Colson Whitehead received a National Humanities Medal, presented by President Biden on March 21, 2023. Whitehead was among 12 honorees for the National Humanities Medals, as well as honorees for National Medals of Arts. “With genre-defying craftsmanship and creativity, Colson Whitehead’s celebrated novels make real the African American journey through our Nation’s continued reckoning with the original sin of slavery and our ongoing march toward a more perfect Union.”

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The shortlist for the 2023 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. The six-title list includes Limberlost by Robbie Arnott (Atlantic).

Analog has announced the Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices, open to “any writer over 18 years of age who customarily identifies as Black, has not published nor is under contract for a book, and has three or less paid fiction publications.”

Submissions will be read blind. Please remove all identifying information from the document before sending it. The file name should be the title of the story. Submissions should ...Read More

The shortlists for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing and Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration have been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest follow.

Alina Pete’s “Telling the Soul of Mars” is the winner of the 2022 Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award. The $1,000 prize is given by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) to “emerging authors who use science fiction to address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.” Other finalists are “The Good One” by Allanah Hunt, “The Tangle” by Rae Mariz, and “Spirit Medicine” by Gina McGuire.

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The six-title shortlist for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel award has been announced, and includes When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Hamish Hamilton).

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Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) won the Story Prize, “honoring the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction,” presented March 15, 2023. The prize includes $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl.

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Tin House) was one of the finalists, and will receive $5,000.

Director Larry Dark and prize founder Julie Lindsey chose three finalists from 119 collections published in ...Read More

When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Doubleday/Penguin UK) is on the 2023 Jhalak Prize longlist.

The award “seek to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers” and “accept entries published in the UK by writers of colour. These include (and not limited to) fiction, non-fiction, short stories, graphic novels, poetry and all other genres.”

The judges for 2023 are Haleh Agar, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and Monisha Rajesh. The ...Read More

The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced finalists for the 35th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.” Nominees of genre interest follow.

The 13-title longlist for the 2023 International Booker Prize has been announced, including titles and authors of genre interest:

The award is given “every year for a single book that is ...Read More

The 2022 Aurealis Awards shortlist, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, has been announced.

The finalists for the 92nd Annual California Book Awards, presented by the Commonwealth Club of California, have been announced.

Titles and authors of genre interest include The Furrows by Namwali Serpell (Hogarth) which was one of three finalists for the Fiction category, Out There by Kate Folk (Random House) which was one of five finalists for the First Fiction category, and Cold by Mariko Tamaki (Roaring Brook) which was one ...Read More

The five-title 2023 PEN/Faulkner finalists list includes titles and authors of genre interest:

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has released the final ballot for the 2022 Nebula Awards.

The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) has announced winners for the 2023 Romantic Novel Awards, including titles of genre interest.

The shortlist for the 2022 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards has been announced.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced Greg Bear and Cerece Rennie Murphy as recipients of the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award “for distinguished contributions to the science fiction and fantasy community.”

The Solstice Award, created in 2008 and given at the discretion of the SFWA president with the majority approval of the Board of Directors, is for individuals, living or dead, who have had “a significant impact ...Read More

The results of the annual Clarkesworld readers’ poll for best story and cover art of 2022 were announced in the March 2022 issue:

The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) has opened submissions for the Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award for “emerging authors who use science fiction to address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination” through December 1, 2023.

Applicants must send a “200-word statement with background & goals in writing SF” and a “4,000-word maximum writing sample addressing Indigenous perspectives” to Professor Grace L. Dillon at dillong@pdx.edu. For more information, ...Read More

The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2023 Audie Awards finalists, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.

Audie finalists of genre interest follow.

The top five winners of Uncanny‘s 2022 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll have been announced:

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards:

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The five judges for the Philip K. Dick Award for works of science fiction published as paperback originals in the US during the year 2023 have been announced:

Finalists for this year’s Ray Bradbury Prize for “Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction” were announced as part of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes:

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The finalists for the Zsoldos Péter Award have been announced, honoring Hungarian works speculative fiction.

• Szerződési szabadság, Moskát Anita (A hazugság tézisei, GABO Kiadó)
• Az utolsó tanú, Lőrinczy Judit (GABO Kiadó)
• Második magyar köztársaság, Kondor Vilmos (Open Books)

Short Stories

• “Ha elég mélyre nyúlsz”, Gaura Ágnes: (Az év magyar science fiction és fantasynovellái 2022)
• “Hétszerte”, Kiss Gabriella (Az év magyar science fiction és

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced Mishell Baker as the winner of the 2023 Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award. The award is presented to “a volunteer of SFWA who best exemplifies the ideal of service to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.”

Baker “has liaised with publishers interested in reprinting works by science fiction and fantasy authors who are no longer with ...Read More