Girl power has invaded the book industry! And black girl magic, in particular, is sprinkling its uniquely dope dust as well!

The National Book Foundation has announced its annual 5 Under 35 honorees, and this year women have taken every single spot, according to the Los Angeles Times. Every year, the foundation honors a select few young authors who have published a debut work of fiction — either novel or short story collection — that showcases remarkable potential.

This year, black women have nabbed two of the five spots: Zinzi Clemmons and Lesley Nneka Arimah.

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Halle Butler, Leopoldine Core and Weike Wang round out the list.

As for the honored works, there were three novels, Butler’s Jillian, Wang's Chemistry and Clemmons' What We Lose, and there were two short story collections, Arimah's What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky and Core's When Watched.

“At a moment in which we are having the necessary conversations surrounding the underrepresentation of female voices, it’s a thrill to see this list of tremendous women chosen organically by our selectors," the foundation’s executive director Lisa Lucas told The Cut. "These writers and their work represent an incredibly bright future for the world of literary fiction."

Each author will be rewarded a $1,000 cash prize. The judges — Sherman Alexie, Chris Bachelder, Angela Flournoy, Karan Mahajan and Lydia Millet — consisted of former National Book Award winners and finalists and were 5 Under 35 alumni themselves.

The National Book Award list this year was also dominated by women! They took eight of the 10 spots.

"Now, I almost exclusively read fiction by women, and it’s not all contemporary," said honoree Halle Butler. "I think there’s a revisiting of a lot of overlooked women writers like Lucia Berlin. It wasn’t anything conscious, so it must be atmospheric and it must be coming from things like this — some kind of sea change."

Congrats to the honorees!

What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky

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