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The top five results of the Uncanny Magazine 2018 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll have been announced.

1. “The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat”, Brooke Bolander
2. “The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society”, T. Kingfisher
3. “How to Swallow the Moon”, Isabel Yap
4. “The Thing About Ghost Stories”, Naomi Kritzer
5. (tie): “The Hydraulic Emperor”, Arkady Martine and “She Still Loves the Dragon”, Elizabeth

The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced finalists for the 31st Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.” Nominees of genre interest follow.

The finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. The award will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards reception on June 21, 2019.

The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton) is a finalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The prize “honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year.” This year’s judges are Percival Everett, Ernesto Quiñonez, and Joy Williams.

The winner will receive $15,000 and finalists will each receive $5,000. The winner will be announced on April 29, 2019 and honored at an award ceremony on ...Read More

The Audio Publishers Association announced the winners of the 2019 Audie Awards, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment, at an awards ceremony on March 4, 2019 at Guastavino’s in New York City.

Winners of genre interest follow.

The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) announced the winners for the 2019 Romantic Novel Awards in a ceremony at the Gladstone Library in London.

The Fantasy Romantic Novel Award

For more information, including complete winners, see the RNA website.

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

There are several titles of genre interest on the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist:

Finalists for the 2018 Sara Douglass Book Series Award, for series ending between January 2015 and December 2017, have been announced:

“When We Were Starless” by Simone Heller was named Best Story in the annual Clarkesworld readers’ poll. “The Storkfriars” by Sean Murray, from the June 2018 issue, won Best Cover Art.

For more, including finalists, see the Clarkesworld site.

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