Congratulations to Martha Wells for her 2023 Dragon Award win in Best Fantasy Novel category for Witch King!
Congratulations to DMLA author, Kate Heartfield, for her 2023 Aurora Awards win!
BEST NOVEL
- The Embroidered Book, Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager
Also, huge shoutout to Premee Mohamed and C.L. Polk for their nominations! Premee Mohamed was nominated for best novel with her work, The Void Ascendant, and C.L. Polk for best novelette with Even Though I Knew the End.
A huge congratulations to all our DMLA authors who were named as finalists in this years World Fantasy Awards!
- Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
- “The Devil Don’t Come with Horns”, Eugen Bacon (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)
- “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)
- “Douen”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 3/22)
- “The Morning House”, Kate Heartfield (PodCastle 7/22)
- Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
Special Award – Non-Professional
- E. Catherine Tobler, for editing “The Deadlands”
Congratulations to DMLA authors Cassandra Khaw and Eugen Bacon for making the 2023 British Fantasy Awards shortlist!
- Breakable Things – Cassandra Khaw (Undertow Publications)
- An Earnest Blackness – Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus Press)
Congratulations to our DMLA authors who are finalists for the 2023 Hugo Awards!
BEST NOVEL
- Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
BEST NOVELLA
- “Even Though I Knew the End”, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
BEST SERIES
- The Founders Trilogy, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- The Locked Tomb Series, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
LODESTAR AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK
- Akata Woman, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
And special recoginition to Premee Mohamed in BEST SEMIPROZINE for Escape Pod!
Congratulations to DMLA author Cassandra Khaw for her 2022 Shirley Jackson Award Nomination!
- Cassandra Khaw – Breakable Things (Undertow Publications)
Congratulations to DMLA author Cassandra Khaw for her 2022 Bram Stoker Award!
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
- Cassandra Khaw – Breakable Things (Undertow Publications)
Congratulations to our DMLA authors who are finalists for the 2023 Locus Awards!
FANTASY NOVEL
- The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
- Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
- The Scratch Daughters, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
NOVELLA
- “Bishop’s Opening“, R.S.A Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22)
- Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
NOVELETTE
- “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold“, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 5-6/22)
- “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Other Terrors)
COLLECTION
- Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
NON-FICTION
- An Earnest Blackness, Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus)
ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK
- The Keeper, Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes, art by Marco Finnegan (Megascope)
Congratulations to our DMLA authors who have been nominated for a 2023 Aurora Award!
Aurora Award for Best Novel
- The Embroidered Book, Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager
- The Void Ascendant, Premee Mohamed, Solaris Books
Aurora Award for Best Novelette/Novella
- Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk, Tordotcom
Aurora Award for Best Short Story
- “Douen”, Suzan Palumbo, The Dark, Issue 82
Congratulations to DMLA author Ruby Barrett who has been nominated as a 2023 Lammy finalist in the LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica category for The Romance Recipe!