Outstanding Novel: Adult

• A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• Cursed Daughters, Oyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday) amazon / bookshop
• Motheater, Linda H. Codega (Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• Harmattan Season, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor) amazon / bookshop

Outstanding Novel: YA

• Needy Little Things, Channelle Desamours (Wednesday) amazon / bookshop
• The Transition, Logan-Ashley Kisner (Delacorte) amazon / bookshop
• The Leaving Room, Amber McBride (Feiwel & Friends) amazon / bookshop
• They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury) amazon / bookshop
• (S)Kin, Ibi Zoboi (Versify) amazon / bookshop

Outstanding Middle Grade

• Afia in the Land of Wonders, Mia Araujo (Scholastic)
• The Glade, Naseem Jamnia (Bittersweet)
• The Island of Forgotten Gods, Victor Piñeiro (Sourcebooks Young Readers)
• Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave, Ally Russel (Delacorte)
• Candace, the Universe, and Everything, Sherri L. Smith (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)

Outstanding Novella

• The Iron Below Remembers, Sharang Biswas (Neon Hemlock)
• Audition for the Fox, Martin Cahill (Tachyon)
• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom)
• Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
• Descent, Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld)

Outstanding Novelette

• “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
• “We Begin Where Infinity Ends”, Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)
• “What I Saw Before the War”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Reactor 1/22/25)
• “Human Voices”, Isabel J. Kim (Lightspeed 9/25)
• “Never Eaten Vegetables”, H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld 1/25)

Outstanding Short Story

• “Ichthyosis”, M.L. Krishnan (Fantasy 1/2/25)
• “Commensalism, Or the Labyrinth’s Vessels”, Albert Nkereuwem (Will This Be a Problem? Issue V)
• “Because I Held His Name Like a Key”, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
• “Autogas Ferryman”, Champ Wongsatayanont (Nightmare 9/25)
• “The Octopus Dreams of Personhood”, Hannah Yang (Diabolical Plots 4/16/25)

Outstanding Speculative Poetry

• “The oblique light at Kakushima (a memory of persimmons)”, Ryu Ando | 安堵 龍 (Strange Horizons 2/24/25)
• “Set It Off (1996) – Fans’ Cut”, Nova Cypress Black (Strange Horizons 6/30/25)
• “In an attempt to seduce Death my sister starts calling him Love”, Karan Kapoor (Strange Horizons 2/17/25)
• “The Language of Fireflies”, Angela Liu (The Deadlands 2/13/25)
• “After the Storm”, Ishita Basu Mallik (The Deadlands 5/5/25)

Critics Award

• Alex Brown
• Vanessa Fogg
• Maria Haskins
• Gabino Iglesias
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show

Outstanding Fiction Podcast

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Escape Pod
• khōréō
• Lightspeed
• Nightmare

Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works

• Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
• The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, André M. Carrington, ed. (Luna Press Publishing)
• We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga)
• Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon)
• As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline)

Outstanding Creative Nonfiction

• “Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence”, Tanvir Ahmed (Strange Horizons 11/24/25)
• The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction, Gautam Bhatia (Alter 11/22/25)
• The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers, Terry Bisson (PM)
• Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris (Amistad)
• “A Conjuror’s Manifesto: Notes on the Afrosurreal”, Shyheim Williams (Strange Horizons 6/30/25)

Ember Award

• Maurice Broaddus
• Karen Lord
• Dave Ring
• Arley Sorg
• Martha Wells

Community Award

• Augur
• Jason Sanford’s Genre Grapevine
• Sistah Scifi
• Strange Horizons
• Will This Be a Problem?

Public voting for the winners is open now through August 16, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. For more information, see the Ignyte Awards website.

• Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman (Dandy House US; Michael Joseph UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami (Pantheon US; Bloomsbury Circus UK) amazon / bookshop
• Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster US; Magpie UK) amazon / bookshop
• There Is No Antimemetics Division, QNTM (Ballantine US; Del Rey UK) amazon / bookshop
• When There Are Wolves Again, E.J. Swift (Arcadia) amazon / bookshop
• The Salt Oracle, Lorraine Wilson (Solaris)

The winner will be announced on August 12, 2026 and receives an engraved bookend and £2,026 in prize money. The 2026 judges are Eliza Claudia Filimon and Antony Jones for the British Science Fiction Association, Tiffani Angus and John Coxon for the Science Fiction Foundation, and Esther MacCallum-Stewart for the Sci-Fi-London film festival. Andrew M. Butler represented the Clarke Award directors as non-voting Chair of the Judges.

