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2023 British Fantasy Awards

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)

2023 Hugo Award Finalists

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!

2022 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees

Jul 052023
 

Congratulations to DMLA author Cassandra Khaw for her 2022 Shirley Jackson Award Nomination!

  • Cassandra Khaw – Breakable Things (Undertow Publications)

2022 Bram Stoker Award

Jun 232023
 

Congratulations to DMLA author Cassandra Khaw for her 2022 Bram Stoker Award!
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

  • Cassandra Khaw – Breakable Things (Undertow Publications)

2023 Locus Awards Finalists

May 192023
 

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who are finalists for the 2023 Locus Awards!

FANTASY NOVEL

  • The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
  • Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

  • The Scratch Daughters, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)

NOVELLA

  • “Bishop’s Opening“, R.S.A Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22)
  • Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)

NOVELETTE

  • “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold“, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 5-6/22)
  • “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Other Terrors)

COLLECTION

  • Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)

NON-FICTION

  • An Earnest Blackness, Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

  • The Keeper, Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes, art by Marco Finnegan (Megascope)

2023 Aurora Award Nominations

May 172023
 

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

Aurora Award for Best Novel

  • The Embroidered Book, Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager
  • The Void Ascendant, Premee Mohamed, Solaris Books

Aurora Award for Best Novelette/Novella

  • Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk, Tordotcom

Aurora Award for Best Short Story

  • “Douen”, Suzan Palumbo, The Dark, Issue 82

2023 Lammy Finalist: The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett

Apr 202023
 

Congratulations to DMLA author Ruby Barrett who has been nominated as a 2023 Lammy finalist in the LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica category for The Romance Recipe!

2023 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Awards

Mar 212023
 

Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who have been nominated for the 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.

ROMAN ÉTRANGER / FOREIGN NOVEL

  • Terra Ignota (Volumes 1 to 5) by Ada Palmer (Le Bélial’) [Terra Ignota series]
  • Ou ce que vous voudrez by Jo Walton (Denoël) [Or What You Will]

TRADUCTION : PRIX JACQUES CHAMBON / JACQUES CHAMBON TRANSLATION PRIZE

  • Lise Capitan for Analog/Virtuel by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Hachette Heroes)

 

2022 Nebula Award Nominees

Mar 132023
 

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who have been nominated for a 2022 Nebula Award!

Nebula Award for Novel

  • Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)

Nebula Award for Novella

  • “Bishop’s Opening”, R.S.A. Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22)
  • Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)

Nebula Award for Novelette

  • “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold”, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 5–6/22)

Nebula Award for Short Story

  • “Douen”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 3/22)

2022 Bram Stoker Award Nominations

Mar 062023
 

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who have been nominated for the 2022 Bram Stoker Award!

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

  • Cassandra Khaw – Breakable Things (Undertow Publications)
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