2023 Nebula Award Winners!

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.

Catcon Ictineu Award

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).

2023 Bram Stoker Awards Winners!

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)

 

2024 Locus Awards finalists

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)

2024 Aurora Award Nominations

May 032024
 

The 2024 Aurora Award Nominations are in and we’re excited to see so many DMLA authors on this fantastic list of nominees!

Best Novel:

  • The Valkyrie, Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager

Best Novelette/Novella:

  • “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World”, Nalo Hopkinson, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, Random House

Best Short Story:

  • “At Every Door A Ghost”, Premee Mohamed, Communications Breakdown, MIT Press

Best Related Work:

  • No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, Premee Mohamed, Undertow Publications
  • Skin Thief: Stories, Suzan Palumbo, Neon Hemlock Press

2024 Lammy Awards Finalists!

Apr 102024
 

Congratulations to the following DMLA authors for being named a 2024 Lammy Awards finalist!

LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction

  • The Archive Undying // Emma Mieko Candon (Tordotcom Publishing)
  • The Saint of Bright Doors // Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom Publishing)

Libby Book Awards

Apr 092024
 

The Libby Book Awards announced their first annual winners across 17 categories. Winners were chosen by a panel of 1700 librarians worldwide! Congratulations to DMLA author, Martha Wells, for winning in the Science Fiction category!

  • System Collapse by Martha Wells

2024 Hugo Awards Finalists!

Apr 052024
 

The finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards have been announced! Congratulations to the following DMLA authors!

BEST NOVEL

  • The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
  • Witch King by Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

BEST NOVELETTE

  • “Ivy, Angelica, Bay” by C.L. Polk (Tor.com 8 December 2023)

Further congratulations to Premee Mohamed and Mur Lafferty for work on Escape Pod, and to Mia Tsai for work on GigaNotoSaurus! All received acknowledgements under BEST SEMIPROZINE.

System Collapse by Martha Wells received enough votes to qualify for BEST NOVEL on the final ballot, but she declined the nomination.

2023 Nebula Award Nominees

Mar 202024
 

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who have been nominated for a 2023 Nebula Award!

Nebula Award for Novel

  • The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
  • Witch King, Martha Wells (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.”

British Science Fiction Association Awards Shortlist!

Mar 142024
 

Congratulations to all the DMLA authors who made the BSFA shortlist!

BEST SHORT NON FICTION
Dominant Themes in Afro-Centric Fiction, Eugen Bacon (Aurealis)

BEST SHORTER FICTION (Novellas, novelettes)
Broken Paradise, Eugen Bacon (Luna Press Publishing)

BEST COLLECTION
Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology (edited by Wole Talabi), Eugen Bacon (Android Press)
No One Will Come Back for Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)

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