Butler says,

For four decades, our Clarke judges have whittled hundreds of books down to shortlists and then to the books they feel is the best sf novel published in Britain. This is never easy. The current judges debated over 130 volumes and picked the six they liked best. There’s a strong thread of memory running through the shortlist – and I think this might be a memorable year.

Award Director Tom Hunter said,

Sir Arthur was always passionate that the award’s definition of science fiction be as diverse and open as possible, and I believe he would have both applauded the record levels of new SF being published today and the formidable challenge this created for our judging panel.

Following Sir Arthur’s passing, the award faced the real possibility of being forced to close after its 25th year. I am delighted that we have been able to steward the award successfully all the way to its 40th anniversary, and am happy to report the directors are already making plans for celebrating in 2036.

For more information, see the Clarke Award website.

• WINNER: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga) amazon / bookshop

• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley) amazon / bookshop
• King Sorrow, Joe Hill (William Morrow) amazon / bookshop
• The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) amazon / bookshop
• Girl in the Creek, Wendy N. Wagner (Tor Nightfire) amazon / bookshop

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• WINNER: The October Film Haunt, Michael Wehunt (St. Martin’s) amazon / bookshop

• The Scald-Crow, Grace Daly (Creature) amazon / bookshop
• Moonflow, Bitter Karella (Run For It) amazon / bookshop
• Her Wicked Roots, Tanya Pell (Gallery) amazon / bookshop
• The Faceless Thing We Adore, Hester Steel (Page Street Horror) amazon / bookshop
• Molting, Kathryn Tennison (Uncomfortably Dark Horror) amazon / bookshop
• Listen to Your Sister, Neena Viel (St. Martin’s Griffin) amazon / bookshop

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• WINNER: Shiny Happy People, Clay McLeod Chapman (Delacorte) amazon / bookshop

• Beautiful Brutal Bodies, Linda Cheng (Roaring Brook) amazon / bookshop
• We’re Not Safe Here, Rin Chupeco (Sourcebooks) amazon / bookshop
• The Silenced, Diana Rodriguez Wallach (Delacorte) amazon / bookshop
• A Girl Walks into the Forest, Madeleine Roux (Quill Tree) amazon / bookshop

Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel

• WINNER: Ride or Die, Delilah S. Dawson (Delacorte) amazon / bookshop

• The Girl in the Walls, Meg Eden Kuyatt (Scholastic) amazon / bookshop
• Broken Dolls, Ally Malinenko (HarperCollins Children’s) amazon / bookshop
• The House Next Door, Ellen Oh (HarperCollins Children’s) amazon / bookshop
• Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave, Ally Russell (Delacorte) amazon / bookshop

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• WINNER (TIE): Cathedral of the Drowned, Nathan Ballingrud (Tor Nightfire) amazon / bookshop
• WINNER (TIE): “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon”, A.C. Wise (Reactor 1/13/25)

• “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons) amazon / bookshop
• “Squid Teeth”, Sarah Langan (Reactor 5/7/25)
• Pam Kowolski is a Monster!, Sarah Langan (Raw Dog Screaming) amazon / bookshop

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Inheritance”, R.J. Joseph (Full Throttle: A Dark Dozen Anthology) amazon / bookshop

• “Stomata”, L.E. Daniels (Darkness Most Fowl) amazon
• “Saint Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls“, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (Weird Horror Spring ’25, Undertow Publications)
• “[Ir]reversible”, Anna Taborska (Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays) amazon / bookshop
• “Autogas Ferryman“, Champ Wongsatayanont (Nightmare 9/25)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• WINNER: Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, John Langan (Word Horde) amazon / bookshop

• Acquired Taste, Clay McLeod Chapman (Titan) amazon / bookshop
• Little Horn: Stories, Gemma Files (Shortwave) amazon / bookshop
• Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, Hailey Piper (Titan) amazon / bookshop
• Cyanide Constellations: And Other Stories, Sara Tantlinger (Dark Matter INK) amazon / bookshop

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• WINNER: Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand) amazon / bookshop

• Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams) amazon / bookshop
• The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery) amazon / bookshop
• This Way Lies Madness, Dave Jeffery & Lee Murray, eds. (Flame Tree) amazon / bookshop
• Howl: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror, Lindy Ryan & Stephanie M. Wytovich, eds. (Black Spot) amazon / bookshop

Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction

• WINNER: Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga) amazon / bookshop

• Global Indigenous Horror, Naomi Simone Borwein, ed. (University Press of Mississippi) amazon / bookshop
• The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters, Brandon R. Grafius & John W. Morehead, eds. (Oxford University Press) amazon / bookshop
• America’s Most Gothic, Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes (Citadel) amazon / bookshop
• Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away, Coltan Scrivner (Penguin Random House) amazon / bookshop

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

• WINNER: “My Long Road to Horror”, Tananarive Due (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction) amazon / bookshop

• “Deathwish Wolf Man: The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monsters“, Patrick Barb (Interstellar Flight 10/3/25)
• “Why Horror”, Stephen Graham Jones (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction) amazon / bookshop
• “Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma and Religious Fanaticism”, Mo Moshaty (Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre)
• “My Mother Was Margaret White”, Cynthia Pelayo (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction) amazon / bookshop

Superior Achievement in Poetry

• WINNER: Everything Endless, Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge (Raw Dog Screaming) amazon / bookshop

• Songs of Enough: An Inferno All My Own, Maxwell I. Gold (Hippocampus) amazon / bookshop
• The Uterus is an Impossible Forest, Shannon Kearns (Raw Dog Screaming) amazon / bookshop
• The Haunting, Cate Peebles (Tupelo) amazon / bookshop
• Allegories of Beauty & Violence: A Collection of Gothic Romance Poems, MarieAnn C. Raguso (Analyze This) amazon

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• WINNER: Bowling With Corpses and Other Tales from Lands Unknown, Mike Mignola (Dark Horse) amazon / bookshop

• Jumpscare, Cullen Bunn, illustrated by Danny Luckert (Dark Horse) amazon / bookshop
• John Carpenter’s Tales for a HalloweeNight Vol. 11, Sandy King, ed. (Storm King) amazon / bookshop
• Athanasia, Daniel Kraus, illustrated by Dani (Vault) amazon / bookshop
• Let This One Be a Devil, Steve Foxe & James Tynion IV, illustrated by Piotr Kowalski (Dark Horse) amazon / bookshop

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• WINNER: Sinners, Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros., Domain, Proximity)

• Weapons, Zach Cregger (New Line Cinema, Domain, Subconscious)
• 28 Years Later, Alex Garland (Sony, Columbia Pictures, TSG Entertainment)
• Companion, Drew Hancock (New Line Cinema, BoulderLight Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment)
• Bring Her Back, Bill Hinzman & Danny Philippou (Causeway Films, Salmira Productions, The South Australian Film Corporation)

As previously announced, Bad Hand Books is the recipient of the Specialty Press Award, the Richard Laymon President’s Award went to Marc L Abbott, Sarah Read won the Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer Award, Eric Guignard was named Mentor of the Year Award, and this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winners were Jonathan Maberry and Lisa Morton. All winners were honored on June 6 at the StokerCon 2026 awards banquet.

For more information, see the Stoker Awards website or the awards livestream on YouTube.

• WINNER: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop

• When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK) amazon / bookshop
• Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
• The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
• Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire) amazon / bookshop
• Wearing the Lion, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia) amazon / bookshop

Novella

• WINNER: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia) amazon / bookshop

• Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle, Renan Bernardo (Dark Matter INK) amazon / bookshop
• The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe) amazon / bookshop
• Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• But Not Too Bold, Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• “Descent”, Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld 5/25)

Novelette

• WINNER: “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons) amazon / bookshop

• “Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh”, Marie Croke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/9/25)
• “We Begin Where Infinity Ends”, Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)
• “The Name Ziya”, Wen-Yi Lee (Reactor 6/18/25) amazon / bookshop
• “Never Eaten Vegetables”, H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld 1/25)
• “The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 3-4/25)

Short Story

• WINNER: “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”, Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)

• “Through the Machine”, P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed 5/25)
• “Six People to Revise You”, J.R. Dawson (Uncanny 1-2/25)
• “In My Country”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
• “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead”, E.M. Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25)
• “Because I Held His Name Like a Key”, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)

