Chicon 8, the 2022 World Science Fiction Convention, has announced that voting is open for the 2022 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.
Supporting or Adult, Young Adult, Teen, Child, or Virtual Attending members of Chicon 8 are eligible to vote. The ballots must be received by August 11, 2022 at 11:59pm PDT.
For more information on how
Rachel Cordasco received the third annual Space Cowboy Award, given for “support and excellence in the field of Science Fiction.” The award is administered by science fiction bookstore Space Cowboy Books, based in Joshua Tree CA. This year’s committee was composed of Cora Buhlert, Jean-Paul L. Garnier, Zara Kand, and Gideon & Janice Marcus.
For more information, see Space Cowboy’s announcement.
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Read moreFinalists for the 13th annual Xingyun Awards for Chinese science fiction were announced by the World Chinese Science Fiction Association.
Best Novel
Winners of the 2022 Kurd Laßwitz Preis for the best German science fiction works and translations have been announced.
Best German SF Novel
Best German SF Short Story
Best Foreign SF Work Published in German
Best SF Translation Into
Natalia Theodoridou won the 2022 Moniack Mhor Emerging Writer Award (previously called the Bridge Award). Established in 2015, the award is for “unpublished prose writers (fiction) living and working in the UK with a collection of short stories or novel in development.” The winner receives “a tailor-made package worth up to £2,000 including tuition via open courses, retreat time and/or mentoring at Moniack Mhor.” Lucy Steeds took second place, and ...Read More
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Cresida Cowell’s audiobook The Wizards of Once: Never and Forever, narrated by David Tennant (Hodder Children’s), won the Audiobook Fiction category of the 2022 British Book Awards. The Bookseller announced the winners on May 23, 2022 at Grosvenor House in London. The previously announced shortlist included several titles and authors of genre interest.
For more information, see the official website.
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Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford (Faber & Faber; Scribner) won the 2022 Encore Award, given by the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) to the best second novel of the year. The High House by Jessie Greengrass (Swift; Scribner) was also on the five-title shortlist. The winner receives £10,000 and each of the four other finalists receive £500.
The judges for 2022 were Sian Cain, Paul Muldoon, and Nikesh Shukla.
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Winners for the Roswell Award for short science fiction have been announced. The five finalists had their stories read by celebrity guests during LitFest Pasadena.
Other finalists were “Beauty is the Beast” by Ven Pillay and “Tyrannosaurus Mechs” by
The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2022 Mythopoeic Awards finalists. Winners will be announced during Mythcon 52, to be held July 29th through August 1st 2022, in Albuquerque, NM.
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Winners have been announced for the 2022 Prix Imaginales, honoring the best works of fantasy published in France.
French Novel
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) announced winners of the 2021 Nebula Awards at the 57th Annual Nebula Banquet during the 2022 SFWA Nebula Conference.
Novel
Amber Boothe and Letitia Jarrett won the 2022 Owned Voices Novel Award. Running for the second year, the award is for writers without agents who are “from an under-represented background.” Shortlisted writers are “invited to a virtual ‘Routes to Getting Published’ Q&A session with a panel of industry experts” and winners receive £250 as well as mentoring and feedback.
For more information, see the Owned Voices site.
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The shortlist for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, given by The Orwell Foundation to novels and short story collections published in the UK which explore major political and social themes through a fictional lens, includes at least two titles of genre interest:
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Finalists have been announced for the 2022 Premios Kelvin 505 Awards, presented by the Celsius 232 festival and honoring the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels published in Spain.
Mejor Novela Original (Best Original Novel)
Mejor
Yiyun Li won the 2022 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. “Given since 1988 in honor of the late Bernard Malamud, the award recognizes writers who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in the short story form.” Li’s genre work includes 2019 novel Where Reasons End (Random House).
Li will be honored at the annual PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony, held in partnership with American University, on December 2, 2022.
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The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Nommo Awards, given to works “by Africans as defined by the ASFS and Nommo Awards Guidelines.”
