The 2024 Locus Awards were held on June 22, online and in-person at the historic Preservation Park in Oakland CA. Author Henry Lien – ‘‘Emperor Stardust’’ – emceed the ceremony, with author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow as keynote speaker. The awards ceremony concluded the Locus Weekend, a larger celebration of readings, talks, and meetups from June 19‒22. Full members received access to virtual and in-person events, six months of ...Read More
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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced that the 2025 Nebula Conference and Awards will be held June 5-9, 2025 at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown in Kansas City, MO. The announcement notes that “Conference and hotel registration will open soon!”
This year’s Nebula Conference will be the 60th, a “diamond-year celebration of science fiction, fantasy, and related genre creators around the globe!” The announcement also contains ...Read More
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Apex Book Company is seeking submissions for a reprint anthology, ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction.
Stories must be complete reprints between 1,000 and 6,000 words, published during the 2024 calendar year. Content must be speculative and “focused on ecology, climate, the environment, conservation, the natural world, our relationship to animals and other non-human life, and related issues. A climate-crisis setting alone is not enough to qualify.”
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The Scottish Book Trust has announced the 2025 winners of the New Writers Awards. The awardees included several writers of genre interest, such as:
Finalists for the 2025 Minnesota Book Awards, given by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, have been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include:
Novel & Short Story
Genre Fiction
Middle Grade Literature
Winners for the 2024 Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards (2024 Cybils) have been announced. Books of genre interest follow.
Young Adult Speculative Fiction
The 13-title longlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize has been announced, with works and writers of genre interest including:
The “big three” digest magazines Analog, Asimov‘s, and F&SF are under new ownership, confirming recent rumors, as reported by Jason Sanford and Steve Davidson of Amazing Stories. Sanford writes,
Confirmation of this has now appeared on the websites of Asimov’s and Analog, as first reported by Amazing Stories. The ownership language at the bottom of both websites changed recently from “© 2024 PENNY PUBLICATIONS, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED” to “© ...Read More
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan (SFWJ) announced the results of the 45th Japan SF Grand Prize:
Three individuals were presented with posthumous Contribution Awards:
The grand prize winner receives 1 million yen ($6,600), a certificate, and a trophy. The Special Award winner
Sharon Lee is the winner of the 2025 Robert A. Heinlein Award, given for “outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space.”
This award is in recognition of Ms. Lee’s body of work of over 38 novels and short stories. A majority of her space themed work is in the Liaden Universe, written with her late husband Steve Miller, and features merchant ...Read More
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Spread the Word, a literary development agency in London, has announced the 2025 winners of their London Writers Awards for emerging writers. The Awards are split into three categories, Literary, Commercial, and YA/Children’s; of the 24 awardees, there are several with work of speculative and genre interest, including:
Literary Fiction:
Commercial Fiction:
YA/Children’s Fiction
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has posted updates in an announcement from its Board of Directors.
New Director-at-Large: Day Al-Mohamed was appointed to the board on February 1, 2025. Her first SFWA Board meeting was on February 19, and a public announcement was posted on February 22.
Nebulas personnel: Events manager Sherine Mani was announced as the Nebula Conference Project Manager. Additionally, Rebekah Postupak and ...Read More
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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards:
Superior Achievement in a Novel
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Writer Emma Burnett has won the 2024 Gulliver Travel Grant, given by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) “to assist writers of speculative literature (in fiction, poetry, drama, or creative nonfiction) in their research.” The $1,000 grant is intended to cover airfare, lodging, or other travel expenses.
Burnett’s winning work was the short story “Amaranth”.
LuLu Johnson, Shawnna Thomas, and Nasser Yousefi were shortlisted for the grant.
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The finalists for the 2025 Zsoldos Péter Award have been announced, honoring Hungarian works of speculative fiction. Note: Hungarian names are written in traditional order, with surname first.
Short Stories
The longlist for the 2025 Branford Boase Award for children’s books has been announced.
In a press release, contest organizers remarked on the prevalence of genre fiction in children’s literature during 2024. Fantasy was a large part of current trends in children’s fiction, and this year’s longlist press release was titled “Apocalypse Now” in response to “a preponderance of post, pre and even mid-apocalyptic adventures” for children.