Poetry

• WINNER: “The World To Come”, Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25)

• “Though You Always Are”, Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge (Everything Endless) amazon / bookshop
• “They Said Robots Are”, Casey Aimer (Penumbric 6/25)
• “The Mourning Robot”, Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/25)
• “Care for Lightning”, Mari Ness (Uncanny 1-2/25)
• “To Be the Change”, Nico Martinez Nocito (Strange Horizons 3/10/25)

Andre Norton Award

• WINNER: Into the Wild Magic, Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick) amazon / bookshop

• The Tower, David Anaxagoras, narrated by Christopher Gebauer (Recorded Books) amazon
• Gemini Rising, Jonathan Brazee (Semper Fi) amazon / bookshop
• Wishing Well, Wishing Well, Jubilee Cho (Atthis Arts) amazon / bookshop
• Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) amazon / bookshop
• Goblin Girl, K.A. Mielke (self-published) amazon / bookshop

Comic

• WINNER: Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: The Killing Stone, Jessica Maison, illustrated by Anna Wieszczyk (Wicked Tree) amazon

• Second Shift, Kit Anderson (Avery Hill) amazon / bookshop
• Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal, Amy Chu, illustrated by Sal Cipriano & Soo Lee (Berger) amazon / bookshop
• Helen of Wyndhorn, Tom King, illustrated by Bilquis Evely & Matheus Lopes, lettered by Clayton Cowles (Dark Horse) amazon / bookshop
• Fishflies, Jeff Lemire (Image) amazon / bookshop
• Strange Bedfellows, Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley) amazon / bookshop
• The Flip Side, Jason Walz (Rocky Pond) amazon / bookshop
• The Stoneshore Register, G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by M.K. Perker, lettered by Richard Bruning (Berger) amazon / bookshop

Ray Bradbury Award

• WINNER: Murderbot Season One

• KPop Demon Hunters*
• Pluribus Season One*
• Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”*
• Sinners*
• Superman*

Game Writing

• WINNER: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Blue Prince
• Dispatch
• Hades II
• Hollow Knight: Silksong*
• Spire, Surge, and Sea

*Provisional nomination; awaiting acceptance and response on LLM-use.

Winners were announced at the 2026 Nebula Conference and Awards, held June 3-7, 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel & Conference Center in Chicago IL, and virtually online. Many winners, including all short story, novelette, and poem finalists, will be republished in the Nebula Awards Showcase 61 [amazon / bookshop] on June 9, 2026.

For more, see the SFWA website.

• The Drowned Man’s Daughter, C.J. Lavigne (NeWest) [amazon / bookshop]
• The Works of Vermin, Hiron Ennes (Tor) [amazon / bookshop]
• Horsefly, Mireille Gagné, tr. Pablo Strauss (Coach House) [amazon / bookshop]
• Wild Life, Amanda Leduc (Random House Canada)
• The Hunger We Pass Down, Jen Sookfong Lee (McClelland & Stewart) [amazon / bookshop]
• The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death, Helen Marshall (Titan) [amazon / bookshop]
• The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) [amazon / bookshop]
• Veal, Mackenzie Nolan (ECW) [amazon / bookshop]
• Death on the Caldera, Emily Paxman (Titan) [amazon / bookshop]
• Ley Lines, Tim Welsh (Guernica) [amazon / bookshop]

Best Translated Novel

• WINNER: Eversion, Alastair Reynolds, tr. Naoya Nakahara (Tokyo Sogensha)
• WINNER: Babel, R.F. Kuang, tr. Yoshimichi Furusawa (Tokyo Sogensha)

• The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks, tr. Yasuko Kawano (Hayakawa Bunko SF)
• The Book of Elsewhere, China Miéville & Keanu Reeves, tr. Masayuki Uchida & Rei Yasuno (Kawade Shobo Shinsha)
• The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler, tr. Hiroshi Kaneko (Tokyo Sogensha)
• Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh, tr. Hiroshi Kaneko (Hayakawa)
• The Paradox Hotel, Rob Hart, tr. Ken Mogi (Tokyo Sogensha)
• Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow, tr. Masayuki Uchida (Takeshobo)

Best Translated Short Story

• WINNER: “After Zero”, Greg Egan, tr. Makoto Yamagishi (Hayakawa SF 2/25)

