Author: locusmag

The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has released the finalists for the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category, honoring pro-freedom works published in 2023.

All members of the Libertarian Futurist ...Read More

The shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Kurd Laßwitz Preis. The prize is awarded to German-language SF works published in the previous year.

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced that The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Saga) is the winner of the 2023 Compton Crook Award.

The award honors the best first SF/fantasy/horror novel of ...Read More

“Locus of Control” by Zack Be is the winner of the 2024 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, for “original stories celebrating optimistic, near-future space exploration.” Trent Guillory won second place for “Extraction” and William Paul Jones won third place for “Saving Gallivander”.

Be and the runners-up will be honored in a ceremony at the 2024 International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles CA, May 23-26, 2024. Be will also ...Read More

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the recipients of its 2023 Specialty Awards.

Thunderstorm Books is the recipient of the Specialty Press Award, given “to a publisher whose work has substantially influenced the horror and dark fantasy genres.”

The Richard Laymon President’s Award, “presented to a member who has served HWA in an exemplary manner and shown exceptional dedication to the organization,” goes to Brian W. Matthews. The winner ...Read More

Vineetha Mokkil is the recipient of the 2024 A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature, presented by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) and DesiLit.

The $1,000 grant is given annually to “a South Asian / South Asian diaspora writer developing speculative fiction.” Mokkil’s winning work is “No One Has To Know and Other Stories”.

For more information, see the SLF website.

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); While you are ...Read More

The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) has announced shortlists for the 2024 Romantic Novel Awards, including titles of genre interest.

The 2024 Whiting Award winners have been announced. Authors of genre interest include Aaliyah Bilal and Yoon Choi, both in the fiction category.

The ten winners, “emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama,” each receive $50,000. The award was created by New York investor and philanthropist Flora Ettlinger Whiting in 1971. Recipients of the award are selected by an anonymous committee appointed by the Foundation.

For more information, including ...Read More

The shortlist for the 2024 Tolkien Society Awards has been announced. The awards recognize excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom. The trustees choose the shortlist, with winners to be selected by the membership.

The six-title shortlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize has been announced, and includes Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz (Verso).

The award is given “every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.” The £50,000 prize is divided equally among the author and translator(s). Shortlisted authors and translators will each receive £1,000. Judges for 2024 are ...Read More

The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) announced the current nominees for the CSFFA Hall of Fame:

• Kelley Armstrong
• Clint Budd
• Gordon R. Dickson
• James Alan Gardner
• Chris A. Hadfield
• Karl Johanson
• James Davis Nicoll
• Robert Priest
• Hubert Rogers
• Karl Schroeder
• Diane L. Walton
• Jo Walton
• Lynda Williams

The CSFFA Hall of Fame “was created to honour people who have over the past number of decades made a great ...Read More

(adsbygoogle ...Read More