The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced the finalists for the 2025 Compton Crook Award:

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The ten-title 2025 PEN/Faulkner longlist for fiction has been announced, with a number of titles and authors of genre interest, including:

Uncanny Magazine has opened up its annual poll for readers’ favorite fiction. On the poll, available here, readers select their three favorite original Uncanny stories from a list. Per an email, the poll closes on February 17, 2025.

“Uncanny Magazine is an online Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine featuring passionate SF/F fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, provocative nonfiction, and a deep investment in the diverse SF/F culture.” For more information ...Read More

Fiyah magazine is seeking judges for the longlist judging cohort for its annual Ignyte Awards.

Candidates should be “interested, available, organically well-read in diverse and inclusive titles in sffh, whether professionally or otherwise… Please be familiar with the Ignytes’ mission and backlist of nominated titles….”

The Ignyte Awards are given annually to works of speculative fiction, and are publicly voted from a shortlist.

Selected judges will not be announced. Applications ...Read More

The shortlist has been announced for the second annual Inside Literary Prize. Among the four titles selected is dystopian novel Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Vintage).

The Inside Literary Prize is “the first-ever US-based literary prize awarded exclusively by currently incarcerated people,” and the four shortlisted titles were selected by a committee of incarcerated readers, writers, and librarians from Departments of Corrections. Selections were made from books ...Read More

The American Library Association (ALA) announced the winners of the Youth Media Awards during their LibLearnX conference, at a ceremony held Monday, January 27 in Phoenix AZ. Winners included several works and authors of genre interest.

The Alex Awards honor books for adults that “have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.” This year, at least four adult books of genre interest appeared on the complete list of ...Read More

The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) has announced the longlist for the 2024 NBCC awards for books “published in English (including translations) in the United States.” Authors and titles of genre interest include:

The Audio Publishers Association (APA) has announced the finalists for the 2025 Audie Awards, “recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.” Finalists of genre interest are listed below; narrators are listed in alphabetical order.

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the preliminary ballot for the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards.

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Several authors and works of genre interest are among the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) 2025 Edgar Awards nominees.

The National Book Foundation, together with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, announced the selected books for the 2025 Science + Literature program. The 2025 fiction selection is science fiction novel The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel (Riverhead), along with two other selections in non-fiction and poetry.

The Science + Literature program, supported by a grant from the Sloan Foundation, identifies three books across fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, that “deepen readers’ ...Read More

Laura Lippman and John Sandford have been named the 2025 Mystery Writers of America (MWA) Grand Masters. Lippman said,

It was a little humbling how many cliches rushed into my brain when I found out I was to be named a Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America. Things like ‘This is a dream come true!’ and ‘I can’t believe this is happening!’ were, alas, my initial responses. […] I ...Read More

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner) is among the three finalists for The Story Prize 2025, “honoring the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction.”

Finalists are selected by Larry Dark, director of the Prize, and Founder Julie Lindsey. From these finalists, a winner is selected by “three independent judges.” This year, judges were Elliott Holt, writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and bookseller Lucy ...Read More

The 2025 Philip K. Dick Award finalists have been announced:

The Washington Science Fiction Association is now accepting nominations of works “published for the first time in the English language” in 2024 for its Small Press Award, given annually to an outstanding story of “imaginative literature” (17,500 words or fewer) published in the small press. The deadline for nominations is March 31, 2025 at 11:59pm ET.

Authors and small-press publishers are among those eligible to nominate, and need not be ...Read More

The judges for the 2025 World Fantasy Awards have been empaneled.

The judges will read and consider eligible materials from 2024 between now (January 6, 2025) and June 1, 2025. To be considered for awards, all materials must be received by all five judges and Peter Dennis Pautz by June 1, 2025. “If… something is received on May 31 the judges may well have only one day to read it ...Read More

Asimov‘s magazine has opened up the ballot for its 39th annual Readers’ Award. On the ballot, available here, readers can select their favorite Asimov’s short stories, novellas, novelettes, poems, and covers from 2024. The poll closes on February 1, 2025.

Founded in 1977 by Isaac Asimov and Joel Davis, Asimov’s publishes science fiction, poetry, editorials, and non-fiction. For more on the magazine’s history, see here.

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