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2023 Mythopoeic Awards Winners

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The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2023 Mythopoeic Awards winners.

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

  • WINNER: When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb (Levine Querido)
  • When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
  • The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
  • Thistlefoot, GennaRose Nethercott (Anchor Books)
  • The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd (Orion; Morrow)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

  • WINNER:
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2022 Stoker Awards Winners

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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the winners for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

  • WINNER: The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)
  • The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
  • Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
  • Daphne, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
  • Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

  • WINNER: Beulah, Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates)
  • Jackal, Erin Adams
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2023 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists

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The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2023 Mythopoeic Awards finalists. Winners will be announced during the society’s Online Midsummer Seminar 2023, “Fantasy Goes to Hell,” to be held August 5-6, 2023 on Zoom and Discord.

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

  • When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
  • The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
  • When the Angels Left the Old Country,
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2023 British Book Awards Winners

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The Bookseller announced the winners for the 2023 British Book Awards. Awards recipients of genre interest included Babel by R.F. Kuang (HarperVoyager) in the Fiction category and Tyger by SF Said, illustrated by Dave McKean (David Fickling), in the Children’s Fiction category. As previously announced, the shortlist featured a number of authors and titles of genre interest.

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2022 BSFA Awards Winners

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The winners for the 2022 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards have been announced.

Best Novel

  • WINNER: City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)
  • The Red Scholar’s Wake, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
  • Stars and Bones, Gareth Powell (Titan)
  • The This, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
  • The Coral Bones, E.J. Swift (Unsung Stories)

Best Short Fiction (under 40,000 words)

  • WINNER: Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances,
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2023 FAAn Awards Winners

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The winners of the 2023 Fan Activity Achievement Awards (FAAns) were announced at Corflu 40 (Corflu Craic) on April 2, 2023 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Best Personal Zine

  • This Here…

Best Genzine

  • Portable Storage

Best Special Publication

  • 1957: The First British Worldcon

Best Fan Writer (tie)

  • Justin E.A. Busch
  • Nic Farey

Best Letterhack

  • Jerry Kaufman

Best Fan Artist

  • Ulrika O’Brien

Best Fanzine Cover Art

  • BEAM 17, Alan White

Corflu Lifetime

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2023 British Book Awards Shortlists

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The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2023 British Book Awards, including several titles and authors of genre interest.

Fiction

  • Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes (Mantle)
  • Fairy Tale, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
  • Babel, R.F. Kuang (HarperVoyager)

Pageturner

  • The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak (Viking)

Discover

  • As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow, Zoulfa Katouh (Bloomsbury)

Children’s Fiction

  • Onyeka and the Academy of the
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2022 Stoker Awards Final Ballot

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

Superior Achievement in a Novel

  • The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mullholland)
  • The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
  • Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
  • Daphne, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
  • Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

  • Jackal, Erin Adams (Bantam)
  • The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
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2023 Canopus Awards Winners

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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.”

Published Long-Form Fiction (40,000 words or more)

  • WINNER: Sentient, Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Hernandez Walta (TKO)
  • Sweep of Stars, Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
  • Escaping Exodus, Nicky Drayden
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2022 Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot

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

Superior Achievement in a Novel

  • Sallow Bend, Alan Baxter (Cemetery Dance)
  • The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mullholland)
  • The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
  • Fairy Tale, Stephen King (Scribner)
  • Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
  • The Ghost That Ate Us: The Tragic True Story of the Burger City Poltergeist,
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2022 Canopus Awards Finalists

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Finalists for the 100 Year Starship (100YSS) 2022 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.”

Published Long-Form Fiction (40,000 words or more)

  • Sweep of Stars, Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
  • Escaping Exodus, Nicky Drayden (HarperVoyager)
  • Light Chaser, Peter F. Hamilton and Garth L.
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2022 Mythopoeic Awards Winners

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The Mythopoeic Society announced the 2022 Mythopoeic Awards Winners during Mythcon 52, held July 29th through August 1st 2022, in Albuquerque, NM.

