The shortlist for the 2024 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2023, has been announced.
French Novel
Foreign Novel
The shortlist for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize features authors of genre interest, including “A Song Sung in Secret” by Jayne Bauling, “The Devil’s Son” by Portia Subran, and “The Woman Upstairs” by Audrey Tan.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize recognizes “the best piece of unpublished short fiction from the Commonwealth.” The overall winner receives £5,000 and regional winners receive £2,500. Regional winners will be announced on May 29
The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has released the finalists for the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category, honoring pro-freedom works published in 2023.
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The shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Kurd Laßwitz Preis. The prize is awarded to German-language SF works published in the previous year.
Best German SF Novel
The finalists have been announced for the 2024 Gotham Book Prize, given for best New York City-based novel, including We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White (Astra) and Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday). The winner will be named at the Queens Public Library’s annual gala on June 5, 2024.
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The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced that The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Saga) is the winner of the 2023 Compton Crook Award.
Other nominees were:
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“Locus of Control” by Zack Be is the winner of the 2024 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, for “original stories celebrating optimistic, near-future space exploration.” Trent Guillory won second place for “Extraction” and William Paul Jones won third place for “Saving Gallivander”.
Be and the runners-up will be honored in a ceremony at the 2024 International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles CA, May 23-26, 2024. Be will also ...Read More
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F.J. BERGMANN has been named Grand Master by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. The award is given to “an individual living at the time of selection whose body of work reflects the highest artistic goals of the SFPA, who has been actively publishing within the target genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a period of no fewer than 20 years, and whose poetry has been noted ...Read More
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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the recipients of its 2023 Specialty Awards.
Thunderstorm Books is the recipient of the Specialty Press Award, given “to a publisher whose work has substantially influenced the horror and dark fantasy genres.”
The Richard Laymon President’s Award, “presented to a member who has served HWA in an exemplary manner and shown exceptional dedication to the organization,” goes to Brian W. Matthews. The winner ...Read More
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Vineetha Mokkil is the recipient of the 2024 A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature, presented by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) and DesiLit.
The $1,000 grant is given annually to “a South Asian / South Asian diaspora writer developing speculative fiction.” Mokkil’s winning work is “No One Has To Know and Other Stories”.
For more information, see the SLF website.
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The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) has announced shortlists for the 2024 Romantic Novel Awards, including titles of genre interest.
The Fantasy Romantic Novel Award
The Contemporary Romantic Novel Award
The 2024 Whiting Award winners have been announced. Authors of genre interest include Aaliyah Bilal and Yoon Choi, both in the fiction category.
The ten winners, “emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama,” each receive $50,000. The award was created by New York investor and philanthropist Flora Ettlinger Whiting in 1971. Recipients of the award are selected by an anonymous committee appointed by the Foundation.
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The shortlist for the 2024 Tolkien Society Awards has been announced. The awards recognize excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom. The trustees choose the shortlist, with winners to be selected by the membership.
Best Book
The six-title shortlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize has been announced, and includes Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz (Verso).
The award is given “every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.” The £50,000 prize is divided equally among the author and translator(s). Shortlisted authors and translators will each receive £1,000. Judges for 2024 are ...Read More
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The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) announced the current nominees for the CSFFA Hall of Fame:
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The shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and includes Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) and Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote (Zando).
The winner, to be announced on May 13, 2024, will receive $150,000 and residency at Fogo Island Inn; the runner-ups will each receive $12,500. For more information, including the complete shortlist, visit the Carol Shields Prize website.
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Read moreFinalists for the 15th annual Xingyun Awards for Chinese science fiction were announced by the World Chinese Science Fiction Association.
Best Novel
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced Mort Castle, Cassandra Peterson, and Steve Rasnic Tem as recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award, given annually by the Board of Trustees to “individuals whose work has substantially influenced the horror and dark fantasy genres.”
The Lifetime Achievement Award, presented periodically to an individual whose work has substantially influenced the horror genre, is the most prestigious of all awards presented by HWA. It ...Read More
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The 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is open to nominations. “The nomination process for the prize is open to all” and closes April 30, 2024. To be eligible, a title must be a “book-length work of imaginative fiction written by a single author,” published between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024. The winner receives $25,000.
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Dragon Con has announced that nominations are open for the 2024 Dragon Awards. “There is no qualification for submitting nominations or voting – no convention fees or other memberships are needed.” Voting closes July 19, 2024.
For last year’s winners, see our prior post. For more information about nominations and to vote, see the official Dragon Awards page.
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SF author David Langford has been announced as the winner of the Doc Weir Award for service to fandom. The award is for “someone in fandom who helps make things happen, contributing time, effort, ideas and support – often behind the scenes.”
The award was presented during Eastercon, March 24-April 1, 2024 in Telford, UK. Winners receive an engraved silver cup, which they keep until it is presented to the ...Read More
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Sarah Gulde has won the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund (TAFF) to travel from North America to Europe to attend Glasgow 2024: A Worldcon for Our Futures, defeating Vanessa Applegate.
There were 118 valid votes, 25 of which were submitted with no preference. The fund is currently administered by Michael Lowrey in North America and Sandra Bond in Europe. Worldcon will be held August 8-12, 2024 at the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) ...Read More
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Finalists have been announced for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, including categories and works of genre interest.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction (formerly the Bradbury Prize):
Fiction:
The winners for the 2023 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards have been announced. The categories have been revised and expanded from previous years.
Best Novel
Best Shorter Fiction (for
Finalists for the 2024 Imadjinn Awards have been announced.
Best Science Fiction Novel
Best Fantasy Novel
The 2023 Chesley Awards winners were announced by the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (ASFA):
Best Hardback Illustration
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs (Orbit) is the winner of the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award.
The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman (Tin House) received a special citation.
The other nominees were:
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Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book have been announced by Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention. There were 1,720 valid nominating ballots received and counted from members of the 2023 and 2024 World Science Fiction Conventions for the 2024 Hugo Awards. Voting on the final ballot will open during April 2024.
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The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.” Nominees of genre interest follow.
LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction
The six-title shortlist for the Dublin Literary Award has been announced. Authors and titles of genre interest include:
The initial 70 titles on the longlist were “nominated by 80 libraries from 35 countries around the world.” The shortlist features “6 books nominated by
The shortlist for the 2024 Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction has been announced. The prize is “open to both published and unpublished writers and aims to seek out the best established and up and coming voices in the form.” The theme for the 2024 prize was “The Uncanny.”
There were 7 shortlisted stories from the following authors:
Phantastische Akademie has announced the winners for the 2024 SERAPH, a German fantasy award.
Best Debut
