http://www.sfadb.com/Ray_Bradbury_Award_2015

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All nominees are first-time Bradbury finalists, and first-time entries in this database, except for Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeeley, both with Bradbury nominations in 2012 for an earlier Captain America film, and Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan, who won a Stoker for Memento and who have three and two Nebula nominations in the Best Script category that presaged the Bradbury Award. Christopher Nolan also won a Bradbury for Inception in 2011.

http://www.sfadb.com/Andre_Norton_Award_2015

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Both Alaya Dawn Johnson and A.S. King are previous Andre Norton finalists, Johnson for The Summer Prince last year, King for Everybody Sees the Ants in 2012. This is Leslye Walton’s first entry in this database. None of these authors have won any award of those compiled here.

http://www.sfadb.com/James_Tiptree_Jr_Memorial_Award_2015

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Monica Byrne’s winning novel was also a finalist for this year’s Kitschies awards. This is her first Tiptree recognition. Jo Walton’s Lifelode was on the Tiptree honor list in 2010

http://www.sfadb.com/Bram_Stoker_Awards_2015

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These are the first Stoker Award nominations — and the first nominations for any of the awards in this database (as of this posting) — for Emma Audsley, J.D. Barker, Jake Bible, Jason V Brock (with 2), Robert Payne Cabeen, David Cronenberg (the first novel by the film director), Tyler Crook, Craig DiLouie, Patrick Frievald, Taylor Grant, Tonya Hurley, Jennifer Kent, Sydney Leigh, Josh Malerman, Alessandro Manzetti, Joe Mynhardt, Peter Adam Salomon, John F.D. Taff, Damien Angelica Walters, Dennis Widmyer, and James Wong.

In addition, several others have first Stoker nominations with prior nominations (as of what’s been compiled here so far as of this posting) for other awards: Hal Bodner (a 2006 Gaylactic Spectrum nomination), Emily Carroll (with a Kitchies nomination for this same book), Josh Logan (a Ray Bradbury nomination in 2012), Usman T. Malik (a Nebula nomination this year for the same story).

At the other extreme: this year’s ballot has the 16th Stoker nomination for Ellen Datlow (with 4 previous wins), the 8th Stoker nomination for Joe Hill (with 3 previous wins), the 3rd nomination for S.T. Joshi (with 1 previous win), the 20th nomination for Joe R. Lansdale (with 9 previous wins), Jonathan Maberry (with 4 previous wins), the 16th nomination for Tom Piccirilli (with 4 previous wins), the 9th nomination for Marge Simon (with 3 previous wins), and the 10th nomination for Steve Rasnic Tem (with 3 previous wins).

http://www.sfadb.com/The_Kitschies_2015

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All of this year’s winners and finalists were first-time finalists for this award, and only four of them — Nina Allan, William Gibson, Emmi Itäranta, and Nnedi Okorafor — have previous nominations for any of the awards compiled in this database (as of this posting).