2026 Crawford Award Submissions Open

The judges for the Crawford Award, which honors “an author’s first work of fantasy in book form,” are soliciting books published in the year 2025 between March 30 and December 31, 2025. What qualifies as a book is flexible: “In addition to novels and novellas, collections of poetry, short stories, and fiction aimed at younger readers are all eligible.” The Crawford Award will be given at the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), to be held March 18-21, 2026 in Orlando FL. The award administrator is Kelly Robson, and judges include Brian Attebery, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Joyce Chng, Eddie Clark, and Joy Sanchez-Taylor.

As previously reported, the 2025 Crawford Award winner is Jared Pechaček.

For more information, see the IAFA website.

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