I’m very excited to bring you an awards announcement of a very different kind this time around. A new award, the D Franklin Defying Doomsday Award is being launched. Hosted by the folks over at Twelfth Planet Press, the award celebrates something very different than the normal “excellence” in the field. Off the back of the wonderful anthology, Defying Doomsday,
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The Shirley Jackson Awards, to recognise outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic, have announced their nominees for the 2016 awards. Founded in 2007, the awards are named in honour of Shirley Jackson, the author of numerous works such as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
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The Martian by Andy Weir is one of the most well known works in Modern Science Fiction and Crown Publishing have just announced the release date for the sequel! Met with near universal acclaim, The Martian won Weir the coveted John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the 2016 Hugo Awards and was picked up almost immediately after release
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Breaking from our usual habit of focussing exclusively on literary happenings within SFF, we are pleased to announce that the Parsec Awards have opened their nomination process for the 2017 award ceremony held later in the year. The Parsec Awards are now in their 12th year and are awarded for excellence, not in SFF literature, but in SFF podcasting.
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The Horror Writers Association has announced this year’s winners of the Bram Stoker Awards. Lisa Morton, the President of the HWA and multiple award winner herself, had this to say about the 2017 winners.
Read moreThe Second Annual Dragon Awards are now open for public nominations. With the ceremony to be held at Dragon Con 2017 you have until the 24th July to get your nominations in.
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The annual Sci-Fi Weekender has begun drip-feeding their 2018 line-up into the web and we’re excited to announce that this includes legendary Sci-Fi author Kevin J Anderson. As previous years, the weekend takes place in Pwllheli in Wales and next year will be on the weekend of 22nd-25th March. The event encapsulates all aspects of Science Fiction, with a heavy
Read moreThe 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”.
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