Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking), The Book of Love by Kelly Link (Random House), and Fire Exit by Morgan Talty (Tin House) are all on the longlist for the 2024 First Novel Prize, given by the Center for Fiction “to honor the best debut fiction of the year.”
The longlist and winners are chosen by “a committee of distinguished American writers.” The winner will be announced during the Center’s Annual ...Read More
Read moreSF artist and editor Taral Wayne, 72, died at home on July 31, 2024.
Wayne MacDonald was born October 12, 1951 in Toronto, Canada. He took the pen name Taral from an invented language, Siroihin, introduced in one of his fanzines. He joined the Ontario Science Fiction Club in 1971, contributing works of art and writing to fanzines and semiprozines, and publishing his own journals, including Delta Psi, New Toy, ...Read More
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Finalists for the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing, including several works of genre interest, have been announced, including Breastmilk by Pemi Aguda (One Story 5/27/21).
The winner will be selected by a panel of judges and announced at an awards dinner to be held September 17, 2024. The winner will receive a £10,000 prize.
For more information, see the Caine Prize website.
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Dream Foundry, a “non-profit dedicated to bolstering the careers of nascent professionals working with the speculative arts,” has announced the finalists for its 2024 contests.
Writing Contest
Art Contest
The finalists’ entries have been sent
Spiral Tower Press has announced the third annual Trigon Awards, honoring “the past, present, and future of science fiction, fantasy, and horror” in three categories.
Literary Achievement: Howard Andrew Jones
Scholarly Achievement: Jeffrey Shanks
Special Achievement: Oliver Brackenbury
The awards were presented online on July 27, 2024 during SpiralCon 3. Awardees were selected by the Trigon Committee. For more information, see the Spiral Tower Press website.
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The 13-title longlist for the 2024 Booker Prize has been announced, with works of genre interest including:
The £50,000 prize is “open to works by writers of any nationality, written in English and published
The 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced at San Diego Comic-Con on July 26, 2023. Winners of SF/F interest follow.
Best Short Story
Best Single Issue/One-Shot
Best Continuing Series
Best New Series
Phytopia Plus by Zara Zerbe (Verbrecher Verlag) won the €4,000 2024 Phantastikpreis der Stadt Wetzlar, a speculative fiction prize awarded by the city of Wetzlar, Germany.
The other nominees were Endling by Jasmin Schreiber (Eichborn) and Dreizehnfurcht by Wieland Freund (Klett-Cotta).
A public award ceremony is planned for September 2024. For more information, visit the award website.
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The US Census Bureau report for April 2024 shows bookstore sales of $596 million, up 2.4% from April 2023. For the first four months of 2024, bookstore sales were down 4.0% at $2.553 billion. All retail was up 3.6% for the month, and up 2.9% year-to-date.
The Association of American Publishers’ StatShort report for April shows sales up 18.3% compared to April 2023, with most major categories showing sales increases. ...Read More
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Kertomukset, Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Anu Partanen (Teos) is the winner of the 2024 Tähtifantasia Award, presented by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society for the best Finnish fantasy book published in the previous year. Other nominees were
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.
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The shortlist for the seventh annual Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award has been announced. Authors and titles of genre interest include:
Clytemnestra, Costanza Casati (Michael Joseph)
The Square of Sevens, Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Mantle)
The winning title will be announced on September 26, 2024, and the author will receive a handmade glass bell and a cash prize of £2,000. For more information, including the full shortlist, see the Goldsboro ...Read More
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TikTok has announced its winners for its second annual Book Awards for the UK and Ireland, including two winners of genre interest. In total, 82,000 TikTok users voted on their favorites within the app.
BookTok Book of the Year (International)
BookTok Creator of the Year
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Finalists for the 2024 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction have been announced:
The winner for the annual Arthur C. Clarke Award, celebrating the best science fiction novel published in the UK, has been announced:
Kathryn Gossow has won the 2024 Australian Fairy Tale Society (AFTS) Award, honoring “her many contributions to the field of fairy tales in Australia, particularly in building and nurturing the community of fairytalers.”
The other finalists were were glass artist Spike Deane and performer Em Chandler.
For more information, see the announcement.
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Seattle Worldcon 2025 has announced Brandon O’Brien as their poet laureate, a special guest position that aims to “elevate our proceedings and help us spotlight and emphasize the craft and literary tradition of speculative poetry at this Worldcon.”
Seattle Worldcon 2025 will be held in August 13-17, 2025. The theme is “Building Yesterday’s Future – For Everyone”
For more information, see the announcement.
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Winners have been announced for the Frank R. Paul awards, honoring “outstanding work in book and magazine cover art.” Paul was a prominent cover illustrator for Golden Age science fiction magazines.
Best Book Cover
Best Magazine Cover
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Winners for the 2024 Imadjinn Awards have been announced.
Best Science Fiction Novel
Best Fantasy Novel
Jo Callaghan has won the 2024 Harrowgate Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for In the Blink of an Eye (Simon & Schuster UK).
The Award “celebrates excellence, originality and the very best in crime fiction from UK and Irish authors.” The winner receives £3,000 and an engraved oak beer cask. For more information, including the full list of winners, see the award website.
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The Ignyte Awards Committee has announced the finalists for the 2024 Ignyte Awards, which “seek to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding efforts toward inclusivity of the genre.”
Outstanding Novel: Adult
Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures, released the following statement today:
In the course of tallying the votes on the final ballot for the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Glasgow 2024 Hugo Administration team detected some unusual data.
Paragraph 6.2 of the WSFS Constitution states that “In all matters arising under this Constitution, only natural persons may introduce business, nominate, or vote, except as specifically provided otherwise in this Constitution. ...Read More
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StokerCon, sponsored by the Horror Writers Association (HWA), was held May 30 – June 2, 2024 both virtually and in person at the San Diego Marriott Mission Valley in San Diego CA. Guests of honor were Justina Ireland, Jonathan Maberry, Rob Savage, Nisi Shawl, and Paul Tremblay. The Stoker Awards were hosted by Kevin Wetmore Jr., and Mort Castle, Cassandra Peterson, and Steve Rasnic Tem received Lifetime Achievement Awards. Co-chair ...Read More
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Romance writer Christine DeMaio, who also publishes as CD Reiss, has launched a proposed class-action lawsuit against Amazon, alleging an unlawful monopoly on audiobook sales. She is represented by Hagens Berman, which has brought various publishing-related class-action suits in recent years, with mixed success. The filing claims that Amazon’s Audible ACX program, which is open to self-publishers, charges a fee of 60% for authors who use their platform exclusively – ...Read More
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Glasgow 2024: A Worldcon for our Futures, the 82nd World Science Fiction, to be held August 8-12, 2024 at the Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow, Scotland, published Media Release #25 on June 7, 2024, announcing Samantha Béart Announced as Special Guest at Glasgow 2024. Beart “is a BAFTA and DICE nominated, GANG Award-winning actor. They are best known for their role as Karlach in Baldur’s Gate 3.” For more.
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The North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation (NCSFF) has announced the winner for the 2024 Manly Wade Wellman Award. The award recognizes “outstanding achievement in science fiction and fantasy novels written by North Carolina authors.”
The Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust has announced the shortlist for the third annual Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, awarding a $25,000 cash prize “to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction.”
The shortlisted titles are:
The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers (IAMTW) announced the nominees for the 2024 Scribe Awards, honoring excellence in licensed tie-in writing. Nominees of genre interest follow.
Original Novel — Speculative
The finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.
The finalists for the 2023 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History have been announced.
Long Form
Short Form
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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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