The shortlist for the 2019 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. Titles of genre interest include:

Finalists for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by Dublin 2019, the 77th Worldcon, to be held August 15-19, 2019 at the Convention Centre Dublin in Dublin Ireland. 1,800 valid nominating ballots (1,797 electronic and three paper) were received and counted from members of Dublin 2019 and Worldcon 76. Nominating ballot information for individual categories has not been released. ...Read More

Finalists for the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards, honoring work from 1943, have been announced by Dublin 2019, the 77th Worldcon, to be held August 15-19, 2019 at the Convention Centre Dublin in Dublin Ireland. They counted 217 valid nominating ballots (214 electronic and three paper) from the members of Dublin 2019 and Worldcon 76. Ballot information for individual categories has not been released.

The 2019 Spectrum Awards winners have been announced.

The fifth annual BooktubeSFF Awards Shortlists have been announced. The awards were created “as a way to encourage more engagement among the emergent SFF fandom community on YouTube,” and the judges are “booktubers,” or “YouTube creators whose channels focus on books and reading.” Nominees were chosen from 281 reader ballots, with winners chosen by readers and judges.

Alessandro Cabiati is the winner of the 2019 Jamie Bishop Memorial Award, given by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) “for a critical essay on the fantastic written in a language other than English.”

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Macmillan) won the 2019 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in the Older Fiction category.

Adeyemi received £2,000 and was honored at an award ceremony on March 21, 2019 at Waterstones Piccadilly in London. Shortlisted books of genre interest in the Older Fiction category were The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Egmont) and A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos (Europa Editions).

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Gabriela Damián Miravete’s short story “They Will Dream in the Garden” (Latin American Literature Today 5/18) won the 2018 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, given annually to works of science fiction or fantasy that explore and expand gender roles. Miravete will receive $1,000, original artwork, and chocolate. She will be honored at a ceremony during WisCon 43, to be held at the Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club, May 24-27, 2019 ...Read More

The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2019 British Book Awards, including several titles of genre interest.

Finalists for the 2019 Colorado Book Awards include the following titles of genre interest:

Philip Pullman won the 2019 J.M. Barrie Award, given annually by the Action for Children’s Arts (ACA) “to a children’s arts practitioner or organisation in recognition of a lifetime’s achievement in delighting children.”

ACA chair Vicky Ireland said:

The Trustees selected Sir Philip Pullman as the winner of the ACA JM Barrie Award 2019, for his outstanding talent as a storyteller who appeals to all ages, especially to the young. ...Read More

The Carnegie Medal shortlist for best children’s book has been announced. Titles of genre interest follow.

The award is presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). The winner will be ...Read More

Murmur by Will Eaves (Bellevue) and My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin) are on the six-title shortlist for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize.

The £30,000 prize “rewards exceptional works of literature that illuminate the many ways that health, medicine and illness touch our lives.” Judges for 2019 are Jon Day, Rick Edwards, Kevin Fong, Viv Groskop, and Elif Shafak (chair). The winner will be announced on ...Read More

Winners of the 2019 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award have been announced.

The Grand Prize winning story will be featured on the Baen website in June 2019. The author will be given a trophy and paid a professional rate.

Grand Prize, second, and third place winners each receive free admission into the ...Read More

Winners have been announced for the inaugural “Favorite SF in Translation” award, given to non-Anglophone speculative fiction that has been translated into English and published between January 1 and December 31, 2018. The winners were chosen by a readers’ survey.

Several award winners were announced at the 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA), held March 13-16, 2019 at the Orlando Airport Marriott in Orlando FL.

Winners of the 2019 Darrell Awards were announced March 16, 2019 during MidSouthCon 37 at the Hilton Memphis in Memphis TN.

Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue, translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Yale University Press) and Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell (Oneworld) are on the 13-title longlist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize.

The award is given “annually for a single work of fiction, translated into English and published in the UK.” The £50,000 prize is divided equally among the author and translator(s). ...Read More

Katherine Paterson won the $10,000 E.B. White Award for achievement in children’s literature, given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Paterson’s genre work includes Bridge to Terabithia, for which she won the Newbery Medal in 1978.

Judges for the E.B. White Award were Judy Blume and Alison Lurie. The award will be presented in May 2019 at the Academy’s annual ceremony in New York NY.

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The top five results of the Uncanny Magazine 2018 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll have been announced.

1. “The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat”, Brooke Bolander
2. “The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society”, T. Kingfisher
3. “How to Swallow the Moon”, Isabel Yap
4. “The Thing About Ghost Stories”, Naomi Kritzer
5. (tie): “The Hydraulic Emperor”, Arkady Martine and “She Still Loves the Dragon”, Elizabeth

The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced finalists for the 31st Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.” Nominees of genre interest follow.

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 award will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards reception on June 21, 2019.

The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton) is a finalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The prize “honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year.” This year’s judges are Percival Everett, Ernesto Quiñonez, and Joy Williams.

The winner will receive $15,000 and finalists will each receive $5,000. The winner will be announced on April 29, 2019 and honored at an award ceremony on ...Read More

The Audio Publishers Association announced the winners of the 2019 Audie Awards, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment, at an awards ceremony on March 4, 2019 at Guastavino’s in New York City.

Winners of genre interest follow.

The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) announced the winners for the 2019 Romantic Novel Awards in a ceremony at the Gladstone Library in London.

The Fantasy Romantic Novel Award

For more information, including complete winners, see the RNA website.

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Finalists for the 2018 Kitschies, awarded to “the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining science fiction,” have been announced.

There are several titles of genre interest on the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist: