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Winners of this year’s Aurora Awards, for Canadian science fiction and fantasy, were announced over the weekend. This is the fourth win for Fonda Lee, the third for Kelly Robson, the second for Carolyn Clink, and the fifth for Samantha Beiko.

Last year’s winners included Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Susan Forest, Chadwick Ginther, and Derek Künsken.

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Finalists for this year’s WSFA (Washington Science Fiction Association) Small Press Award have been announced. This is the 16th year the awards have been made.

Last year’s winner was T. Kingfisher’s “Metal Like Blood in the Dark.”

This year’s winner will be announced at Capclave, in Rockville MD, to be held Sept 30 – Oct 2, 2022.

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Winners of this year’s Mytheopoeic Awards were announced last weekend at Mythcon 52 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Jo Walton has won the Mytheopoeic Award once before, for Lifelode in 2010, and has been nominated three other times. These are the first Mythopoeic nominations and wins for Lori M. Lee, Eden Royce, Holly Ordway, and Philip Ball.

Last year’s winners were TJ Kune, T. Kingfisher, John M. Bowers, and Anna Vaninskaya.

The 51st annual British Fantasy Awards finalists have been announced. Winners will be announced at FantasyCon 2022 in September.

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Last year’s winners included novels The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow and Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and works by Zelda Knight & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Charlotte Bond, P. Djèlí Clark, Ida Keogh, Alison Peirse.

Eleven of this year’s finalists have won the British Fantasy Award before: Daniele Serra (3 times), Ellen Datlow, Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, and Catriona Ward (2 times each), and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Alan Garner, Alix E. Harrow, Alasdair Stuart, and Tasha Suri (once each).

Of 61 distinct finalists this year, 34 of them, or 55% are first-timers, including Shelley Parker-Chan (twice this year), and Lorraine wilson and C.A. Yates (both thrice this year).

Some of this year’s most-nominated works for all awards so-far compiled are on this ballot, including Xiran Jay Zhao’s novel Iron Window (six nominations, including this indirect one), Isabel Yap’s collection Never Have I Ever (five), and four each for the novels by C.L. Clarke, Cassandra Khaw, and Shelley Parker-Chan, Ellen Datlow’s anthology, Ekpeki’s novelette “O2 Arena,” the collection by A.C. Wise, and the nonfiction by Nette & McIntyre.

(The most nominated works this year are P. Djèlí’ Clark’s A Master of Djinn (7) and Arkady Martine’s A Desolation Called Peace (6), with both works also nominated for last year’s Dragon Awards.)

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The 48th annual World Fantasy Awards finalists have been announced. Winners will be presented at the World Fantasy Convention in New Orleans, LA, later this year. Life Achievements Awards will be presented to Samuel R. Delany and Terri Windling.

Last year’s winners were Alaya Dawn Johnson, Tochi Onyebuchi, Celeste Rita Baker, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Aoko Matsuda, Rovina Cai, C.C. Finlay, and Brian Attebery, with Life Achievement awards to Megan Lindholm and Howard Waldrop.

Eight of this year’s finalists have won the World Fantasy Award before: Ellen Datlow (10 times), Jeffrey Ford (7), Irene Gallo (2), Elizabeth Hand (4), William K. Schafer (1), Angela Slatter (1), Sheree R. Thomas (2), and Charles Vess (4). In addition Terri Windling has won 9 times before, while Samuel R. Delany has never been cited for any World Fantasy Award until now.

Of this year’s five best novel finalists, only P. Djèlí Clark has been nominated before, twice; the other four are first-timers. Of the novella finalists, only Elizabeth Hand has been nominated before, 11 times with 4 wins. Of the short fiction finalists, Malik has been nominated once before, Clark twice before, and Pinsker twice before.

Of this year’s 50 different finalists, 29 of them, or 58%, are first-timers: Anders, Bacon, Bardot, Ghatia, Cho, Cuervo, Dinesh, Doubinsky, Ekpeki, Fawkes, Garcia, Goodwin, Guignard, Igbokwe, Khaw, Liu, Mohamed, Muffaz, Nguyen, Phin, Polydoros, Ransom, Ring, Shell, Skiba, Suri, Takeda, Ward, and Wise.

(Complete tallies.)

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