The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) has opened submissions for the Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award for “emerging authors who use science fiction to address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination” through December 1, 2023.

Applicants must send a “200-word statement with background & goals in writing SF” and a “4,000-word maximum writing sample addressing Indigenous perspectives” to Professor Grace L. Dillon at dillong@pdx.edu. For more information, ...Read More

The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2023 Audie Awards finalists, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.

Audie finalists of genre interest follow.

The top five winners of Uncanny‘s 2022 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll have been announced:

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards:

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The five judges for the Philip K. Dick Award for works of science fiction published as paperback originals in the US during the year 2023 have been announced:

Finalists for this year’s Ray Bradbury Prize for “Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction” were announced as part of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes:

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The finalists for the Zsoldos Péter Award have been announced, honoring Hungarian works speculative fiction.

• Szerződési szabadság, Moskát Anita (A hazugság tézisei, GABO Kiadó)
• Az utolsó tanú, Lőrinczy Judit (GABO Kiadó)
• Második magyar köztársaság, Kondor Vilmos (Open Books)

Short Stories

• “Ha elég mélyre nyúlsz”, Gaura Ágnes: (Az év magyar science fiction és fantasynovellái 2022)
• “Hétszerte”, Kiss Gabriella (Az év magyar science fiction és

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced Mishell Baker as the winner of the 2023 Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award. The award is presented to “a volunteer of SFWA who best exemplifies the ideal of service to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.”

Baker “has liaised with publishers interested in reprinting works by science fiction and fantasy authors who are no longer with ...Read More

Martina Fačková is the recipient of the 2022 Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist. The award was presented by the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) at Boskone 60, hosted February 17-19, 2023 at Westin Boston Seaport District in Boston Massachusetts.

This year the Skylark Award was not awarded. For more information and a list of past recipients, see the NESFA website.

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The 12-title longlist for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel award has been announced. When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Hamish Hamilton) and Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook (Mantle) were both included on the list.

Finalists for the Endeavour Award have been announced:

The award was suspended in January 2021 and reopened to submissions in November 2022. The Endeavour is given to “a distinguished science fiction or ...Read More

Finalists for the 2022 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Awards have been announced, with many finalists available to read online.

“blooming beating hearts” by Sam Wilson is the winner of the 2023 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing.

The Robert E. Howard (REH) Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Robert E. Howard Awards.

PEN America has announced their 2023 shortlists for a number of literary awards. The awards “will confer over $350,000 to writers and translators. Spanning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, translation, and more, these finalists’ books are dynamic, diverse, and thought-provoking examples of literary excellence.” There are 11 categories; finalists of genre interest follow.

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Science Museum in London and UK publisher Hodder & Stoughton announced the winner for their inaugural Science Fiction Debuts Writing Prize.

The prize was established to celebrate the Voyage to the Edge of ...Read More

Winners for the 2022 Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards (Cybils) have been announced. Categories with winners of genre interest follow.

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced the finalists for the 2023 Compton Crook Award:

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The ten-title 2023 PEN/Faulkner longlist includes a number of titles and authors of genre interest:

Nominees have been announced for the Splatterpunk Awards, “honoring superior achievement for works published in 2021 in the sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror.”

Author Walter Mosley, 71, won the 2023 Diamond Dagger Award, presented by the Crime Writers’ Association. The award is the highest honor offered by the group, and “recognises authors whose crime writing careers have been marked by sustained excellence, and who have made a significant contribution to the genre.” The winner is chosen from nominations by CWA members.

Mosley said,

At the beginning of my writing career I was fortunate ...Read More

The Upwelling by Lystra Rose (Hachette Australia) won the Prize for Indigenous Writing and We Who Hunt the Hollow by Kate Murray (Hardie Grant Children’s) won the Prize for Writing for Young Adults in the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, announced February 2, 2023.

The awards, administered by the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, Australia on behalf of the Premier of Victoria, were inaugurated by the Victorian Government in 1985 to ...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 February 20, 2023.

The winner will receive £4,000, one runner-up £2,000, and up to six shortlisted authors will each receive £800. All finalists will receive mentoring from one of the prize’s publishing partners.

The prize is funded by author Ben Aaronovitch and actor Adjoa ...Read More

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez (Del Rey) is the winner of the 2023 Crawford Award, presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) for a first book of fantasy fiction. “Jimenez had previously published a well-received science fiction novel, The Vanished Birds (2020), but The Spear Cuts Through Water is his first fantasy book, making it eligible for the award.”

The five-title shortlist for the Tähtivaeltaja Award has been announced, honoring the best science fiction published in Finland. The award is sponsored by Helsingin Science Fiction seura (the Helsinki Science Fiction Society). The nominees are:

Winners for the 100 Year Starship (100YSS) 2023 Canopus Awards for Excellence in Interstellar Writing have been announced. Canopus recognizes “the finest fiction and non-fiction works that expand our understanding of the challenges, opportunities, pitfalls, and rewards of interstellar space exploration.”

The seven-title shortlist for the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize includes titles and authors of genre interest, such as The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land by Omer Friedlander (John Murray/Hodder), The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft (Fitzcarraldo Editions), and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Chatto/Penguin Random House). The award gives £4,000 “to the best book, fiction or non-fiction, to translate ...Read More

The World Fantasy Awards administration has announced an update to their previously announced panel of judges. Kelly Robson has joined the panel, replacing Mary Anne Mohanraj, who stepped down in January.