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 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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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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KHAN WONG is now represented by Ernie Chiara of Fuse Literary.
ETHAN LAI is now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.
Authors LAURA LIPPMAN and JOHN SANFORD are the recipients of the 2025 Grand Master Awards, presented by the Mystery Writers of America.
PETE WOLVERTON, vice-president and executive editor at St. Martin’s Publishing Group, received the Ellery Queen Award, honoring “outstanding writing teams and outstanding people ...Read More
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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has opened applications for its annual Scholarship from Hell.
The Scholarship from Hell is awarded annually to an applicant interested in attending StokerCon and furthering a career in horror writing. Per the Scholarship’s webpage, the recipient will receive “domestic coach airfare (contiguous 48 states) to and from the StokerCon venue, $50 for luggage reimbursement, a 3-night stay at the convention, free registration to StokerCon, and ...Read More
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Nominations are now open for the 2025 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. These awards will be presented at Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, to be held August 13th-17th, 2025, in Seattle WA. The convention says,
Nominations can be submitted by all individuals holding WSFS Memberships in either the 2024 (Glasgow) or 2025 (Seattle) ...Read More
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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced a collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS). ULS has committed to a ten-year Legacy Sponsorship for the HWA’s annual conference Stokercon starting in 2025. HWA says,
The Archives & Special Collections Department within the ULS is home to the prestigious horror studies collection which includes an extraordinary array of rare books, film and literary archives, pulps, comics, and much more. ...Read More
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MARK W. TIEDEMANN is now represented by Vaughne Hansen of the Virginia Kidd Agency.
ESPAÑA SHERIFF is the winner of the 2024 Rotsler Award for “long-time wonder-working with graphic art in amateur publications of the science fiction community,’’ announced during Loscon 50, held November 29 – December 1, 2024 at the Marriott Los Angeles Airport Hotel in Los Angeles CA. The award was established in 1998 by the ...Read More
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The 2024 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund (TAFF), which “will send a European fan to the 2025 Worldcon in Seattle,” has selected its nominees and will begin voting on January 1, 2025. All votes must reach the administrators by 11.59 pm British/Irish time on April 23, 2025.
The candidates for this year are Zi Graves, Mikołaj Kowalewski, and Jan Vaněk jr. Voting is open to any individual with their donation of £3 ...Read More
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The 28th ICon was held October 20-22, 20-24 in Tel Aviv, Israel, and included almost 350 panels, lectures, workshops, games, and roleplaying. Some 11,000 tickets were sold to the different events. In each of the three days, at a certain point, entrance to the venue had to be restricted to those who had tickets, because the 1,800 people limit on premises, set for health and safety reasons, was reached.
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Can*Con 2024 was held November 1-3 in person at the Sheraton Hotel in Ottawa, Canada. Guests of honour were Jennifer Brozek, Sarah Gailey, Diana M. Pho, Waubgeshig Rice, and Arley Sorg. A separate virtual Can*Con was held on April 20 with roughly one hundred attendees.
There were 400 in-person registered attendees. Programming featured 115 panelists and 107 items on writing, literature, and more, such as ‘‘Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Post-Apocalypse’’ ...Read More
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The Historical Novel Society (HNS) has issued a call for proposals for their 2025 conference (HNS25), open December 15, 2024 to January 15, 2025.
This year, the conference theme is ‘‘A Celebration of Historical Fiction in its Many Forms,’’ and HNS25 program chair Christopher M. Cevasco “welcomes proposals of panels, talks, and readings with a focus on historical fantasy, alternate history, time travel, steampunk, and historical horror, among other forms ...Read More
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CLIO EVANS is now represented by Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency Ltd.
HAYAO MIYAZAKI is this year’s recipient of the Forry Award for lifetime achievement in the SF field, presented by The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. Miyazaki is the founder of Studio Ghibli and an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. The award, named for Forrest J Ackerman, has been given annually since 1966.
SEANAN MCGUIRE, writing ...Read More
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The 50th World Fantasy Convention was held as a hybrid event October 17-20, 2024, with the in-person portion held at the Sheraton Niagara Falls and Niagara Falls Convention Center in Niagara Falls NY. Guests of honor were Scott H. Andrews, Galen Dara, and Heather Graham, with toastmaster Michael Swanwick. P. Djèlí Clark was a special guest, and Life Achievement Awards winners were Ginjer Buchanan and Jo Fletcher. The theme was ...Read More
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Edmonton (AKA ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ / Amiskwacîwâskahikan), Canada has announced a bid to host the 88th World Science Fiction Convention in 2030.
Northern Alberta Science Fiction Society chair Mike Johnson said, “Edmonton is one of Canada’s youngest and fastest-growing cities. It’s bubbling with ideas, creativity, diversity, and a can-do attitude. It has an energy that I think science fiction fans from around the globe will find themselves aligned with.”
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ROY GRAHAM, K ARSENAULT RIVERA, and SASCHA STRONACH are now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.
LAURA BLACKWELL is now represented by Jake Lovell of Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
JOHN HORNOR JACOBS received the Heasley Prize for Fiction, presented October 22, 2024 at his alma mater, Lyon College in AR.
TIM LEBBON sold folk horror novel Secret Lives of the Dead to Cath Trechman ...Read More
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The 2024 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund (TAFF), which “will send a European fan to the 2025 Worldcon in Seattle,” is open for nominations until December 20, 2024.
TAFF “was created in 1953 for the purpose of providing funds to bring well-known and popular [science fiction] fans familiar to those on both sides of the ocean across the Atlantic. Since that time TAFF has regularly brought North American fans to European conventions ...Read More
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Seattle Worldcon 2025 has announced a short story writing contest with separate categories for adult and young adult writers.
