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Finalists for this year’s Dragon Awards, voted by members of each year’s Dragon Con, have been announced. Winners will be announced on September 5th at the convention in Atlanta.

Last year’s winners included Andy Weir, Jim Butcher, T. Kingfisher, Larry Correia & John D. Brown, and Eric Flint & Charles E. Gannon.

Note that unlike virtually all other awards, the eligibility period for the Dragon Awards runs from the middle of one year (in this case 2021) to the middle of the next. Thus among novel categories this year, 16 of 40 titles were published in 2022 — with one of the others, Vonda N. McIntyre’s The King’s Daughter, first published in 1997 as The Moon and the Sun, winning a Nebula Award the following year.

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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.)