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Finalists for this year’s Andre Norton and Ray Bradbury awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) in association with the 58th Annual Nebula Awards, have been announced.

The Andre Norton Award, for young adult books, last year went to Darcie Little Badger’s A Snake Falls to Earth; this year’s finalists are shown above and are listed at the link.

The Ray Bradbury Award, for dramatic presentations, last year went to the writers of Season 1 of the TV series WandaVision. This year’s finalists are the writers of the “One Way Out” episode of Andor, the film Everything Everwhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), the film Nope (Jordan Peele), and the TV series Our Flag Means Death, The Sandman (Season 1), and Severance. Full lists of nominees are at the link.

(Source: SFWA)

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Finalists for the 58th annual Nebula Awards, to be awarded in 2023 for works published in 2022, have been announced in categories for novel, novella, novelette, short story, and game writing. (Associated SFWA awards for YA fiction and dramatic presentation will be posted shortly.)

Last year’s winner were P. Djèlí Clark, Premee Mohamed, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Sarah Pinsker, and six credited writers for the game Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

Ekpeki won last year for novelette “O2 Arena”; other previous winners on this year’s list are Nicola Griffith, for the novel Slow River in 1997, Kelly Robson, for novelette “A Human Stain” in 2018, and John Wiswell, for short story “Open House on Haunted Hill” in 2021.

This year’s results will be announced Sunday, May 14, 2023, during the 2023 Nebula Conference Online held online and in-person in Anaheim, CA.

(Sources: Locus; SFWA)

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Finalists for this years British Science Fiction Association Awards have been released. Winners will be announced at Conversation, this year’s Eastercon, held April 7 – 10 in Birmingham.

Last year’s winners were Adrian Tchaikovsky, Aliette de Bodard, Xiran Jay Zhao (all three nominees again this year), Francesca T. Barbini, and Iain Clark.

The BSFA Awards have been presented since 1970, when the winner in just one category was John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar.

(Source: Locus)

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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)