Actor and literacy advocate LeVar Burton was one of 19 recipients of the National Humanities Medals. The 2022 and 2023 medals were presented by President Biden on Monday, October 21, 2024, in a private ceremony at the White House.

The recipients include writers, historians, educators, and filmmakers. Presentation of the medals was followed by a reception “with remarks by President Biden, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, National Endowment for the ...Read More

Winners for the 2024 Geffen Awards for best science fiction and fantasy published in Hebrew were announced by the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy at Icon, held October 20-22, 2024 in Tel Aviv Israel.

Best Translated Fantasy Book

Light Bringer Project and Omega Sci-Fi have announced that the Roswell and New Suns Climate Fiction awards are on indefinite hiatus.

Omega Sci-Fi is celebrating their 10th anniversary this year, and will continue their two youth competitions, The Tomorrow Prize and The Green Feather Award. Submissions for both awards are open through February 14, 2025.

This year’s competition will come to a close during the Celebrity Readings and Honors event ...Read More

Finalists for the 2023 Kitschies, awarded for “the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining fiction that contains elements of the speculative or fantastic,” have been announced.

The directors of the award have announced that this, their 15th year, will “be the final year of the prize, citing the increased time-commitment required both of the prize’s administrators and its judges. They note, however, that this year’s diverse lists make the perfect ...Read More

It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken (New Directions) is the winner of the third Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which includes a $25,000 cash prize, given “to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction” and presented by the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust.

The judges called the book

a work of quietly detonative imagination. Written in the guise of a ...Read More

The winner for the Endeavour Award was announced at OryCon 44, held October 18-20, 2024, in Portland OR.

The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners of the 2024 British Fantasy Awards.

Results of the 25th Fantastiknovelltävlingen, a Swedish “Fantastic Short Story Competition” organized by writers’ email list SKRIVA, have been announced.

South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Her novel The Vegetarian was the first Korean language book to win the International Booker Award. The 2024 prize amount is 11 million Swedish kronor, just over $1 million US.

For more information, see the Nobel Prize website.

While you are ...Read More

The 2024 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards have been announced. The Science Fiction & Fantasy category winner was a three-way tie: Guardians of the High Pass by Avery Christy (Well Read Coyote), Magical Mushrooms by Kris Neri (Well Read Coyote), and Oceana by E J Randolph (Well Read Coyote).

The award mission is “uncovering and honoring the best in Arizona and New Mexico books.” Each book is judged by members of ...Read More

The 2024 Australasian Shadows Awards (previously known as the Australia Shadows Awards) winners were presented at Conflux in Canberra on October 7, 2024.

The award is given by the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) for “the finest in horror and dark fiction published by an Australasian within the calendar year.”

BizarroCon has announced the finalists for the 2024 Wonderland Book Awards for Excellence in Bizarro Fiction.

Best Novel

• The Last Night to Kill Nazis, David Agranoff (CLASH)
• Elogona, Samantha Kolesnik (WeirdPunk )
• Glass Children, Carlton Mellick III (Eraserhead)
• Edenville, Sam Rebelein (William Morrow)
• Soft Targets, Carson Winter (Tenebrous)

Best Collection

• All I Want is to Take Shrooms and Listen to the Color of Nazi Screams

The winners for the 2024 Ditmar Awards for Australian SF have been announced.

Best Novel

• WINNER: The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)

• Polyphemus, Zachary Ashford (DarkLit)
• The Tangled Lands, Glenda Larke (Wizard’s Tower)
• Dream Weaver, Steven Paulsen (IFWG)
• When Dark Roots Hunt, Zena Shapter (MidnightSun)
• Traitor’s Run, Keith Stevenson (coeur de lion)

Best Novella or Novelette

• WINNER: Bitters, Kaaron

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the 2024 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.

The Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the 2024 Dwarf Stars Award winners. The Dwarf Stars honor the best speculative poem of one to ten lines published in the previous year.

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the 2024 Rhysling Awards for speculative poetry.

Short Poem Category

The finalists for the Endeavour Award have been announced. The award recognizes “a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.” The finalists are:

The 2024 Polari Prize Shortlists have been announced via social media.

Authors and titles of genre interest include Away With Words by Sophie Cameron (Little Tiger), Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher (Wednesday), and Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn (Andersen), all in the Children’s & YA category; and Killing Jericho by William Hussey (Zaffre) in the Book Category.

The prizes are given to writers born or based ...Read More

Murmuration by Elizabeth Pike (self-published) is on the five-title shortlist for the 2024 Kindle Storyteller Award.

The award, launched in 2017, includes a £20,000 prize and “is open to writers publishing in English in any genre, who publish their work through Kindle Direct Publishing” on Amazon.co.uk. There were 20 titles on the “Featured Sci Fi and Fantasy Entries” and the shortlist itself includes titles from categories “Crime, Mystery, and Thrillers” ...Read More

Finalists for the National Book Awards (NBA) have been announced, including titles and authors of genre interest in multiple categories.

Fiction

The 22 MacArthur Foundation Fellows have been announced for 2024, including filmmaker Sterlin Harjo of feature Mekko (2015) and TV series Reservation Dogs (2021-2023); Ling Ma, author of Severance (2018) and Bliss Montage (2022); Jason Reynolds, author of the Stuntboy children’s superhero series and YA fantasy Long Way Down (2017); and writer and disability activist Alice Wong, who had an essay in Uncanny’s “Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction!” issue (2018). ...Read More

The Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour is open to submissions from unpublished writers of color based in the UK until January 26, 2025.

The winner will receive £4,500, one runner-up £2,500, and up to six shortlisted authors will each receive £850. All writers will also receive mentoring from one of the prize’s publishing partners: Bloomsbury, Daphne Press, Gollancz, Hodderscape, Orbit UK, Penguin Michael Joseph, ...Read More

The winner of the 2024 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction has been announced:

Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati (Penguin Michael Joseph) won the 2024 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, honoring a novel in any genre “with brilliant characterization and a distinct voice that is confidently written and assuredly realized.” The winner receives a handmade glass bell and a cash prize of £2,000.

The awards are decided by team members from Goldsboro Books. For more information, see the Goldsboro Books website and announcement at The ...Read More

The Alberta Book Publishing Awards have announced that Guy Immega’s novel Super-Earth Mother: The AI that Engineered a Brave New World (EDGE) is the winner of the 2024 Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction.

The Alberta Book Publishing Awards were created by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta to “celebrate the essential role Alberta book publishers play in supporting authors.” The Douglas Barbour award honors the late Canadian science fiction ...Read More

Winners of the French-language Prix Aurora-Boréal were awarded on May 22, 2024 at the Congrès Boréal in Québec City, Canada.

Best Novel

• WINNER: La Voie de l’apprenti, Jean-Sébastien Drouin (Nux & Nox)

• Dissident, Jean-Pierre Gorkynian (mémoire d’encrier)
• Inmortem, Mireille LaCombe (Luzerne Rousse)
• Sombre Chaos, Jennifer Pelletier (Édiligne)
• Couleur de l’obscurité, Maxim Poulin and Frédéric St-Jean (Luzerne Rousse)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “Ce qu’on laisse derrière”,

The United Talent Agency (UTA) and Conville & Walsh (C&W) have announced the inaugural Andromeda Award. The contest aims to “seek out and support the best new emerging science fiction and fantasy writers.”

The contest is open to anyone based in the UK or USA with a full length SF/F novel. The first-place author will be awarded $5,000, second place $3,000 and a spot in Curtis Brown Creative’s nine-week Writing ...Read More