Winners for the Splatterpunk Awards, “honoring superior achievement for works published in 2021 in the sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror,” were will be presented at the 2022 KillerCon, held August 12-14, 2022 in Austin TX. Awards co-founder Brian Keene posted the winners to Twitter.

The 2022 Aurora Awards winners for works by Canadians have been announced.

Winners for the 2022 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ).

Dragon Con has announced the ballot for the 2022 Dragon Awards.

PulpFest has announced the winner for the 2022 Munsey Award, given “to an individual or institution that has bettered the pulp community.”

Finalists for the 2022 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction have been announced:

The first Trigon Awards were announced by Spiral Tower Press, honoring “the past, present, and future of science fiction, fantasy, and horror” in three categories.

Literary Achievement: David C. Smith for sword-and-sorcery writing.

Scholarly Achievement: Bobby Derie for Lovecraft scholarship.

Special Achievement: The Cromcast, a podcast about Robert E. Howard.

The awards were presented July 30, 2022 at SpiralCon 1 in Newport News VA. Awardees were selected ...Read More

The twenty-one winning titles for the PEN Translates awards have been announced, including the following titles and authors of genre interest:

• The Clock and the Guest, Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright(Comma)
• The Heart Sutra, Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas (Chatto & Windus)
• You, Bleeding Childhood, Michele Mari, translated by Brian Robert Moore (And Other Stories)
• Egypt + 100: Stories from a Century After the Revolution

Horror Spotlight, formerly known as The Ladies of Horror Fiction (LOHF), is open to applications for their fourth annual LOHF Writers Grant. “This will be the last year the grant will be a ‘Ladies of Horror Fiction’ grant.” Fourteen awards of $100 each are available “to all women and non-binary femmes who have reasonably demonstrated a commitment to writing in the horror genre.” Applications are open until 11:59 CST, August ...Read More

The 2022 longlist for the Diverse Book Awards has been announced. The awards were created “to highlight the best of the diverse voices published in the UK & Ireland during 2021, both traditionally and self-published.” Titles and authors of interest follow.

Best Adult

• Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Pan Macmillan)
• This One Sky Day, Leone Ross (Faber)

Best Young Adult

• Skin of The Sea, Natasha Bowen (PRH

The Mythopoeic Society announced the 2022 Mythopoeic Awards Winners during Mythcon 52, held July 29th through August 1st 2022, in Albuquerque, NM.

Sistersong by Lucy Holland (Macmillan; Redhook) and Ariadne by Jennifer Saint (Headline; Flatiron) are on the six-title shortlist for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award.

The award was established in 2017 by independent bookstore Goldsboro Books for novels with “with brilliant characterisation and a distinct voice that is confidently written and assuredly realised.” The winning title will be announced September 8, 2022 and the author will receive £2,000 as well ...Read More

Finalists for the second annual Mike Resnick Memorial Award for Short Fiction have been announced:

The award — sponsored by Galaxy’s Edge, Arc Manor, and Dragon Con — is given to the best unpublished science fiction short story by ...Read More

The Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust has announced the shortlist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, an inaugural $25,000 cash prize given to “a single book-length work of imaginative fiction.”

The North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation (NCSFF) has announced the winner for the 2022 Manly Wade Wellman Award. The award recognizes “outstanding achievement in science fiction and fantasy novels written by North Carolina authors.”

Finalists for the 2022 Prix Utopiales Jeunesse for Best French SF for Young Adults have been announced.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, translated by Helene Bützow (WSOY), won the 2022 Tähtifantasia Award, presented by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society for the best Finnish fantasy book published in the previous year. The 2022 jurors were Jukka Halme, Aleksi Kuutio, Osmo Määttä, and Niina Tolonen.

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The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 British Fantasy Awards:

The 2022 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced at Comic-Con@Home online on July 23, 2022. Winners of SF/F interest include:

The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers (IAMTW) announced the winners of the 2022 Scribe Awards, honoring excellence in licensed tie-in writing. Winners of genre interest follow.

The 13-title longlist for the 2022 Booker Prize has been announced, including several titles and authors of genre interest:

Shortlisted titles for the 2022 Waterstones  Fiction Prize have been announced. Titles of genre interest include How High We Go in the Dark, Suquoia Nagamatsu (Bloomsbury; William Morrow) and Vagabonds!, Eloghosa Osunde (HarperCollins; Riverhead).

The winner of the debut prize receives £5,000. The award is “open to all debut fiction, including genre fiction such as crime, sci-fi and fantasy as well as fiction in translation.” The winner will ...Read More

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2021 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2022 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for November 3-6, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, in Louisiana.

The Life Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, will go to Samuel R. Delany and Terri Windling. The World Fantasy Awards finalists are:

Best ...Read More

Winners of 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)

“Five Years Next Sunday” by Idza Luhumyo, published in anthology Disruption (Catalyst), won the 2022 Caine Prize for African Writing. The £10,000 prize “is awarded for a short story by an African writer published in English” and was announced during a ceremony on July 18, 2022 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK. Additionally, four shortlisted authors each received £500. Judges for 2022 were Elisa Diallo, Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane, ...Read More

The finalists for the 2021 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History have been announced.

The winners of the 2022 Henrietta Branford Writing Competition have been announced. The six winners, aged between 10 and 16, are Ayaan Ali, Cerys Batchelor, Abigail Evans, Ayman Mohammed, Meg Searer, and Ella Ward.

The competition is run by the Branford Boase Awards, and had over 500 entries. Each applicant was asked to complete a story begun by last year’s Branford Boase Award winner, Struan Murray. He said of the ...Read More

Winners of the Heinlein Society’s annual undergraduate scholarships for the 2021-2022 academic year were announced on July 7, 2022, Robert A. Heinlein’s 115th birthday.

This year’s winners are Sera McCarty, Anna Mei Moulene, Jillian Soulvie, and Oliver Tan. The scholarship awards $4,000 to each recipient. Winners were selected from a record 567 applications, including 53 international submissions.

McCarty received the Virginia Heinlein Memorial Scholarship, which is dedicated to female candidates ...Read More