The shortlist has been announced for the 2025 Kurd Laßwitz Preis. The prize is awarded to German-language SF works published in the previous year.
Best German SF Novel
Baen Books has announced on social media the ten finalists for the 2025 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award:
The Grand Prize winner will be featured on the Baen website. The author will be given a trophy and paid professional rates.
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Convention organizer Guy Thomas, 67, died March 13, 2025.
Guy Wayne Thomas, born February 21, 1958, discovered science fiction fandom in college, in Carbondale IL. His first science fiction convention was the 1979 NaSFiC in Louisville KY. When he moved to the Bay Area, he built new connections with the northern California science fiction community, where he was especially known for his copious knowledge of and deep appreciation for his ...Read More
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Lynne M. Thomas is stepping down as co-editor-in-chief and co-publisher of Uncanny after 11 years. Her cofounder Michael Damian Thomas will continue as sole editor-in-chief starting with issue 64 and as publisher starting with Issue 67. Lynne Thomas is “shifting her focus to her day job as she works towards her rare book librarianship goals.”
Michael Damian Thomas said,
Lynne and I dreamt up and founded Uncanny Magazine together 11 ...Read More
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Finalists for the 2025 Imadjinn Awards have been announced. Categories of genre interest follow.
Best Science Fiction Novel
Best Fantasy Novel
The shortlists for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing and Carnegie Medal for Illustration, honoring UK books for children and young adults, have been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest follow.
Carnegie Medal for Writing
Carnegie Medal for Illustration
MEGAN CHEE is now represented by Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency Ltd.
EVE HILL-AGNUS won the 2024 Albertine Translation Prize for her translation of Ultramarine by MARIETTE NAVARRO (Deep Vellum), presented by the French Embassy in the US and selected by a jury.
STEPHEN KING will write Hansel and Gretel, a “reimagining” of the fairy tale, with illustrations by the late MAURICE SENDAK ...Read More
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has released the finalists for the 2024 Nebula Awards via YouTube video.
Novel
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction have been acquired by Must Read Magazines, a division of a new publishing company, Must Read Books Publishing. All editorial staff from the magazines have been retained in the acquisitions. Jackie Sherbow has been promoted to editor of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. P.L. Stevens joins the ...Read More
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Bloomsbury has announced a new SF/F imprint, Bloomsbury Archer, and plans for it to publish “across the constellation of speculative fiction – from fantasy and science fiction to crossover, speculative romance, and from horror to myth retellings.” The imprint’s name comes from the current Bloomsbury emblem of the Roman hunter goddess Diana, “referencing the imprint’s pursuit of the very best storytelling and new stars.”
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International Thriller Writers has announced the finalists for the 2025 Thriller Awards. Titles and authors of genre interest include:
Best Standalone Thriller Novel
Best Standalone Mystery Novel
Best Series Novel
The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) has announced that artist Flore Picard is the winner of their 2025 Illustration of the Year. “Look for Picard’s artwork on our site, as well as future SLF newsletters, promo, and other content!”
Picard said, “In a futuristic world of glass and metal, she made herself wings out of her prison, a harness out of her shackles, and flew up to seek out the stars. ...Read More
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The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2025 British Book Awards. Titles and authors of genre interest include:
Fiction
Pageturner
Début Fiction
The Frank R. Paul Awards, honoring “outstanding work in book and magazine cover art,” are open to submissions until April 15, 2025.
Awards administrator Frank Wu writes,
The five-title 2025 PEN/Faulkner shortlist for fiction has been announced, with titles and authors of genre interest, including Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda (Norton) and James by Percival Everett (Doubleday).
The prize “honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year.” This year’s judges are Bruce Holsinger, Deesha Philyaw, and Luis Alberto Urrea.
The “first among equals” winner will be announced in April. The finalists and
Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, an independent science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and horror bookstore in San Diego CA, is recovering from damage caused by flooding in late February.
In a social media post on March 3, the bookstore announced that no inventory was damaged in the flood; however, the post stated that some of the store’s carpeting, drywall, and fixtures will need to be replaced. The store is currently closed to browsing ...Read More
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The 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is open to nominations. The nomination process for the prize is open to all and closes March 31, 2025. To be eligible, a title must be a “book-length work of imaginative fiction written by a single author,” published between April 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024. The winner receives $25,000.
