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The Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the finalists for the 2022 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards).

Malorie Blackman won the 2022 PEN Pinter Prize, announced June 21, 2022 by English PEN.

The prize is awarded annually to a writer of outstanding literary merit resident in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize in Literature speech, casts an “unflinching, unswerving” gaze upon the world and shows a “fierce intellectual determination… to define the real truth ...Read More

The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers (IAMTW) announced the nominees for the 2022 Scribe Awards, honoring excellence in licensed tie-in writing. Nominees of genre interest follow.

PulpFest has announced the nominees for the 2022 Munsey Award, given “to an individual or institution that has bettered the pulp community.” Nominees are selected by the general pulp community, with the winner selected by a vote of past Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Awards winners. The nominees are:

The 2022 Walter Scott Prize went to News of the Dead by James Robertson (Hamish Hamilton). The prize “celebrates outstanding historical novels published in the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth.” Titles and authors of genre interest on the shortlist also included The Magician by Colm Tóibín (Viking).

The Robert E. Howard (REH) Foundation has announced the winners of the 2022 Robert E. Howard Awards.

The Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association (CSFFA) announced three inductees to the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame for 2022: Julie E. Czerneda, Ed Greenwood, and Hayden Trenholm. The inductees were selected from a group of twelve nominees.

Hall of Fame inductees are usually honored during the Aurora Awards ceremony, which is scheduled as an online event for August 13, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. EDT, hosted by ...Read More

October, October by Katya Balen, illustrated by Angela Harding (Bloomsbury) has won the 2022 Carnegie Medal for best children’s book. Balen’s previous work includes Maggie and the Moonbird (Bloomsbury). The shortlist featured a number of authors and works of genre interest.

The awards are presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). The winners were announced in a ceremony at the British Library in London, UK. Balen ...Read More

The The Book of Form & Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (Viking) has won the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction. The prize celebrates “excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women throughout the world.”

The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced winners for the 34th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.”

No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone) won in the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction category. Several titles of genre interest were among the finalists in various categories.

For more information, including complete winners list, see the Lambda Literary website.

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