• “Hémisphères”, Tristan Garcia, tr. Kei Takahashi (7)
• “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus”, Rachel K. Jones, tr. Chiori Sada (The Silverfish Notebook 8/25)
• “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker, tr. Izumi Ichida (A Place That Once Existed Somewhere)
• “Security Check”, Han Song, tr. Tachihara Touya (Hayakawa SF 10/25)
• “Blowout”, Wole Talabi, tr. Masato Naruniwa (Hayakawa SF 12/25)

There are also winners in the Japanese Novel, Japanese Short Story, Media, Comic, Artist, Non-Fiction, and “Free” (other) categories. The awards will be presented at the 64th Japan SF Convention in Oita, Japan, to be held July 11-12, 2026.

For more information, including a complete list of winners and other nominees, see the SFFAN’s website.

French Novel

• WINNER: Festin de larmes, Morgane Caussarieu & Vincent Tassy (ActuSF)

• La Nuit ravagée, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (Gallimard)
• Aatea, Anouck Faure (Argyll)
• Le Solstice des ombres, Sœurs de haine, tome 1, Benjamin Lupu (Mnémos)
• La Fille du feu, Aurélie Wellenstein (Outre Fleuve)

Foreign Novel Translated

• WINNER: La Sorcière à la jambe d’os [Mladenka kostonoga], Želimir Periš, tr. Chloé Billon (Du Sonneur)

• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar, tr. Patrick Marcel (Nouveaux Millénaires)
• Sur toutes les vagues de la mer [All the Seas of the World], Guy Gavriel Kay, tr. Mikael Cabon (Atalante)
• L’Oiseau qui boit des larmes [The Bird That Drinks Tears], Young-Do Lee (Le Rayon Imaginaire)
• Le Livre des passages [The Book of Passages], Alex Landragin, tr. Caroline Nicolas, (Le Cherche-midi)

Young Adult

• WINNER: Le Cercle de ronces, Camille Anssel (Gallimard jeunesse)

• L’Alchimie des fantômes, Estelle Castadere (Rageot)
• Artemisia Shepard, Descendante de la Pythie, Christelle Da Cruz (Scrineo)
• La Cité d’Archeflèche [Arkspire], Jamie Littler, tr. Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon (Nathan)
• Diamant et émeraude and Jais et grenat, Stéphanie Benson & Nelly Labere (Syros)

Illustration

• WINNER: Dominik Mayer for Incendium (Caurette)

• Clara Debray for L’Ourse qui danse (Les Étages)
• Beatriz Martin-Vidat for Petit Chaperon (Grasset)

Comic Book

• WINNER: Helen de Wyndhorn, Tom King, illustrated by Evely Bilquis (Glénat)

• Le Château des animaux, Xavier Dorison, illustrated by Félix Delep (Casterman)
• Islander, Caryl Férey, illustrated by Corentin Rouge (Glénat)
• Downlands, Norm Konyu (Glénat)
• Drome, Jesse Lonergan (404)

Picture Book

• WINNER: Dodorama, Marion Arbona (Sarbacane)

• Le Bus jaune, Loren Long, tr. Chun-Liang Yeh (HongFei)
• Le Dictionnaire à l’envers [The Dictionary Story], Sam Winston, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, tr. Claire Billaud (Kaléidoscope)
• J’ai un ami, Manon Fargetton, illustrated by Lili Wood (Milan)
• Tom poulpe, Gaëtan Dorémus (La Partie)

Additional awards were given, such as the Prix des collégiens, the Prix des écoliers, and others. For more information, visit the Prix Imaginales website.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• WINNER: Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop

• The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
• Picks & Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Ad Astra; Tor) amazon / bookshop
• Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (Tor) amazon / bookshop
• When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga; Ad Astra) amazon / bookshop
• Where the Axe Is Buried, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson) amazon / bookshop
• Slow Gods, Claire North (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
• Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) amazon / bookshop

FANTASY NOVEL

• WINNER: The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop

• The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
• The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
• Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
• A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) amazon / bookshop
• The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape) amazon / bookshop
• Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
• Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager; Harper Voyager UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
• Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor) amazon / bookshop

