The 70-title longlist for the Dublin Literary Award has been announced. The list includes many titles and authors of genre interest, such as Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (Viking), Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner), The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (Harper), Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark (William Morrow), and The Book of Form & Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (Viking). The winner receives €100,000.

The longlist for the 2023 Branford Boase Award has been announced, and includes several titles of genre interest.

• The Eternal Return of Clara Hart, Louise Finch (Little Island)
• The Spectaculars, Jodie Garnish (Usborne)
• The Miraculous Sweetmakers, Natasha Hastings (HarperCollins Childrens)
• The Whisperling, Hayley Hoskins (Puffin)
• Wishes Come in Threes, Andy Jones (Walker)
• Seed, Caryl Lewis (Henry Holt)
• Rebel Skies, Ann Sei Linn (Walker)

The longlist for the 2023 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include Limberlost by Robbie Arnott (Atlantic), Things They Lost by Okwiri Oduor (Oneworld), and Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens (Picador).

PEN America has announced their 2023 longlists for a number of literary awards. The awards “will confer over $350,000 to writers and translators. Spanning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, translation, and more, these Longlisted books are dynamic, diverse, and thought-provoking examples of literary excellence.” There are 11 awards, many including titles and authors of genre interest.

Finalists for the 2023 Oregon Book Awards have been announced. The awards feature several categories, and include a number of titles and authors of genre interest.

Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature

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John Scalzi is the winner of the 2023 Robert A. Heinlein Award, given for “outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space.” Winners are chosen by a committee of SF authors chaired by Michael F. Flynn, and receive a certificate plaque, a sterling silver medallion, and two lapel pins, all featuring the likeness of Robert A. Heinlein.

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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the preliminary ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards:

Superior Achievement in a Novel

The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) has announced that artist Sejuti Bala is the winner of their 2023 Illustration of the Year. “Look for Bala’s artwork on our site, as well as future SLF newsletters, promo, and other content!”

Bala said, “To an astronaut the vacuum of space is the frontier of setting sail, and in this piece, I imagine a lost astronaut, an untethered explorer and the awe of getting ...Read More

Several authors and works of genre interest are among the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) 2023 Edgar Awards finalists.

Best Paperback Original

• Quarry’s Blood, Max Allan

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (Tor) and Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (MCD; #Merky) won the 2021 Otherwise Award (formerly the James Tiptree, Jr. Award), given annually to works of science fiction or fantasy that “expand and explore our understanding of gender.” The winners will receive $1,000 in prize money, a specially commissioned piece of original artwork, and chocolate.

The NAACP has released the finalists for their 54th Annual Image Awards, honoring outstanding work in film, television, theatre, music, and literature by Black performers and creators.

The Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction category includes the following works of genre interest:

• The Keeper, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes & Marco Finnegan (Abrams)
• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, Akwaeke Emezi (Atria)
• Africa Risen: A New Era

The 2023 Philip K. Dick Award finalists have been announced:

The Washington Science Fiction Association is now accepting nominations of works “published for the first time in the English language” in 2022 for its Small Press Award, given annually to an outstanding story of “imaginative literature” (17,500 words or fewer) published in the small press. The deadline for nominations is March 31, 2023.

Authors and small-press publishers are among those eligible to nominate, and need not be members of WSFA. ...Read More