Congratulations to DMLA author, S.B. Divya, as LOKA wins the Sushila Devia Award!
Jan 282026
January 28, 2026
Jan 082026
Congratulations to Ronald Malfi as SMALL TOWN HORROR won Novel of the Year in the 2024 This Is Horror Award!
January 8, 2026
Dec 182025
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!
December 18, 2025
Nov 252025
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!
November 25, 2025
Nov 122025
The winners of the 2025 World Fantasy Awards were announced and DMLA congratulates Robert Jackson Bennett!
Best Novel
- THE TAINTED CUP, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape)
November 12, 2025
Oct 292025
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.
October 29, 2025
Oct 152025
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.
October 15, 2025
Sep 182025
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)!
September 18, 2025
Sep 122025
Congratulations to these DMLA authors on their 2025 Hugo Award wins!
- 2025 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
Sheine Lende, by Darcie Little Badger - Best Novel
The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett
September 12, 2025
Aug 202025
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!
August 20, 2025