Aug 192024
 

The 2024 Aurora Awards winners have been announced and we’re thrilled to share that the following DMLA authors have won in the Best Novel and Best Short Story categories!

Best Novel: The Valkyrie, Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager

Best Short Story: “At Every Door A Ghost”, Premee Mohamed, Communications Breakdown, MIT Press

Aug 152024
 

Congratulations to the following DMLA titles for making the final ballot for the 2024 Dragon Awards!

Best Science Fiction Novel

  • System Collapse by Martha Wells
  • The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

Best Fantasy Novel (Including Paranormal)

  • Three Kinds of Lucky by Kim Harrison

Best Horror Novel

  • The Dead Take the A Train by Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw
  • The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Jul 292024
 

The finalists for the 2024 Ignyte Awards have been announced, and we are so excited to see so many DMLA authors on the list! Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera, C.L. Polk, R.S.A. Garcia, and Premee Mohamed!

Outstanding Novel: Adult

  • The Saint of Bright Doors – Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)

Outstanding Novelette

  • Ivy, Angelica, Bay – C L Polk (Reactor)

Outstanding Short Story

  • Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 – R.S.A. Garcia (Uncanny)

Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works

  • No One Will Come Back for Us – Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)
Jul 252024
 

The shortlist for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction has been announced! We’re excited to share that three of our DMLA authors have been listed for their following works!

  • The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
  • Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
  • The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed

Jun 272024
 

Many congratulations to DMLA authors, Martha Wells and Vajra Chandrasekera, on their 2024 Locus Awards!

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

  • System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

FANTASY NOVEL

  • Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

FIRST NOVEL

  • The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
Jun 212024
 

Join us in congratulating DMLA authors, Tananarive Due and Cassandra Khaw, for being nominated for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Award!

Novel

  • The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Saga Press/Simon and Schuster)

Novella

  • The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire)
Jun 132024
 

This past weekend the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) announced the 59th Annual Nebula Awards® winners, and we’re excited to share that Vajra Chandrasekera and RSA Garcia were recognized in these categories!

Nebula Award for Novel

  • The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)

Nebula Award for Short Story

  • “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200“, R.S.A Garcia (Uncanny 7-8/23)

Author Martha Wells has graciously declined her nomination as a novel finalist this year for System Collapse published by Tordotcom. In 2022, Wells also declined a nomination for novella and felt that the Murderbot Diaries series has already received incredible praise from her industry peers and wanted to open the floor to highlight other works within the community.

Jun 112024
 

Congratulations to DMLA author, Premee Mohamed, for THESE LIFELESS THINGS (Catalan translation) for winning an Ictineu Award! The Ictineu Awards were handed out at CatCon, the Catalan fantasy, science fiction and horror convention organized by the Catalan Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy (SCCFF).

Jun 102024
 

The 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Winners have been announced and we are thrilled to share that DMLA authors Tananarive Due and Sadie Hartmann have been named winners!

Superior Achievement in Long Nonfiction
Hartmann, Sadie – 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered (Page Street Publishing)

Superior Achievement in a Novel
Due, Tananarive – The Reformatory (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press/Titan)

 

May 132024
 

The 2024 Locus Awards finalists have been announced and we’re excited to see so many DMLA authors on this list!

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
  • System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
FANTASY NOVEL
  • Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
HORROR NOVEL
  • The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
FIRST NOVEL
  • The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
NOVELLA
  • The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)
NOVELETTE
  • “At Every Door a Ghost”, Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown)
SHORT STORY
  • “Suppertime”, Tananarive Due (New Suns 2)
  • “Those Hitchhiking Kids“, Darcie Little Badger (The Sunday Morning Transport 4/2/23)
ANTHOLOGY
  • The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Eugen Bacon & Milton Davis, eds. (Caezic)
COLLECTION
  • The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Tananarive Due (Akashic)
  • No One Will Come Back For Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
  • Skin Thief, Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock)
NON-FICTION
  • 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered, Sadie Hartmann (Page Street Publishing)