The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) has announced the shortlists for the 2025 Romantic Novel Awards. Titles and authors of genre interest include:

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced David Cronenberg, Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill, and Del and Sue Howison as recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award, presented periodically by the Board of Trustees to “an individual whose work has substantially influenced the horror genre.”

The award is voted on by a Lifetime Achievement Awards Committee appointed annually by the president of HWA. Recipients will be honored along with the winners of ...Read More

The National Space Society (NSS) has announced Joe Haldeman as recipient of the inaugural Arthur C. Clarke Memorial Award “for inspiring and educating the public about humanity’s journey to space.”

Haldeman will also be a featured guest at the 43rd International Space Development Conference (ISDC) to be held June 19-22, 2025 at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando FL. For more information, see the official announcement.

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The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced that The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills (Tachyon) is the 43rd winner of the Compton Crook Award.

The six-title shortlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize has been announced, with works of genre interest including On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1) by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland (Faber), and Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda (Granta).

Seattle Worldcon 2025 has announced the Hugo Awards Base will be designed by Joy Alyssa Day, a professional glass sculpture artist.

Day specializes in blown glass sculptures that incorporate space elements and has designed awards for the aerospace, science, art, and literary communities. Day and her partner B.E. Johnson previously designed the Hugo Awards base for LonCon in 2014. She says,

I began going to conventions with my parents at ...Read More

Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book have been announced by Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention. There were 1,738 valid nominating ballots received and counted from members of the 2024 and 2025 World Science Fiction Conventions for the 2025 Hugo Awards. Voting on the final ballot will open during April 2025. Members ...Read More

Winners of the 2025 Writers Guild Awards were announced February 15, 2025 during a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills CA.

Winners of genre interest include Nickel Boys in the Adapted Screenplay category, based on the book by Colson Whitehead, and The Penguin in the Limited Series category.

For more information, including a complete list of winners and nominees, see the Writers Guild website.

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The Society of Illustrators has announced the 2025 inductees into its Hall of Fame. Honorees “are chosen based on their body of work and the impact it has made on the field of illustration.”

2025 Hall of Fame Laureates

The artists will be honored at the 2025 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, to be held October 9, ...Read More

The 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize has announced its list of five finalists. The award honors “mid-career authors in fiction,” and the winner receives a $50,000 prize and a residence at the University of California, Berkeley and/or Bay Area. The award is given by the New Literary Project. Works and authors of genre interest include:

The judges for the Crawford Award, which honors “an author’s first work of fantasy in book form,” are soliciting books published in the year 2025 between March 30 and December 31, 2025. What qualifies as a book is flexible: “In addition to novels and novellas, collections of poetry, short stories, and fiction aimed at younger readers are all eligible.” The Crawford Award will be given at the International Conference of ...Read More

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has named Nicola Griffith the 41st recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.

SFWA President Kate Ristau said,

It is SFWA’s honor to recognize and celebrate Nicola’s past achievements, while looking forward to her future triumphs. Her work continues to inspire and challenge me, and when asked to pick a Grand Master to lead us into our Diamond Year, I ...Read More

The Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 has released its list of winners. Recipients of genre interest include The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods by Mikey Please (Harper Collins), Overall Winner and the winner of Best Illustrated Book; and Rune by Carlos Sánchez (Flying Eye), winner in the Best Book for Younger Readers category.

Category winners each receive £2,000 and the overall Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year title ...Read More

Winners of several awards given by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) were announced during the 46th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA 43), held March 19-22, 2025 in Orlando FL.

“Parasitism, Coexistence, and Colonialism in Animorphs” by Miranda Miller won the David G. Hartwell Emerging Scholar Award, which gives a $250 stipend “to the graduate student submitting the most outstanding paper.” An ...Read More

Gustavo Bondoni is the winner of the 2025 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award for his short story, “Space Monkeys”. Tiffany Smith won second place for “Lights in the Void” and Jason Crawford won third place for “Atlas’ Shoulders”.

Bondoni and the runners-up will be honored in a ceremony at the 2025 International Space Development Conference in Orlando FL, June 19-22, 2025. Bondoni will receive a trophy and membership in ...Read More

The six-title shortlist has been announced for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Authors and titles of genre interest include:

The initial 71 titles on the longlist were “nominated by 83 libraries from 34 countries around the world.” Titles eligible for the 2025 award were ...Read More

PEN America has announced their 2025 longlists for their 11 literary awards. The awards “will confer over $350,000 to writers and translators. Spanning fiction, poetry, essay, translation, and more, these Longlisted books are dynamic, diverse, and thought-provoking examples of literary excellence.” Awards, titles, and authors of genre interest include:

Recipients have been announced for the 2025 Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize. Those of genre interest include Rana Dasgupta and Patricia J. Williams, both honored for nonfiction, and Sigrid Nunez, honored for fiction.

The Windham-Campbell Prize was established in 2013 “to call attention to literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.” The prize is administered by Yale University, with ...Read More