Nominations are now open for the Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, to be presented at Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for Our Futures, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, to be held August 8-12, 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland. The convention says,
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The longlist for the 2024 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced, and includes The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova (Atlantic Books).
The annual Dylan Thomas prize, in partnership with Swansea University, awards £20,000 “to the best published or produced literary work in the English language, written by an author aged 39 or under.” This year’s judges are Namita Gokhale, Jon Gower, Seán Hewitt, Julia Wheeler, and Tice Cin.
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Fix, Grist‘s “solutions lab,” has announced three winners for their Imagine 2200 Short Story Contest. The contest asks authors “to envision a clean, just future… [and] create stories of life in that future.” The theme was “Climate fiction for future ancestors.”
The winners are:
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Writer Sohini Basak has won the 2023 Gulliver Travel Grant, given by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) “to assist writers of speculative literature (in fiction, poetry, drama, or creative nonfiction) in their research.” The $1,000 grant is intended to cover airfare, lodging, or other travel expenses.
For more information, see the SLF website.
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Deirra Clyburn is the recipient of this year’s Working Class Writers Grant, presented by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF). The $1,000 grant is given annually to assist working class, blue-collar, poor, and homeless writers who “have been historically underrepresented in speculative fiction, due to financial barriers which have made it much harder for them to have access to the writing world.”
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Maeve Fly by CJ Leede (Nightfire) has won CALIBA’s Octavia E. Butler award for best “Sci Fi/Fantasy/Horror”.
California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA) honors “the most distinguished books written and illustrated by creators who have made California their home.”
The award was presented during a virtual awards ceremony on January 25, 2024. For more information, including the full list of awards, see their website.
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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the preliminary ballot for the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards.
Superior Achievement in a Novel
The official Hugo Awards website posted the 2023 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award, and Astounding Award Nominating and Final Ballot statistics from the Chengdu Worldcon. The statistics and voting progression for both the final ballots and the nominations are available here in a PDF.
There were several entries ruled ineligible by the Hugo Awards administrators, including R.F. Kuang’s Babel, fan writer nominee Paul Weimer, Astounding nominee Xiran Jay Zhao, and ...Read More
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Author David Baldacci has been named the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion to recognize “a lifetime of devoted literary advocacy and a commitment to inspiring new generations of readers and writers.”
PEN/Faulkner executive director Gwydion Suilebhan said,
David Baldacci, whose novels have captivated millions of readers worldwide, has been a paragon of service to the literary community… PEN/Faulkner is dedicated to the idea that fiction creates empathy within and among communities ...Read More
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The Writers’ Prize, formerly the Rathbones Folio Prize, announced shortlists in three categories: Non-Fiction, Fiction, and Poetry. Titles or authors of genre interest include The Fraud by Zadie Smith (Penguin) for Fiction.
Winners will be announced March 13, 2024 at the London Book Fair. Each category winner receives £2,000 and the winner of the Writers’ Prize Book of the Year will receive £30,000.
For more information, including the complete shortlists,
R.L. Stine and Katherine Hall-Page have been named the 2024 Mystery Writers of America (MWA) Grand Masters. Stine said,
Tony Hillerman. Elmore Leonard. Mickey Spillane. Ruth Rendell: Those were the MWA Grand Masters when I first started attending the Edgar Awards over 30 years ago. If you had told me then I’d be on that list someday, would I have believed you? I don’t think so. I’m surprised and truly ...Read More
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Listening Books has announced the thriller novel Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths (Mariner) as the winner of its Members’ Choice Award. The winning title was chosen by members of Listening Books, all of whom are “UK residents who have a disability or illness that impacts their ability to read the printed word.”
Several of the finalists were titles of genre interest, including:
The 2024 Philip K. Dick Award finalists have been announced:
The award is presented annually to a distinguished work of science fiction originally
The judges for the The Future Worlds Prize for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Colour have been announced. The prize “aims to find new talent based in the UK writing in the SFF space, from magical realism and space operas to dystopia and more.”
The 2024 judges are:
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) announced their five nominees for the Grand Master award: F.J. Bergmann, G.O. Clark, Terry A. Garey, Deborah P Kolodji, and Geoffrey Landis.
