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 finalists for the 2023 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History have been announced.
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EUGEN BACON is the 2024 Hedberg Writer-In-Residence at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia, and will spend three months writing, teaching, and “taking part in community conversations.”
TED CHIANG is the winner of the 2024 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, which “recognizes writers who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in the short story form.” Chiang will be honored at the annual PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony on ...Read More
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Clare Winger Harris is the winner of the 2024 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, intended to bring attention to lesser-known SF and fantasy authors.
Mrs. Harris (1891-1968) was a true pioneer of the field of genre science fiction, and was the first woman to write regularly for the early Science Fiction pulps such as Amazing Stories and Science Wonder Stories under her own name. She published a dozen stories between 1926 ...Read More
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The winners of the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction have been announced.
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Bookseller and publisher DOUG LEWIS, 69, died May 20, 2024 of complications of diabetes. Born 1955, Lewis and his wife Tomi owned and operated the Little Bookshop of Horror/Roadkill Press in Arvada CO and won a World Fantasy Award in the non-professional category in 1993. ...Read More
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has banned all works created using generative AI from its publications and awards consideration. The policy was announced in a statement posted to the SFPA website: “The SFPA recognizes and supports the creative talent of human beings. While the organization encourages creative exploration of new tools, we can not support the use of tools built on the exploitation of other people’s creative ...Read More
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BayCon will host both Westercon 77 (2025) and 78 (2026). Site selection for 2026 was held during Westercon 76, July 4-7, 2024 in Salt Lake City UT. BayCon 2025 was previously awarded the right to host Westercon 77, announced on June 14, 2024.
More information about the vote is available on the Westercon website. Information about BayCon 2025/Westercon 77 is available at the BayCon site.
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VICFA 3, the third Virtual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, is open to academic and creative proposals. The theme of the conference is “Pantheology in World-Building and Magic Systems,” but VICFA welcomes proposals “on any topic of interest and specialization whether part of the conference theme or independent of it.” Submissions are open until July 31, 2024, and the conference will take place online from October 9-12, ...Read More
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The Virginia Kidd Agency/Arrowhead SF Foundation will once again sponsor and host the SF Portion of the annual Milford Readers & Writers Festival, to be held September 13-15 2024 in Milford PA, with a few of the events hosted at Arrowhead,Virginia Kidd’s historic home (and still the offices of her eponymous agency.) This year’s panel is “Milford: Why Our Town Was/Is a Mecca For Science Fiction”, with panelists Lawrence C. ...Read More
Read moreThe Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the finalists for the 2024 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards).
Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)
The shortlist for the 2024 Prix Rosny Aîné has been announced. The prize is awarded to SF novels and short stories written in French and published in print in 2023.
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Winners of the Heinlein Society’s annual undergraduate scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year were announced on July 7, 2024, Robert A. Heinlein’s 116th birthday.
This year’s winners are Gabriel Black, Elizabeth Bradshaw, Maya Krolik, and Luxanna Sands. The scholarship awards $4,000 to each recipient. Winners were selected from a record 744 applications, including 40 international submissions from 28 different countries.
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The Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association (CSFFA) announced three inductees to the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame for 2024: Astronaut Chris A. Hadfield and authors Nalo Hopkinson and Jo Walton.
This year’s jury included Ryah Deines, Gordon Johansen, Rebecca Lovatt, Michelle Sagara, and chair David Clink.
For more information, see the CSFFA website.
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PulpFest has announced the nominees for the 2024 Munsey Award, given to “an individual or organization 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 shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Phantastikpreis der Stadt Wetzlar, a speculative fiction prize awarded by the city of Wetzlar, Germany:
The winner will be announced in mid-July, with a public award ceremony in September 2024. The winner receives €4000. For more information, visit the award website.
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The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) announced the winners for the 2024 Dagger Awards.
Jake Lamar’s Viper’s Dream (No Exit Press) won in the Historical Dagger category, and Anthony Horowitz won The Dagger in the Library, for “a body of work by an established writer of crime fiction or non-fiction who has long been popular with borrowers from libraries.”