HORROR NOVEL

• WINNER: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop

• The Possession of Alba Díaz, Isabel Cañas (Berkley; Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
• Spread Me, Sarah Gailey (Nightfire) amazon / bookshop
• King Sorrow, Joe Hill (Morrow; Headline UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
• Never Flinch, Stephen King (Scribner, Hodder & Stoughton UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Arcadia UK) amazon / bookshop
• It Was Her House First, Cherie Priest (Poisoned Pen) amazon / bookshop
• The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Titan US & UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK) amazon / bookshop

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• WINNER: Starstrike, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop

• The Singular Life of Aria Patel, Samira Ahmed (Little, Brown; Atom UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• Make Me a Monster, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
• Costumes for Time Travelers, A.R. Capetta (Candlewick; Walker UK) [F] amazon / bookshop
• The Executioners Three, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Daphne UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
• The Underwood Tapes, Amanda DeWitt (Peachtree Teen) [H] amazon / bookshop
• Among Ghosts, Rachel Hartman (Random House) [F] amazon / bookshop
• Sky on Fire, E.K. Johnston (Dutton) [F] amazon / bookshop
• I Am Not Jessica Chen, Ann Liang (Harper) [F] amazon / bookshop
• They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H] amazon / bookshop

FIRST NOVEL

• WINNER: Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire UK) [F] amazon / bookshop

• A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga) [F] amazon / bookshop
• Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian (Run For It) [H] amazon / bookshop
• When Devils Sing, Xan Kaur (Holt; First Ink UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
• Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon; Simon & Schuster UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster; Magpie) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner; Footnote UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• North Sun, Or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object) [H] amazon / bookshop
• Blob, Maggie Su (Harper; Sceptre UK) [F] amazon / bookshop
• Song of Spores, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye) [SF] amazon / bookshop

TRANSLATED NOVEL

• WINNER: On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (New Directions; Faber & Faber) [SF] amazon / bookshop

• The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, tr. Sarah Moses (Scribner; Pushkin UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
• The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, tr. Gene Png (Bloomsbury UK; Bloomsbury US) [H] amazon / bookshop
• Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Honford Star) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Algonquin) [H] amazon / bookshop
• Ice, Jacek Dukaj, tr. Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, tr. Anton Hur (Tor) [F] amazon / bookshop
• Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove; Granta UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• Dengue Boy, Michel Nieva, tr. Rahul Bery (Astra House; Serpent’s Tail) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• The Wax Child, Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken (New Directions; Viking UK) [F] amazon / bookshop

NOVELLA

• WINNER: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop

• The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
• What Stalks the Deep, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
• Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Making History, K.J. Parker (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Lives of Bitter Rain, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus) amazon / bookshop
• A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop

NOVELETTE

• WINNER: “We Begin Where Infinity Ends“, Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)

• “The Witch and the Wyrm“, Elizabeth Bear (Reactor 2/26/25)
• “Barnacle“, Kate Elliott (Reactor 11/5/25)
• “Uncertain Sons“, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
• “The Tin Man’s Ghost“, Ray Nayler (Asimov’s 5-6/25)
• “The Millay Illusion“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
• “When He Calls Your Name“, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 7-8/25)
• “The Twenty-One Second God“, Peter Watts (Lightspeed 6/25)
• “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon“, A.C. Wise (Reactor 1/13/25)
• “Phantom View“, John Wiswell (Reactor 10/22/25)

SHORT STORY

• WINNER: “In My Country“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)

• “Secret Night“, Nathan Ballingrud (Night & Day)
• “In the Halls of the Makeshift King”, Tobias S. Buckell (Asimov’s 7-8/25)
• “Wire Mother“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 10/25)
• “The Shape of Stones“, Hildur Knútsdóttir (Reactor 3/12/25)
• “Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead“, Sam J. Miller (Nightmare 10/25)
• “Because I Held His Name Like a Key“, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
• “Landline“, Kelly Robson (Reactor 3/5/25)
• “Missing Helen“, Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld 7/25)
• “Woolly“, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 5-6/25)

ANTHOLOGY

• WINNER: We Will Rise Again, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga) amazon / bookshop

• The Black Fantastic, andré m. carrington, ed. (Library of America) amazon / bookshop
• Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams) amazon / bookshop
• The End of the World As We Know It, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery) amazon / bookshop
• Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
• The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow) amazon / bookshop
• Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible) amazon 
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner) amazon / bookshop
• As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline) amazon / bookshop

