025/11/05/2025-north-carolina-book-award-recipients-announced