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.

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

The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) announced the current nominees for the CSFFA Hall of Fame:

• Kelley Armstrong
• Clint Budd
• Gordon R. Dickson
• James Alan Gardner
• Chris A. Hadfield
• Karl Johanson
• James Davis Nicoll
• Robert Priest
• Hubert Rogers
• Karl Schroeder
• Diane L. Walton
• Jo Walton
• Lynda Williams

The CSFFA Hall of Fame “was created to honour people who have over the past number of decades made a great ...Read More

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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

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.

This year’s judges include Margaret Atwood, Omar El Akkad, Megan Giddings, ...Read More

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.

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

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

Finalists have been announced for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, including categories and works of genre interest.

The winners for the 2023 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards have been announced. The categories have been revised and expanded from previous years.

Finalists for the 2024 Imadjinn Awards have been announced.

The 2023 Chesley Awards winners were announced by the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (ASFA):

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:

• Danged Black Thing, Eugen Bacon (Apex)
• Infinity Gate, M.R. Carey (Orbit)
• Wild Spaces, S.L. Coney (Tordotcom)
• Where Rivers Go to Die, Dilman Dila (Rosarium)

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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.

The six-title shortlist for the Dublin Literary Award has been announced. Authors and titles of genre interest include:

• Solenoid, Mircea Cărtărescu (Deep Vellum)
• Haven, Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)
• Praiseworthy, Alexis Wright (New Directions)
• The Sleeping Car Porter, Suzette Mayr (Coach House)

Phantastische Akademie has announced the winners for the 2024 SERAPH, a German fantasy award.

Winners have been announced for the 2024 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, including titles of genre interest.

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Iain J. Clark will design the base of the 2024 Hugo Award trophy, and Sara Felix will design the 2024 Lodestar Award trophy.

Each year, the rocket-shaped Hugo Award trophy “is given a unique base design to reflect the personality of the hosting Worldcon.” The Lodestar trophy is also given a unique design every year. Felix previously designed the first Lodestar trophy in 2018.

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The shortlist for the 2024 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. The six-title list includes Biography of X by Catherine Lacey (Granta).

International Thriller Writers has announced the finalists for the 2024 Thriller Awards, including several titles and authors of genre interest.

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The Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour has announced its eight-title shortlist:

Both the 12-title Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year and the Children’s & Young Adult prize longlists were announced today.

The awards “seek to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers” and “accept 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 other genres.” The prize awards £1000 to each winner, along with “a ...Read More

The finalists for the 93rd Annual California Book Awards, presented by the Commonwealth Club of California, have been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include Empty Theatre by Jac Jemc (MCD) in the Fiction category. There are eight categories of awards, including Poetry, Californiana, and more.

The awards honor “the writers who have come to define California to the world.” The winners will be announced in May.

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The 2023 Aurealis Awards shortlist, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, has been announced.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has released the final ballot for the 2023 Nebula Awards.

The 70-title longlist for the Dublin Literary Awards has been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include: