The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners of the 2024 British Fantasy Awards.

Results of the 25th Fantastiknovelltävlingen, a Swedish “Fantastic Short Story Competition” organized by writers’ email list SKRIVA, have been announced.

South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Her novel The Vegetarian was the first Korean language book to win the International Booker Award. The 2024 prize amount is 11 million Swedish kronor, just over $1 million US.

For more information, see the Nobel Prize website.

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The 2024 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards have been announced. The Science Fiction & Fantasy category winner was a three-way tie: Guardians of the High Pass by Avery Christy (Well Read Coyote), Magical Mushrooms by Kris Neri (Well Read Coyote), and Oceana by E J Randolph (Well Read Coyote).

The award mission is “uncovering and honoring the best in Arizona and New Mexico books.” Each book is judged by members of ...Read More

The 2024 Australasian Shadows Awards (previously known as the Australia Shadows Awards) winners were presented at Conflux in Canberra on October 7, 2024.

The award is given by the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) for “the finest in horror and dark fiction published by an Australasian within the calendar year.”

BizarroCon has announced the finalists for the 2024 Wonderland Book Awards for Excellence in Bizarro Fiction.

Best Novel

• The Last Night to Kill Nazis, David Agranoff (CLASH)
• Elogona, Samantha Kolesnik (WeirdPunk )
• Glass Children, Carlton Mellick III (Eraserhead)
• Edenville, Sam Rebelein (William Morrow)
• Soft Targets, Carson Winter (Tenebrous)

Best Collection

• All I Want is to Take Shrooms and Listen to the Color of Nazi Screams

The winners for the 2024 Ditmar Awards for Australian SF have been announced.

Best Novel

• WINNER: The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)

• Polyphemus, Zachary Ashford (DarkLit)
• The Tangled Lands, Glenda Larke (Wizard’s Tower)
• Dream Weaver, Steven Paulsen (IFWG)
• When Dark Roots Hunt, Zena Shapter (MidnightSun)
• Traitor’s Run, Keith Stevenson (coeur de lion)

Best Novella or Novelette

• WINNER: “Bitters”, Kaaron Warren

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the 2024 Elgin Awards, presented for the best poetry chapbook and the best full-length poetry book in the speculative genre. The Elgin Awards are named after the founder of SFPA, Suzette Haden Elgin.

The Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the 2024 Dwarf Stars Award winners. The Dwarf Stars honor the best speculative poem of one to ten lines published in the previous year.

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the 2024 Rhysling Awards for speculative poetry.

Short Poem Category

The finalists for the Endeavour Award have been announced. The award recognizes “a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.” The finalists are:

The 2024 Polari Prize Shortlists have been announced via social media.

Authors and titles of genre interest include Away With Words by Sophie Cameron (Little Tiger), Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher (Wednesday), and Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn (Andersen), all in the Children’s & YA category; and Killing Jericho by William Hussey (Zaffre) in the Book Category.

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Murmuration by Elizabeth Pike (self-published) is on the five-title shortlist for the 2024 Kindle Storyteller Award.

The award, launched in 2017, includes a £20,000 prize and “is open to writers publishing in English in any genre, who publish their work through Kindle Direct Publishing” on Amazon.co.uk. There were 20 titles on the “Featured Sci Fi and Fantasy Entries” and the shortlist itself includes titles from categories “Crime, Mystery, and Thrillers” ...Read More

Finalists for the National Book Awards (NBA) have been announced, including titles and authors of genre interest in multiple categories.

Fiction

The 22 MacArthur Foundation Fellows have been announced for 2024, including filmmaker Sterlin Harjo of feature Mekko (2015) and TV series Reservation Dogs (2021-2023); Ling Ma, author of Severance (2018) and Bliss Montage (2022); Jason Reynolds, author of the Stuntboy children’s superhero series and YA fantasy Long Way Down (2017); and writer and disability activist Alice Wong, who had an essay in Uncanny’s “Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction!” issue (2018). ...Read More

The Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour is open to submissions from unpublished writers of color based in the UK until January 26, 2025.

The winner will receive £4,500, one runner-up £2,500, and up to six shortlisted authors will each receive £850. All writers will also receive mentoring from one of the prize’s publishing partners: Bloomsbury, Daphne Press, Gollancz, Hodderscape, Orbit UK, Penguin Michael Joseph, ...Read More

The winner of the 2024 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction has been announced:

Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati (Penguin Michael Joseph) won the 2024 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, honoring a novel in any genre “with brilliant characterization and a distinct voice that is confidently written and assuredly realized.” The winner receives a handmade glass bell and a cash prize of £2,000.

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The Alberta Book Publishing Awards have announced that Guy Immega’s novel Super-Earth Mother: The AI that Engineered a Brave New World (EDGE) is the winner of the 2024 Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction.

The Alberta Book Publishing Awards were created by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta to “celebrate the essential role Alberta book publishers play in supporting authors.” The Douglas Barbour award honors the late Canadian science fiction ...Read More

Winners of the French-language Prix Aurora-Boréal were awarded on May 22, 2024 at the Congrès Boréal in Québec City, Canada.

Best Novel

• WINNER: La Voie de l’apprenti, Jean-Sébastien Drouin (Nux & Nox)

• Dissident, Jean-Pierre Gorkynian (mémoire d’encrier)
• Inmortem, Mireille LaCombe (Luzerne Rousse)
• Sombre Chaos, Jennifer Pelletier (Édiligne)
• Couleur de l’obscurité, Maxim Poulin and Frédéric St-Jean (Luzerne Rousse)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “Ce qu’on laisse derrière”,

The United Talent Agency (UTA) and Conville & Walsh (C&W) have announced the inaugural Andromeda Award. The contest aims to “seek out and support the best new emerging science fiction and fantasy writers.”

The contest is open to anyone based in the UK or USA with a full length SF/F novel. The first-place author will be awarded $5,000, second place $3,000 and a spot in Curtis Brown Creative’s nine-week Writing ...Read More

Dream Foundry, a “non-profit dedicated to bolstering the careers of nascent professionals working with the speculative arts,” has announced the winners of its 2024 contests.

Writing Contest

The Nota Bene Prize has announced its shortlist for 2024, including the following works of genre interest.

• Disturbance, Jenna Clake (Norton)
• Chrysalis, Anna Metcalfe (Random House)
• The Centre, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (Zando)

The Nota Bene Prize honors “thought-provoking, accessible and relatable reads that engage diverse topics.” The Prize is run by marketing agency Agile Ideas. The winner receives £1,500.

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“Bridled” by Nadia Davids of South Africa won the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing.

The Prize honors works across Africa; finalist works will be included in this year’s Caine Prize Anthology. The judges for this year include Julianknxx, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Tumi Molekane, and Ayesha Harruna Attah.

For more information, see the Caine Prize website.

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Longlists for the National Book Awards (NBA) have been announced. The Fiction, Nonfiction, Young Adult, and Translated Literature categories include titles and authors of genre interest.

Fiction

• Ghostroots, ’Pemi Aguda (Norton)
• James, Percival Everett (Doubleday)

Nonfiction

• Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are, Rebecca Boyle (Random House)
• Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie (Random

The BBC has announced the shortlist for its 2024 Young Writers’ Award:

The Sunburst Award, honoring the best in Canadian fantastic literature, will return after a four-year break to celebrate books published in 2024.

The Sunburst Award Society is delighted to announce the return of the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic after a four-year hiatus. The pause has allowed the volunteer-run Sunburst Award Society to restructure the award and offer increased prize money.

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