Alyssa Collins, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, has won the $50,000, year-long Octavia E. Butler Fellowship, given by the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino CA. “Collins’ project is titled ‘Cellular Blackness: Octavia E. Butler’s Posthuman Ontologies.’ Her project treats Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy of novels as a central touchstone and explores Butler’s interest in genetics, evolution, and cellularity.”

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Finalists for the 2021 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ).

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga) won the 2020 Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, announced as part of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes in a virtual ceremony on April 16, 2021. Other finalists were:

Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book have been announced by DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention. There were 1,249 valid nominating ballots received (1,246 electronic and 3 paper).

Winners of the Tolkien Society Awards 2021 were announced on April 11, 2021. The awards “recognize excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom, highlight­ing our long-standing charitable objective to ‘seek to educate the public in, and promote research into, the life and works of'” J.R.R. Tolkien. The society’s trustees choose the shortlist, with winners chosen by the membership.

Finalists for the 2021 Colorado Book Awards have been announced, including titles of genre interest:

Additionally, Molly Tanzer’s Creatures of Charm and Hunger (John Joseph Adams Books) is a finalist in ...Read More

Burn by Patrick Ness (Walker) and Bearmouth by Liz Hyder (Pushkin) are among the titles shortlisted for the UK Literacy Association (UKLA) awards in the 11-14+ category.

The UKLA awards are “the only national book awards which are judged by teachers.” Winners will be announced during the virtual UKLA International Conference on July 2, 2021.

For more information, including the complete shortlists, see the UKLA website.

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The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has released the finalists for the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category, honoring pro-freedom works published in 2020.

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The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Del Rey) is the winner of the 2021 Compton Crook Award. Other finalists were:

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The winners for the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards have been announced, including Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn (MCD) in the $10,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.

Other finalists of genre interest in the category were

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The New York Public Library announced its five Young Lions Fiction Award finalists for 2021, which includes Pew by Catherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) and Temporary by Hilary Leichter (Coffee House).

The winner will be announced June 17, 2021. The $10,000 prize is awarded “each spring to a writer age 35 or younger for a novel or a collection of short stories” by a panel of judges. 2019’s winner was ...Read More

Road Out of Winter by Alison Stine (Mira) won the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award, announced April 2, 2021 during the virtual Norwescon 43. A special citation was given to The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey (Orbit US). Other finalists were:

The winners for the 2020 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards have been announced.

The 2020 Aurealis Awards shortlist, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, has been announced.

Several titles and authors of genre interest made the 13-title longlist for the 2021 International Booker Prize:

French author Jean-Claude Mourlevat is the winner of the 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, honoring children’s and young-adult literature. The award, presented by the Swedish Arts Council, is accompanied by a cash prize of 5 million krona (approximately $572,000), and is the world’s largest financial award for children’s and young-adult works. The jury said,

Jean-Claude Mourlevat is a brilliant renewer of fairy tale traditions, open to both hardship and beauty. ...Read More

The winners of the 2021 Fan Activity Achievement Awards (FAAns) were announced by Corflu 38 administrators in an online ceremony on March 29, 2021. ...Read More

Finalists for the inaugural Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Awards Shortlist have been announced. Authors and titles of genre interest include:

Sanjna N. Singh is the recipient of the 2021 A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature, presented by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) and DesiLit. The $1,000 grant is given annually to “a South Asian / South Asian diaspora writer developing speculative fiction.”

Singh has worked in New York City for over fifteen years, at HBO, and as a television producer for shows such as Mob Wives, Storm ...Read More

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Hamish Hamilton), Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor and translated by Sophie Hughes (New Directions), and The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) are on the six-title shortlist for the €100,000 2021 International Dublin Literary award.

Baen Books has announced the results of the 2021 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award:

The Grand Prize winner will be featured on the Baen website. The author will be given a trophy and paid professional rates.

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The shortlist for the 2021 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi (Faber) and Pew by Catherine Lacey (Granta).

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (Serpent’s Tail) has won the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize. Other finalist titles of genre interest included A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa (Tramp) and The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey (Peepal Tree).

The £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize is open to all works of literature written in English and published in the UK during the previous calendar year. ...Read More

The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2021 Audie Awards winners, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.

Winners and finalists of genre interest include:

Winners of several awards given by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) were announced during the 42nd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA 42), held online March 18-21, 2021.

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The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2021 British Book Awards, including several titles of genre interest.

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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 and authors of genre interest follow.