As previously announced, James Lee Burke and Lynda La Plante were joint ...Read More
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The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has announced Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez (Dutton) as the winner of the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category, honoring pro-freedom works published in 2023. Other nominees were:
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Winners for the 2024 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ).
Best Novel
Best Youth Novel
The longlist has been announced for this year’s Mo Siewcharran Prize, which “aims to nurture talent from under-represented backgrounds writing in English.” This year’s submission call was for YA and adult fantasy novels. Shortlisted entries include:
The first Hugo Award trophy, presented to Forrest J Ackerman by Isaac Asimov at the 1953 Worldcon, was put up for sale by Hindman Auctions in May 2024. The Worldcon Heritage Organization won the auction with a $12,350 bid, with the money pledged by fans. The trophy will be added to exhibits showcased at future Worldcons. Hugo Gernsback’s 1960 Hugo Award trophy was also auctioned off, going for $6,985 to ...Read More
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Literature Wales has announced the English-language winners of the 2024 Wales Book of the Year Awards. Of genre interest, Skrimsli by Nicola Davies (Firefly) won the Bute Energy Children & Young People Award.
The Awards are held annually to celebrate “outstanding literary talent from Wales across many genres and in both English and Welsh.” There are 12 total awards in English and Welsh, and all winners split the £14,000 collective ...Read More
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Romance Writers of America filed for bankruptcy in May 2024 in the Southern District of Texas. The RWA was unable to pay the hotel contracts for their annual conferences after membership plummeted following a series of high-profile controversies. The RWA owes about $3 million to hotels, and almost $75,000 to other creditors.
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The finalists for the 2024 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction for “stories that are irreplaceable, that inspire, enlighten, and entertain” have been announced:
TikTok has announced the shortlist for its second annual Book Awards for the UK and Ireland. Shortlisted titles and authors of genre interest are below. Several categories have changed since last year.
BookTok Book of the Year (UK and Ireland)
BookTok Book of the Year (International)
Author, editor, and scholar Robert Irwin, 77, died June 28, 2024 in London. Irwin is the author of several books of genre interest, most notably his debut novel The Arabian Nightmare (1983).
Robert Graham Irwin was born August 23, 1946 in Guildford, Surrey in the UK. He attended Epsom College, studied history at the University of Oxford, and did graduate work at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Irwin ...Read More
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The winners of the 33rd annual Colorado Book Awards have been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include:
Best Thriller
Best Short Story Collection
Best Science Fiction/Fantasy
The winners were announced at the 2024 Finalist Celebration and Winners Announcement at the Tivoli Turnhalle Theater in Denver.
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The 2024 Indie Book Awards Winners have been announced. Yellowface by R. F. Kuang (William Morrow/The Borough Press) won in the Fiction category, and The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell with illustrations by Tayla Baldwin (Faber & Faber UK) won in the Nonfiction category. There were several other titles and authors of genre interest on the 2024 shortlist, including Weyward by Emilia Hart (The Borough Press) ...Read More
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Kerry C. Byrne, CEO of Canadian magazine Augur and the more recently established Tales & Feathers, has announced a restructuring of the Augur Society organization, including magazine pay rates. Toria Liao has been named chief operating officer while longtime Augur co-editor-in-chief Terese Mason Pierre has been named chief program officer.
Augur Magazine and Tales & Feathers Magazine will combine teams and move away from an Editor-in-Chief model, delegating workload. Augur ...Read More
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Submissions for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s (SLF) Diverse Writers Grant and Diverse Worlds Grant are open through July 31, 2024.
Each grant awards a recipient $500. Diverse Writers “is intended to support speculative fiction writers from underrepresented and underprivileged groups” while Diverse Worlds “is intended for work that best presents a diverse world, regardless of the writer’s background.” Winners will be announced September 15, 2024.
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The National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F) has announced the winners of the 2024 National Fantasy Fan Federation Laureate Awards (AKA the Neffy Awards).
Best Novel
Best Shorter Work or Anthology
Best Editor (Tie)
Best History of SF Work
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