Kazuo Ishiguro is the first name on the 2025 King Charles III New Year’s Honours list. The list gives Ishiguro the Companion of Honour distinction, which BBC.com notes as rare, as it is “a select group which is limited to 65 people at any one time.” Jacqueline Wilson DBE is next on the High Awards list, given the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. The complete list ...Read More
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The New York Public Library (NYPL), the Brooklyn Public Library, the Queens Public Library, and others have released their annual lists of most-borrowed books. The 2024 announcement features a list of books tabulating check outs for the combined boroughs.
On the “Citywide” list, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf) was the most checked out book for the combined boroughs of New York for 2024. Third place was ...Read More
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VIDA CRUZ-BORJA is now represented by Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency Ltd.
SCOTT WESTERFELD & JUSTINE LARBALESTIER sold adult novel The Mortons – “The Secret History meets The Sopranos meets Saltburn,” – and a second book to Jeramie Orton at Pamela Dorman Books at auction via Jill Grinberg of Jill Grinberg Literary Management. UK rights sold to Rosa Schierenberg at Viking UK in a ...Read More
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The United Nations bookshop, located in the Visitors Concourse of the United Nations in the General Assembly Building, held a one-hour “meet the author” event featuring Kim Stanley Robinson on September 21, 2024.
Robinson read from The Ministry for the Future and the following Q&A was moderated by Nanette Braun, director of Public Information at the Department of Global Communications.
The bookshop offers “the latest books published by and about ...Read More
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Mattel Creations has added a Barbie doll based on author Isabel Allende to their “Inspiring Women” line.
On the Mattel site, the doll is shown holding a miniature of Allende’s novel La casa de los espíritus [The House of the Spirits] (1982).
The doll is designed by Suim Noh and is available on the site for $35.
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REBECCA YARROS’s Fourth Wing (Red Tower) won in the International Book of the Year category at the TikTok Book Awards, held July 25, 2024 in London. Winners were voted on by the #BookTok community.
’PEMI AGUDA’s “Breastmilk” (One Story 5/27/21) is a finalist for the £10,000 Caine Prize for African Writing. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges and announced September 17, 2024.
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JOSEPH COELHO won the 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing for The Boy Lost in the Maze, illustrated by KATE MILNER (Otter-Barry). The award was presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
CLARE WINGER HARRIS (1891-1968) is the winner of the 2024 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, intended to bring attention to lesser-known SF and fantasy authors, announced at Readercon 33, held July 11-14, 2024, in ...Read More
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The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) announced that they have been awarded a $5,000 Capacity-Building Grant from the National Book Foundation.
The SLF is one of 49 nonprofit literary arts organizations across the United States awarded grants to support projects that build organizational capacity and ensure greater sustainability.
The Speculative Literature Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting literary quality in speculative fiction by encouraging promising new writers, assisting established ...Read More
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The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) announced the 2024 inductees to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame: Nicola Griffith and Nnedi Okorafor were honored as Creators. Inductees are added to the SF&F Hall of Fame display in the museum.
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame was founded in 1996 and then relocated from the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy at the University of ...Read More
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EUGEN BACON is the 2024 Hedberg Writer-In-Residence at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia, and will spend three months writing, teaching, and “taking part in community conversations.”
TED CHIANG is the winner of the 2024 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, which “recognizes writers who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in the short story form.” Chiang will be honored at the annual PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony on ...Read More
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SARAH GAILEY will be toastmaster at the 59th Annual Nebula Awards, to be presented June 8, 2024 in Pasadena CA.
ALI TROTTA is now represented by Eric Smith of P.S. Literary.
YIYUN LI’s Wednesday’s Child (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) and ED PARK’s Same Bed, Different Dreams (Random House) were finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the Fiction category, given for “distinguished fiction published in book ...Read More
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MAGGIE SEKELLA is now represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency.
DAVID LANGFORD won the Doc Weir Award, given to ‘‘someone in fandom who helps make things happen, contributing time, effort, ideas and support – often behind the scenes,’’ at Eastercon, held March 24 – April 1, 2024 in Telford, UK.
ZAIN KHALID, author of Brother Alive, is one of the National Book Foundation’s ‘‘5 ...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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DAVID-CHRISTOPHER GALHEA is now represented via Ginger Clark Literary.
DANI RAANAN is now represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency.
J. FEDERLE is now a client of Ginger Clark Literary.
SUSAN COOPER is the 40th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, presented via the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. She will be honored June 6-9, 2024, at the 59th Nebula Awards Ceremony in ...Read More
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LESLYE PENELOPE is now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.
MEG ELISON is now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.
R.L. STINE and KATHERINE HALL PAGE have been named the 2024 Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters. MICHAELA HAMILTON of Kensington Publishing will receive the Ellery Queen Award. The recipients will be honored at the annual Edgar Awards ceremony on May 1, 2024 in New York ...Read More
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JESMYN WARD’s Let Us Descend (Scribner) has been chosen by Oprah Winfrey as the next title for her Book Club. Winfrey said, “I have read all of Jesmyn Ward’s books and have been a fan of her writing for years. Let Us Descend is a vital work for our culture and I’m so excited to have her newest offering as part of our Book Club.”
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CHARLES E. GANNON is now represented by Vaughne Hansen & Christine Cohen of the Virginia Kidd Agency.
NICOLA GRIFFITH’s Spear (Tordotcom) was longlisted for the 2023 Crown Awards, presented by the Historical Writers Association. The shortlist was announced October 18, 2023, and winners will be revealed on November 22, 2023.
