Phantastische Akademie announced the finalists for the 2024 SERAPH, a German fantasy award.

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

The ten-title 2024 PEN/Faulkner longlist includes a number of titles and authors of genre interest:

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.

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The longlist for the 2024 Branford Boase Award has been announced, and includes several titles of genre interest:

Hachette UK’s The Future Bookshelf has opened submissions for this year’s Mo Siewcharran Prize, which “aims to nurture talent from under-represented backgrounds writing in English.” This year’s submission call is for YA and adult fantasy novels, and submissions are open from February 1 to May 1, 2024.

The winner receives £2,500, feedback and mentorship from an editor at Hodderscape, a ticket to the 2025 London Book Fair, and various additional ...Read More

The longlist for the 2024 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced, and includes The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova (Atlantic Books).

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:

• First Place: “To Labor for the Hive,” Jamie Liu
• Second Place: “The Last Almond,” Zoe Young
• Third Place: “A Seder in Siberia,” Louis Evans

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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.”

Deirra Clyburn is a writer and illustrator based in ...Read More

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

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.