COLLECTION

• WINNER: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow) amazon / bookshop

• Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock) amazon / bookshop
• Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man) amazon / bookshop
• Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
• Bright Dead Star, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
• The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
• One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp) amazon / bookshop
• The Revelation Space Collection Volumes 1 & 2, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
• Crows and Silences, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
• A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood) amazon / bookshop

MAGAZINE

• WINNER: Clarkesworld

• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• F&SF
• Fiyah
• khōréō
• Lightspeed
• Reactor
• Strange Horizons
• Uncanny Magazine

PUBLISHER (Tor Publishing Group & Subterranean Press have recused themselves from this category. Tor UK is an imprint of Pan Macmillan, not TPG.)

• WINNER: Orbit

• Angry Robot
• DAW
• Del Rey
• Gollancz
• Neon Hemlock
• Pan Macmillan/Tor UK
• Saga
• Solaris
• Tachyon

EDITOR

• WINNER: Neil Clarke

• John Joseph Adams
• Scott H. Andrews
• Ellen Datlow
• dave ring
• Jonathan Strahan
• Bogi Takács
• Wendy N. Wagner
• Fran Wilde & Julian Yap
• Sheila Williams

ARTIST

• WINNER: John Picacio

• Brom
• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• Bob Eggleton
• Kathleen Jennings
• Alan Lee
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

• WINNER: The Space Cat, Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford (First Second) amazon / bookshop

• The Invisible Parade, Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) amazon / bookshop
• Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines, Sara Frazetta & Arnie Fenner, eds., art by Frank Frazetta (Frazetta Girls) amazon 
• Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, art by Rovina Cai (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
• Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Paul Kidby (Harper; Doubleday UK) amazon / bookshop
• Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, art by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Beehive) amazon
• Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3, adapted by Rebecca K. Reynolds, art by Justin Gerard (Sky Turtle) amazon 
• Sunset at Zero Point, Simon Stålenhag (as Swedish Machines Free League Sweden; Saga US) amazon / bookshop
• Faraway Dreaming, Ulla Thynell (Atthis Arts)
• Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, Amanda T. Zehnder & David M. Brinley, eds. (University of Delaware Press) amazon / bookshop

NON-FICTION

• WINNER: Enshittification, Cory Doctorow (MCD) amazon / bookshop
  

• The Outspoken and the Incendiary, Terry Bisson (PM) amazon / bookshop
• Colourfields, Paul Kincaid (Briardene) amazon 
• Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling, Henry Lien (Norton) amazon / bookshop
• Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris (Amistad) amazon / bookshop
• Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World, Tavia Nyong’o (University of California Press) amazon / bookshop
• Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, Tochi Onyebuchi (Roxane Gay) amazon / bookshop
• Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, Richard Wolinsky, ed. (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
• Octavia E. Butler: H is for Horse, Chi-ming Yang (Oxford University Press) amazon / bookshop
   

SPECIAL AWARD 2026: Supporting the Speculative Writing Community

• WINNER: The Submission Grinder, David Steffen & Volunteers
  

Novel

• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker (Hanover Square)
• Old Soul, Susan Barker (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• How to Fake a Haunting, Christa Carmen (Thomas & Mercer)
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
• Moonflow, Bitter Karella (Run For It)
• The Lamb, Lucy Rose (HarperCollins)

Novella

• The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
• The Glass Garden, Jessica Lévai (Lanternfish)
• Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
• The Cold House, A.G. Slatter (Titan)
• DuMort, Michelle Tang (Ghost Orchid)

Novelette

• Letter Slot, Owen King (Amazon Original Stories)
• “The Severity of Things”, Mo Moshaty (Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment)
• “The Millay Illusion”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
• “Emily”, Vanessa Santos (Make a Home of Me)
• The Confirmed Bachelors, Stephen Volk (Black Shuck)

Short Fiction

• “Room 24”, Caroline Kepnes (The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand)
• “Lapse”, Kirsty Logan (Unquiet Guests)
• “Silver Boots”, Donna Lynch (HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror)
• “Bitter Skin”, Kaaron Warren (Night & Day)
• “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter”, Audrey Zhou (Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)

Single-Author Collection

• Issues with Authority, Nadia Bulkin (Ghoulish)
• Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man)
• Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment, Mo Moshaty (Tenebrous)
• Good and Evil and Other Stories, Samanta Schweblin, tr. Megan McDowell (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Portalmania, Debbie Urbanski (Simon & Schuster)

Edited Anthology

• Roots of My Fears, Gemma Amor, ed. (Titan)
• Unquiet Guests, Dan Coxon, ed. (Dead Ink)
• Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
• Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
• Were Wolf Short Stories, Catherine Taylor, Nick Wells & Gillian Whitaker, eds. (Flame Tree)

Winners will be announced on July 11, 2026 at Readercon 35 in Burlington MA. For more information, see the award website.

