The 2024 World Fantasy Awards, held at the World Fantasy Convention in Niagara Falls, honored some exceptional works. Best Novel Best Novella Best Short Fiction Best Anthology Best Collection Best Artist Special Award – Professional Special Award – Non-Professional This year’s judges were Douglas A. Anderson, Stephanie Feldman, Pat Murphy, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, and Angela […]
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There are many grand prix awards for fantasy writers, including the Aurealis Awards, the Australian grand prix awards for fantasy and science fiction, of which I am a finalist this year. There is also the Hugo and Nebula awards, and the Dragon Awards (with their lovely trophies). Most of the time, as readers, we’re not
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The nomination periods for the two biggest awards in speculative fiction have just opened. If you’re a member of WorldCon for either Glasgow next year, or Chengdu, this year, you can both nominate and vote for the Hugo Awards. (Membership is an annual fee and anyone can join, even if you’re not attending WorldCon itself).
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Fellow Stories Rule Press author Cameron Cooper posted earlier this month that they’d reached the semi-finals in the Self-Published Science Fiction Contest run by Hugh Howey. First off, congratulations to Cameron. Secondly, the post made me wonder if you were aware that there is an older, similar contest out there, one just for fantasy. The
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You may remember in June last year my announcement that “Touched by Faelight” was included in a new urban fantasy anthology, Street Magic. A year later, I re-published Touched by Faelight as a standalone story. But in the meantime, the editor of the anthology, Lyn Worthen, has won the Best Book of the Year award from
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