Congratulations to Kerstin Hall! THE BORDER KEEPER has been shortlisted in the novella category for the 2020 Nommo Awards from the African Speculative Fiction Society.
Congratulations to the DMLA authors nominated for the 2020 Hugo Awards!
BEST NOVEL
Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
BEST RELATED WORK
“2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech”, Jeannette Ng (Dublin 2019 An Irish Worldcon)
BEST GRAPHIC STORY OR COMIC
LaGuardia, Nnedi Okorafor, illustrated by Tana Ford, colours by James Devlin (Berger Books/Dark Horse)
BEST SEMIPROZINE
Elsa Sjunneson, as managing editor for Fireside Magazine
S.B. Divya, as co-editor for Escape Pod
LODESTAR for Best Young Adult Book
Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney/Hyperion)
Congratulations to our DMLA authors who were chosen as finalists for the 2019 Nebula Awards!
Novel
- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
Game Writing
- The Magician’s Workshop, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
- Fate Accessibility Toolkit, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Evil Hat Productions)
Andre Norton Award
- Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
Congratulations to our DMLA authors who made the 2019 World Fantasy Award Finalists list!
NOVEL
Witchmark by C. L. Polk (Tor.com)
NOVELLA
The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com)
COLLECTION
Still So Strange, by Amanda Downum (ChiZine Publications)
Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who made the 2019 British Fantasy Award Shortlist!
BEST FANTASY NOVEL
Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Jo Fletcher)
Priest of Bones, Peter McLean (Jo Fletcher)
BEST NOVELLA
The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
Binti: The Night Masquerade, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)

Congratulations to our DMLA authors for their 2019 Locus Awards!
NOVELLA
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
NOVELETTE
The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
The Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants.
In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island.
These are the facts.
Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and injustice crying out to be righted. Prepare yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling histories of cruelty both grand and petty in search of meaning and justice.



