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The 2018 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist has been announced. Titles of genre interest include:

Inaugurated in 2017, the annual prize goes to “the best eligible work of fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, work of fiction for children or young ...Read More

Finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards have been announced and include authors and works of genre interest.

Finalists for the 2018 Parsec Awards, honoring excellence in speculative fiction podcasting, have been announced.

Shortlists for the 2018 Books Are My Bag (BAMB) Readers Awards have been announced, including some titles and authors of genre interest in the following categories:

The Italian Conference of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Italcon) announced winners for the 2018 Premio Italia on October 6, 2018, during Stranimondi held in Milan, Italy.

The 2018 Aurora Awards winners have been announced “for Canadian literary and fan works that members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) feel are exceptional.”

Winners of the 2018 Harvey Awards were announced October 5, 2018 during New York Comic Con at the Javits Center in New York City.

There were also winners in Best Children’s or Young Adult Book, Best ...Read More

Michael Bishop received the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Best Story Collection of 2017 for Other Arms Reach Out to Me: Georgia Stories (Kudzu Planet), presented June 16, 2018 at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw GA.

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The Afterlife of Walter Augustus (self-published) by Hannah Lynn won the 2018 Kindle Storyteller Award. Lynn was honored during a ceremony at the Royal Society in London on October 3, 2018. The award, inaugurated in 2017, comes with a £20,000 prize and is “open to anyone over the age of 18 who publishes their book through Kindle Direct Publishing on Amazon.co.uk.”

For more information, see the Kindle Storyteller page.

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Winners have been announced for the 2018 Digital Book World Awards across 52 categories. Winners and finalists of genre interest included:

The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the longlist for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence for “the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year.” Numerous titles and authors of genre interest appear on the fiction list.

The five-title shortlist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize has been announced and includes titles of genre interest: French Exit by Patrick deWitt (House of Anansi); Songs for the Cold of Heart by Eric Dupont (QC); Motherhood by Sheila Heti (Knopf Canada); and An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim (Viking Canada). Also on the shortlist is Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (Patrick Crean).

The prize was founded in 1994 ...Read More

The winner, finalists, and honorable mentions for the Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction have been announced:

The Salam Award, ...Read More

“The Secret Life of Bots” by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 9/17) is the winner of the 2018 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction.

Other finalists were “Probably Still the Chosen One”, Kelly Barnhill (Lightspeed 2/17); “Floaters Can’t Float”, Pip Coen (Compelling Science Fiction 4/17); “A Vague Inclination to Please”, Brandon Daubs (All Hail Our Robot Conquerers); “Oba Oyinbo”, Jonathan Edelstein (Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic ...Read More

Winners for the 2018 Geffen Awards for best science fiction and fantasy published in Hebrew were announced by the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy during Icon 2018, held September 25-27, 2018 at the Tel Aviv Cinematequein Tel Aviv, Israel.