We’re in the heart of award season now, with awards and shortlists coming thick and fast! This week we bring you the first big spring round up: the Philip K Dick award, the Aurealis Awards for Australian SF, and the British Science Fiction Association award winners – along with the latest shortlists. Did we miss an award you think we should be keeping track of? Let us know and we’ll get right on it. RECENT AWARDS          LATEST SHORTLISTS         COMING SOON RECENT AWARDS PHILIP K DICK AWARD          AUREALIS AWARDS         BSFA AWARDS Philip K Dick Award Awarded by jury on 14th April at Norwescon Kristy Acevedo – Consider (Jolly Fish) Eleanor Arnason – Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Aqueduct) Claudia Casper – The Mercy Journals (Arsenal Pulp) *WINNER Susan diRende – Unpronounceable (Aqueduct) *SPECIAL CITATION Matt Hill – Graft (Angry Robot) Yoss (transl. David Frye) – Super Extra Grande (Restless)   Aurealis Awards Awarded by jury on 14th April at SwanCon  Best SF Short Story Jack Dann, Trainspotting in Winesburg (Concentration, PS Publishing) Ian McHugh, The Baby Eaters (Asimov’s Science Fiction 40/1) Claire McKenna, The Autumn Dog Cannot Live to Spring (In Your Face, Fablecroft) Samantha Murray, Of Sight, of Mind, of…

Welcome to our regular update on genre awards, where we keep you up to date with all the major awards. There’s been a flurry of shortlists in advance of the first awards of the year – we’ve got all the details on shortlists and upcoming deadlines for nominations or voting. Did we miss an award you think we should be keeping track of? Let us know and we’ll get right on it. RECENT AWARDS         LATEST SHORTLISTS         NOMINATIONS CLOSING          COMING SOON RECENT AWARDS IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award Charlie Jane Anders – All The Birds In The Sky (Tor) *WINNER Rose Lemberg – Marginalia to Stone Bird (Aqueduct) Maria Turtschaninoff – Maresi (Pushkin/Abrams) Michael Wehunt – Greener Pastures (Shock Totem)   RUSA Reading List Fantasy Daniel O’Malley – Stiletto: A Novel (Little, Brown) * WINNER Mishell Baker – Borderline (Saga Press) Guy Gavriel Kay – Children of Earth and Sky (New American Library) Mary Robinette Kowal – Ghost Talkers (Tor) Frederic S. Durbin – A Green and Ancient Light (Saga Press) Horror Thomas Olde Heuvelt – Hex (Tor) *WINNER Cherie Priest – The Family Plot (Tor) Joe Hill – The Fireman: A Novel (William Morrow) Grady Hendrix – My Best Friend’s Exorcism: A Novel (Quirk Books) Christopher Buehlman – Suicide Motor…

Welcome to our regular update on genre awards, where we keep you up to date with all the major awards. Midwinter is a quiet time for ceremonies, but there’s plenty of other activity underway – we’ve got the details on the latest awards and upcoming deadlines. Did we miss an award you think we should be keeping track of? Let us know and we’ll get right on it. RECENT AWARDS          NOMINATIONS CLOSING          COMING SOON RECENT AWARDS Goodreads Choice Awards Winners FANTASY: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) | Runners up YOUNG ADULT SF/F: Sarah J Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury (Bloomsbury) | Runners up SCIENCE FICTION: Pierce Brown, Morning Star (Del Rey) | Runners up   NOMINATIONS CLOSING BSFA Awards Closing date (nominations): 31st December | Closing date (longlist voting): 31st January The BSFA awards are fan awards presented annually by the British Science Fiction Association. The awards seek to honour and promote the genre of science fiction. A second round of voting will follow in January, with the winners announced at Eastercon 2017 (14-17 April) in Birmingham, UK. Categories: Best Novel, Best Short fiction, Best Artwork, Best work of Non-Fiction Who can nominate? BSFA members How do I nominate? Online nomination form   COMING…

Welcome to the first in a new series on genre awards. Here we’ll be keeping you up to date with recent wins, shortlists and closing dates for nominations for all the major awards. We’re kicking off with the World Fantasy Awards, presented at the World Fantasy Convention 2016 in Columbus, Ohio on 27-30 October. Did we miss an award you think we should be keeping track of? Let us know and we’ll get right on it. WORLD FANTASY AWARDS          NOMINATIONS CLOSING   WORLD FANTASY AWARDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT David G. Hartwell Andrzej Sapkowski NOVELS Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant (Knopf/Faber & Faber) N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (Orbit) Naomi Novik, Uprooted (Del Rey Books/Macmillan UK) K. J. Parker, Savages (Subterranean Press) Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts (William Morrow & Co.) Anna Smaill, The Chimes (Sceptre)  *WINNER  LONG FICTION Usman T. Malik, “The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn” (Tor.com, Apr. 22, 2015) Kim Newman, “Guignol” (Horrorology, edited by Stephen Jones, Jo Fletcher Books) Kelly Robson, “Waters of Versailles” (Tor.com, June 10, 2015) Bud Webster, “Farewell Blues” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan./Feb. 2015)  Kelly Barnhill, The Unlicensed Magician (PS Publishing)  *WINNER  SHORT FICTION Selena Chambers, “The Neurastheniac” (Cassilda’s Song, ed….