Jane Yolen has won the 2018 Jeremiah Ludington Memorial Award, presented annually by the Educational Book and Media Association (EBMA) “to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the educational paperback business.” Yolen will receive a certificate at the EBMA annual meeting to be held January 7-10, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency Austin in Austin TX. As part of the award, the EBMA will present a check for ...Read More

The winners of the Deutscher Phantastik Preis Awards were announced during Phantistika 2018 held October 20-21, 2018 in Berlin, Germany.

Elmet by Fiona Mozley (Algonquin/John Murray) won the 2018 Polari First Book Prize, announced October 20, 2018 at the London Literature Festival in London, England. The prize “is awarded annually to a writer whose first book explores the LGBT experience, whether in poetry, prose, fiction or non-fiction.” Judges for 2018 were Paul Burston (chair), Alexis Gregory, Rachel Holmes, V.G. Lee, and Karen McLeod.

For more information, see the Polari Prize ...Read More

The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners for the 2018 British Fantasy Awards:

Sweet Fruit, Sour Land (Sandstone) by Rebecca Ley is the winner of The Guardian’s 2018 Not The Booker prize. The “dark dystopian novel” was chosen by judge vote, overriding the reader vote in accordance with prize rules:

A judging meeting will be organised online on the morning of 15 October 2018. The winner of the public vote will be allotted two votes at this meeting. The reader judges will each ...Read More

Shortlisted titles and publishers for the 2018 BookNest Fantasy Awards have been announced:

Maryse Condé was announced as the winner of The New Academy Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Public Library on October 12, 2018. The prize was founded by Swedish journalist Alexandra Pascalidou with the intent of providing an international literature award since the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature is not being awarded. The New Academy plans to dissolve in December 2018.

The winner was chosen by an expert jury. The ...Read More

The winners for the 2018 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been announced.

The Sunburst Award Society has announced the winners of the seventh annual Copper Cylinder Awards.

The Adult Award winner is Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson (Penguin Random House Canada). The Young Adult Award is shared by two works, Scion of the Fox by S.M. Beiko (ECW Press), and Weave A Circle Round by Kari Maaren (Tor Books).

The Copper Cylinder Awards celebrate “the best in Canadian fantastic literature ...Read More

Winners for the 2018 Imadjinn Awards were announced, including several titles of genre interest.

The 2018 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist has been announced. Titles of genre interest include:

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 ...Read More

Finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards have been announced and include authors and works of genre interest.

Finalists for the 2018 Parsec Awards, honoring excellence in speculative fiction podcasting, have been announced.

Shortlists for the 2018 Books Are My Bag (BAMB) Readers Awards have been announced, including some titles and authors of genre interest in the following categories:

The Italian Conference of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Italcon) announced winners for the 2018 Premio Italia on October 6, 2018, during Stranimondi held in Milan, Italy.

The 2018 Aurora Awards winners have been announced “for Canadian literary and fan works that members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) feel are exceptional.”

Winners of the 2018 Harvey Awards were announced October 5, 2018 during New York Comic Con at the Javits Center in New York City.

There were also winners in Best Children’s or Young Adult Book, Best ...Read More

Michael Bishop received the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Best Story Collection of 2017 for Other Arms Reach Out to Me: Georgia Stories (Kudzu Planet), presented June 16, 2018 at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw GA.

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The Afterlife of Walter Augustus (self-published) by Hannah Lynn won the 2018 Kindle Storyteller Award. Lynn was honored during a ceremony at the Royal Society in London on October 3, 2018. The award, inaugurated in 2017, comes with a £20,000 prize and is “open to anyone over the age of 18 who publishes their book through Kindle Direct Publishing on Amazon.co.uk.”

For more information, see the Kindle Storyteller page.

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Winners have been announced for the 2018 Digital Book World Awards across 52 categories. Winners and finalists of genre interest included:

The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the longlist for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence for “the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year.” Numerous titles and authors of genre interest appear on the fiction list.

The five-title shortlist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize has been announced and includes titles of genre interest: French Exit by Patrick deWitt (House of Anansi); Songs for the Cold of Heart by Eric Dupont (QC); Motherhood by Sheila Heti (Knopf Canada); and An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim (Viking Canada). Also on the shortlist is Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (Patrick Crean).

The prize was founded in 1994 ...Read More

The winner, finalists, and honorable mentions for the Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction have been announced:

The Salam Award, ...Read More

“The Secret Life of Bots” by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 9/17) is the winner of the 2018 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction.

Other finalists were “Probably Still the Chosen One”, Kelly Barnhill (Lightspeed 2/17); “Floaters Can’t Float”, Pip Coen (Compelling Science Fiction 4/17); “A Vague Inclination to Please”, Brandon Daubs (All Hail Our Robot Conquerers); “Oba Oyinbo”, Jonathan Edelstein (Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic ...Read More

Winners for the 2018 Geffen Awards for best science fiction and fantasy published in Hebrew were announced by the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy during Icon 2018, held September 25-27, 2018 at the Tel Aviv Cinematequein Tel Aviv, Israel.

Winners of the seventh annual Niels Klim Award were announced September 23, 2018 during Fantasticon, the Danish fantastika convention. Best Novelette went to Ogel i Fare (Ogel in Danger) by Carolineskolens 4. klasse (Lurifaks) and Best Short Story went to “Verdens rigeste mand og hans tro tjener Boris” (The Richest Man in the World and his Faithful Servant Boris) by Chr. Winther (Smspress). There were no awards given in the ...Read More

Finalists for the 2018 Kirkus Prize have been announced, including titles of genre interest:

“Books that earn the Kirkus Star with publication dates between Nov. 1, 2017 to Oct. 31, ...Read More

Tananarive Due received the Octavia Butler/L.A. Banks Memorial Award from the United California African-American Bookclubs (UCAAB) during the 12th annual Fall Into Fiction conference, held September 21-22, 2018 at the Long Beach Mariott in Long Beach CA. The award includes a trophy in the shape of California and was presented to Due by Steven Barnes.

“UCAAB was created as a way for African-American book clubs in California to network, support, ...Read More

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the 2018 Elgin Awards, presented for the best poetry chapbook and the best full-length poetry book in the speculative genre. The Elgin Awards are named after the founder of SFPA, Suzette Haden Elgin.

Best Full-Length Collection

• First Place: Liberating the Astronauts, Christina M. Rau (Aqueduct)
• Second Place: Satan’s Sweethearts, Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo (Weasel)
• Third Place: