2021 Ignyte Awards
On Friday, September 18th, the FIYAHCON 2021 committee announced the winners for the 2021 Ignyte Awards, which “seek to celebrate...
Awards
2017 Locus Awards Finalists Announced
On Friday, the Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2017 Locus...
2016 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees Announced
If you are a reader of horror stories, or those that invoke psychological suspense, then you probably know the name...
2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist Announced
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during...
2016 BSFA Award Winners Announced
The results are in! On Saturday at the 68th Eastercon in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, the British Science Fiction Association...
2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
Joseph Pulitzer On Monday, the 170th anniversary of the birth of benefactor Joseph Pulitzer, the 2017 winners of the Pulitzer...
2017 Hugo Award Finalists Announced
The Hugo Award is one of the major awards for sci-fi and speculative fiction novels, shorter stories, magazines, editors, dramatic...
Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction Releases Its 2017 Longlist
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual literary award for fiction written by a woman....
PEN/Faulkner Makes a Statement With Its 2017 Fiction Award Finalists
PEN/Faulkner is a nonprofit literary organization that promotes a lifelong love of reading and a connection to writing through public...
2016 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot Announced
Named after the author of the quintessential horror novel, Dracula, the Bram Stoker Awards are overseen by the Horror Writers...
2016 Aurealis Awards Finalists Announced
Americans have the Nebula Awards. The Brits have the BSFA Awards. And the Australians have the Aurealis Awards. Aurealis is...
2017 Writers Guild Awards Winners Announced
Many folks know about the SAG Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Awards. There's lots of hoopla surrounding it, lots of...
SWFA Announces the 2016 Nebula Awards Nominees
On Monday, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) announced the nominees for the 51st Annual Nebula Awards,...
2016 BSFA Awards Shortlists Announced
Cover art by Juan Miguel Aguilera, a 2016 BSFA Award nominee This weekend, the British Science Fiction Association announced the...
2017 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists Announced
PEN America Center, founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, to defend free expression,...
National Book Critics Circle 2016 Finalists Announced
The National Book Critics Circle has announced the finalists for their 2016 awards, as well as the recipients of three...
A Closer Look at the 2017 Pen America Open Book Award Longlist Nominees
According to its website, "PEN American Center is the largest of the 145 centers of PEN International, the world’s...
2016 National Book Award Winners Announced
The mission of the National Book Foundation is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and...
2016 World Fantasy Award Winners Announced
This weekend, at the World Fantasy Convention held in Columbus, Ohio, the winners of the 2016 World Fantasy Awards were...
Paul Beatty Wins Wins the 2016 Man Booker Prize with “The Sellout”
In a black tie dinner at London’s Guildhall on Tuesday, Paul Beatty's fourth novel, The Sellout, was named 2016's Man...
Winners of the 2016 British Fantasy Awards
The British Fantasy Society (an offshoot of the British Science Fiction Association) is an organization "dedicated to promoting the best...
Kirkus Prize Shortlists Announced
Founded in 1933, Kirkus has been “an authoritative voice in book discovery" for over 80 years. The associated Kirkus Reviews...
2016 Emmy Awards – The Writers
Lest we forget, stories come in many forms. While we often think of them mainly in terms of novels, short...
2016 Hugo Award Winners Announced
The 2016 World Science Fiction convention was held in Kansas City, Missouri this weekend during MidAmeriCon II, and was highlighted...
2015 Shirley Jackson Award Winners Announced
The 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented on Sunday, July 10th at Readercon 27, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, Massachusetts....
2015 Bram Stoker Award Winners Announced
At this year's StokerCon convention, in the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas, the Horror Writers Association - the premier...
2016 Locus Award Nominees Announced
Quickly becoming one of the premier science fiction/fantasy literary awards out there, the Locus Awards are determined by polling the...
2015 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees Announced
If you are a reader of horror stories, or those that invoke psychological suspense, then you probably know the name...
Arthur C. Clarke 2016 Finalists Announced
Now here are some awards finalists that we can feel good about! The Arthur C. Clarke Award is given for...
2016 Hugo Finalists Announced
The finalists for the 2016 Hugo Awards have been announced. They include: BEST NOVEL Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie The...
2016 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually for achievement in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition in the United...
2016 Aurora Awards Shortlist Announced
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association has announced their shortlists for the 2016 Aurora Awards, honoring the best works...
2015 BSFA Award Winners Announced
The British Science Fiction Association announced the winners of the 2015 BSFA Awards on March 26 at the British National Science...
Announcing the Winners of the 2015 Aurealis Awards
The winners of the 2015 Aurealis Awards - Australia's speculative fiction awards, named after the esteemed literary magazine - were...
2015 National Book Critics Circle Awards Announced
The National Book Critics Circle has announced the winners of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Awards, as well as...
2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist Announced
On Tuesday - International Women's Day - the longlist for the Baileys Woman's Prize for Fiction was announced. The British...
2015 Kitschie Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 2015 Kitschie Awards - the most tentacular of all literary prizes (!) - which rewards the...
Finalists for the Bram Stoker Awards Announced
This week the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy, announced...
2015 Aurealis Awards Finalists Announced
Americans have the Nebula Awards. The Brits have the BSFA Awards. And the Australians have the Aurealis Awards. Aurealis is...
Compton Crook Award Finalists Announced
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc. (BSFS) created the Compton Crook Award in 1982 to honor the best first novel...
2015 BSFA Shortlist Announced
This weekend, The British Science Fiction Association announced their shortlist for the 2015 BSFA Awards - the premiere British science...
J. K. Rowling, Michael Pietsch to receive PEN American Center Awards
The PEN American Center has announced that author J. K. Rowling has been named as the recipient of the 2016...
2016 Edgar Awards Nominees Announced
The Mystery Writers of America announced the finalists for their 2016 Edgar Awards on January 19. The nominees include: BEST...
National Book Critics Circle Finalists Announced
The National Book Critics Circle has announced the finalists for their 2015 awards, as well as the recipients of three...
Finalists of the 2015 Kirkus Prize Announced
Founded in 1933, Kirkus has been “an authoritative voice in book discovery for 80 years”. The associated Kirkus Reviews magazine...
Gimbling in the Wabe – To Read or Not to Read: What Really is the Question?
We've all seen the adage, "So many books, so little time!" I myself find this to be so very true...
Announcing the Finalists for the 2014 Kirkus Prize
The Kirkus Prize is one of the richest literary awards in the world, with a prize of $50,000 bestowed annually...
Gimbling in the Wabe – My Library Request Addiction
Hi, my name is Sharon. I'm a library request addict. It used to be that I would only request a...
Shirley Jackson Award Winners Announced
The 2013 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented on Sunday, July 13th, 2014 at Readercon 25 in Burlington, Massachusetts. These awards...
Complete List of World Fantasy Award Nominees Announced
Along with Monday's announcement of their Lifetime Achievement Award going to editor extraordinaire Ellen Datlow and author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,...
