Betsy Wollheim is the recipient of the 2020 Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (AKA the Skylark Award). The award was presented by the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) at Boskone 57, held at the Westin Boston Waterfront, February 14-16, 2020.

The Skylark is given to “some person, who, in the opinion of the membership, has contributed significantly to science fiction, both through work in the field ...Read More

Winners for the 2019 Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards (Cybils) have been announced. Books of genre interest include:

The Society of Authors announced the winners of its translation prizes on February 12, 2020 in a ceremony at the British Library in London, UK. Morgan Giles’s translation of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri (Tilted Axis) won the £2,000 TA First Translation Prize, sponsored by Daniel Hahn and the British Council, and given “for a debut literary translation into English published in the UK.” The award is shared between ...Read More

The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) announced several grant recipients.

María Isabel Álvarez won the 2019 Gulliver Travel Grant, which gives $1,000 annually to cover airfare, lodging, or other travel expenses. Honorable mentions were Michaux Dempster, Claire Holroyde, and Jenni Zellner.

Del Sandeen won the 2019 Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds Grants. The Diverse Writers Grant is “intended to support new and emerging writers from underrepresented and underprivileged groups, such as ...Read More

Finalists for the 2019 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) and Asimov’s Readers’ Awards have been announced and are available to read online.

The shortlist for the 2019 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards has been announced.

The top five results of the Uncanny Magazine 2019 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll have been announced.

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Nominees have been announced for the Splatterpunk Awards, “honoring superior achievement for works published in 2019 in the sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror.”

“Imitation Game” by Rona Wang is the winner of the 2020 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. The award is “given annually to the best short-story written in the science fiction or fantasy genres by a full-time undergraduate college student,” and is accompanied by a $500 cash prize, publication in Asimov’s, and an invitation to ICFA (International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts), ...Read More

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced the finalists for the 2020 Compton Crook Award:

The award honors the best first SF/fantasy/horror novel of the ...Read More

We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (One World) and The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson (Grove) both appear on the 2020 Pen/Faulkner Longlist, this year with ten titles instead of five. The prize “honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year.” This year’s judges are Patricia Engel, Ru Freeman, and Porochista Khakpour.

The list will be shortened to five finalists in ...Read More

Shortlisted titles for the 2020 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize have been announced in the Illustrated Books, Younger Fiction, and Older Fiction categories, including the following of genre interest:

Older Fiction

Winners in each category, and one ...Read More

Owl Goingback and Thomas Ligotti will be given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association (HWA).

The Lifetime Achievement Award is given annually to “individuals whose work has substantially influenced the horror and dark fantasy genres.” The HWA said, “When more than one award winner is determined, the rules require a unanimous vote from all committee members. Thus, the winners were recognized as highly deserving individuals for their ...Read More

Tamsyn Muir’s novel Gideon the Ninth (Tor.com Publishing) is the winner of the 2020 Crawford Award, presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) for a first book of fantasy fiction. The awards committee named The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK) as “a close runner-up.”

Finalists for the 2020 Darrell Awards, “presented annually in support of Midsouth Literacy by recognizing the best published Science Fiction, Fantasy and/or Horror in Short Story, Novella, Novel, Young Adult & Other Media formats,” have been announced. This year they aren’t announcing which works are nominated in which categories until the award ceremony.

The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2020 Audie Awards finalists, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.

Audie finalists of genre interest follow.

Judges have been announced for the Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award:

The award was launched in 2019 by Gollancz and author Ben Aaronovitch, in partnership with NaNoWriMo and the Good Literary Agency “to champion underrepresented BAME [Black, Asian, and minority ethnic] voices in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror.” The shortlist will be announced April ...Read More

The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) has announced shortlists for the 2020 Romantic Novel Awards, including titles of genre interest.

The Fantasy Romantic Novel Award

The judges for the 2020 World Fantasy Awards have been empaneled.

Finalists for the PEN America Literary Awards have been announced, and include several works of genre interest.

The ...Read More

Finalists for the 2020 Minnesota Book Awards, given by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, have been announced, including several titles and authors of genre interest.

The long list for the 2020 Branford Boase Award has been announced and includes several titles of genre interest:

The selections for the 2020 Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Reading List, Listen List, and Notable Books List were announced during the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting, held January 24-28, 2020 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia PA.

The American Library Association (ALA) announced the results of the Youth Media Awards during their Midwinter Meeting at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia PA, January 24-28, 2020.

Lovely War by Julie Berry (Viking) won the 2020 Golden Kite award in the Young Adult Fiction category, given by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) for “excellence in children’s literature.”

“The Golden Kites are the first children’s literary award judged by a jury of peers.” This year’s judges were Chris Barton, Samantha Berger, Ben Clanton, Carmen Agra Deedy, Angela Dominguez, Susan Fletcher, Rita Lorraine Hubbard, Eric ...Read More

The Library Information Technology Association (LITA) announced the selections for its 2020 LITA Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists during the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting, held January 25-29, 2020 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia PA.

Several authors and works of genre interest made the MWA (Mystery Writers of America) 2020 Edgar Awards list of nominees.

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the preliminary ballot for the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards:

The longlist for the €100,000 2020 International Dublin Literary award has been announced, and includes numerous titles and authors of genre interest: