The 12-title longlist for the 2020 Edge Hill Prize for Short Story has been announced, including the following titles and authors of genre interest.

The £10,000 prize is given to “a single-authored collection of short stories” by writers born or residing in the UK or Ireland. Judges for ...Read More

The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has announced the winner of the 2020 Prometheus Award for Best Novel, honoring works published in 2019 that “examine the meaning of freedom.”

Colson Whitehead has won the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for his book The Nickel Boys (Doubleday). Given by The Orwell Foundation, the prize recognizes “outstanding novels and collections of short stories first published in the UK that illuminate major social and political themes, present or past, through the art of narrative.”

The judges for 2020 were Tom Gatti, Jude Kelly (chair), Sarah Shaffi, and Matthew Sperling. Winners receive ...Read More

The North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award. The award recognizes “outstanding achievement in science fiction and fantasy novels written by North Carolina authors.”

Winners of the Heinlein Society’s annual undergraduate scholarships for the 2019-2020 academic year were announced July 7, 2020. This year’s winners are Charles Hanson, Tulla Bee Picardi, and Samantha Townsend. The scholarship awards $2,500 to each recipient.

Townsend received the Virginia Heinlein Memorial Scholarship, which is dedicated to female candidates majoring in engineering, math, or science. Picardi received the Dr. Jerry Pournelle Memorial Scholarship, and Hanson received the Dr. Yoji ...Read More

Kathryn Evans has won the 2020 CrimeFest Award for Best Crime Novel for Young Adults for her novel Beauty Sleep (Usborne). The award “is for the best crime novel for young adults (aged 12-16) first published in the United Kingdom in 2019.”

Winners receive a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award and were announced July 7, 2020 on the CrimeFest website and social media pages. “Eligible titles were submitted by publishers, ...Read More

The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) announced the 2020 inductees to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame: short story writer Ted Chiang, Star Trek writer D.C. Fontana, the Star Wars movie series, and the Hugo Award-winning graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons. The inductees will be included in the SF&F Hall of Fame display later this year.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame was ...Read More

Finalists for the seventh annual Baen Fantasy Adventure Award have been announced:

The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) has opened submissions for the 11th Annual Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award for “emerging authors who use science fiction to address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination” until December 1, 2020.

Applicants must send a “200-word statement with background & goals in writing SF” and a “4,000-word maximum writing sample addressing Indigenous perspectives” to Professor Grace L. Dillon at dillong@pdx.edu. For ...Read More

The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) has announced the 2020 winners of its annual research awards:

The Bookseller announced recipients of the British Book Awards, honoring The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus) for three related awards: Publicity Campaign of the Year, Agent of the Year, and Audiobook of the Year.

Also called the “Nibbies,” the British Book Awards “honours and celebrates the commercial successes of publishers, authors and bookshops.” The Testaments audiobook, narrated by Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Mae ...Read More

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the annual Rhysling Awards for SF, fantasy, and horror poetry in short and long form categories. This year’s winners are:

SHORT POEM

First Place “Taking, Keeping“, Jessica J. Horowitz (Apparition Lit 1/19)

Second Place “when my father reprograms my mother {“, Caroline Mao (Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2019)

Third Place (tie) “The Day the Animals Turned to ...Read More

The Winter Sisters by Tim Westover (Qw) is the winner of the Selfies Book Awards U.S., awarded by Publishers Weekly and BookBrunch “to discover promising talent and recognise the very best indie-published titles each year.”

Westover will receive $1,000 and a $5,000 advertising package with Publishers Weekly. The Winter Sisters “will also be featured at trade shows and promoted to 30,000 librarians….”

Shortlisted titles of genre interest include Athena’s Choice ...Read More

Finalists for the 2020 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards), honoring the best works published in Spain last year, have been announced.

Pine, by Francine Toon (Doubleday) has been shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year, awarded by the Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival “to recognise the quality in new talent blossoming within crime writing.”

Winners receive a check for £500 and a trophy sponsored by the Glencairn Glass. Bloody Scotland 2020, scheduled for September 18-20 in Stirling, UK, has been canceled. Winners will be announced ...Read More

The Bi Writers Association (BWA) announced winners for the sixth annual Bisexual Book Awards on June 19, 2020 including titles of genre interest:

Winners for the 2020 Premio Italia Awards have been announced:

We Need Diverse Books and Penguin Random House announced the 2020 Creative Writing Awards, which honor “graduating seniors from public high schools nationwide.” The winning pieces for each category are:

Maurice Haeems is the winner of the Terran Award scholarship, funded by George R.R. Martin to cover all tuition and fees (travel and meals not included) for one applicant to attend the Taos Toolbox writing workshop. Applicants “must be from a country where English is not the primary language.”

Maurice was born in Mumbai and has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Mumbai and an MBA in ...Read More

The shortlist for the 34th Arthur C. Clarke Award has been announced:

Artist Shaun Tan won the Kate Greenaway Medal for outstanding illustration for his work Tales from the Inner City (Walker). The award was announced live on BBC Front Row on June 17, 2020.

“Australian author and illustrator Tan, who is of Australian, Chinese and Malay heritage, is the first illustrator of colour to win the Kate Greenaway Medal.” Winners receive £500 worth of books to donate to their local library, ...Read More

Finalists for the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards for Speculative Fiction have been announced:

The Ontario Library Association awarded the Silver Birch Fiction Award to Julia Nobel for The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane (Sourcebooks Young Readers). The Silver Birch Fiction Award “celebrates fiction books for readers in Grades 3-6.” It is given as part of the The Forest of Reading, “Canada’s largest recreational reading program.”

For more information, including the complete winners list, see the press release.

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The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers (IAMTW) announced the nominees for the 2020 Scribe Awards, honoring excellence in licensed tie-in writing. Nominees of genre interest follow.

Shortlists for the 2020 Prix Utopiales (for best French SF) and Prix Utopiales Jeunesse Awards (for best French SF for young adults) have been announced.

The Ontario Library Association has announced the 2020 Forest of Reading Award Nominees, including the following titles of genre interest:

Silver Birch Fiction Award (Grades 3-6)

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

“Life in Achar” by Anya Ow won the Avatars Inc Short Story Competition. The winning title was chosen from over 500 entries from 33 countries. Ow’s prize package, presented by XPRIZE in partnership with All Nippon Airlines, includes a 3.2GHz 8-core Intel Xeon W Processor iMac Pro, a GoPro Hero7 Camera, Sony noise cancelling headphones, a 32GB Kindle Paperwhite, a JoneR Universal Translator, and more.

Finalists for the award were ...Read More

The 19 winning titles for the PEN Translates awards have been announced, including the following authors of genre interest:

With support from Arts Council England, the award helps UK publishers translate ...Read More