2025 IAFA Awards Winners
Winners of several awards given by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) were announced during the 46th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA 43), held March 19-22, 2025 in Orlando FL.
“Parasitism, Coexistence, and Colonialism in Animorphs” by Miranda Miller won the David G. Hartwell Emerging Scholar Award, which gives a $250 stipend “to the graduate student submitting the most outstanding paper.” An honorable mention went to “Afro-cosmicism: On the Craft of Seizing Speculative Reparations” by Chris Campbell.
“The Invasion of Video Games in South Korea and Japan” by Eugene Kwon won the Walter James Miller Memorial Award for Student Scholarship in the International Fantastic to honor “the best ICFA student paper devoted to a work or works of the fantastic originally created in a language other than English.”
“Hautaamistavat J.R.R. Tolkienin fantasiafiktiossa” [Funeral Practices in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fantasy Fiction] by Jyrki Korpua won the Jamie Bishop Memorial Award “for a critical essay on the fantastic written in a language other than English.”
Sarah Juliet Lauro won the IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award “recognizing distinguished contributions to the scholarship and criticism of the fantastic.”
Winners of the Lord Ruthven Awards for achievements in vampire literature, announced on social media, include What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher (Nightfire) in the Fiction category, The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire edited by Simon Bacon (Palgrave Macmillan) in the Nonfiction category, and a tie between films Abigail and Nosferatu in the Media category.
As previously reported, Jared Pechaček’s The West Passage (Tor) won the Crawford Award for a first book of fantasy fiction, and “Echo” by Liam Betts is the winner of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing.
For more information, see the IAFA website.
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