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Finalists for this year’s Bram Stoker Awards have been announced. Winners will be honored at StokerCon 2023, to be held June 15-18, 2023, in Pittsburgh PA.

The Bram Stoker Awards, for works of horror, have been presented since 1988 by the Horror Writers Association. Last year’s winners included Stephen Graham Jones, Ellen Datlow, and many others. This year’s awards include, for the first time, a category for “Middle Grade Novel.”

(Sources: HWA; Locus)

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Finalists for the Endeavour Award for works published in 2021 (and thus indicated as the 2022 awards in this database, despite belated voting) have been announced. No awards were voted or awarded during 2021 or 2022.

The previous Endeavour Award, announced in 2020 for works published in 2019, was a tie between Matthew Hughes’ What the Wind Brings and Louisa Morgan’s The Witch’s Kind

The Endeavour Award is for the best SF or fantasy book by a writer living in the Pacific Northwest, and has been awarded since 1999.

This year’s winner will be announced at Norwescon 45, to be held in SeaTac WA, April 6 – 9 2023.

(Sources: Endeavour Award; Locus)

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Finalists for this year’s award, for best SF/fantasy/horror novel of the year, have been announced. The winner will be announced April 10, and presented at the annual Balticon in Baltimore, 26-29 May 2023.

Last year’s winner was A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark.

Source: Locus)

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The winner of this year’s Crawford Award, presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts for a first book of fantasy (novel or collection) published the previous year, is Simon Jimenez’s The Spear Cuts Through Water. The award will be presented at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in March 2023.

A shortlist was also announced, with works by Maya Deane, Naseem Jamnia, Alex Jennings, and Jacob Kerr.

Sources: IAFA; Locus)

This year’s winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award is John Scalzi. The award will be presented at Balticon 57 in Maryland on May 26, 2023.

The award has been presented since 2003 to honor writers of outstanding published works in hard science fiction or technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space. Previous winners include Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, Connie Willis, Geoffrey A. Landis, and Gregory Benford.

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