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

  • WINNER: Or What You Will, Jo Walton (Tor) 
  • The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (Tor)
  • Light from Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
  • A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
  • Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
  • Terciel and
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2022 Locus Awards Winners

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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2022 Locus Awards on June 25, 2022, during the virtual Locus Awards Weekend. Connie Willis MCed the awards ceremony. Additional weekend events included readings and panels with leading authors.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

  • WINNER: A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
  • The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton; Harper Voyager
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Cowell Wins 2022 British Book Award

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Cresida Cowell’s audiobook The Wizards of Once: Never and Forever, narrated by David Tennant (Hodder Children’s), won the Audiobook Fiction category of the 2022 British Book Awards. The Bookseller announced the winners on May 23, 2022 at Grosvenor House in London. The previously announced shortlist included several titles and authors of genre interest.

For more information, see the official website.

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2022 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists

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The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2022 Mythopoeic Awards finalists. Winners will be announced during Mythcon 52, to be held July 29th through August 1st 2022, in Albuquerque, NM.

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

  • The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (Tor)
  • Light from Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
  • A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
  • Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
  • Terciel and Elinor,
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2022 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists

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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2022 Locus Awards. These results are from the February 1 to April 15 voting, done by readers on an open public ballot. Congratulations to all!

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2021 BSFA Awards Winners

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The winners of the 2021 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards have been announced. This year included the launch of a new category, Best Book for Younger Readers.

Best Novel

  • WINNER: Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)
  • A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor)
  • Green Man’s Challenge, Juliet E. McKenna (Wizard’s Tower)
  • Purgatory Mount,  Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
  • Skyward Inn, Aliya Whiteley (Solaris)
  • Blackthorn Winter,
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2022 British Book Awards Shortlists

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The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2022 British Book Awards, including several titles and authors of genre interest.

Fiction

  • Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr (Fourth Estate)
  • Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)
  • Empire of the Vampire, Jay Kristoff (HarperVoyager)

Pageturner

  • The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Viper)

Fiction: Début

  • She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Mantle)
  • Mrs
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2021 Academy of British Cover Design Winners

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Winners of the 2021 Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) Awards have been announced. A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker, designed by Jack Smyth (Head of Zeus) and The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black, designed by Nick Stearn (Hot Key) won the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category. Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. by Joyce Carol Oates, designed by Jamie Keenan and photographed by Jeff Cottenden (Fourth Estate) won the ...Read More

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Reviews Short Fiction 

Karen Burnham Reviews Short Fiction: Tor.com, BCS, Strange Horizons, Aurealis, and Fantasy

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Tor.com 1/27/21, 2/3/21, 2/10/21, 2/24/21 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/28/21, 2/11/21 Strange Horizons 2/8/21, 2/15/21 Aurealis #137 Fantasy Magazine 2/21

The stories in Tor.com I read this month leaned heavily toward horror, with three edited by El­len Datlow and the fourth a vampire story edited by Jonathan Strahan. “Shards” by Ian Rogers is a cabin-in-the-woods story in which four friends violently murder the fifth friend, due to a demonic ...Read More

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Gollancz and Orion Win British Book Awards

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Orion was named Publisher of the Year and Orion’s genre imprint Gollancz was declared Imprint of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards. The Bookseller announced the winners on May 13, 2021 during a virtual event. Several titles of genre interest were also included in the shortlist.

Known as the “Nibbies,” the British Book Awards “honours and celebrates the commercial successes of publishers, authors and bookshops” with nominees in

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2020 BSFA Awards Winners

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The winners for the 2020 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards have been announced.

Best Novel

  • WINNER: The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
  • Threading the Labyrinth, Tiffani Angus (Unsung Stories)
  • Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
  • The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, M. John Harrison (Gollancz)
  • Light of Impossible Stars, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
  • The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
  • Club
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2021 British Book Awards Shortlists

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The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2021 British Book Awards, including several titles of genre interest.