The title is given “to an individual living at the time of selection whose body of work reflects the highest artistic goals of the SFPA, who has been actively publishing within the target genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy for ...Read More
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Sakinah Hofler is the winner of the Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices. The award is 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.” The winner receives a mentoring session with the editors of Analog.
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The A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature is open to applications through January 31, 2024. The grant provides $1,000 to “South Asian or Desi diaspora writers developing speculative fiction”, with preference given to “work that is accessible to older children and teens.”
The grant is co-sponsored by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) and DesiLit. Winners will be selected by a jury on the basis of merit, and will ...Read More
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Kate Mosse, author of the Languedoc Trilogy (Berkley), Crucifix Lane (Hodder & Stoughton), and The Winter Ghosts (Orion), has been made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for “services to literature, to women, and to charity.” Mosse co-founded the Women’s Prize For Fiction, the UK’s highest award for writing by women.
The title was conferred as part of the 2024 New Year’s Honours List. Other honorees included filmmaker Ridley ...Read More
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Books has released its lists of the best Canadian books of 2023. The lists include many titles of genre interest, such as Rouge by Mona Awad (Penguin Random House), VenCo by Cherie Dimaline (Random House Canada), Linghun by Ai Jiang (Dark Matter INK), Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (HarperCollins Canada), Landscapes by Christine Lai (Doubleday Canada), Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey), River Mumma by ...Read More
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Updated January 16, 2024.
The judges for the 2024 World Fantasy Awards have been empaneled.
The judges will read and consider eligible materials from 2023 between now and June 1, 2024. To be considered for awards, all materials must be received by all five judges and Peter Dennis Pautz by June 1, 2024. “If… something is received on May 31 the judges may well have only one day to read
The Washington Science Fiction Association is now accepting nominations of works “published for the first time in the English language” in 2023 for its Small Press Award, given annually to an outstanding story of “imaginative literature” (17,500 words or fewer) published in the small press. The deadline for nominations is March 31, 2024.
Authors and small-press publishers are among those eligible to nominate, and need not be members of WSFA. ...Read More
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Finalists for the 2023 Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards (Cybils) have been announced. Books of genre interest follow.
Young Adult Speculative Fiction
The 2023 Chesley Awards nominees have been announced.
Best Hardback Illustration
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan (SFWJ) have announced the finalists for the 44th Japanese SF Awards:
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JESMYN WARD’s Let Us Descend (Scribner) has been chosen by Oprah Winfrey as the next title for her Book Club. Winfrey said, “I have read all of Jesmyn Ward’s books and have been a fan of her writing for years. Let Us Descend is a vital work for our culture and I’m so excited to have her newest offering as part of our Book Club.”
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The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has announced the finalists for the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award for Best Classic Fiction.
Six other works were also considered: Zelig, Woody Allen; Floating Worlds, Cecilia Holland (Knopf); “Primary Education of the Camiroi”, R.A. Lafferty (Galaxy 12/66); That ...Read More
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The longlist has been announced for the 2023-2024 Gordon Burn Prize. The prize recognizes “fiction and non-fiction books that are fearless in their ambition and execution.” Longlisted works of genre interest include Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adeji-Brenyah (Harvill Secker) and Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq (And Other Stories).
Judges include Terri White, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, Andrew Hankinson, and Sheena Patel. The shortlist will be announced in January 2024, and the ...Read More
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Winners of the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards for the “best books of 2023,” as chosen by users of the site, have been announced. There are several winners of genre interest.
Best Fiction
Best Science Fiction
Best Fantasy
Best Young Adult Fantasy
Best Romantasy
Here are the 2023 Hugo Award voting statistics from the Chengdu Worldcon! The committee has 90 days to provide the voting and nomination stats, and have said the nomination numbers will follow later within that time frame.
We had hoped to get the write up of how the voting played out into the current issue of Locus (Dec/Jan issue) but they came in too late to make the deadline. We ...Read More
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Winners of the Foyles Books of the Year awards have been announced, including several titles and authors of genre interest.
Fiction
Children’s & Young Adult
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell (Bloomsbury Children’s) is the winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year 2023.
Shortlisted titles of genre interest included Yellowface, Rebecca F. Kuang (William Morrow) and Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower).
Titles were nominated by Waterstones booksellers. For more information, see the Waterstones website.
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The New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA) has announced the winners for the 2023 New England Book Awards.
Fiction
Young Adult
