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The Overstory (Norton) by Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize in the Fiction category. The award, given for “distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life,” comes with a prize of $15,000.

The judges called Powers’s novel, “An ingeniously structured narrative that branches and canopies like the trees at the core of the story whose wonder and connectivity echo those ...Read More

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced the winner of the 2019 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award:

The award honors the best ...Read More

The shortlist for the 2019 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2018, has been announced:

Finalists for the 2019 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ). Winners will be selected by members of SFFANZ and GeyserCon 2019, and honored at the convention, May 31 – June 2, 2019 at the Holiday Inn Rotorua in Rotorua, New Zealand.

Winners for the 2018 Kitschies, awarded to “the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining science fiction,” have been announced.

Nominees for the This Is Horror Awards 2018 have been announced:

The 2019 Ditmar Award preliminary ballot for Australian SF has been announced:

Writer and astronomy professor Andre W Fraknoi was awarded the 2019 Space Educator: Lifetime Achievement Award, presented March 22 in Washington DC at the 62nd Annual Robert Goddard Memorial Dinner. Fraknoi teaches at the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning at the University of San Francisco.

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The 2020 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Literature, honoring “emerging to mid-career immigrant professionals who have demonstrated significant accomplishments early in their careers,” are open to writers in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry categories. Each winner will receive $50,000. Applicants should have published at least one full-length book (self-published work is ineligible), been born outside the US, and be 38 years of age or younger. Applications are due by June ...Read More