“My Gardening Journal: Tales from a Psychic Gardener” by Jazmin Collins is the winner of the 2021 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. The award is “given annually to the best short-story written in the science fiction or fantasy genres by a full-time undergraduate college student,” and is accompanied by a $500 cash prize, publication in Asimov’s, and an invitation to ICFA (International Conference ...Read More

Results of the 2021 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Science Fiction Studies have been announced:

Jackie Fallis is the recipient of this year’s Working Class Writers Grant, presented by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF). The $1,000 grant is given annually to assist working class, blue-collar, poor, and homeless writers who “have been historically underrepresented in speculative fiction, due to financial barriers which have made it much harder for them to have access to the writing world.”

Jackie Fallis is from Ontario, California. They write speculative ...Read More

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

Audie finalists of genre interest follow.

The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners for the 2020 British Fantasy Awards:

Author Charles Yu, in collaboration with TaiwaneseAmerican.org, has created the Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes, “intended to encourage and recognize creative literary work by Taiwanese American high school and college students, and to foster discussion and community around such work.”

Submissions are open to fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction, and “must be from writers of Taiwanese heritage (or writers with other significant connection to Taiwan), ...Read More

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards:

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The longlists 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.

Shreya Ila Anasuya, Eleyna Sara Haroun, and FS Hurston are the 2020 recipients of the Otherwise Fellowship (formerly the Tiptree Fellowship). Each winner will receive a $500 grant, and work produced as a result of this support will be recognized and promoted by the Otherwise Award.

“The Otherwise Award celebrates works of speculative fiction that imagine new futures by exploring and expanding our understanding of gender roles. Through the Fellowship ...Read More

Nominees have been announced for the Splatterpunk Awards, “honoring superior achievement for works published in 2020 in the sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror.”

The shortlist for the 2020 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards has been announced.

The finalists for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize has been announced, including these titles and authors of genre interest:

The winner will be announced during an online ceremony in April 2021. The $35,000 prize is awarded to “an influential work of fiction focused on vital contemporary ...Read More

Connie Willis has been awarded the 2021 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.” Willis has volunteered for mentorship roles in SFWA as well as the Emergency Medical Fund (EMF) and the Nebula Awards Rules committees. SFWA president Mary Robinette Kowal said:

Connie Willis is one of my favorite people. She’s ...Read More

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced the finalists for the 2021 Compton Crook Award:

The award honors the best first SF/fantasy/horror novel of the year, and ...Read More

Anthony R. Lewis is the recipient of the 2021 Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (AKA the Skylark Award). The award was presented by the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) at Boskone 58, held online, February 12-14, 2021.

The Skylark is given to “some person, who, in the opinion of the membership, has contributed significantly to science fiction, both through work in the field and by exemplifying ...Read More

The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2020 Mythopoeic Awards winners.

Winners for the 2020 Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards (Cybils) have been announced. Books of genre interest follow.

The Cybils Awards “aims to recognize the children’s and young adult authors and illustrators whose books ...Read More

The top five results of the Uncanny Magazine 2020 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll have been announced.

The eight-title shortlist for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize has been announced, including the following titles of genre interest:

Finalists for the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards have been announced, and include several works of genre interest.

The American Library Association announced their 2021 Reading List winners and honor titles, given to the best in genre fiction for adult readers. They were announced February 4, 2021 at the Book & Media Awards Virtual Ceremony. Categories including work of SF/F interest follow.

The longlist for the €100,000 2021 International Dublin Literary award has been announced, and includes numerous titles and authors of genre interest.

Nine Shiny Objects by Brian Castleberry (Custom House), Bestiary by K-Ming Chang (One World), and Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses (Little A) are on the ten-title 2021 Pen/Faulkner Longlist.

The prize “honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year.” This year’s judges are Charles Finch, Bernice L. McFadden, and Alexi Zentner.

Five finalists will be selected in March and the winner will be ...Read More

The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe) won the Victorian Prize for Literature as well as the Prize for Fiction, presented as part of the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards during an online award ceremony January 31, 2021.

The awards, administered by the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, Australia on behalf of the Premier of Victoria, were inaugurated by the Victorian Government in 1985 to honor Australian writing. ...Read More

The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) has announced shortlists for the 2021 Romantic Novel Awards, including titles of genre interest.