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The winner of the 2024 Endeavour Award has been announced. The award recognizes “a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.”

• WINNER: Relics of Ruin, Erin M. Evans (Orbit)

• The Rain Artist, Claire Rudy Foster (Moonstruck)
• Tidal Creatures, Seanan McGuire (Tor)
• Better Living Through Alchemy, Evan J. Peterson (Broken Eye)
• Heavenbreaker, Sara

The winners of the 2025 Galaxy Awards for Chinese science fiction were presented at the Galaxy Awards in Chengdu, China on September 19, 2025. Thank you to SFW for providing the winners list.

Best Novel

• Golden Peach, Yang Wanqing (Sichuan Science and Technology)

Best Novella

• Assassinating a Mathematician, Zhu Boqing
• Draw the Blind Boxs of Memory, Night X
• Abscond at Night, Qin Xueli

Best Novelette

• This

Dragon Con was held at multiple hotels and AmericasMart in downtown At­lanta GA from August 28 – September 1, 2025.

The Dragon Awards ceremony was held Sunday at 4:00 p.m. (see page six for the winners.) Primarily a fan-focused event with massive attendance, Dragon Con offered sev­eral tracks of interest to SFF industry profes­sionals. Panels included ‘‘A Master Class: The Importance of Research in Historical Fiction’’ with Elizabeth Bear, Charlaine ... Read More

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the results of the election for its open officers’ positions. Lisa (L. Marie) Wood was re-elected Vice President. Marc Abbot was re-elected for the role of Treasurer. Sèphera Girón was newly elected to the Board of Trustees, along with re-elected Trustees Lisa Kröger, Brian Matthews, and Patrick Barb.

The Election Committee included RJ Joseph, Nicole Givens Kurtz, and Victoria Nations. The Ballot Master

The 2025 National Translation Awards Shortlist, honoring “literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English,” have been announced.

Shortlisted titles and authors of genre interest include The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman & Sawad Hussain (Restless) and Melvill by Rodrigo Fresán, translated by Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter), shortlisted in the Prose category; and Document Shredding Museum by Afrizal Malna, translated by ... Read More

The winner, finalists, and honorable mentions for the 2025 Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction have been announced on social media.

The winner is “The Smogline” by Zohaib Bilal. Finalists are “Threadbare Soul” by Amna Ahmad and “The Calligrapher of the Forgotten” by Fariah Ansari. Honorable mentions are “Before the End” by Zoya Surayya Ansari and “The Weight of Water” by Sarah Imran.

The Salam Award, “a short story award to ... Read More

After a recent lung transplant procedure, 76-year-old SF au­thor JEFFREY A. CARVER suffered multiple strokes and is in a coma.

SARAH PINSKER is now represented by Kate McKean at Morhaim Literary Agency.

ROXANE GAY is the recipient of the National Book Founda­tion’s 2025 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, to be presented at the National Book Awards Ceremony on No­vember 19, 2025.

ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association has announced the winners of its annual prize for poetry. Poems were judged in three categories, listed below.

Dwarf Form (10 or fewer lines):

• WINNER: “Down in the Valley”, Kate Boyes

• Second Place: “Untitled”, F.J. Bergmann
• Third Place: “In Praise of Afro-Cosmicism”, Joy Donnell
• Honorable Mention: “After Dark”, F.J. Bergmann

Short Form (10 to 50 lines):

• WINNER: “Feeding Their Daughters”, Helen Patrice

• Second

The Ignyte Awards Committee has announced the winners of the 2025 Ignyte Awards, which “seek to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding efforts toward inclusivity of the genre.”

Outstanding Novel: Adult

• WINNER: The Sentence, Gautam Bhatia (Westland IF)

• Metal from Heaven, August Clarke (Erewhon)
• Blackheart Man, Nalo Hopkinson

2025 marked the first time that the World Science Fiction Society Business Meeting was held online. The four meetings held throughout July using the virtual meeting platform, along with the in-person Site Selection Business Meeting held during the main Worldcon dates, considered 48 total items of business (including nine items passed on from last year’s Worldcon in Glasgow), nearing the record 50 items of business from the previous year. Average ... Read More

Canadian SF magazine On Spec is closing after 35 years. December’s issue #134 will be the last. Managing editor Diane Walton explained in an editorial to issue #133:

Earlier this year, I announced that I’d be retiring and leaving On Spec at the end of December, and my final issue as Managing Editor would be VOL 35 No 4.  After much soul-searching, and discussion with the rest of our editorial ... Read More

Winners for the 2025 Geffen Awards for best science fiction and fantasy published in Hebrew were announced by the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy at Icon, held October 8-10, 2025 in Tel Aviv Israel.

Best Translated Fantasy Book

• The Others: Written in Red, Murder of Crows, Anne Bishop, translated by Dorit Tamir, Adela Hahamy (Alma)

Best Translated Science Fiction Book

• The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin, translated

ConCurrent was a one-day event created by Mia Tsai in response to Worldcon Seattle’s use of ChatGPT in panelist vetting: “We firmly believe there is no place for genAI when it has been used to steal from artists and has a devastating impact upon the environment.”

The event was free to attend and financed via crowdfunding. It took place within walking distance of Worldcon’s venue, at the Union Arts Center ... Read More

BizarroCon has announced the final ballot for the 2025 Wonderland Book Awards for Excellence in Bizarro Fiction.

Best Novel

• Kennel, Garrett Cook (Madness Heart)
• Apeship, Carlton Mellick III (Eraserhead)
• Nympho Shark Fuck Frenzy, Christine Morgan & Susan Snyder (Madness Heart)
• Starlet, Danger Slater (Ghoulish)
• Reality But More Fun, Madeleine Swann (Nictitating)

Best Collection

• The Expectant Mother’s Disinformation Handbook, Robert Guffey (Madness Heart)
• God Is

The winners of the 2024 Australasian Shadows Awards (previously known as the Australia Shadows Awards) have been announced. The award is given by the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) for “the finest in horror and dark fiction published by an Australasian within the calendar year.”

Novel

• WINNER: The Dead Spot, Caroline Angel (Red Cape)

• Remedy, J.S. Breukelaar (PS)
• Jasper Cliff, Josh Kemp (Fremantle)
• The Briar Book of

The nominees and honorable mentions have been announced for the Frank R. Paul Awards, which honor “outstanding work in book and magazine cover art.”

Best Book Cover

• Stephen Andrade for I Want That Twink Obliterated! by Robert Berg, Trip Galey & C.L. McCartney, eds. (Bona)
• Lulu Chen for The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (Bramble)
• Dan Dos Santos for Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Ace)
• Maurizio Manzieri for This Year’s

The shortlist for the 2025 Giller Prize, which honors “the best Canadian novel, graphic novel or short story collection published in English,” has been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include:

• We Love You, Bunny, Mona Awad (Scribner Canada)
• The Tiger and the Cosmonaut, Eddy Boudel Tan (Viking Canada)
• The Paris Express, Emma Donoghue (Harper Avenue)
• The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus, Emma Knight

The winners of the 2025 Ditmar Awards for Australian SF have been announced.

Best Novel

• WINNER: The Underhistory, Kaaron Warren (Serpent’s Tail)

• Blood Covenant, Alan Baxter (Cemetery Dance)
• Ghost Cities, Siang Lu (University of Queensland Press)
• The Medusa Situation, Gabiann Marin (Clan Destine)
• The Escher Man, T.R. Napper (Titan)

Best Novella or Novelette

• WINNER: Ghost of the Neon God, T. R. Napper (Titan)

• Wilder

Finalists for the National Book Awards (NBA) have been announced. Categories, authors, and books of genre interest include:

Fiction

• The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), Rabih Alameddine (Grove)
• A Guardian and a Thief, Megha Majumdar (Knopf)
• The Antidote, Karen Russell (Knopf)
• North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object)
• Palaver, Bryan Washington (Farrar, Straus

The Green Mountain Book Festival has announced its return in October 2025, featuring John Scalzi and several speculative fiction authors from Vermont.

The 2025 festival will be held on Saturday, October 18 in Burlington VT. The program “will include book signings, a writing workshop, panels about humor and worldbuilding in science fiction, and a mainstage interview with John Scalzi.”

Featured authors include Craig Alanson, William Alexander, M.T. Anderson, Emily Hamilton, ... Read More