On Saturday, the 2025 Hugo Awards were presented at Seattle WorldCon, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention. Read more
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Category: Awards
2025 CWA Dagger Awards Announced
The 2025 winners of the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced. Created in 1955, the world-famous CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century. Read more
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‘Intense’ Novel About Robot Abused by Her Boyfriend/Owner Wins Arthur C. Clarke Science Fiction Award
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer is “a tightly focused first-person account of a robot designed to be the perfect companion, who struggles to become free,” said chair of judges, the academic Andrew M Butler. Read more
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Orwell Prize for Political Writing Awarded to Novelist Killed in Ukraine War
Victoria Amelina wins with her unfinished book Looking at Women Looking at War while Donal Ryan takes the award for political fiction with an intimate portrait of an Irish town. Read more
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Natalie Sue Wins Leacock Medal for Humour for Novel ‘I Hope This Finds You Well’
The novel follows the story of an office worker in her early thirties who one day stumbles upon all of her colleagues’ private emails and decides to use their gossip to help save her job. Read more
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Winners of 2025 Locus Awards Announced
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2025 Locus Awards on June 21, 2025, during the Locus Awards Weekend. Read more
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Women’s Prize for Fiction Goes To Debut Novelist Yael Van Der Wouden’s ‘The Safekeep’
Dutch debut novelist Yael van der Wouden has won this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, while British doctor Rachel Clarke took home the nonfiction award. Van der Wouden’s The Safekeep and Clarke’s The Story of a Heart, which made last year’s Booker and Baillie Gifford prize shortlists respectively, were announced as the winners on Thursday evening, with each author awarded £30,000. Read more
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David Means Wins the 2025 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story
“David Means has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the short story form throughout his decades-long career,” said Malamud Committee Chair Jung Yun. “His six collections to date serve to remind readers how finely observed, emotionally compelling, and formally inventive a short story can be, particularly in the hands of a craftsperson like Means who possesses such a clear understanding of the powers and pleasures of the form…”
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German Poet Durs Grünbein, British Translator Karen Leeder Win Griffin Poetry Prize
The $130,000 prize is the world’s largest prize for a single book of poetry written in or translated into English. Because the winning book is a translation from German, the Griffin Poetry Prize will allocate 60 per cent of the prize to the translator and 40 per cent to the original poet. Read more
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‘The Adversary’ by Michael Crummey Wins Dublin Literary Award
The Adversary, a story of sibling rivalry set in 19th-century Newfoundland, by Canadian author Michael Crummey, has won the 30th annual Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000. Read more
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