The Shirley Jackson Awards celebrate “outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction” and are considered one of the premier awards in horror literature. This is the top of the game for horror writers and a true honour for any author wanting to follow in the footsteps of one of the genre’s great contributors. The awards are voted
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Yet another Canadian Award announcement in what is quickly becoming Canadian Season here at Zealot Script! This time, in affiliation with the Sunburst Awards Society, comes the Copper Cylinder award.
Read moreFrom the Sunburst Awards to the Aurora Awards, it’s Canada season! The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association has announced the winners of their Annual Aurora awards, but this year was a bit different. In addition to the twelve (that’s right twelve) regular awards, this year was that one out of every ten years that they also handed out the prestigious
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At their second annual conference the Historical Writers of America will award their PastWords Award to seven artists whose “work illuminates the past”. The award was setup “to recognize creators who have produced an outstanding body of work.” Among the winners of the 2017 awards is none other than A Song of Ice and Fire, and therefore TV sensation Game of
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An announcement for our Canadian friends today with the release of the shortlist for the 2017 Sunburst Awards. The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an award to recognize exceptional writing in three categories: adult, young adult and short story. The awards are presented annually to a winner in each of the categories. And yes, they do
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The World Fantasy Convention is all set to honour Terry Brooks and Marina Warner with lifetime achievement awards at their annual ceremony in November.
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The Scribe Awards have announced their winners of the 2017 awards.
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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced winners in each category of the 2017 Locus Awards.
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This is the book plants don’t want you to read… There’s been a lot of coverage in recent times of the successes and failures of the crowdsourcing model, epitomised by Kickstarter. Well we’ve found one Kickstarter that looks primed to be a success! From the Kickstarter description: Improbable Botany is a brand-new science fiction anthology about alien plant conquests, fantastical ecosystems,
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Gollancz have announced the arrival of Strange Weather, a collection of four “short novels” by the award-winning Joe Hill. This collection of novellas is due for release on the 7th of November, but you can already get your pre-orders in. Joe Hill is best known as the bestselling author of the 2016 release, The Fireman, and has scoped a host
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