Ashing-Giwa Wins Compton Crook Award

Locus Magazine, Science Fiction FantasyThe Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced that The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Saga) is the winner of the 2023 Compton Crook Award.

Other nominees were:

  • To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
  • These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs (Orbit)
  • Deathwind, Brad Pawlowski (Sunquake)
  • How to Be Remembered, Michael Thompson (Sourcebooks Landmark)

The award honors the best first SF/fantasy/horror novel of the year, and “includes a framed award document and, for the novel’s author, a check for $1,000 and an invitation to be the Compton Crook Guest at Balticon for two years.”

The winner will be announced April 11, 2024. The award will be presented at Balticon 58, to be held May 24-27, 2024 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore MD. Selection is by vote of the BSFS membership.


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