“Over and Away Again” by Gina McGuire is the winner of the 2021 Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award. The $1,000 prize is given by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) to “emerging authors who use science fiction to address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.”

The judge for 2021 was Andrea Hairston. Submissions for 2022 are currently open until December 1, 2022. For more information about the prize and winners, see the website.

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The winner for the 2022 Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction was announced as part of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes:

The prize is sponsored by the Ray Bradbury Literary Works and “honors and extends Bradbury’s literary legacy by celebrating and elevating the writers working in his field today.” This year’s jurors were Gwenda Bond, Megan Giddings, and Veronica Roth.

Finalists and honorees of genre interest in other categories included I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins (Riverhead) and Harrow by Joy Williams (Knopf) in the Fiction category; Velvet Was The Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) in the Mystery/Thriller category; and A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido) and Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (Dutton) in the Young Adult category.

Winners were honored at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, in a virtual ceremony held April 22, 2022. For more information, see the prize website.

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Mystery Writers of America Announces 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners

April 28, 2022, New York, NY – Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce the Winners for the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2021 The Edgar® Awards were presented at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square and livestreamed on You Tube.  See this announcement as a press release.

BEST NOVEL

Five Decembers by James Kestrel (Hard Case Crime)

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Best Dramatic Presentation

Russian Cyberpunk Farm / Русская кибердеревня Russia

Best Fanzine

Galaxy 42 #4  Romania,  nominated by Montenegro

Best Internet Publication

Decameron 2020, priče iz karantene Croatia

Best Work for Children

“An Adventure in the Lower Earth. Christmas Carolers vs Hallus Beasts” by Elena Pavlova      Bulgaria

Best Work of Art

“L’Héliotrope” book cover by Vaderetro     France

Best Written Work of Fiction

Radek Rak – Baśń o wężowym sercu albo wtóre słowo o Jakóbie Szeli           Poland

Hall of Fame Awards

Best Artist 

Igor Baranko  Ukraine

Best Author

Victor Pelevin / Виктор Пелевин    Russia

Best Magazine

Helion (Joint winner) Romania

Best Magazine

Mir Fantastiki / Мир фантастики (Joint winner) Russia

Best Promoter 

Vanja Kranjčević       Croatia

Best Publisher 

Colibri  (Joint winner) Bulgaria

Best Publisher  

Shtriga  (Joint winner) Croatia

Best Publisher 

Azbooka / Азбука  (Joint winner) Russia

Best Translator 

Serhiy Legeza / Сергій Легеза         Ukraine,

nominated by Ukraine & Russia

Chrysalis Awards

Anna Zabini (Austria)

Irena Parvanova (Bulgaria)

Chiara Pumper (Croatia)

Jean-Michel Ré (France)

Helen Corcoran (Ireland)

Romina Braggion (Italy)

Cosimo Suglia (Luxembourg)

Dragić Rabrenović (Montenegro)

BIANCA SOL (Romania)

Mikhail Kovba / Михаил Ковба (Russia)

Sara Engström (Sweden)

Vlad Sord (Ukraine)

European Grandmaster

Maurizio Manzieri (Italy)

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The winners for the 2020 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards have been announced.

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