The winners in each category will be recognized at the convention, receive free memberships to the convention, and have their stories published in an upcoming anthology by Grim Oak Press. Stories must draw inspiration from our Worldcon theme: Building Yesterday’s Future – For Everyone.
The theme “was selected to invoke nostalgia
Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, received 3,436 valid ballots (3,431 electronic, five paper), up from 1,674 at Chengdu Worldcon. There were an additional 377 ballots disqualified as fraudulent or ‘‘not cast by natural persons.’’ There were 1,720 nominating ballots (1,715 electronic, five paper), down from 1,847.
The procedure for counting nominations remains the E Pluribus Hugo, or EPH, system. The rather complicated system gives a single point ...Read More
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Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, was held August 8-12, 2024 at the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, Scotland. Guests of honor were artist Chris Baker; authors Ken MacLeod, Nnedi Okorafor, and Terri Windling; fan guests of honor Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer; special guests were Samantha Béart, Meganne Christian, Tanya DePass, Catherine Heymans, Tendai Huchu, and Three Black Halflings. Registration provided provisional figures of 7,300 in-person ...Read More
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StokerCon 2025 has announced their Guests of Honor: Scott Edelman, Paula Guran, Adam L.G. Nevill, Joyce Carol Oates, Gaby Triana, and Tim Waggoner.
StokerCon 2025 will be held June 12-15, 2025 at the Hilton Stamford Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in Stamford CT.
For more information, see the official website.
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Seattle Worldcon 2025 has announced a Special Hugo Award for Best Poem to be part of the Hugo ballot in 2025.
The award is open to “your favorite poem within the speculative, science fiction, and fantasy genres, published in 2024, that is at least three lines.”
Additionally, Seattle Worldcon 2025 has announced a Community Fund, seeded with $30,000 from DisCon III. The fund will have “four focus areas: Pacific Northwest ...Read More
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Readercon 33 was held July 11-14, 2024 at the Boston Quincy Marriott in Quincy MA. Guests of honor were Rebecca Roanhorse and Amal El-Mohtar; Naomi Mitchison was the memorial guest of honor. The focus of Readercon is ‘‘imaginative literature’’ – literary science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their intersections, with ‘‘near-total focus on the written word.’’
There were 700 members, with a peak of 596 warm bodies on site Saturday. There ...Read More
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The Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 was held on June 8-9 in Toronto ON. Keynote speakers were Larissa Lai and Nicholas Ruddick, with remarks from the organization’s chair, Allan Weiss. Held quasi-annually since 1995, ACCSFF features papers and panel discussions on “all aspects of the field,” with a long association with the Toronto Public Library’s Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy.
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BayCon 2024 was held July 4-7, 2024 in person at the Santa Clara Marriott in Santa Clara CA. Elizabeth Leggett and Ryka Aoki were guests of honor, Raquel Santiago (AKA Lady Phoenix) was community guest, and Bonnie Gordon was musical guest and Toastmaster. The theme was “Pure Imagination.”
Programming included an array of panels, the ‘‘Midnight Madness’’ cult classic film series, karaoke, live music, a charity blood drive, book launch ...Read More
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The LA in 2026 Bid Committee won the right to host the 2026 Worldcon. LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, will be held August 27-31, 2025 in Anaheim CA.
Guests of Honor announced so far include Barbara Hambly, Ronald D. Moore, Colleen Doran, Anita Sengupta, Tim Kirk, Geri Sullivan, Stan Sakai, and Toastmaster Ursula Vernon.
Chair Joyce Lloyd said, “Thank you everyone who supported us and voted for ...Read More
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Readercon 33 was held July 11-14, 2024 at the Boston Quincy Marriott in Quincy MA. Guests of honor were Rebecca Roanhorse and Amal El-Mohtar; Naomi Mitchison was the memorial guest of honor. The focus of Readercon is ‘‘imaginative literature’’ – literary science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their intersections, with ‘‘near-total focus on the written word.’’
There were 700 members, with a peak of 596 warm bodies on site Saturday. There ...Read More
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The 2024 SFWA Nebula Conference was held June 6-9 at the Westin Pasadena in Pasadena CA and online, loosely following the tradition of running the event at the same place for two years in a row: the last in person conference was in Anaheim, CA in 2019. There were about 225 warm bodies and another 272 registered for online-only access, similar to last year’s roughly 200 warm bodies and 314 ...Read More
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Seattle Worldcon 2025 has announced Brandon O’Brien as their poet laureate, a special guest position that aims to “elevate our proceedings and help us spotlight and emphasize the craft and literary tradition of speculative poetry at this Worldcon.”
Seattle Worldcon 2025 will be held in August 13-17, 2025. The theme is “Building Yesterday’s Future – For Everyone”
For more information, see the announcement.
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Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures, released the following statement today:
In the course of tallying the votes on the final ballot for the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Glasgow 2024 Hugo Administration team detected some unusual data.
Paragraph 6.2 of the WSFS Constitution states that “In all matters arising under this Constitution, only natural persons may introduce business, nominate, or vote, except as specifically provided otherwise in this Constitution. ...Read More
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StokerCon, sponsored by the Horror Writers Association (HWA), was held May 30 – June 2, 2024 both virtually and in person at the San Diego Marriott Mission Valley in San Diego CA. Guests of honor were Justina Ireland, Jonathan Maberry, Rob Savage, Nisi Shawl, and Paul Tremblay. The Stoker Awards were hosted by Kevin Wetmore Jr., and Mort Castle, Cassandra Peterson, and Steve Rasnic Tem received Lifetime Achievement Awards. Co-chair ...Read More
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