The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2020 were announced during the World Fantasy Convention 2021, held November 4-7, 2021 at the Hotel Bonaventure in Montreal, Quebec.
The Life Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, went to Megan Lindholm and Howard Waldrop.
The World Fantasy Awards winners are:
Best Novel
UK publisher Faber is launching the Imagined Futures Prize, a new YA science fiction award.
Entries should be a “young adult (for 12–18 year olds) novel or collection of short stories that can be (loosely) defined as science fiction, comprising: the first 10,000 words and a full synopsis of the novel in 500 words maximum, or a full manuscript and 500 word synopsis.” Only UK residents age 18 and up ...Read More
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Results for the British Fantasy Society’s (BFS) short story competition have been announced:
Honorable mention goes to “Idomeneja” by Eris Young, which was withdrawn after tying for first place. First prize is £100 and a year’s membership in the BFS. Second prize is £50 and a year’s membership. Third prize
Lindsey Drager’s The Archive of Alternate Endings (Dzanc) won the $30,000 Bard Fiction Prize, awarded annually by Bard College “to a promising emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application.” Drager will also serve a one-semester residency at the college.
Applications for next year’s prize are open now through June 15, 2022. For more information, see the Bard College website.
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Read moreThe Xingyun (“Nebula”) Awards for Chinese science fiction have expanded to include works for children. The new awards were originally intended to launch in 2020, but were postponed until this year due to the pandemic.
The City of Ants by Ma Shuansi won the 2020 award for Best Children’s Science Fiction Novel, and China Orbit by Wu Yan was the winner for 2021. Other awards were presented for short fiction, ...Read More
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Winners of the 2020 and 2021 Prix Utopiales Awards, (for best French SF), Prix Utopiales Jeunesse Awards (for best French SF for young adults), and Prix Utopiales Bande Dessinée (for best French comic book) were announced at the Nantes International Science Fiction Festival, held October 29 – November 1, 2021 at the Nantes Convention Center in Nantes, France.
Prix Utopiales 2021
Prix Utopiales 2020
The 2021 Chesley Awards nominees have been announced:
Best Cover Illustration: Hardcover
The 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist has been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include:
Inaugurated in 2017, the annual prize goes to “the best eligible work of fiction, poetry, literary ...Read More
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Barnes & Noble announced the eight finalists for its third annual Book of the Year award. Titles of genre interest include Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Scribner), The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (Harper), and Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune (Tor).
The winner will be chosen by Barnes & Noble booksellers and announced November 18, 2021. For more information, see the Barnes & Noble website.
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Author Narjas Zatat and illustrator Shirley Hottier are the winners of the fifth annual FAB Prize for “new writers and illustrators from underrepresented backgrounds.”
Zatat won the text prize with her epic YA fantasy submission, Djinn-touched, described by the judges as ‘engaging, sumptuous and magical. Narjas is an incredibly talented storyteller with the potential to be a true writing star. The decision was unanimous.’
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CILIP announced the three recipients for their 2021 Honorary Fellowships, including author Matt Haig. The title is described as “the highest recognition that CILIP can offer as a professional body” and fellowships have been awarded since 1896. Haig was selected for “his services to literacy, mental health and wellbeing.”
CILIP is the UK library and information association, “the only chartered body in the world dedicated to uniting, supporting and advocating ...Read More
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The shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021 has been announced, and features several titles of genre interest, including:
The Writers & Illustrators of the Future Contest announced the winners of both the 36th and 37th awards this year, after last year’s pandemic delay.
The 36th Writers of the Future Golden Pen Award went to C. Winspear for his story “The Trade”. The 36th Illustrators of the Future Golden Brush Award went to Anh Le for her illustration of “Stolen Sky”.
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The shortlist for the 2021 Prix Actusf de l’Uchronie, honoring SF/F work published in France between September 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021, has been announced.
Prix Littéraire
The twelfth annual Xingyun awards for Chinese science fiction were presented by the World Chinese Science Fiction Association on October 27, 2019 in Chongqing, China.
