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 of genre interest follow.

Melinda Snodgrass is the recipient of the 2019 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 56, held at the Westin Boston Waterfront, February 15-17, 2019.

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 2019 Spectrum Awards finalists have been announced.

Vida Cruz and Ana Hurtado are the 2018 recipients of 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 Tiptree Award.

The fellowship program “will complement the on-going work of the Award — that is, the celebration of speculative fiction that expands and explores gender roles in thought-provoking, imaginative, and occasionally infuriating ways.” ...Read More

The shortlist for the 2018 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards has been announced.

Artist Vincent Di Fate, 73, has been inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame, and will be honored at the induction ceremony to be held June 14, 2019 in New York.

Inductees are honored “for their distinguished achievement in the art of illustration. Artists are elected by former presidents of the Society and are chosen based on their body of work and the impact it has made on ...Read More

Finalists for the 2019 Darrell Awards have been announced:

Winners for the 2018 Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards (Cybils) have been announced. Titles of genre interest are listed below:

The Society of Authors announced the winners of its translation prizes on February 13, 2019 in a ceremony at the British Library in London, UK.

TA First Translation Prize

Several authors of genre interest are recipients of 2019 Literature Fellowships awarded by The National Endowment for the Arts.

Ama Codjoe, Ilya Kaminsky, Kiki Petrosino, and Keith S. Wilson are among the writers who received grants of $25,000 each. The grants are meant to give “writers the time and space to create, revise, conduct research, and connect with readers.” A total of 35 creative writing grants were given, for a ...Read More

Author Jenni Fagan has been named the 2019 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow, winning a one-year residency at the Summerhall arts venue in Edinburgh, Scotland. The fellowship, supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland, “provides a mid-career or established writer with time and support to develop new work… on the theme of change, sustainability and how the past informs the present.”

Fagan will receive a private workspace at Summerhall, access ...Read More

Finalists for the 2018 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) and Asimov’s Readers’ Awards have been announced. Most are available to read online.

The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) has announced the shortlists for the 2019 Romantic Novel Awards, including titles of genre interest.

The Fantasy Romantic Novel Award

Winners will be announced March 4, 2019 at the Gladstone Library in London. For more information, including complete shortlists, see ...Read More

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced the finalists for the 2019 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award:

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

Shortlisted titles for the 2019 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize have been announced in the Illustrated Books, Younger Fiction, and Older Fiction categories, including several of genre interest:

Older Fiction

“Military Sunset” by Ana Maria Curtis is the winner of the 2019 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 on the Fantastic in the ...Read More

The 12-title longlist for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize has been announced, and includes the following titles of genre interest:

The £30,000 prize “rewards exceptional works of literature that illuminate the many ways that health, medicine and illness touch our lives.” Judges for 2019 are Jon Day, Rick Edwards, Kevin Fong, Viv Groskop, ...Read More

Nominees have been announced for the Splatterpunk Awards, honoring “superior achievement in the sub-genres of Splatterpunk / Extreme Horror fiction.”

Sandra Cisneros has been awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, “conferred annually to a living author whose body of work, either written in or translated into English, represents the highest level of achievement in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and/or drama, and is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship.” The judges for 2019 were Alexander Chee, Edwidge Danticat, and Valeria Luiselli.

The $50,000 prize is given by PEN America ...Read More

The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2019 Audie Awards finalists, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.

Audie finalists of genre interest include:

Graham Masterton will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association (HWA).

The Lifetime Achievement Award is given annually to “individuals whose work has substantially influenced the horror and dark fantasy genres.” Masterton “is highly recognized for his horror novels, but he has also been a prolific writer of thrillers, disaster novels, and historical epics, as well as one of the world’s most influential series of sex ...Read More

The winner of the 2019 Crawford Award, presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) for a first book of fantasy fiction, is The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager).

The 2019 Locus Poll & Survey Ballot, for works and contributions published in 2018, is live. Vote today in the Locus Awards! The link to the ballot is locusmag.com/2019-locus-poll-and-survey.

Voting is open until April 15, 2019. All votes from subscribers and non-subscribers alike are welcome; subscriber votes count double. (Subscribe!)

Tickets to the Locus Awards in Seattle, June 2019 will be available SOON. ...Read More

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced Neil Clarke and Nisi Shawl 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 longlist for the 2019 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. Titles of genre interest include:

Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina (Allen & Unwin) has won the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize for Writing for Young Adults, presented January 31, 2019 during an awards ceremony at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, Australia. The Writing for Young Adults judges were Leanne Hall (convenor), Melissa Keil, and Nevo Zisin.

The awards, administered by the Wheeler Centre on behalf of the Premier of Victoria, were ...Read More

The selections for the 2019 Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Reading List, Listen List, and Notable Books List were announced during the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting, held January 25-29, 2019 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle WA.

The long list for the 2019 Branford Boase Award has been announced and includes several titles of genre interest:

The Library Information Technology Association (LITA) announced the selections for its 2019 LITA Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists during the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting, held January 25-29, 2019 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle WA.

Finalists for the 2019 Minnesota Book Awards, given by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, have been announced, including several titles and authors of genre interest.

The American Library Association (ALA) announced the winners of several awards during their Midwinter Meeting at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle WA, January 25-29, 2019.

The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has named the finalists for the 2019 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, “for best classic literary works of liberty.”

All members of the LFS are eligible to vote. ...Read More