Andrew Wilmot’s Withered is the winner of ECW Press‘s Best New Speculative Novel Contest. The novel will be published by ECW in a deal negotiated by Kelvin Kong at K2 Literary.
The contest received over 170 entries, with the winner chosen by judges Jen R. Albert and Terese Mason Pierre.
For more information, see the announcement.
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The North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation (NCSFF) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Manly Wade Wellman Award. The award recognizes “outstanding achievement in science fiction and fantasy novels written by North Carolina authors.”
The HarperCollins Union has voted to go on strike if their concerns are not addressed:
Unionized employees of HarperCollins Publishers voted by 99% to authorize a strike if the publisher does not agree to a fair contract.
The union, Local 2110 of the UAW, represents 250+ employees in editorial, sales, publicity, design, legal, and marketing departments. The union is bargaining for higher pay, improved family leave benefits, a greater commitment ...Read More
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The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the cancellation of this year’s FantasyCon, their annual conference, originally scheduled for September 16-18, 2022 in London:
On Thursday, Lee [Harris] informed the BFS Executive Committee that the con as he had planned it was not financially viable and therefore he would be cancelling the convention and refunding all ticket-holders.
Harris explained:
Winners of the 2022 Deutsche Science Fiction Preis, presented by Science Fiction Club Deutschland (SFCD), have been announced.
The winner of the Best German Language Short story is “Utopie27” by Aiki Mira (Am Anfang war das Bild). The winner of the Best German Language Novel is Stille zwischen den Sternen by Sven Haupt (Eridanus Verlag).
Winners were chosen by jury, and receive a €1,000 prize. Awards will be
Finalists for the ninth annual Baen Fantasy Adventure Award have been announced:
Olaposi Halim and Davina Kawuma have been announced as the 2022 Fellows for The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors. Started by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, the fellowship “aims to support, elevate and connect emerging fiction authors of Black and/or African descent, based primarily on the African continent and writing in English.”
The fellows were selected out of 76 applicants, and were judged anonymously. Fellows “will be offered a funded ($500 ...Read More
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Jesmyn Ward will be awarded the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction “for a lifetime of outstanding work.” Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said,
Jesmyn Ward’s literary vision continues to become more expansive and piercing, addressing urgent questions about racism and social injustice being voiced by Americans… Jesmyn’s writing is precise yet magical, and I am pleased to recognize her contributions to literature with this prize.
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WisCon 45 was held May 27-30, 2022, in person at the Concourse Hotel in Madison WI, as well as online. Sheree Renée Thomas and Rebecca Roanhorse were guests of honor; Roanhorse participated virtually. Zen Cho and Yoon Ha Lee, also originally scheduled as guests of honor, were unable to participate but were honored nonetheless. There were 763 memberships, with 216 virtual memberships and an estimated 407 in-person attendees. Programming offered ...Read More
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The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) announced the 2021 winners of their 50 Books | 50 Covers competition. The list features a number of titles and authors of genre interest, including After the Sun by Jonas Eika with cover design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead), Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby with cover design by Lydia Ortiz (Penguin), The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk with cover design by ...Read More
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Finalists for the 2022 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction were announced on Twitter:
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has revised their requirements for Full and Associate memberships.
The requirements set for Full and Associate members are as follows:
A candidate shall be eligible for Full Membership if:
Lesley Conner has announced her new role as co Editor-in-Chief of Apex Magazine, alongside Jason Sizemore.
Conner said,
Jason and I have worked closely together on every issue of Apex Magazine since he stepped back into the role of Editor-in-Chief in Jan 2015 and I became managing editor, but since the first “Lesley” issue in Nov 2021 my role at Apex has really grown.
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Winners for the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards have been announced.
Best Novel
Best Young Adult
Macmillan, including UK branch Pan Macmillan, suffered a “security incident, which involves the encryption of certain files on our network” on Saturday, June 25, 2022. In response and “out of an abundance of caution,” Macmillan closed physical and virtual offices, and stated in an email that “customers, employees, and other third-party partners may notice that certain systems are unavailable.” While their websites are still active, sales and delivery of goods ...Read More
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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the annual Rhysling Awards for SF, fantasy, and horror poetry in the short form category. This year’s winners are:
The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) announced via Twitter a call for jurors to read applications for the Older Writers Grant as well as the Diverse Worlds and Diverse Writers grants.
SLF is a non-profit arts foundation, focused on the speculative literature community. “If interested, send a brief note to grants@speculativeliterature.org with the subject line: JUROR.”
For more information on the SLF and the grants in question, see their site.
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Winners for the 2022 Colorado Book Awards have been announced, including several titles and authors of genre interest. Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas by Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge & Joshua Viola, eds. (Hex) is the winner of the Anthology category, and Rise of the Red Hand by Olivia Chadha (Erewhon) is the winner in the Young Adult Literature category. The Science Fiction/Fantasy category winner is The Reincarnationist ...Read More
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The 2022 Indie Book Awards Winners have been announced. Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden (Canongate) won in the Fiction category, and When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds, with Akhran Girmay as illustrator (Atheneum; Faber), won in the Children’s Fiction category. There were several titles and authors of genre interest on the shortlist.
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Bloomsbury UK has announced plans to hire 100 new employees ‘‘across all areas of the company’’ to lighten the workload for existing staff. A survey of UK publishing recently reported ‘‘industry-wide burnout.’’ A spokesperson told The Bookseller, ‘‘These positions are targeted where our business is growing, where we want to increase support for our authors and grow the global presence of our most important brands, and where we know there ...Read More
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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2022 Locus Awards on June 25, 2022, during the virtual Locus Awards Weekend. Connie Willis MCed the awards ceremony. Additional weekend events included readings and panels with leading authors.
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Results of the 2021 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Awards have been announced.
Best Novella
Best Novelette
The 2022 YA Book Prize shortlist features a number of titles of genre interest, including:
The £2,000 YA Book Prize is awarded to a YA title written by an author living in the UK or Ireland. The panel of judges ...Read More
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The Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the finalists for the 2022 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards).
Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)
Sally Williamson has been promoted to editorial director at the Bantam imprint of UK publisher Transworld and will report to publisher Frankie Gray. Editorial director Francesca Best is returning from parental leave and will also report to Gray. Alice Rodgers is taking on the role of commissioning editor, transitioning from covering for parental leave, and will report to Williamson. Transworld Publishers is now known as Transworld, and Bantam Press is ...Read More
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Malorie Blackman won the 2022 PEN Pinter Prize, announced June 21, 2022 by English PEN.
The prize is awarded annually to a writer of outstanding literary merit resident in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize in Literature speech, casts an “unflinching, unswerving” gaze upon the world and shows a “fierce intellectual determination… to define the real truth ...Read More
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The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers (IAMTW) announced the nominees for the 2022 Scribe Awards, honoring excellence in licensed tie-in writing. Nominees of genre interest follow.
Original Novel — Speculative
PulpFest has announced the nominees for the 2022 Munsey Award, given “to an individual or institution 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 2022 Walter Scott Prize went to News of the Dead by James Robertson (Hamish Hamilton). The prize “celebrates outstanding historical novels published in the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth.” Titles and authors of genre interest on the shortlist also included The Magician by Colm Tóibín (Viking).
The author of the winning title receives £25,000. For more information about the prize, and the full list, see the official site.
While
Penguin Random House has announced a new imprint, Random House Worlds, ‘‘dedicated entirely to licensed book publishing.’’ The imprint will be home to media-related books from ‘‘Star Wars, Minecraft, Stranger Things, Garfield, Magic: The Gathering, Lore Olympus, Critical Role, and others.’’ Vice-president and Del Rey deputy publisher Keith Clayton will serve as publishing director. All licensed brands published by Del Rey and other imprints ‘‘under the Random House division will ...Read More
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Amazon.com has announced “The Amazon Editors’ Best Books of 2022 So Far,” with an overall Top 20 and numerous category lists.
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf) and The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (Tor) both made the Top 20.
Sea of Tranquility is their “pick for the best science fiction and fantasy book of the year so far.” The rest of the SF/Fantasy list is: ...Read More
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The Robert E. Howard (REH) Foundation has announced the winners of the 2022 Robert E. Howard Awards.
The Atlantean – Outstanding Achievement, Book (non-anthology/collection)