Pageturner

  • False Value, Ben Aaronovitch (Daw; Gollancz)
  • Darkdawn, Jay Kristoff (St. Martin’s; HarperVoyager UK)

Fiction Book of the Year

  • The Midnight Library, Matt Haig (Viking; Canongate)

Children’s Fiction

  • The Danger Gang, Tom Fletcher & Shane Devries (Puffin)
  • The Ickabog, J.K. Rowling (Scholastic; Little, Brown Books for Young
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Books Reviews Short Fiction 

Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020, Edited by Diana Gabaldon & John Joseph Adams

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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020, Diana Gabaldon & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner 978-1328613103, $16.99, 432pp, tp) November 2020.

It’s always seemed to me that John Joseph Ad­ams’s Best American Science Fiction and Fan­tasy series, now in its sixth volume, has served a somewhat different if equally important purpose than the more traditional year’s best volumes which have been a staple of SF publishing for more ...Read More

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ABCD Awards Winners

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Winners of the 2020 Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) Awards have been announced. Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD x FSG) won in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut (4th Estate) won the Classics/Reissue category. Faber Stories, featuring titles by Brian Aldiss, Junot Diaz, Celia Fremlin, Sarah Hall, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Joyce, Marianne Moore, Flannery O’Connor, and others, won the Series category.

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The Testaments Team Wins Three British Book Awards

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The Bookseller announced recipients of the British Book Awards, honoring The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus) for three related awards: Publicity Campaign of the Year, Agent of the Year, and Audiobook of the Year.

Also called the “Nibbies,” the British Book Awards “honours and celebrates the commercial successes of publishers, authors and bookshops.” The Testaments audiobook, narrated by Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Mae ...Read More

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2020 Virtual British Book Awards Date Announced

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The British Book Awards, or Nibbies, will hold a virtual awards ceremony on June 29, 2020. The original award ceremony, planned for May 18, 2020, was postponed due to disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

 

 

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2020 British Book Awards Shortlists

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The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2020 British Book Awards, including several titles of genre interest.

Fiction Book of the Year
  • The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
  • The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Penguin UK & David Fickling)

Début Book of the Year

  • The Binding, Bridget Collins (Morrow; Borough)

Audiobook Book of the Year

  • The Handmaid’s Tale
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British Book Awards 30 from 30 List

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The Bookseller has announced 30 from 30, a “super list” of 30 books from the past 30 years of British Book Awards winners as finalists for a one-off award for the best book of the past three decades. Titles of genre interest include Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Myer (Little, Brown), Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury), Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (Scholastic), and The Lovely Bones ...Read More

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SoA Awards Shortlists

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Shortlists for several Society of Authors (SoA) fiction awards have been announced, including titles and authors of genre interest.

Betty Trask Prize and Awards

  • The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, Imogen Hermes Gower (Harvill Secker)
  • Sweet Fruit, Sour Land, Rebecca Ley (Sandstone)
  • The Water Cure, Sophie Mackintosh (Hamish Hamilton)

The Betty Trask Prize and Awards gives £26,250 “for a first novel by a writer under 35” and is

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2019 British Book Awards Shortlists

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The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2019 British Book Awards, including several titles of genre interest.

Début Book of the Year
  • The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, Imogen Hermes Gowar (HarperCollins; Harvill Secker)
  • The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton (Bloomsbury; Raven)

Children’s Book of the Year

  • Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)
  • The House with Chicken Legs, Sophie Anderson
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Taylor Wins Eccles British Library Writer’s Award

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Sara Taylor won the 2019 Eccles British Library Writer’s Award, given annually to one fiction and one non-fiction writer. Winners receive £20,000 and a one-year residency at the British Library’s North America collections “to develop a current writing project.”

The judges for 2019 were Mercedes Aguirre, Sarah Churchwell, Catherine Eccles, Phil Hatfield, and Erica Wagner. For more information, see the British Library website.

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