2025 judges include Matt Bell, Indrapramit Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, ...Read More
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Winners of the 2025 Libby Book Awards, “as chosen by… over 1,100 librarians and library staff from across North America,” have been announced, including winners of genre interest.
Book of the Year – Adult Fiction
Best Science Fiction
Best Horror
The Audio Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2025 Audie Awards, “recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.” Winners of genre interest are listed below; narrators are listed in alphabetical order.
Science Fiction
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has announced the launch of New Adult imprint Requited.
The slate of initial projects includes fantasy and romantasy titles by Jordan Stephanie Gray, and its staff includes personnel experienced in genre fiction and fantasy. Senior editors are Alice Jerman, previously at Entangled, and Ruqayyah Daud. Lisa Yoskowitz, LBYR’s Executive Editorial Director, will serve as editorial lead.
Megan Tingley, president and publisher at LBYR, told ...Read More
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The REH Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Robert E. Howard Awards, honoring work that is “substantively devoted to the life and/or work of Robert E. Howard” or that “carries on the spirit and tradition of Robert E. Howard, to better recognize and celebrate his influence on future generations of writers.”
Members of the REH Foundation vote on the awards. Voting closes on March 15, 2025.
The Atlantean—Outstanding
HarperCollins Children’s Books has announced the launch of Storytide, a new imprint for middle grade and YA books. Storytide’s slate will include fantasy titles That Devil, Ambition by Linsey Miller and I Killed the King by Andrea Hannah and Rebecca Mix.
VP and publisher Tara Weikum will lead the imprint. The team will also include Amy Cloud and Kristin Rens as executive editors, and Sarah Homer as editor.
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced C.J. Lavigne as the winner of the 2025 Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award. The award is presented to “a volunteer of SFWA who best exemplifies the ideal of service” to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.
The announcement notes, among other things, that Lavigne contributed to SFWA’s “flight crew,” or tech support team. SFWA President Kate Ristau ...Read More
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The 16-title longlist has been announced for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Nominees of genre interest include:
The prize, on its 30th anniversary this year, is aimed at “championing and amplifying women’s voices and nurturing a global community of readers.” It is awarded annually to a full-length novel written in English and published
The results of the annual Clarkesworld readers’ poll for best stories and cover art of 2024 have been announced. Editor Neil Clarke added that, due to the closeness of the poll rankings, 2nd and 3rd place would not be listed and instead the complete list of finalists would be honored.
Best Short Story
The 2024 Locus Awards were held on June 22, online and in-person at the historic Preservation Park in Oakland CA. Author Henry Lien – ‘‘Emperor Stardust’’ – emceed the ceremony, with author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow as keynote speaker. The awards ceremony concluded the Locus Weekend, a larger celebration of readings, talks, and meetups from June 19‒22. Full members received access to virtual and in-person events, six months of ...Read More
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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced that the 2025 Nebula Conference and Awards will be held June 5-9, 2025 at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown in Kansas City, MO. The announcement notes that “Conference and hotel registration will open soon!”
This year’s Nebula Conference will be the 60th, a “diamond-year celebration of science fiction, fantasy, and related genre creators around the globe!” The announcement also contains ...Read More
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Apex Book Company is seeking submissions for a reprint anthology, ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction.
Stories must be complete reprints between 1,000 and 6,000 words, published during the 2024 calendar year. Content must be speculative and “focused on ecology, climate, the environment, conservation, the natural world, our relationship to animals and other non-human life, and related issues. A climate-crisis setting alone is not enough to qualify.”
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The Scottish Book Trust has announced the 2025 winners of the New Writers Awards. The awardees included several writers of genre interest, such as:
Finalists for the 2025 Minnesota Book Awards, given by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, have been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include:
Novel & Short Story
Genre Fiction
Middle Grade Literature
Winners for the 2024 Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards (2024 Cybils) have been announced. Books of genre interest follow.
Young Adult Speculative Fiction
The 13-title longlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize has been announced, with works and writers of genre interest including:
