Several titles and authors of genre interest are on the six-title shortlist for the 2020 International Booker Prize:

The award is given “every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the ...Read More

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the recipients of three awards for 2019.

The 2019 Richard Laymon President’s Award, “presented to a member who has served HWA in an exemplary manner and shown exceptional dedication to the organization,” will go to Rena Mason. The winner is chosen by HWA’s sitting president.

Leslie S. Klinger is the winner of the 2019 Silver Hammer Award, presented “to an HWA volunteer who ...Read More

Sam J. Miller will judge the $5,000 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards in the debut author and open author categories.

A shortlist will be selected by Tarek El-Ariss, Jessica Flack, Peter Orner, Eric Schaller, and Dan Rockmore, the creator of the award program. The shortlist will be announced in May, with final winners chosen by Miller and announced in June 2020 at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

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Winners of several awards given by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) have been announced.

Nominees for the Brave New Words Award have been announced by Starburst magazine:

Valentina Gosetti & Eliza Kent are the winners of the 2020 Jamie Bishop Memorial Award, given by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) “for a critical essay on the fantastic written in a language other than English.” Their winning essay is “Maribas et la sorcellerie masculine” [Maribas and Male Witchcraft], published in Revue Bertrand 9/19.

The YA Book Prize 2020 shortlist includes several titles and authors of genre interest:

The YA Book Prize is awarded to a YA title written by an author living in the UK or Ireland. Finalists and winners are selected by ...Read More

Andrea Lawlor and Ling Ma are among the winners of the 2020 Whiting Awards, which annually gives $50,000 each “to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.” The award is funded by the Whiting Foundation, 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 2019 Aurealis Awards shortlist, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, has been announced.

Winners of the 2020 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award have been announced.

Judges for the contest were David Drake and the editors of Baen Books.

The Grand Prize winning story will be featured on the Baen website in June 2020. The author ...Read More

Fiction writers Yiyun Li and Namwali Serpell are among the eight winners of the Windham-Campbell Prize and will each receive “an unrestricted grant” of $165,000.

The Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize was established “to call attention to literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.” The prize is administered by Yale University, with a new nominating committee every year, and ...Read More

The shortlists for the Carnegie Medal for best children’s book and the Kate Greenaway Medal for best illustrations in a children’s book have been announced. Titles of genre interest follow.

The winners of the 2020 Fan Activity Achievement Awards (FAAns) were honored at the Corflu 37 Awards Ceremony, March 13-15, 2020, at the Hilton in College Station TX. ...Read More

Julia Rios has been awarded the 2020 Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award, which “recognizes a member of SFWA who best exemplifies the ideal of service to his or her fellow members.” Rios established and oversaw the SFWA Mentoring Initiative. SFWA president Mary Robinette Kowal said:

One of the most effective pieces of outreach and education that SFWA currently has is our mentorship program. Julia Rios’s work to match ...Read More

The five judges for the Philip K. Dick Award for works of science fiction published as paperback originals in the US during the year 2020 have been announced:

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced David Gaughran and John Picacio 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 Lambda Literary Foundation has announced finalists for the 32nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.” Nominees of genre interest follow.

Finalists for the 2019 Kitschies, awarded “for progressive, intelligent, and entertaining literature with a speculative element,” have been announced.

The Carl Brandon Society is reinstituting two literary awards. The Parallax Award is given “to works of speculative fiction created by a self-identified person of color.” The Kindred Award goes “to any work of speculative fiction dealing with issues of race and ethnicity; nominees may be of any racial or ethnic group.” The awards were first given in 2006 and continued through 2011. Each comes with an award plaque and ...Read More

The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD), Mary Toft; or The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer (Pantheon), and Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (Ecco) are among the seven titles shortlisted for the 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. The $50,000 prize is given by the Simpson Literary Project to “a distinguished mid-career author of fiction.” The winner will be announced in late March 2020 and will also be ...Read More

We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (One World) and Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li (Random House) are among the five finalists for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner award. 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 winner will receive $15,000 and finalists will each receive $5,000. Final results will ...Read More

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

Audie finalists of genre interest follow.

Winners of the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards were announced March 2, 2020 in an awards ceremony held at the Town Hall in New York City NY.

Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li (Random House) won the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award given “to the author of a book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit, and impact, and that has broken new ground by reshaping the boundaries of ...Read More

Alethea Kontis and non-genre author Tanuja Desai Hidier have won the 2019 Jane Yolen Mid-List Author Grant. The $3,000 annual grant, created and funded by Jane Yolen, honors mid-list authors “and aims to help raise awareness about their current works-in-progress.”

For more information, including how to apply for the grant, see the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) official website.

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The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) announced the winners for the 2020 Romantic Novel Awards in a ceremony at the Leonardo Royal London City Hotel in London, UK.

The Fantasy Romantic Novel Award

Neil Clarke has announced the results of the annual Clarkesworld readers’ poll for best story and cover art of 2019:

Two titles of genre interest are on the 8-title shortlist for the 2020 Rathbones Folio Prize:

The Rathbones Folio Prize is open to all works of literature written in English and published in the UK during the previous calendar year. Judges for 2020 are Paul Farley, Nikita Lalwani, and Ross Raisin. The winner receives £30,000 and ...Read More

Several titles and authors of genre interest are on the 13-title longlist for the 2020 International Booker Prize: