Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera for winning the 2024 Crawford Award for his debut novel, THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS!
Mar 112024
Mar 012024
Many congratulations to DMLA authors Cassandra Khaw and Tananarive Due for their 2023 Bram Stoker Awards nominations!
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
- Due, Tananarive – “Rumpus Room” (The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Akashic Books)
- Khaw, Cassandra – The Salt Grows Heavy (Tor Nightfire/Macmillan/Titan)
Superior Achievement in a Novel
- Due, Tananarive – The Reformatory (Gallery/Saga Press/Titan)
Feb 182024
The British Science Fiction Association Awards Longlist has been announced and many congratulations to the following DMLA authors who have been nominated for this year’s award in the following categories!
Best Collection:
Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 – Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Eugen Bacon, Milton Davis (Arc Manor)
Languages of Water – Editor, Eugen Bacon (MVMedia)
The Skin Thief – Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock)
No One Will Come Back for Us – Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
Best Novel:
A Second Chance for Yesterday – RA Sinn (Solaris)
The Saint of Bright Doors – Vajra Chandrasekera (tordotcom)
The Valkyrie – Kate Heartfield (HarperCollins)
Witch King – Martha Wells (tordotcom)
Best Short Fiction:
Paperweight – Eugen Bacon & Claire Rhoden (Mothersound)
Sina the Child with No Echo – Eugen Bacon (Mothersound)
Best Shot Non-Fiction:
Dominant Themes in Afro-Centric Fiction – Eugen Bacon (Aurealis)
Best Shorter Fiction:
Broken Paradise – Eugen Bacon (Luna Press)
Nov 202023
Congratulations to the following DMLA authors for being nominated for the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards!
BEST FANTASY
- Martha Wells – WITCH KING
BEST SCIENCE FICTION
- Martha Wells – SYSTEM COLLAPSE
BEST HORROR
- Tananarive Due – THE REFORMATORY
Sep 272023
Congratulations to DMLA author, Eugen Bacon, in winning a British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction for her essay collection, An Earnest Blackness!
Sep 222023
Congratulations to Martha Wells for her 2023 Dragon Award win in Best Fantasy Novel category for Witch King!
Sep 062023
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.
Aug 072023
A huge congratulations to all our DMLA authors who were named as finalists in this years World Fantasy Awards!
Best Novella
- Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
Best Short Fiction
- “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)
Best Collection
- Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
Special Award – Non-Professional
- E. Catherine Tobler, for editing “The Deadlands”
Jul 272023
Congratulations to DMLA authors Cassandra Khaw and Eugen Bacon for making the 2023 British Fantasy Awards shortlist!
Best Collection
- Breakable Things – Cassandra Khaw (Undertow Publications)
Best Non-fiction
- An Earnest Blackness – Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus Press)
Jul 142023
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!