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Author Isabel Allende has received the 2025 Bodley Medal, awarded by the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University. The original medal was created in 1646 to honor Sir Thomas Bodley, who rebuilt the first public library at Oxford. Since 2002, replicas have been given annually by the library to “individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds of books and literature, libraries, media and communications, science and philanthropy.” Isabel Allende, ...Read More
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Finalists have been announced for the 2025 Prix Bob Morane, recognizing French-language works in the science fiction, fantasy, espionage, and thriller genres.
Romans traduit (Translated Novels)
Shortlisted titles for the 2025 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize have been announced in the Illustrated Books, Younger Readers’, and Older Readers’ categories. Titles and authors of genre interest include:
Illustrated Books
Younger Readers’
Hazel Milla is the winner of the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story Contest. The 2025 honorees are:
Eugen Bacon and Mars Lauderbaugh are the 2024 recipients of the Otherwise Fellowship (formerly the Tiptree Fellowship). Honorable mentions went to Erica Rivera and Issac Kozukhin.
Each winner receives a $500 grant and work produced as a result of this support will be recognized and promoted by the Otherwise Award, which “celebrates works of speculative fiction that imagine new futures by exploring and expanding our understanding of gender roles. Through ...Read More
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The Los Angeles Times has announced the finalists for their 45th annual Book Prizes.
Finalist for the Science Fiction & Fantasy category are:
Other finalist works and writers of genre interest include:
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced their Summer Scares Reading list for 2025.
Adult Books:
Young Adult Books:
“Echo” by Liam Betts of Vanderbilt University is the winner of the 2025 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing.
The complete list of honors is:
Honorable mentions:
KHAN WONG is now represented by Ernie Chiara of Fuse Literary.
ETHAN LAI is now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.
Authors LAURA LIPPMAN and JOHN SANFORD are the recipients of the 2025 Grand Master Awards, presented by the Mystery Writers of America.
PETE WOLVERTON, vice-president and executive editor at St. Martin’s Publishing Group, received the Ellery Queen Award, honoring “outstanding writing teams and outstanding people ...Read More
Read moreAuthor, editor, fan, bibliographer, and convention organizer Anthony R. Lewis, 84, died February 12, 2025. Lewis was a founder of the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) and a Worldcon chair.
Anthony Richard Lewis was born February 8, 1941, and earned his PhD in nuclear physics at MIT, where he was a member of the MIT Science Fiction Society, and eventually a mainstay of Boston-area fandom. He married fellow fan ...Read More
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Entangled Publishing has announced two new YA imprints, Mayhem Books and Mischief Books.
Mayhem Books is meant for teens 16 and older “who aren’t ready for New Adult fiction just yet, but are searching for a similar level of romance and action.” Their first titles, due later this year, will come from Elise Kova, Shannon J. Spann, and Nisha J. Tuli.
Mischief Books is coming in 2026, and is directed ...Read More
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Atria and Emily Bestler Books have announced the launch of a new horror imprint, 12:01 Books, to “develop and publish a carefully curated list of horror novels, working with emerging and established creators and authors to launch compelling books and films.”
The imprint was created in partnership with producer Scott Glassgold of 12:01 films and Emily Bestler, publisher of Emily Bestler Books, with the deal facilitated by Liz Parker of ...Read More
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The British organization Society of Authors has announced the winners and runners-up for its 2024 Translation Prizes. The Prizes, “celebrating translation around the globe,” honor works translated into English across several categories.
A total of eight winning works and several runners-up were recognized, with titles and authors of genre interest including:
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced the finalists for the 2025 Compton Crook Award:
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The 2024 Albertine Translation Prize, which honors American publishers of French works translated into English, has been announced by Villa Albertine. The fiction prize was awarded to translator Eve Hill-Agnus for her translation of Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro (Deep Vellum), a seafaring novel with speculative elements.
Villa Albertine is the cultural and educational division of the French Embassy in the U.S. The Prize winners are selected by a committee of ...Read More
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The ten-title 2025 PEN/Faulkner longlist for fiction has been announced, with a number of titles and authors of genre interest, including:
The prize “honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in
