The highly prestigious Arthur C. Clarke award has just announced the shortlist for the 2017 award. Founded in 1987, for the quality of previous winners there is no need to look further than the inaugural winner. Back in 1987, Margaret Attwood scooped the very first award with subsequent winners including China Miéville (three times), Pat Cadigan, and Geoff Ryman (twice). Zealot
Read moreEveryone’s favourite character-killing fantasy author has made an exciting new announcement on his blog. George has announced that he will be personally funding a scholarship for a student to attend the prestigious Odyssey Writing Workshop based at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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This is one for our Australian readers. The Aurealis Awards, the premier Science Fiction and Fantasy awards in Australia, have put out an open call for new judges for 2017! Aurealis judges are all volunteers and (from their webiste) the only qualification you need to be a judge is “a demonstrated knowledge of and interest in their chosen category”.
Read moreLuna Press’ Academic Branch, Academia Lunare, has opened its doors to submissions for 2017 and the topic this year is THE EVOLUTION OF AFRICAN FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. Luna Press is a relatively new addition to the UK publishing scene, having been founded in 2015 by Francesca T. Barbini.
Read moreby Elaine Jenkins For all fans of sci-fi/fantasy who subscribe to the Zealot Script you will be pleased to hear that the shortlist for the annual Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction was announced on 3 April. The list announced this year was a strikingly diverse choice and on that list was, ‘The Power’ by Naomi Alderman. Only six novels are chosen
Read moreWe are delighted to announce the winner of our Zealot Script Book of the Year Award for 2016. This award celebrates outstanding achievement in an independently published book.
Read moreWe are delighted to be able to tell you that Ursula K. Le Guin has been selected to become a member of American Academy of Arts and Literature. Ursula K. Le Guin is an absolute giant of the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres, with the uncommon ability to enjoy great success in both fields. Her Earthsea series is an absolute
Read moreNext up to announce their shortlist are the Horror Writers Association with their list of nominees for the prestigious Bram Stoker Awards. The premier awards for a Horror writer, past winners include none other than Zealot Script favourite Neil Gaiman, the mastermind behind A Song of Ice and Fire George RR Martin and Harry Potter creator JK Rowling.
Read moreNext up in announcing their shortlists are the Aurealis Awards. A relative newcomer to the award scene, the Aurealis Awards was founded in 1995 in association with Aurealis magazine. These awards are different from the big players in the field for two reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that these awards are exclusively national awards, only Australian authors are
Read moreHot on the heels of the announcement of the 2016 Nebula Awards comes the announcement from the British Science Fiction Association of their shortlists for 2016. As with the Nebula Awards, the past winners of the BSFA Best Novel award make for quite the reading list. Arthur C Clarke took the 1973 Best Novel award, the same year that he won
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