The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) has announced the 2024 winners of its annual book awards.

The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Dagger Awards, including several titles and authors of genre interest.

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The Bookseller has announced the winners of the 2024 British Book Awards, also known as The Nibbies, including several works of genre interest:

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The shortlist for the annual Arthur C. Clarke Award, celebrating the best science fiction novel published in the UK, has been announced:

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) is the winner of the AUD$50,000 2024 Stella Prize.

Named for Stella Maria Sarah “Miles” Franklin, the prize celebrates literature by Australian women and non-binary writers.

For more information, including the complete shortlist and longlist, see the official Stella Prize site.

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“Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma” by R.S.A. Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/21) won the 2023 Media Award, presented by The Machine Intelligence Foundation for Rights and Ethics (MIFRE).

The Award seeks to “identify and illuminate fictional creations that demonstrate societies where humans and conscious machines live, cooperate and thrive together.” Works in any medium from any time are eligible.

For more information, visit the MIFRE website.

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Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) and  Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park (Random House) were finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the Fiction category.

The award is given for “distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.”

For more, see the Pulitzer website.

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The six-title shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and includes V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night (Random House).

Brother Alive by Zain Khalid (Grove Atlantic) and We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White (Astra House) are among the honorees of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35, “a se­­lection of five fiction writers under the age of 35 whose debut work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.”

Each winner will receive $1,000 and will be honored at a ceremony. Selectors for this year were ...Read More

The 78th Annual Edgar Awards were presented May 1, 2024, at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square. The Awards are given by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA), “honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television.” Winners of genre interest follow.

Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press) won in the Best Novel category, Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by ...Read More

Submissions for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s (SLF) Older Writers Grant are open through May 31, 2024.

The $1,000 grant is awarded to a writer who is 50 years of age or older and “just starting to work at a professional level.” The award is “to be used as each writer determines will best assist their work.” The recipient will be selected by SLF members and announced on July 15, 2024. ...Read More

Yanekon, the 62nd Japan Science Fiction Convention, has announced the finalists for the 2024 Seiun Awards (the Japanese equivalent of the Hugo Awards), honoring the best original and translated works published last year in Japan.

The 40th Writers of the Future Awards and 35th Illustrators of the Future Awards gala event took place on April 25, 2024 at the Taglyan Complex in Los Angeles CA.

The Writers of the Future Golden Pen Award went to Jack Nash for the story “Son, Spirit, Snake”, and the Illustrators of the Future Golden Brush Award went to Tyler Vail for the illustration of “Squiddy”. Each Golden Award winner ...Read More

The 2024 Australasian Shadows Awards (previously known as the Australia Shadows Awards) shortlist has been announced. 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.”

Japanese science fiction website VirtualGorillaPlus (VG+) has announced the winners of its 2023 Kaguya Sci-Fi Contest, judged by Kanata Inoue, Tatsuya Isogami, Hakka Kishitani, and Mahiro Saeki.

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The 2024 Aurora Awards ballot for works by Canadians has been announced. The Aurora Awards are nominated by members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. The top five nominated works were selected, with additional works included when there was a tie for fifth place.

Recipients were announced for the 2024 Windham-Campbell Prizes, including authors of genre interest. Christopher Chen was honored for drama and Kathryn Scanlan was honored for fiction.

The Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize was established in 2013 “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 ...Read More

The Society of Illustrators has announced the 2024 inductees into its Hall of Fame. Honorees “are chosen based on their body of work and the impact it has made on the field of illustration.”

2024 Hall of Fame Laureates

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Storytelling organization Climate Spring has announced the new Climate Fiction Prize, to “showcase novels of powerful literary merit and to solidify, grow and expand fiction that engages with the climate crisis.” The prize will be launched at this year’s Hay Festival, to be held May 23 – June 2, 2024.

The award is supported by Climate Spring, and the winner will receive £10,000. The judges for the inaugural year are ...Read More

The winners of the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction have been announced, honoring contemporary short stories.

Winners of genre interest include:

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The 2024 Tähtifantasia Award shortlist has been announced, presented by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society for the best Finnish fantasy book published in the previous year.

The winners of the Zsoldos Péter Award have been announced, honoring Hungarian works of speculative fiction.

Authors James Lee Burke and Lynda La Plante are joint winners of the 2024 Diamond Dagger Award, presented by the Crime Writers’ Association. Burke is the author of In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (2011), among other works of genre interest.

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 ...Read More

The Los Angeles Times has announced winners for their 44th annual Book Prizes.

Works of genre interest include The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Saga), which received the Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Award, Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park (Random House), which received the Fiction Award, and Gone Wolf by Amber McBride (Feiwel & Friends) in Young Adult Literature. Jane Smiley received the 2023 Robert Kirsch Award for ...Read More

Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, has announced that voting is open for the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

Finalists for the 2024 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ).

Both the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year and the Children’s & Young Adult prize shortlists were announced today. The Children’s & YA shortlist includes Wild Song by Candy Gourlay (David Fickling).

The award seeks “to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers” and accepts “entries published in the UK by writers of colour. These include (and not limited to) fiction, non-fiction, short stories, graphic novels, poetry and all ...Read More

Winners of the Tolkien Society Awards 2024 were announced on April 13, 2024. The awards “recognize excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom, highlight­ing our long-standing charitable objective to ‘seek to educate the public in, and promote research into, the life and works of'” J.R.R. Tolkien. The society’s trustees choose the shortlist, with winners chosen by the membership.