NAOMI KRITZER’s ‘‘The Dragon Project’’ (Clarkesworld 3/22) won the Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press ...Read More
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Sibling author duo ELIZABETH & KATHARINE CORR are now represented by Pérez Literary & Entertainment.
Writer, producer, and puppeteer MARTY KROFFT, 86, won the Julie Award for lifetime achievement in multiple genres, presented at Dragon Con.
RICH LARSON’s ‘‘Quandary Aminu vs The Butterfly Man’’ (Tor.com 9/21/22) won the 2023 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction, and Larson received $1,000 and a plaque. The award, announced ...Read More
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RICHARD BLEILER won the 2023 Munsey Award, given at Pulpfest to “an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community.” Nominees were selected by the general pulp community, with the winner selected by a vote of past Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Awards winners.
CARYL LEWIS’s Drift (Doubleday UK) was the Overall Winner at the Wales Book of the Year Award for English-language works, and also won the ...Read More
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On July 29, 2023, the city of Lake Forest Park, WA held a ceremony to name a section of 37th Avenue NE “Octavia Butler Avenue,” in honor of author Octavia E. Butler. The section includes the house where Butler lived from 1999 until her death in 2006. The ceremony was opened by city council vice-chair Phillippa Kassover, deputy mayor Tom French, and council member Tracy Furutani. Other speakers included Caren ...Read More
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ROBERT SILVERBERG has written a story, his first since retiring over a decade ago, set to appear in Analog: “It is all of three sentences long, a takeoff on Fredric Brown’s classic story ‘Knock’…. I first sold a story to Analog in 1955, 68 years ago. That doesn’t quite equal Jack Williamson’s record of longevity – he sold a serial to them when he was in his nineties, 74
Author CHARLES YU has joined the Board of Directors for the National Book Foundation.
CATRIONA WARD’s Sundial (Macmillan) won Best Hardcover Novel in the Thriller Awards, presented by the International Thriller Writers and announced June 3, 2023 at ThrillerFest XVIII in New York City.
AYANNA LLOYD BANWO’s When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton) won the £2,500 Best First Novel Award from the Authors’ Club, open to ...Read More
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Apex Magazine has announced that Lesley Conner is now editor-in-chief, and Rebecca Treasure is now managing editor.
Conner was previously co-editor-in-chief alongside publisher Jason Sizemore. Sizemore is “taking a step back from these roles in order to focus on growing Apex as a business in the coming years.”
Treasure will continue her role as flash fiction editor in addition to her new position.
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The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) announced the 2023 inductees to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame: N.K. Jemisin and John Carpenter were honored as Creators, while Dune by Frank Herbert and Rocky Horror Picture Show and were honored as Creations. Inductees are added to the SF&F Hall of Fame display in the museum.
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OGHENECHOVWE DONALD EKPEKI has been appointed virtual conference coordinator for the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts.
EUGEN BACON is now represented by Jennie Goloboy of Donald Maass Literary Agency.
JONNY NEXUS is now represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency.
DEBORAH P KOLODJI has been awarded the President’s Lifetime Service Award, given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association for “service throughout the years, ...Read More
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SALMAN RUSHDIE will receive a Hay Festival Medal for Prose for “exceptional work” as one of four “groundbreaking storytellers” during the Hay Festival event in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, to be held May 25 – June 4, 2023.
ARLEY SORG received the fourth annual Space Cowboy Award, for “someone whose work has helped to enhance and support our ever growing and changing field,” administered by Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree ...Read More
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Princeton University is currently hosting “Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory”, an exhibit featuring diary entries, letters, drafts of novels, and preserved pages rescued after Morrison’s house burned down in 1993. The exhibition “will be the center of a community-wide exploration of how Morrison’s archive continues to influence the past, present, and future.”
The exhibition is currently active at the Firestone Library, and will remain open until June 4, 2023. Accompanying ...Read More
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BONNIE JO STUFFLEBEAM is now represented by Scribe Agency.
LING MA’s Bliss Montage (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) won the Story Prize, “honoring the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction,” presented March 15, 2023. The prize includes $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl.
The late TERRY PRATCHETT’s estate sold collection A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories to Transworld for six ...Read More
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GREGORY BENFORD, 82, had a stroke on December 22, 2022. While his condition is serious, he has moved from the hospital to a rehabilitation center, and is reportedly recovering well.
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 ...Read More
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LAIRD BARRON was hospitalized in early January 2023 with respiratory problems and other medical issues. Mike Davis has organized a crowdfunding campaign as the author lacks health insurance. Davis says, ‘‘Laird is a private person and I’m trying to convey just how serious this is without revealing too much personal information. Make no mistake: This is very serious, and potentially life-threatening. For more: <www.gofundme.com/f/laird-barron-hospital-costs-medication-costs>.
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Artist Andrew Jones (AKA Android Jones) suffered a tragedy when his studio in Colorado burned down on January 18, 2023. Jones said,
My father designed and built this barn with his hands. I grew up in this barn. Nearly every material thing I cared about was inside. Decades of sketchbooks, all my archived originals, drawings and paintings, all of my art materials, terabytes of over 20 years of digital art, ...Read More
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ROBIN MCKINLEY is the 39th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial SFWA Grand Master Award. Her award will be presented during the SFWA Nebula Conference, to be held May 12–14, 2023 at the Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort in Anaheim, CA.
Tordotcom editor RUOXI CHEN won the $2,500 Superstar prize at Publishers Weekly’s annual Star Watch awards gala, held November 15, 2022 in New York ...Read More
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