The Crime Writers of Canada has announced the winners of the 2024 Award of Excellence. The winning stories include authors of genre interest Craig H. Bowlsby’s Requiem for a Lotus for Best Unpublished Crime Novel, Cherie Dimaline’s Funeral Songs for Dying Girls (Tundra Books) for Best Juvenile/YA Crime Book, Marcelle Dubé’s “Reversion” (Mystery Magazine) for Best Crime Short Story, and André Marois’s La sainte paix (Héliotrope) for Best French Language ...Read More

The Commonwealth Foundation has announced the winners of the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The winning authors include author of genre interest Portia Subran for her short story, “The Devil’s Son.”

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced Jennell Jaquays as the posthumous recipient of the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award “for distinguished contributions to the science fiction and fantasy community.”

The Solstice Award, created in 2008 and given at the discretion of the SFWA president with the majority approval of the Board of Directors, is for individuals, living or dead, who have had “a significant impact on the ...Read More

David Brin has been announced as a 2024 recipient of the Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award, the university’s highest honor for alumni. Brin was honored with the award “for his enduring excellence in storytelling, examining how change, science, and technology affect the human condition in his New York Times-bestselling science fiction novels; for his support of revolutionary ideas in space science and engineering through NASA’s Innovative and Advanced Concepts Program.”

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The shortlist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, given by The Orwell Foundation to novels and short story collections published in the UK which explore major political and social themes through a fictional lens, includes at least four titles of genre interest:

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The winner of the Dublin Literary Award is Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu.

The initial 70 titles on the longlist were “nominated by 80 libraries from 35 countries around the world.” The shortlist featured “6 books nominated by 6 libraries from 6 countries.” The judges were Lucy Collins, Anton Hur, Daniel Medin, Chris Morash (non-voting chair), Irenosen Okojie, and Ingunn Snædal. The winner received €100,000 and was announced May 23, 2024. ...Read More

The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) has announced winners for the 2024 Romantic Novel Awards.

Finalists have been announced for the 2024 Premios Kelvin 505 Awards, presented by the Celsius 232 festival and honoring the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels published in Spain.

Mejor Novela Original (Best Original Novel)

• Teseo en Llamas, Beatriz Alcaná (Ediciones del Viento)
• Intermnemosis, Celia Corral-Vázquez (Crononauta)
• Ardiente sol de la infancia, Guillem López (Alianza)
• Hija de la frontera, Asier Moreno Vizuete (Minotauro)

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The winners of the 2024 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2023, have been announced.

The winners of the 2023 Aurealis Awards, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, have been announced.

The 2024 Hugo Voter Packet is available for download by members of Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention.

An announcement has been sent to all members who registered their email addresses with the convention. The packet can be downloaded from the Worldcon site in the “Hugo Voter Packet” section. The packet will be available for download until voting closes at 20:17 GMT on July 20, 2024.

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Winners for the 2024 CrimeFest Awards have been announced, including authors and titles of genre interest.

The winner of the the Tähtivaeltaja Award is Tällä tavalla hävitään aikasota [This Is How You Lose the Time War] by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Hertta), translated by Kaisa Ranta.

The award honors the best science fiction book published in Finland in the previous year, and is sponsored by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society.

The Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Awards have announced their winners, including Powerless by Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) in the YA category and A Royal Conundrum by Lisa Yee (Random House Children’s Books) as the overall winner.

The Awards “discovers, champions, and celebrates the very best in Children’s publishing in three categories: Picture Books, Young Readers and YA.”

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The Associazione World SF Italia announced the finalists for the 2024 Premio Ernesto Vegetti, an Italian SF award.

The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) has announced the 2024 winners of its annual book awards.

The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Dagger Awards, including several titles and authors of genre interest.

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The Bookseller has announced the winners of the 2024 British Book Awards, also known as The Nibbies, including several works of genre interest:

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The shortlist for the annual Arthur C. Clarke Award, celebrating the best science fiction novel published in the UK, has been announced:

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) is the winner of the AUD$50,000 2024 Stella Prize.

Named for Stella Maria Sarah “Miles” Franklin, the prize celebrates literature by Australian women and non-binary writers.

For more information, including the complete shortlist and longlist, see the official Stella Prize site.

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“Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma” by R.S.A. Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/21) won the 2023 Media Award, presented by The Machine Intelligence Foundation for Rights and Ethics (MIFRE).

The Award seeks to “identify and illuminate fictional creations that demonstrate societies where humans and conscious machines live, cooperate and thrive together.” Works in any medium from any time are eligible.

For more information, visit the MIFRE website.

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Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) and  Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park (Random House) were finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the Fiction category.

The award is given for “distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.”

For more, see the Pulitzer website.

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The six-title shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and includes V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night (Random House).

Brother Alive by Zain Khalid (Grove Atlantic) and We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White (Astra House) are among the honorees of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35, “a se­­lection of five fiction writers under the age of 35 whose debut work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.”

Each winner will receive $1,000 and will be honored at a ceremony. Selectors for this year were ...Read More

The 78th Annual Edgar Awards were presented May 1, 2024, at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square. The Awards are given by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA), “honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television.” Winners of genre interest follow.

Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press) won in the Best Novel category, Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by ...Read More

Submissions for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s (SLF) Older Writers Grant are open through May 31, 2024.

The $1,000 grant is awarded to a writer who is 50 years of age or older and “just starting to work at a professional level.” The award is “to be used as each writer determines will best assist their work.” The recipient will be selected by SLF members and announced on July 15, 2024. ...Read More

Yanekon, the 62nd Japan Science Fiction Convention, has announced the finalists for the 2024 Seiun Awards (the Japanese equivalent of the Hugo Awards), honoring the best original and translated works published last year in Japan.