The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has named F.J. Bergmann as their 2024 Grand Master.
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 a period of no fewer than 20 years, and whose poetry has been ...Read More
Read moreFinalists have been announced for the 2023 Prix Bob Morane, recognizing French-language works in the science fiction, fantasy, espionage, and thriller genres.
Roman traduit (Translated Novels)
The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume Three anthology is open to submissions until March 31, 2024, covering works originally published in 2023. The book will be published in late 2024 by Caezik SF & Fantasy. Editors for this volume are Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Chinaza Eziaghighala.
We welcome submissions of all reprint works of speculative fiction, from any genres and sub genres, including fantasy, dark fantasy, science fiction, horror ...Read More
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Finalists for the 2023 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Awards, and the 38th Asimov’s Readers’ Awards, have been announced, with many finalists available to read online.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact Analytical Laboratory Award Finalists
BEST NOVELLAS
“To Fight the Colossus“, Adam-Troy Castro (July/August 2023)
“The Tinker and the Timestream“, Carolyn Ives Gilman (March/April 2023)
“The Elephant-Maker”, Alec Nevala-Lee (January/February 2023)
“Flying Carpet“, Rajnar Vajra (November/December 2023)
“Poison“, Frank Wu & ...Read More
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Finalists have been announced for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Categories and works of genre interest follow.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction
Fiction
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards:
Superior Achievement in a Novel
Superior Achievement in
Author Steve Miller, 73, best known for the Liaden Universe series co-written with wife Sharon Lee, died suddenly on February 20, 2024, as reported by Lee on Facebook.
Steven Richard Miller was born July 31, 1950 in Baltimore MD. He attended the University of Maryland, where he worked on college newpaper The Retriever and founded the science fiction club. He was the curator of the UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library ...Read More
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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has opened applications their 2024 career mentoring program, seeking both mentors and mentees. The program is “is an all-volunteer service provided free of charge… with the objective of providing community, sharing knowledge, and offering networking opportunities.”
Applications are open from February 13 to February 27, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
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“Lolo’s Last Run” by Emma Kerkman is the winner of the 2024 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing.
The complete list of honors is:
Nominees have been announced for the Splatterpunk Awards, “honoring superior achievement for works published in 2023 in the sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror.”
Best Novel
Best Novella
The Associazione World SF Italia announced the finalists for the 2024 Premio Ernesto Vegetti, an Italian SF award.
Novel
Nonfiction
Winners 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 Audio Publishers Association (APA) has announced the finalists for the 2024 Audie Awards, “recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.” Finalists of genre interest include:
Science Fiction
Young Adult imprint Balzer + Bray is moving from HarperChildren’s to Macmillan Children’s, effective April 15, 2024. Founding editors Alessandra Balzer and Donna Bray will be senior vice-presidents and co-publishers at the new company.
The imprint was founded in 2009 at HarperCollins. Previously published titles, and new books currently under contract, will remain with HarperCollins, to be published under various imprints. No titles for the new incarnation have been announced ...Read More
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The 2024 Glasgow Worldcon chair Esther MacCallum-Stewart has released a statement regarding the committee’s commitment to ensuring transparency in the coming Hugo Award cycle, in the aftermath of the 2023 Hugo Awards debacle.
As Chair of Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for Our Futures, I unreservedly apologise for the damage caused to nominees, finalists, the community, and the Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards.
Kat Jones has resigned with immediate effect as
LESLYE PENELOPE is now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.
MEG ELISON is now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.
R.L. STINE and KATHERINE HALL PAGE have been named the 2024 Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters. MICHAELA HAMILTON of Kensington Publishing will receive the Ellery Queen Award. The recipients will be honored at the annual Edgar Awards ceremony on May 1, 2024 in New York ...Read More
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Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford have released The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion, an extensive look at the irregularities in the recent Hugo Awards presented in Chengdu China.
Leaked emails from Diane Lacey, a member of the Hugo Award administration team, reveal that several works and authors that should have made the ballot were ruled ineligible for political reasons. Those works include Babel by R.F. ...Read More
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Results of the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story Contest were announced at Boskone 61, held February 9-11, 2024.
