2017 Scribe Awards Winners
The Scribe Awards have announced their winners of the 2017 awards.
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Controversy Overshadows Dragon Awards
Controversy marred the annual Dragon Awards this year, this gets a little bit convoluted so you’ll need to bear with us while we unravel this for you. The issues started with Alison Littlewood, author of The Hidden People. The novel was announced as nominated in the Horror novel category of the Dragon Awards, an excellent achievement for the author? Well,
Read moreThe Underground Railroad misses out on Booker Prize
When the Booker Prize shortlist was announced yesterday a Zealot Script favourite was missing. Unfortunately for author Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad has missed out on scooping the most prestigious literary prize of them all. We’re sure that Colson is not too disheartened as he can console himself with the fact that he has already been awarded 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the
Read moreLocus Awards
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced winners in each category of the 2017 Locus Awards.
Read moreMargaret Atwood honoured with Peace Prize
Margaret Atwood, author of such celebrated work as The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin, is no stranger to success. Her previous awards include the Booker Prize, the Nebula Award and the Arthur C Clarke award and she has been awarded with no less than 24 honourary degrees, including from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard. The latest award to come
Read moreArthur C Clarke Award for The Underground Railroad
Following on from our post just yesterday, announcing The Underground Railroad was in the running for the Booker Prize, Colson Whitehead’s novel has been confirmed as the winner of the 2017 Arthur C Clarke award. Whitehead’s novel has been collecting accolades and awards across the entire scope of literary world, uniting the experts of the literary and science fiction worlds
Read moreThe Underground Railroad makes Booker Prize Longlist
Having already taken home the 2017 Pulitzer prize, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction (from the US based National Book Foundation) and being one of six nominees for the Arthur C Clarke Award, The Underground Railroad has been taking the literary world by storm. The latest accolade to come the way of this exciting novel is to be included
Read moreSplatterPunk Awards Launched
In celebration of an emerging new genre we can announce a new award ceremony, the SplatterPunk awards! Certainly not to everyone’s tastes, the genre of SplatterPunk is characterised by extreme violence written in gory, graphic detail. Whereas many horror authors will attest to the power of letting the reader’s imagination run wild, pointing them in the right direction without letting
Read moreScribe Awards Nominees
A slightly lesser known award, The Scribe awards recognise the world of “media tie-in” writing. While this field suffers from a lack of the prestige that the pure Science Fiction and Fantasy fields enjoy there is some excellent work in the area and the Scribe awards work to highlight this fact. If you believe, and you won’t be alone, that
Read moreNebula Award Winners 2016
Congratulations to all the 2016 Nebula Award Winners! The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has released the list of Nebula Award winners for 2016. The Nebula is one of the most prestigious awards in the SFF world and it is an outstanding achievement to be one of the selected winners.
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