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The Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust has announcedAudition by Pip Adam (Coffee House) [amazon / bookshop] as the winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, awarding a $25,000 cash prize to the author of a book that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula's own work.

The selection panel, including Nicola Griffith, Mat Johnson, Fonda Lee, Darcie Little Badger, and Peter Rock, …Read More

TheScience Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the 2026 Dwarf Stars Awards, for speculative poetry of 10 lines or fewer, the 2026 Elgin Awards, presented for the best speculative poetry book and chapbook, and the 2026 Rhysling Awards for speculative poetry. The Dwarf Stars winners are:

Dwarf Stars

• First Place: Concrete Cuneiform Poem #1 , Robert Frazier (Sublimation 1-2/25)

• Second Place: [bound …Read More

The winner of the 2025 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:The Antidote, Karen Russell (Knopf) amazon / bookshop

• Blind Date with a Werewolf, Patricia Briggs (Ace) amazon / bookshop
• When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• Hole in the …Read More

LAcon V, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, received 2,492 valid ballots (two paper), up from 1,962 at Seattle Worldcon 2025. There were 1,488 nominating ballots received (six paper), up from 1,338 last year.

The procedure for counting nominations remains the E Pluribus Hugo, or EPH, system, instituted in 2017 to help reduce the effect of bloc voting. The rather complicated system gives a single point to each voter's ballot, …Read More

REBECCA MATTE has joined kt literary. She was previously at Bradford Literary Agency.

MEGAN LALLY is now represented by Joanna Volpe of New Leaf Literary & Media. Lally's romantic gothic horror To Death, We Dance and another title went to Vicki Lame at Wednesday Books at auction via Mandy Hubbard of Emerald City Literary Agency. UK rights sold to Pan Macmillan.

Death of the Author by NNEDI …Read More

Qilin Press has established the Linda D. Addison Speculative Poetry Fellowship, an award that,

supports BIPOC poets developing unpublished and in‑progress speculative poetry collections. The fellowship awards $1000 to one poet whose work demonstrates visionary depth, thematic strength, and artistic growth potential, recognizing the essential leadership of BIPOC poets in shaping contemporary speculative poetry.

Applications open January 18, 2027, requiring a collection of 10 unpublished speculative poems. …Read More

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

• Pascal Blanche for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol. 3 edited by Stephen Kotowych​ (Ansible)
• Lindsey Carr for Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings (Tor)
• Tristan Elwell for Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher​ (47North)
• Maurizio Manzieri for The Year's Top Robot and …Read More

Editor, critic, and publisher Malcolm Edwards, 76, died October 3, 2026. He had Parkinson's disease.

Malcolm John Edwards was born December 3, 1949 in London, England. He received a degree from the University of Cambridge. He worked at several publishing houses, including Gollancz from 1976-89, HarperCollins from 1991-7, and Orion Books from 1998-2019, first as managing director, then as deputy CEO and group publisher. For Gollancz, he edited the SF …Read More

Two highly respected artists in the field, John Picacio and Donato Giancola, have stated online their frustrations with Must Read Magazines, after several rounds of email and online communications with the publisher regarding their boilerplate contract terms for artists. The publisher in its most recent statement said it would address community concerns by retiring work-for-hire terms, retaining artist copyright, and removing moral rights waivers to align with their fiction …Read More

The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners of the 2026 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• WINNER: Upon a Starlit Tide, Kell Woods (Tor US; Titan UK)

• A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit)
• The Outcast Mage, Annabel Campbell (Orbit)
• Magic, Maps, and Mischief, David Green (self-published)
• Daughters of Nicnevin, Shona Kinsella (Flame Tree)
• Grave Empire, Richard Swan (Orbit)

Dragon Con was held at multiple hotels and AmericasMart in downtown Atlanta GA from September 3-7, 2026. The Dragon Awards ceremony was held Sunday at 4:00 p.m. (See page 6 for the winners.) A fan-focused event with great attendance, Dragon Con also offered more than 30 event tracks, several of interest to SFF industry professionals. Panels included Afrofuturism: Building the Future Now with Afua Richardson, Dedren Snead (m), and …Read More

The winners of the2026 Sir Julius Vogel Awardshave been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ).

Best Novel

• WINNER: Dancing in the Purple Rain, Judy L. Mohr (Black Wolf)

• Identical, Vanessa Di Gianni (Self published)
• The Deadly Life of Diana Penn, Shawn Inmom and Kirsten McKenzie (Squabbling Sparrows)
• How to Find a Nameless Fae, A.J. Lancaster (Camberion)
• Blade of the Wanderer, Steven …Read More

The winners of the 2025 Australasian 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: Slashed Beauties, A. Rushby (Berkley) amazon / bookshop

• Black Soil White Bread, Madeleine D'Este (self-published) amazon / bookshop
• The Woman in the Well, Dmetri Kakmi (IFWG) …Read More

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: Unauthorized Territory , Michael Bailey

• Second Place: Communication Is Important , F. J. Bergmann
• Third Place: Untitled , Anna Cates
• Honorable Mention: Disillusioned Tribute , Joy Donnell

Short Form (10 to 50 lines):

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The winner, finalists, and honorable mentions for the 2026 Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction have been announced.

The winner is All the Tears from the River Below by Rida Altaf. Finalists are Qitmir by Eman Farhan and Dreams of Dying and Waking Men by Shahmeer Mahesar. The honorable mention is Diesel Raven by Abdul Kabir Qureshi.

The Salam Award, a short story award to promote science fiction and related genres …Read More

The Empire State Center for the Book has announced Lawrence Block and N.K. Jemisin as two of the three writers in 2026 to be inducted into the New York State (NYS) Writers Hall of Fame, along with Kay Thompson (posthumously). The Hall of Fame is presented alongside the NYS Writers Institute, a literary organization that enhances and celebrates literature, writing, and performance.

The 2026 Hall of Fame selection committee …Read More

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

Fiction

• Paradiso 17, Hannah Lillith Assadi (Knopf)
• Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You, Julián Delgado Lopera (Liveright)
• Mad Eden, Morgan Thomas (MCD)

Young People's Literature

• Holloway, Elana K. Arnold (Clarion)
• When Tomorrow Burns, Tae Keller (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian …Read More

Guardians of the Well by Rose Strickman (In Another Time 6/25) has been announced as the winner of the 2026 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction. Other finalists include:

• Not a Fish , Andrew Dykstal (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/12/25)
• Half Life , Stephen Harper (Skull X Bones)
• The Last Mardi Gras , Raven Jakubowski (DreamForge Anvil6/1/25)
• The Teleporting Disaster …Read More

The Ignyte Awards Committee has announced the winners of the 2026 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 Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga) amazon/bookshop

• A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. …Read More

LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, was held August 27-31, 2026 at the Anaheim Convention Center and Hilton Anaheim & Anaheim Marriott Hotels in Anaheim, California. Guests of honor were novelist Barbara Hambly, cartoonist Colleen Doran, illustrator Tim Kirk, graphic novelist Stan Sakai, screenwriter Ronald D. Moore, fanzine editor Geri Sullivan, and engineer Anita Sengupta; special guests were NASA engineer Tracy Drain and authors Terese Mason Pierre …Read More