Best Novel
sf-Lit.de has announced the 2021 sf-Lit Award 2021 longlist winners. The longlist consists of 13 candidates and is open to any books that have been published in German in 2020, regardless of the author’s country of origin or the language of the first publication.
sf.Lit Award Longlist
The preliminary ballot for the 2021 Ditmar Awards for Australian SF has been announced.
Best Novel
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the longlist for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence for “the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year” with 23 fiction titles and 22 non-fiction. The fiction longlist includes the following titles and authors of genre interest:
The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2021 Mythopoeic Awards winners in an online ceremony.
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature
The Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust has announced the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, a new award to launch in 2022. The annual $25,000 cash prize will be given to “a single book-length work of imaginative fiction.”
This award is intended to recognize those writers Ursula spoke of in her 2014 National Book Awards speech—realists of a larger reality, who can imagine real grounds for hope and ...Read More
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The 2021 Aurora Awards winners were announced October 16, 2021 during a livestreamed ceremony organized by Ottawa’s Can*Con convention.
Best Novel
Best YA Novel
Results for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of 2020 have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. The award is traditionally presented during the annual Campbell Conference Awards, but was instead announced online.
N.K. JEMISIN was named as one of the 100 most influential people of 2021 by Time. See the full list on their website.
NANCY PEARL will receive the 2021 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, to be presented November 17, 2021 at the National Book Awards ceremony in New York. Pearl is the influential librarian who created the ‘‘One Book, One City’’ program.
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The Heinlein Journal was chosen as one of six winners for the Editorial category in Communication Arts’ 62nd annual design competition. This win comes after the Heinlein Journal‘s recent redesign.
Managing Editor and Designer Mark Bult says
This redesign matches the quality of the publication with the stature of its authors and their scholarship…. We’ve enlivened the publication with a new masthead and typography, plus more photos and new, custom ...Read More
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The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS) has selected composer John Williams as this year’s recipient of the Forry Award for lifetime achievement in the SF field. Williams created the scores for SF and fantasy films including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, and installments of the Jurassic Park and Harry Potter film series.
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The 2022 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award contest is open until February 1, 2022. Co-sponsored by Baen Books and the National Space Society, the contest is for stories of near-future space exploration. This year, the focus is on “Moon bases, Mars colonies, orbital habitats, space elevators, asteroid mining, artificial intelligence, nano-technology, realistic spacecraft, heroics, sacrifice, adventure.”
The grand prize includes publication on the Baen website at “normal paying rates ...Read More
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This One Sky Day by Leone Ross (Faber & Faber) is included in the six-title shortlist for the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize.
The £10,000 is given for a book by a British or Irish author that “breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form.” This year’s judges are Fred D’aguiar, Kamila Shamsie, Nell Stevens (chair), and Johanna Thomas-Corr. The winner will be announced November 10, 2021.
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Finalists for the National Book Awards (NBA) in the Fiction, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature categories have been announced, including titles and authors of genre interest.
The Fiction category includes Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Scribner), Matrix by Lauren Groff (Riverhead), Zorrie by Laird Hunt (Bloomsbury), and Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (Dutton).
The Translated Literature category includes When We Cease to Understand the World by ...Read More
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Results of the 2021 Fantastiknovelltävlingen, a Swedish “Fantastic Short Story Competiton” organized by writers’ email list SKRIVA, have been announced.
First Place
Second Place
Third Place
Honorable Mentions were awarded to Elin Frykholm, Björn Lestell, Katarina Nyman, Ambra Bolin Rojek, Louise Sahlberg, John Wide, and
“Metal Like Blood in the Dark” by T. Kingfisher (Uncanny 9-10/20) is the winner of the 2021 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction. Kingfisher is a pen name for Ursula Vernon. Other finalists were:
The winner, finalists, and honorable mentions for the 2021 Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction have been announced:
Winner
Finalists
Honorable Mentions
The Salam Award, “a short story award to promote science fiction and related ...Read More
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The Nielsen Bestseller Awards have been announced, and include several titles and authors of genre interest. George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake (Jonathan Cape) was a Platinum Bestseller; Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Hamish Hamilton) was a Gold Bestseller; and The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (Penguin UK & David Fickling) was a Silver Bestseller. Several titles by Matt Haig ...Read More
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