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.
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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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Clare Winger Harris is the winner of the 2024 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, intended to bring attention to lesser-known SF and fantasy authors.
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The winners of the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction have been announced.
Novel
Bookseller and publisher DOUG LEWIS, 69, died May 20, 2024 of complications of diabetes. Born 1955, Lewis and his wife Tomi owned and operated the Little Bookshop of Horror/Roadkill Press in Arvada CO and won a World Fantasy Award in the non-professional category in 1993. ...Read More
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has banned all works created using generative AI from its publications and awards consideration. The policy was announced in a statement posted to the SFPA website: “The SFPA recognizes and supports the creative talent of human beings. While the organization encourages creative exploration of new tools, we can not support the use of tools built on the exploitation of other people’s ...Read More
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BayCon will host both Westercon 77 (2025) and 78 (2026). Site selection for 2026 was held during Westercon 76, July 4-7, 2024 in Salt Lake City UT. BayCon 2025 was previously awarded the right to host Westercon 77, announced on June 14, 2024.
More information about the vote is available on the Westercon website. Information about BayCon 2025/Westercon 77 is available at the BayCon site.
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VICFA 3, the third Virtual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, is open to academic and creative proposals. The theme of the conference is “Pantheology in World-Building and Magic Systems,” but VICFA welcomes proposals “on any topic of interest and specialization whether part of the conference theme or independent of it.” Submissions are open until July 31, 2024, and the conference will take place online from October 9-12, ...Read More
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The Virginia Kidd Agency/Arrowhead SF Foundation will once again sponsor and host the SF Portion of the annual Milford Readers & Writers Festival, to be held September 13-15 2024 in Milford PA, with a few of the events hosted at Arrowhead,Virginia Kidd’s historic home (and still the offices of her eponymous agency.) This year’s panel is “Milford: Why Our Town Was/Is a Mecca For Science Fiction”, with panelists Lawrence C. ...Read More
Read moreThe Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the finalists for the 2024 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards).
Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)
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.
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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:
The shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Phantastikpreis der Stadt Wetzlar, a speculative fiction prize awarded by the city of Wetzlar, Germany:
The winner will be announced in mid-July, with a public award ceremony in September 2024. The winner receives €4000. For more information, visit the award website.
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