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Sean Markey, publisher of Psychopomp,The Deadlands, andFantasy Magazine, has announced that Psychopomp will no longer be publishing novellas or novelettes, nonfiction on Psychopomp is on hiatus, and Fantasy Magazine will go on hiatus after its December issue.

Markey wrote,

The biggest reason we've arrived at this point is the most obvious one: funding....

Making a long story short:

• we did not sell enough copies of novellas to make it …Read More

Winners for the National Book Awards (NBA) were announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony on November 19, 2025. Genre authors and works in categories with winners of interest include:

Fiction

• WINNER: 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 …Read More

The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the shortlists for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence for the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year with three fiction and three non-fiction titles.

Titles of genre interest in the fiction category include:

• The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses (Scribner)
• We Do Not Part, Han Kang, translated by Paige …Read More

TimeMagazine has released a list of 100 Must-Read Books of 2025. Works and authors of genre interest include:

• The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), Rabih Alameddine (Grove)
• Book of Lives, Margaret Atwood (Doubleday)
• Sweet Heat, Bolu Babalola (William Morrow)
• The Martians, David Baron (Liveright)
• Cursed Daughters, Oyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday)
• Moderation, Elaine Castillo (Atlantic/Viking)
• Pan, Michael Clune (Penguin)
• King of Ashes, S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
• One …Read More

On October 1, 2025 Simon & Schuster announced the launch of Scarlett Press, a New Adult imprint dedicated to commercial, fast-paced, romance-forward books in all genres, geared to readers 18 and above, and its inaugural list of titles scheduled for Spring 2026, all of which are of genre interest.

The titles are Empire of Flames and Thorns, Marion Blackwood; City of Gods and Monsters, Kayla Edwards;Amid Clouds and Bones, Ella …Read More

Barnes & Noble has announced the finalists for its 2025 Book of the Year. Titles and authors of genre interest include:

• Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• King of Ashes, S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
• Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (HarperCollins)
• I Am Rebel, Ross Montgomery (Candlewick Press)

The winner was announced November 13, 2025. For more information, including the complete list, see the official announcement. …Read More

 

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has named N.K. Jemisin the 42nd recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.

SFWA President Kate Ristau said,

Jemisin is a celebrated speculative fiction author with multiple Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. A MacArthur fellow, she impacted an entire generation of new writers with her groundbreaking work. Her career has had an unbelievable impact on the direction of …Read More

MILESTONES

VAISHNAVI PATEL is now represented by Jordan Hill of New Leaf Literary & Media. Patel sold contemporary fantasy We Dance Upon Demons, following a burnt-out reproductive health care worker, to Sareena Kamath at Saga Press via Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency.

OGHENECHOVWE DONALD EKPEKI is now represented by Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media.

ROBERT J. SAWYER will be a Writer in Residence at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced …Read More

For its 30th anniversary, Tachyon Publications hosted a celebratory party and reading, held Sunday, October 5, 2025 at the San Francisco Public Library in San Francisco CA. After light refreshments in the lobby, the Koret Auditorium opened at 3:00 p.m. for an SF in SF reading by Tachyon authors Joe R. Lansdale and Samantha Mills.

The San Francisco Public Library further commemorated Tachyon's 30th with an exhibit on the third …Read More

The StokerCon Governing Committee has announced the details of StokerCon 2026, or StokerCon 10. The convention will be held June 4-7, 2026 at The Westin Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh PA. Tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite. In-person admission is $300 and virtual is $75.

The six Guests of Honor will be Linda D. Addison, Rachel Harrison, Billy Martin, John Shirley, James Tynion, and Ann VanderMeer.

The Governing Committee, including James Chambers, …Read More

Writer and organizer Celeste Rita Baker, 67, died October 30, 2025.

Baker was a Virgin Islander born July 29, 1958. She moved between St. Thomas and the US several times. She published short stories in The Caribbean Writer, khōréō, Lightspeed, F&SF, Moko Magazine, Strange Horizons, and more. Her work is also included in anthologies such as Genesis: An Anthology of Black Science Fiction (2010), People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy (2016), …Read More

The winners of the 2025 Prix Utopiales and the 2025 Prix Utopiales Jeunesse have been announced. The prizes recognize work in the fantastic genres published or translated into French.

Prix Utopiales (Adult Literature)

• WINNER: La dernière tentation de Judas, Philippe Battaglia (L'Atalante)

• Sous la brume, Yann Bécu (L'Homme Sans Nom)
• Le Mensonge suffit, Christopher Bouix (Au Diable Vauvert)
• Aatea, Anouck Faure (Argyll)
• Re:Start, Katia Lanero Zamora (Argyll)
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We Live Here Now by C.D. Rose (Melville House) is the winner of The Goldsmiths Prize, created in 2013 by Goldsmiths College at the University of London.

Other shortlisted authors and titles of genre interest include Helm, Sarah Hall (Faber) and The Expansion Project, Ben Pester (Granta).

The £10,000 prize is awarded to a book by a British or Irish author that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of …Read More

The 2025 Galaxy Science Fiction Convention, recently branded as Galaxycon, took place in Chengdu from October 18-21, 2025, drawing China's SF community and an international presence for three days of events centered around the 40th annual Galaxy Awards. Galaxycon was held on the newly developed Chengdu Science and Technology Innovation Ecological Island in the Tianfu New Area, Chengdu's designated high-technology belt. The site was created by Zaha Hadid Architects who …Read More

National Book Tokens have announced the winners of the 2025 Books Are My Bag Readers Awards. The awards aim to reflect the truly diverse tastes of real booklovers and the bookshops they love to visit across the UK and Ireland. Winners of genre interest follow.

Young Adult Fiction

• WINNER: Wish You Were Her, Elle McNicoll (First Ink)

• What Happens Online, Nathanael Lessore (Hot Key)
• Skipshock, …Read More

The Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour is open to submissions from unpublished writers of color based in the UK until March 1, 2026.

The winner will receive £4,500, one runner-up £2,500, and up to six shortlisted authors will each receive £850. All writers will also receive mentoring from one of the prize's publishing partners: Bloomsbury, Daphne Press, Del Rey, Gollancz, HarperVoyager, Hodderscape, Orbit UK, …Read More

The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners of the 2025 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• WINNER: Masquerade, O.O. Sangoyomi (Forge)

• Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit)
• Fathomfolk, Eliza Chan (Orbit)
• A Shadow Over Haven, David Green (Eerie River)
• The Green Man's War, Juliet E. McKenna (Wizard's Tower)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• WINNER: My Darling …Read More

The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2024 were presented during the 2025 World Fantasy Convention, held October 30 - November 2, 2025 in Brighton, UK.

The Life Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, went to Juliet Marillier and Michael Whelan.

The World Fantasy Awards winners are:

Best Novel

• WINNER: The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; …Read More

The shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2025 has been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include:

• Universality, Natasha Brown (Faber & Faber)
• Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Alice With a Why, Anna James, illustrated by Matthew Land (HarperCollins)
• Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (HarperCollins)
• So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell (Vintage)
• The Café at the Edge …Read More

John Clute, co-founder of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, has announced the release of a Substack site associated with the online database, which will host both short free-access posts and longer posts for subscribers. Posts on the site will include essays, news updates, reflections, and more, intended to clock the sf world as it changes, and more particularly how SFE records and honours these changes.

Clute said,

Most of …Read More