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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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
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
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
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
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 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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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:
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan (SFWJ) announced the results of the 45th Japan SF Grand Prize:
Three individuals were presented with posthumous Contribution Awards:
The grand prize winner receives 1 million yen ($6,600), a certificate, and a trophy. The Special Award winner
Sharon Lee is the winner of the 2025 Robert A. Heinlein Award, given for “outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space.”
This award is in recognition of Ms. Lee’s body of work of over 38 novels and short stories. A majority of her space themed work is in the Liaden Universe, written with her late husband Steve Miller, and features merchant ...Read More
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Spread the Word, a literary development agency in London, has announced the 2025 winners of their London Writers Awards for emerging writers. The Awards are split into three categories, Literary, Commercial, and YA/Children’s; of the 24 awardees, there are several with work of speculative and genre interest, including:
Literary Fiction:
Commercial Fiction:
YA/Children’s Fiction
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has posted updates in an announcement from its Board of Directors.
New Director-at-Large: Day Al-Mohamed was appointed to the board on February 1, 2025. Her first SFWA Board meeting was on February 19, and a public announcement was posted on February 22.
Nebulas personnel: Events manager Sherine Mani was announced as the Nebula Conference Project Manager. Additionally, Rebekah Postupak and ...Read More
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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards:
Superior Achievement in a Novel
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Writer Emma Burnett has won the 2024 Gulliver Travel Grant, given by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) “to assist writers of speculative literature (in fiction, poetry, drama, or creative nonfiction) in their research.” The $1,000 grant is intended to cover airfare, lodging, or other travel expenses.
Burnett’s winning work was the short story “Amaranth”.
LuLu Johnson, Shawnna Thomas, and Nasser Yousefi were shortlisted for the grant.
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The finalists for the 2025 Zsoldos Péter Award have been announced, honoring Hungarian works of speculative fiction. Note: Hungarian names are written in traditional order, with surname first.
Short Stories
The longlist for the 2025 Branford Boase Award for children’s books has been announced.
In a press release, contest organizers remarked on the prevalence of genre fiction in children’s literature during 2024. Fantasy was a large part of current trends in children’s fiction, and this year’s longlist press release was titled “Apocalypse Now” in response to “a preponderance of post, pre and even mid-apocalyptic adventures” for children.
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Author Isabel Allende has received the 2025 Bodley Medal, awarded by the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University. The original medal was created in 1646 to honor Sir Thomas Bodley, who rebuilt the first public library at Oxford. Since 2002, replicas have been given annually by the library to “individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds of books and literature, libraries, media and communications, science and philanthropy.” Isabel Allende, ...Read More
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