John Scalzi is the recipient of the 2023 Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (AKA the Skylark Award), and Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman are the winners of the 2024 award. The awards were presented by the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) at Boskone 61, held February 9-11, 2024 in Boston.
The Skylark is given to “some person, who, in the opinion of the membership, has contributed ...Read More
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The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced the finalists for the 2024 Compton Crook Award:
Splinter in the Sky, Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Saga)
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs (Orbit)
Deathwind, Brad Pawlowski (Sunquake)
The award honors the best first SF/fantasy/horror novel of the year, and “includes a framed ...Read More
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced the late James Hosek (October 13, 1964 – December 3, 2023) as the winner of the 2024 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.”
Deputy Executive Director Terra LeMay says,
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Montréal, Québec, Canada has announced a bid to host the 85th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in 2027.
The 67th Worldcon in 2009 in Montréal was the last Canadian Worldcon and Montrealers will be happy to see it return. We are bidding to bring the convention to the Palais des Congrès from September 2-6, 2027.
The bid is led by Terry Fong, a Montréal native and a veteran ...Read More
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Chengdu Worldcon, the 81st World Science Fiction Convention, received 1,674 valid ballots, down from 2,235 at Chicon 8. There were 1,847 valid nominating ballots (1,843 electronic, four paper), up from 1,368.
Nomination statistics weren’t released until the very last of the 90 days allowed, just before our deadline. They don’t include author names for nominees, and generally don’t offer explanations for why several items were dropped as “not eligible.” To ...Read More
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Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures, to be held August 8th-12th, 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland, published Media Release #10 on December 28, 2023, announcing editor and game developer Tanya DePass as a Special Guest. For more, see their website.
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The five-title shortlist for the Tähtivaeltaja Award has been announced, honoring the best science fiction published in Finland. The award is sponsored by Helsingin Science Fiction seura (Helsinki Science Fiction Society). The nominees are:
Phantastische Akademie announced the finalists for the 2024 SERAPH, a German fantasy award.
Best Debut
Orbit’s new digital imprint, Orbit Works, has announced its first four titles, with the first to launch in Fall 2024.
The first Orbit Works title will be Sophia Slade’s Nightstrider, a dark fantasy about creatures with the ability to cross the boundary between the dream realm and the real world. Slade has previously independently published seven books, ranging from dark fantasy to poetry.
Nightstrider will be followed by Laura ...Read More
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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has named Susan Cooper the 40th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
SFWA President Jeffe Kennedy said,
Susan Cooper possesses the rare gift of being able to write for young people with a resonance that endures all through their adult lives. I feel as if The Dark Is Rising books have always been a part of my life. I ...Read More
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The ten-title 2024 PEN/Faulkner longlist includes a number of titles and authors of genre interest:
The prize “honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year.” This year’s judges
The 2024 Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction is open, and the judges for 2023 have been announced: Vajra Chandrasekera, S.B. Divya, and Max Gladstone.
The annual award is open to original fiction of 10,000 words or fewer written in English by authors who “must either be currently residing in Pakistan, or be of Pakistani birth/descent.” Submissions are open through July 31, 2024.
The winning story will receive Rs 50,000 and ...Read More
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Independent publisher Soho Press has launched a new horror imprint, Hell’s Hundred:
Named after the once bleak, now chic New York City neighborhood of SoHo—formerly known as “hell’s hundred acres” for its grim industrial facades and deadly fires—Hell’s Hundred provides fertile ground for new nightmares to take root. From grisly and macabre to darkly humorous, Hell’s Hundred publishes bold visions of horror from voices new and established.
The line will ...Read More
Read moreAuthor, editor, and scholar Christopher Priest, 80, died of cancer February 2, 2024, in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute in Scotland. He was a major figure in the SF field, famed for his ambitious fiction and erudite criticism and non-fiction.
Christopher Mackenzie Priest was born in Cheadle, Cheshire, England on July 14, 1943. Priest was married to author Lisa Tuttle from 1981-87, and to writer Leigh Kennedy from 1988-2011. ...Read More
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