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
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 Scottish Book Trust has announced the 2025 winners of the New Writers Awards. The awardees included several writers of genre interest, such as:
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
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 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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Finalists have been announced for the 2025 Prix Bob Morane, recognizing French-language works in the science fiction, fantasy, espionage, and thriller genres.
Romans traduit (Translated Novels)
The British organization Society of Authors has announced the winners and runners-up for its 2024 Translation Prizes. The Prizes, “celebrating translation around the globe,” honor works translated into English across several categories.
A total of eight winning works and several runners-up were recognized, with titles and authors of genre interest including:
The 2024 Albertine Translation Prize, which honors American publishers of French works translated into English, has been announced by Villa Albertine. The fiction prize was awarded to translator Eve Hill-Agnus for her translation of Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro (Deep Vellum), a seafaring novel with speculative elements.
Villa Albertine is the cultural and educational division of the French Embassy in the U.S. The Prize winners are selected by a committee of ...Read More
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The longlist for the 2024 Highland Book Prize (Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd) has been announced. Some titles of genre interest are amongst the 12 longlisted titles, including:
The Prize’s website states:
The Highland Book Prize, established
Brendan Durkin has been promoted to Editorial Director at Gollancz, reports The Bookseller.
Durkin has been a member of the Gollancz team since 2018, and was promoted to Editor in 2020. He also launched The Gollancz Emporium, a direct-to-consumer line of special editions and classic works. Durkin has been involved with the publishing of works by authors and estates like Joe Abercrombie, Frank Herbert, Nnedi Okorafor, and Brandon Sanderson.
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The 19 winning titles for the January 2025 PEN Translates awards have been announced. The awards are given to works translated from other languages into English, “on the basis of outstanding literary quality, the strength of the publishing project, and their contribution to UK bibliodiversity.” Many of the works are forthcoming for 2025 and 2026.
Winning titles and authors of genre interest include:
The five-title shortlist for the annual Tähtivaeltaja Award has been announced, honoring the best science fiction published in Finland. The award is sponsored by Helsingin Science Fiction Seura (Helsinki Science Fiction Society). The nominees are:
A new writing contest has been announced today by the Emirates Literature Foundation, in collaboration with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai.
The MBRSC Short Story Award: New Voices in Sci-Fi will award science fiction short stories by writers from the United Arab Emirates. The contest is open to writers ages 16–30; submissions may be in English or Arabic and between 1,500–5,000 words. The deadline is 16 November ...Read More
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FairyLoot and Transworld Publishers have announced a new fantasy imprint, to launch in fall 2025. FairyLoot is a fantasy book subscription box company specializing in illustrated and deluxe editions, and Transworld is a division of Penguin Random House UK, one of the UK’s “Big Four.”
The new imprint’s name and logo will be revealed at the London Book Fair in March 2025.
The Bookseller reports:
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The longlist for the 2025 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced and includes several works of genre interest amongst the twelve selected.
The annual Dylan Thomas prize, in partnership with Swansea University, awards £20,000 “to the best published or produced literary work in the
The 71-title longlist for the Dublin Literary Award has been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest follow.
Four category winners have been announced for the Nero Book Awards for 2024 titles. Of genre interest are Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Lesie (Dead Ink) and The Twelve by Liz Hyder, illustrated by Tom De Freston (Pushkin).
The Awards are run by Caffè Nero, and have four categories: Children’s Fiction, Debut Fiction, Fiction and Non-Fiction. The winners receive £5,000.
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Lee Murray is among those appointed by King Charles III as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in recognition of her “services to literature, particularly speculative literature.” ONZM officers will be presented with ONZM insignia at an investiture to be held at New Zealand’s Government House later in the year. The complete ONZM list celebrates 30 people for their contributions to New Zealand across various cultural, ...Read More
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The Bookseller has created a list of their top 30 UK and Ireland editors of 2024, using available data from Circana Bookscan and factoring in other achievements like literary prizes. The rankings feature several editors and works of genre interest, including:
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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The winner, finalists, and honorable mentions for the 2024 Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction have been announced.
The winner is “A Shrine by the Sea” by Syed Zain Haroon. Finalists are “The Shopkeeper’s Remedy” by Manahil Bandukwala and “The 11th Wish” by Raazia Sajid. Honorable mentions are “On the Moonglow Road” by Ramsha Farooq Raja and “Hexes on Exes” by Zuha Siddiqui.
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The winners of the second Fishing Fortress Science Fiction Awards, honoring the best in Chinese SF writing, were announced on November 9, 2024.
Sci-Fi Master Achievement
Sci-Fi Promoter Achievement
Sci-Fi Educator Achievement
Sci-Fi Publisher Achievement
Sci-Fi Translator Achievement
Sci-Fi Academy Award
Marco Polo Award
Best Novel
Best
Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape; Grove Atlantic US) is the winner of the 2024 Man Booker Prize. It depicts the lives of astronauts, and is “the first Booker Prize-winning book set in space.”
This year’s shortlist also included James by Percival Everett (Mantle;Doubleday US).
The £50,000 prize is “open to works by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.” This year’s judges
ActuSF has announced the winners for the 2024 Prix de l’Uchronie. The prize is awarded to works of alternate history, written or translated into French and published between September 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.
Prix Littéraire
Winners for the 2024 Premio Italia Awards have been announced, honoring accomplishments in the field of Italian fantasy and science fiction.
International Novel
The Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the winners for the 2024 Ignotus Awards, honoring speculative fiction from Spain and beyond.
Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)
A museum dedicated to science fiction author Cixin Liu has opened in Yangquan, China. Ceremonies were held on October 13, 2024, as part of Yangquan’s second annual Liu Cixin Hometown Science Fiction Culture Week.
Liu, author of The Three-Body Problem, The Wandering Earth, and other influential works, took to the stage with local officials. In his commemorative speech (reported here), he said, “I hope that science fiction can bring ...Read More
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The winners of the 2024 Prix Utopiales and the 2024 Prix Utopiales Jeunesse have been announced. The prizes recognize work in the fantastic genres published or translated into French.
Prix Utopiales (Adult Literature)
