The winners of the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced on August 30, 2026 by LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention. Read more
Category: Awards
EJ Swift Wins the 2026 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction
The writer – who was also shortlisted in 2023 – has won the prize for her book When There Are Wolves Again, a speculative work of eco-fiction set in near-future Britain. Read more
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Winner of Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Revealed
The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths, which follows a detective working for a time-travelling police cold case team, has been named crime novel of the year. The book is the first in a new series and sees investigator Ali Dawson travel to Victorian London in 1850 to explore a series of killings that have 21st century consequences for politicians and her own family. Read more
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‘Transcription’ by Ben Lerner Wins Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
American writer Ben Lerner has won this year’s Orwell prize for political fiction for Transcription, a novel exploring technology and memory. In nonfiction, the prize went to Karen Bartlett for The Escape from Kabul, which looks at Afghan women lawyers who came under threat after the fall of Kabul in 2021. Read more
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Saskatoon Author Meredith Hambrock Wins $25K Leacock Medal for Best Canadian Humour Writing
Meredith Hambrock’s novel, She’s A Lamb!, is the winner of the 2026 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. The $25,000 prize is one of the oldest of its kind, established in 1947 to support the growth of Canadian humour writing. Read more
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Here Are the Winners of This Year’s Bram Stoker Awards
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement. Named in honor of Bram Stoker (Dracula) and awarded annually since 1988, the awards “are given ‘for superior achievement,’ not for ‘best of the year,’ and the rules are deliberately designed to make ties possible.” Read more
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Winners of the Nebula Award Announced
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) is proud to announce its latest Nebula Award winners for works published in 2025, as first presented during the Nebula Awards Ceremony on Saturday, June 6, at the organization’s 61st Annual Nebula Awards Conference at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel and Conference Center in Chicago, Illinois. Read more
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2026 Locus Awards Winners
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2026 Locus Awards on May 30, 2026, during the Bay Area Book Festival. Read more
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‘Hellions’ Author Julia Elliott Wins $150K Fiction Prize
Writer Julia Elliott has won this year’s Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for her short story collection Hellions. The award honors work by women and nonbinary authors in the U.S. and Canada. Elliott, who also authored the novel The New and Improved Romie Futch and the short story collection The Wilds, is known for blending elements of Southern gothic horror, surrealism and fairy tale. Read more
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‘Taiwan Travelogue’ Wins the 2026 International Booker Prize
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue has won the 2026 International Booker Prize, awarded each year to the best work of fiction translated into English. It’s the first work translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker. Read more
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