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

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

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:

• Wild Houses, Colin Barrett (Grove)
• Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel (Viking)
• James, Percival Everett (Mantle)
• Orbital, by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape)
• My Friends, Hisham Matar (Viking)
• Playground, by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)

The 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced at San Diego Comic-Con on July 26, 2023. Winners of SF/F interest follow.

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 shortlist for the seventh annual Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award has been announced. Authors and titles of genre interest include:

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

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.

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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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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

• Kurt Miller for Lineage, Ravages of Honor: Book 3 by Monalisa Foster (self-published)

Best Magazine Cover

• Sergio Rebolledo for Clarkesworld 7/23

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Winners for the 2024 Imadjinn Awards have been announced.

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.”

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.

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.

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Clare Winger Harris is the winner of the 2024 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, intended to bring attention to lesser-known SF and fantasy authors.

Mrs. Harris (1891-1968) was a true pioneer of the field of genre science fiction, and was the first woman to write regularly for the early Science Fiction pulps such as Amazing Stories and Science Wonder Stories under her own name. She published a dozen stories between 1926 ...Read More

The winners of the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction have been announced.

The shortlist for the 2024 Prix Rosny Aîné has been announced. The prize is awarded to SF novels and short stories written in French and published in print in 2023.

Best Novel

• Les Contes suspendus, Guillaume Chamanadjian (Forges Vulcan)
• L’Armée fantoche, Claire Duvivier (Forges Vulcan)
• La Cité diaphane, Anouck Faure (Argyll)
• Paideia, Claire Garand (Volte)
• Tonnerre après les ruines, Floriane Soulas (Argyll)

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Winners of the Heinlein Society’s annual undergraduate scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year were announced on July 7, 2024, Robert A. Heinlein’s 116th birthday.

This year’s winners are Gabriel Black, Elizabeth Bradshaw, Maya Krolik, and Luxanna Sands. The scholarship awards $4,000 to each recipient. Winners were selected from a record 744 applications, including 40 international submissions from 28 different countries.

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The Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association (CSFFA) announced three inductees to the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame for 2024: Astronaut Chris A. Hadfield  and authors Nalo Hopkinson and Jo Walton.

This year’s jury included Ryah Deines, Gordon Johansen, Rebecca Lovatt, Michelle Sagara, and chair David Clink.

For more information, see the CSFFA website.

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PulpFest has announced the nominees for the 2024 Munsey Award, given to “an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community.” Nominees are selected by the general pulp community, with the winner selected by a vote of past Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Awards winners. The nominees are: