The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), selected five books as finalists for the 2026 William C. Morris Award and we are thrilled to see ALL THE NOISE AT ONCE by DeAndra Davis included in the lineup!
Robert Jackson Bennett’s second novel in the Ana & Din series, A DROP OF CORRUPTION, has been nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in Best Fantasy! Congratulations, Robert!
The winners of the 2025 World Fantasy Awards were announced and DMLA congratulates Robert Jackson Bennett!
Best Novel
DMLA congratulates Vajra Chandrasekera as RAKESFALL is announced as the 2025 winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!!
The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is an annual prize given to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction. This award is intended to recognize those writers Ursula spoke of in her 2014 National Book Awards speech—realists of a larger reality, who can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now.
DMLA congratulates august clarke as METAL FROM HEAVEN wins Lammy for Best LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards!
The Lammys celebrate more than 150 LGBTQ writers across 26 categories spanning a number of genres, lived identities, and experiences. It proudly recognizes works by self-published authors and independent and academic presses alongside works supported by traditional big 5 publishers.
Congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson for winning the 2025 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic — making her a three-time winner of the award! Hopkinson was named the winner of this year’s prize for her novel Blackheart Man (Saga Press/Simon & Schuster)!
Congratulations to these DMLA authors on their 2025 Hugo Award wins!
Congratulations to Premee Mohamed on having TWO titles named winners in the 2025 Aurora Awards! Her works, THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS (Solaris) won Best Novel and THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST (Tordotcom) won the Best Novelette/Novella category!
We are thrilled to see these in the finalists for the 2025 Dragon Awards!
Best Science Fiction Novel
The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series, TV or Internet
Murderbot, Apple TV+ (based on The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells)
Many congratulations to DMLA author, Martha Wells, as SYSTEM COLLAPSE has been named a winner in the 2025 Seiun Award! The Seiun Award is a Japanese speculative fiction award given each year for the best science fiction works and achievements. We are honored to see Wells’s book win “Best Translated Long Story” category!
BEST TRANSLATED LONG STORY
“System Collapse”
by Martha Wells
translated by Naoya Nakahara
(TOKYO SOGENSHA Co.,Ltd.)