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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)

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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)