Arley Sorg received the fourth annual Space Cowboy Award, given “to someone whose work has helped to enhance and support our ever growing and changing field.” The award is administered by science fiction bookstore Space Cowboy Books, based in Joshua Tree CA. This year’s committee was composed of bookstore owners Jean-Paul L. Garnier & Zara Kand with prior Space Cowboy Award recipients. Previous recipients are Rachel Cordasco (2022), Cora Buhlert ...Read More

The 2023 Whiting Award winners have been announced. Authors of genre interest include Ama Codjoe, Marcia Douglas, and Emma Wippermann.

The ten winners, “emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama,” each receive $50,000. The award was created by New York investor and philanthropist Flora Ettlinger Whiting in 1971. Recipients of the award are selected by an anonymous committee appointed by the Foundation.

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The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2023 Audie Awards winners, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. Winners of genre interest follow.

The newly expanded Rathbones Folio Prize announced the winners in three categories: Non-Fiction, Fiction, and Poetry; as well as an overall “Book of the Year” winner. Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser (Atlantic/Allen and Unwin) won the Fiction category.

Each category winner receives £2,000 and is a candidate for the overall prize. “First awarded in 2014 (originally known as The Folio Prize), the Rathbones Folio Prize is open to all ...Read More

Salman Rushdie will receive a Hay Festival Medal for Prose for “exceptional work” as one of four “groundbreaking storytellers” during the Hay Festival event in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, to be held May 25 – June 4, 2023.

Awarded annually since Britain’s Olympic year (2012), and crafted locally by silversmith Christopher Hamilton, the Hay Festival Medals draw inspiration from the original Olympic medal given for poetry.

Previous recipients include Margaret Atwood. For ...Read More

The six-title shortlist for the Dublin Literary Award has been announced. Authors and titles of genre interest include Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner), The Trees by Percival Everett (Graywolf Press; Influx), and Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes (New Directions/Fitzcarraldo).

The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2023 British Book Awards, including several titles and authors of genre interest.

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Finalists for the 2023 Imadjinn Awards have been announced.

The Oxford Centre for Fantasy and Pushkin Children’s Books have announced the inaugural Oxford/Pushkin Children’s Fantasy Prize. To be eligible to enter, the author may be published but “in the early stages of their career.” The author of the winning entry will receive £2,000 and a mentorship with an editor at Pushkin Children’s Books. Four runners-up will win further prizes.

Submissions open March 31, 2023 and close May 31, 2023. ...Read More

Colson Whitehead received a National Humanities Medal, presented by President Biden on March 21, 2023. Whitehead was among 12 honorees for the National Humanities Medals, as well as honorees for National Medals of Arts. “With genre-defying craftsmanship and creativity, Colson Whitehead’s celebrated novels make real the African American journey through our Nation’s continued reckoning with the original sin of slavery and our ongoing march toward a more perfect Union.”

The ...Read More

The shortlist for the 2023 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. The six-title list includes Limberlost by Robbie Arnott (Atlantic).

Analog has announced the Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices, open to “any writer over 18 years of age who customarily identifies as Black, has not published nor is under contract for a book, and has three or less paid fiction publications.”

Submissions will be read blind. Please remove all identifying information from the document before sending it. The file name should be the title of the story. Submissions should ...Read More

The shortlists for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing and Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration have been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest follow.

Alina Pete’s “Telling the Soul of Mars” is the winner of the 2022 Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award. The $1,000 prize is given by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) to “emerging authors who use science fiction to address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.” Other finalists are “The Good One” by Allanah Hunt, “The Tangle” by Rae Mariz, and “Spirit Medicine” by Gina McGuire.

The judge ...Read More

The six-title shortlist for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel award has been announced, and includes When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Hamish Hamilton).

For more information, visit the Authors’ Club website.

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Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) won the Story Prize, “honoring the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction,” presented March 15, 2023. The prize includes $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl.

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Tin House) was one of the finalists, and will receive $5,000.

Director Larry Dark and prize founder Julie Lindsey chose three finalists from 119 collections published in ...Read More

When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Doubleday/Penguin UK) is on the 2023 Jhalak Prize longlist.

The award “seek to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers” and “accept entries published in the UK by writers of colour. These include (and not limited to) fiction, non-fiction, short stories, graphic novels, poetry and all other genres.”

The judges for 2023 are Haleh Agar, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and Monisha Rajesh. The ...Read More

The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced finalists for the 35th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.” Nominees of genre interest follow.

The 13-title longlist for the 2023 International Booker Prize has been announced, including titles and authors of genre interest:

The award is given “every year for a single book that is ...Read More

The 2022 Aurealis Awards shortlist, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, has been announced.

The finalists for the 92nd Annual California Book Awards, presented by the Commonwealth Club of California, have been announced.

Titles and authors of genre interest include The Furrows by Namwali Serpell (Hogarth) which was one of three finalists for the Fiction category, Out There by Kate Folk (Random House) which was one of five finalists for the First Fiction category, and Cold by Mariko Tamaki (Roaring Brook) which was one ...Read More

The five-title 2023 PEN/Faulkner finalists list includes titles and authors of genre interest:

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has released the final ballot for the 2022 Nebula Awards.

The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) has announced winners for the 2023 Romantic Novel Awards, including titles of genre interest.

The shortlist for the 2022 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards has been announced.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced Greg Bear and Cerece Rennie Murphy as recipients of the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award “for distinguished contributions to the science fiction and fantasy community.”

The Solstice Award, created in 2008 and given at the discretion of the SFWA president with the majority approval of the Board of Directors, is for individuals, living or dead, who have had “a significant impact ...Read More

The results of the annual Clarkesworld readers’ poll for best story and cover art of 2022 were announced in the March 2022 issue: