Lois Rosson, a PhD science historian “focusing on visual representations of the space environment,” is the second recipient of the $50,000, year-long Octavia E. Butler Fellowship, given by the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino CA.

Rosson plans to spend her time principally working with The Huntington’s Octavia E. Butler Papers. Butler’s literary vision of space as a place of asylum, Rosson writes, is one of ...Read More

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2023 Locus Awards. These results are from the February 1 to April 15 voting, done by readers on an open public ballot. Congratulations to all of the finalists!

The Locus Awards winners will be announced June 24, 2023, during the in-person Locus Awards Ceremony, held in the historic Nile Hall at Preservation Park in ...Read More

Octavia E. Butler has been named the recipient of the Inaugural Infinity Award. The award is presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) to “posthumously honor acclaimed creators who passed away before they could be considered for a Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. This new award aims to recognize that even though those celebrated worldbuilders, storytellers, and weavers of words are no longer with us, their ...Read More

The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors fellowship, created by Nigerian author and creative writing professor Suyi Davies Okungbowa, is opening submissions for the next set of fellows. 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 current program advisors include Dhonielle Clayton, Alexander Cochran, Wale Lawal, Kwame Mbalia, Ukamaka Olisakwe, Makena ...Read More

Writer Em North has won the 2022 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.

For more information, see the SLF website.

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Nominations are now open for the Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, to be presented at Chengdu Worldcon 2023, the 81st World Science Fiction Convention, to be held October 18-22, 2023 in Chengdu, China. The convention says,

Everyone with memberships to either Chicon 8 or the 2023 Chengdu Worldcon that was purchased before February 1, 2023 is eligible ...Read More

The World Fantasy Awards Administration has announced an update to their previously announced judge panel.

Peter Dennis Pautz said:

Due to personal circumstances, Mary Anne Mohanraj has stepped down from acting as a World Fantasy Awards judge. Information on a new judge will be sent as soon as possible.

For more information on the previously announced judges, see our post. For more information about World Fantasy 2023, see their website. ...Read More

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced new guidelines for the Rhysling Award. The changes include the addition of a jury, as well as a rule to prevent “double dipping”, or submitting the same work to the Dwarf Stars and Elgin Award.

The changes have gone through two rounds of membership surveys, and have been approved by SFPA’s executives. For more information, see their website.

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