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 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 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
Read moreThe world famous Nebula Awards are perhaps the most prestigious of Science Fiction awards on the planet. The inaugural winner of the Best Novel award, back in 1966, was none other than Frank Herbert’s Dune. Some of the notable winners since include some absolute masters of the genre. Isaac Asimov, Ursula Le Guin, Arthur C. Clarke, the list of Best
Read moreAs you may have seen in our recent tweet, it’s that time of year where the awards are coming thick and fast. We may be ahead of the game, with the Zealot Script Book of the Year 2016 already decided, more on that soon, but the big names in Science Fiction and Fantasy awards around the globe are just announcing
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