Best Novel
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced Petra Mayer, Arley Sorg, and Troy L. Wiggins 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 ...Read More
Read moreF-CON, the 59th Japan SF Convention, has announced the finalists for the 2022 Seiun Awards (the Japanese equivalent of the Hugo Awards), honoring the best original and translated works published last year in Japan.
Best Translated Novel
The British Fantasy Society (BFS) is looking for judges for the British Fantasy Awards. “For each category, 3-5 jurors read/watch/examine every entry on the final shortlist (4-6 titles) & then agree between themselves on the final winner.”
The BFA constitution calls for “at least one non-member of the Society” to be on the jury. Interested individuals may apply through the webform, which is scheduled to close May 29, 2022.
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The 2022 Indie Book Awards Shortlist has been announced, with several titles and authors of genre interest:
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Children’s Fiction
Horror author JOHN SKIPP, 64, has announced his retirement from writing and publishing fiction; his final title is collection Don’t Push the Button (Clash Books). Going forward he will focus on music and film. He has two new albums, The Antidote to Fear and Cry Me a Rainbow, out via his own Fungasm Records label. He also wrote, produced, directed, and scored short film Doppelbanger, which premiered ...Read More
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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the winners for the 2021 Bram Stoker Awards.
Superior Achievement in a Novel
Superior Achievement in a
The winners of the 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2021, have been announced.
French Novel
Foreign Novel
The finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.
The winners of the 91st Annual California Book Awards, presented by the Commonwealth Club of California, have been announced.
Home Is Not A Country by Safia Elhillo (Make Me a World) won the gold medal in the Young Adult category, while Refractive Africa by Will Alexander (New Directions) won the gold medal in the Poetry category.
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Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Tähtivaeltaja Award for Klara ja aurinko [Klara and the Sun], translated into Finnish by Helene Bützow (Tammi).
The award is sponsored by Helsingin Science Fiction seura. The judging panel includes Hannu Blommila, Toni Jerrman, Elli Leppä, and Kaisa Ranta. For more information, see the announcement.
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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2022 Locus Awards. These results are from the February 1 to April 15 voting, done by readers on an open public ballot. Congratulations to all!
The Locus Awards winners will be announced June 25, 2022, during the virtual Locus Awards Weekend. Connie Willis will MC the awards ceremony. Additional weekend events include author readings, ...Read More
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The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen (NY Review) won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in the Fiction category. The award, given for “distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life,” comes with a prize of $15,000.
The judges called the winner a “A mordant, linguistically deft historical novel about the ambiguities of the Jewish-American experience, presenting ideas and disputes as volatile as ...Read More
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Science Museum in London and UK publisher Hodder & Stoughton have announced the inaugural Science Fiction Debuts Writing Prize. To qualify, “writers must be unpublished and not represented by a literary agent, and residents of the United Kingdom.” The author of the winning entry will receive £4,000, a six-month mentorship with Hodderscape editorial director Molly Powell, introduction to three literary agents, and a full critique. The runner-up will receive £2,000 ...Read More
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The High House by Jessie Greengrass (Swift; Scribner) and Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford (Faber & Faber; Scribner) are on the five-title shortlist for the 2022 Encore Award, given by the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) to the best second novel of the year.
The judges for 2022 are Sian Cain, Paul Muldoon, and Nikesh Shukla. The winner of the £10,000 will be announced May 24, 2022. Each of the ...Read More
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Norwescon 44 was held April 14-17, 2022 in SeaTac WA at the DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport. This was the first time the convention has been held in person since 2019; the 2020 event was postponed, and in 2021 it was virtual. This year’s theme was ‘‘The Stars of Home.’’ Guests of honor were writer Cat Rambo, artist Rob Carlos, and special guests Connor Alexander and Lydia K. Valentine. Fairwood ...Read More
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The 38th Writers of the Future Awards and 33rd Illustrators of the Future Awards gala event took place on Friday, April 8, 2022 at the Taglyan Complex in Los Angeles CA. The Writers of the Future Golden Pen Award went to Desmond Astaire for story ‘‘Gallows’’, and the Illustrators of the Future Golden Brush Award went to Zaine Lodhi for the illustration of ‘‘Agatha’s Monster’’. Each Golden Award winner received ...Read More
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