The 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize has announced its 37-title longlist. The award honors “mid-career authors in fiction,” and the winner receives a $50,000 prize, given by the New Literary Project. Authors of genre interest, along with their most recent titles, include:

The winners of the 2021 Ditmar Awards for Australian SF were announced November 20, 2021 in an online ceremony.

The Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the Winners for the 2021 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards).

The Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour, formerly the Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award, has announced its eight-title shortlist

Winners of the National Book Awards (NBA) in the Fiction and Young People’s Literature categories were announced November 17, 2021 in a virtual ceremony.

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (Dutton) won the Fiction category, and Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (Dutton Books for Young Readers) won the Young People’s Literature category.

Winners for non-fiction, translated literature, and poetry were also announced.

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The Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature has announced the 10-title shortlist for the Nyabola Prize. The award recognizes science fiction written in the Kiswahili language by authors age 18-35. The finalists are:

Amazon has published its yearly array of lists to promote the best books of 2021, with editors’ selections in various categories. Titles and authors of genre interest follow, in ranked order.

Kirkus has announced its list of the 12 best books of 2021. Titles and authors of genre interest include:

Anne Wattel’s story “Les Yeuses de Noire-Épine” won the sixth annual Prix Joël-Champetier , given to a non-Canadian author who writes SF or fantasy in French. Wattel will receive €1,000 and publication in Solaris #221 (Winter 2022).

The award is named in honor of the late editor of Solaris, with winners chosen by jury; this year’s jurors were Iseult Bacon-Marcaurelle of Alire Editions, author Francine Pelletier, Solaris literary director Pascal ...Read More

Angela Yuriko Smith is the winner of the Speculative Literature Foundation’s (SLF) 2021 Older Writers Grant, which gives $1,000 to writers “fifty years of age or older at the time of grant application, and is intended to assist such writers who are just starting to work at a professional level.”

Applications for the Older Writers Grant are considered from January 1 to March 31, annually. For more information, see the ...Read More

sf-Lit.de has announced that Gestohlene Erinnerung by Blake Crouch (Goldmann) won the 2021 sf-Lit Award 2021.

The award is open to any book published in German in 2020, regardless of the author’s country of origin or the language of the first publication.

Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner (Peninsula) won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize, given for a book by a British or Irish author “that is deemed genuinely novel and which embodies the spirit of invention that characterizes the genre at its best.” This year’s judges were Fred D’Aguiar, Kamila Shamsie, Nell Stevens, and Johanna Thomas-Corr.

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The 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation shortlist has been announced. The 8-title shortlist includes Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge, translated by Jeremy Tiang (Tilted Axis).

Inaugurated in 2017, the annual prize goes to “the best eligible work of fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, work of fiction for children or young adults, or graphic novel, written by a woman, translated into English by a translator (or translators) of ...Read More

The 16-title longlist for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize has been announced, including titles and authors of genre interest:

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists. There are seven categories, in both English and French: Fiction, Literary Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Young People’s Literature – Text, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books, and Translation.

Several authors and titles of genre interest made the list.

The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) announced that S. Qiouyi Lu has won the 2021 Diverse Writers Grant for “Razing Babel”, and Elena Pavlova the 2021 Diverse Worlds Grant for “The Life and Adventures of Hillmeria Cat”.

The Diverse Writers Grant is “intended to support new and emerging writers from underrepresented and underprivileged groups, such as writers of color, women, queer writers, disabled writers, working-class writers, etc. — those whose marginalized ...Read More

Author Renee Gladman is among the eight winners of the Windham-Campbell Prize and will 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 a jury choosing eight winners ...Read More

sf-Lit.de has announced the 2021 sf-Lit Award 2021 shortlist of five candidates. The award is open to any books that have been published in German in 2020, regardless of the author’s country of origin or the language of the first publication.

The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the six-title shortlist for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence for “the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year.” The fiction shortlist includes Matrix by Lauren Groff (Riverhead) and The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin (Little, Brown and Company).

Results for the British Fantasy Society’s (BFS) short story competition have been announced:

Lindsey Drager’s The Archive of Alternate Endings (Dzanc) won the $30,000 Bard Fiction Prize, awarded annually by Bard College “to a promising emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application.” Drager will also serve a one-semester residency at the college.

Applications for next year’s prize are open now through June 15, 2022. For more information, see the Bard College website.

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Winners of the 2020 and 2021 Prix Utopiales Awards, (for best French SF), Prix Utopiales Jeunesse Awards (for best French SF for young adults), and Prix Utopiales Bande Dessinée (for best French comic book) were announced at the Nantes International Science Fiction Festival, held October 29 – November 1, 2021 at the Nantes Convention Center in Nantes, France.

The 2021 Chesley Awards nominees have been announced:

The 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist has been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include:

Inaugurated in 2017, the annual prize goes to “the best eligible work of fiction, poetry, literary ...Read More

Barnes & Noble announced the eight finalists for its third annual Book of the Year award. Titles of genre interest include Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Scribner), The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (Harper), and Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune (Tor).

The winner will be chosen by Barnes & Noble booksellers and announced November 18, 2021. For more information, see the Barnes & Noble website.

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Author Narjas Zatat and illustrator Shirley Hottier are the winners of the fifth annual FAB Prize for “new writers and illustrators from underrepresented backgrounds.”

Zatat won the text prize with her epic YA fantasy submission, Djinn-touched, described by the judges as ‘engaging, sumptuous and magical. Narjas is an incredibly talented storyteller with the potential to be a true writing star. The decision was unanimous.’

Author Ben Williams came in ...Read More

CILIP announced the three recipients for their 2021 Honorary Fellowships, including author Matt Haig. The title is described as “the highest recognition that CILIP can offer as a professional body” and fellowships have been awarded since 1896. Haig was selected for “his services to literacy, mental health and wellbeing.”

CILIP is the UK library and information association, “the only chartered body in the world dedicated to uniting, supporting and advocating ...Read More