• Dusk, Robbie Arnott (Astra House US; Chatto & Windus UK; Picador Australia)
• Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon US; Simon & Schuster UK)
• The Book of Records, Madeleine Thien (Norton US; Granta UK)

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit)
• The Outcast Mage, Annabel Campbell (Orbit)
• Magic, Maps, and Mischief, David Green (self-published)
• Daughters of Nicnevin, Shona Kinsella (Flame Tree)
• Grave Empire, Richard Swan (Orbit)
• Upon a Starlit Tide, Kell Woods (Tor US; Titan UK)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Hungerstone, Kat Dunn (Zando US; Manilla UK)
• Black Flame, Gretchen Felker-Martin (Tor Nightfire US; Titan UK)
• The Needfire, MK Hardy (Solaris)
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley US; Tor Nightfire UK)
• Lionhearts, Dan Howarth (Northern Republic UK)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga US; Titan UK)

Best Novella

• The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella, Eugen Bacon (Stars and Sabers)
• Fate’s Bane, C.L. Clark (Tordotcom)
• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom US; Arcadia UK)
• “Walking A Wounded Land”, Andrew Knighton (Wiz Duos 3)

Best Short Fiction

• “Down Street”, James Bennett (Blood in the Bricks)
• “Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike”, E.M. Faulds, narrated by Eliza Chan (PodCastle 7/29/25)
• “Shadow Jack”, CL Hellisen (GigaNotoSaurus 5/1/25)
• “No One Knows the Old Ways Anymore and It Will Be the End of Everything”, LJ McMenemy (Hiding Under the Leaves)

Best Collection

• Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
• Wolf’s Path, Joyce Chng (Atthis Arts)
• Dark Crescent, Lyndsey Croal (Luna Press Publishing)
• Who Will You Save, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
• Into Wrack and Ruin, Benjamin Kurt Unsworth (Phantasmagoria)

Best Anthology

• Lesbians In Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, J.S. Fields, Heather Tracy & William C. Tracy, eds. (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)
• This Way Lies Madness, Dave Jeffery & Lee Murray, eds. (Flame Tree)
• Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
• Blood in the Bricks, Neil Williamson, ed. (NewCon)

Best Independent Press

• Black Shuck
• Flame Tree
• Luna Press Publishing
• NewCon

Best Non-Fiction

• “Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other”, Eugen Bacon (Strange Horizons 3/24/25)
• Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution, Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke (Routledge India)
• Writing The Magic: Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction, Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)
• The Ecological Imaginary in Literature and Other Media: The Nature of Fantasy, Kevan Manwaring (Routledge)
• Britain’s Folklore Year: A seasonal journey through our customs, celebrations and rituals, Mark Norman (National Trust)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, edited by Marguerite Kenner

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Mythaxis
• Phantasmagoria
• Remains
• Strange Horizons

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Kelly Chong
• Vincent Chong
• Jenni Coutts
• Mina Ikemoto Ghosh

Best Audio (Fiction)

• The Shape of Monsters, CL Hellisen, narrated by Omari Douglas (Audible Originals)
• PodCastle
• PseudoPod
• The Tiny Bookcase

Best Audio (Non-Fiction)

• Breaking The Glass Slipper
• Fantasy Book Swap
• The Folklore Podcast
• Uncanny

Best Newcomer

• M.H. Ayinde for A Song of Legends Lost (Orbit)
• Annabel Campbell for The Outcast Mage (Orbit)
• MK Hardy for The Needfire (Solaris)
• Ana Sun for Futures to Live By (NewCon)

• King of Ashes, S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
• All This Could Be Yours, Hank Phillippi Ryan (Minotaur)

Best First Novel

• Mask of the Deer Woman, Laurie L. Dove (Berkley)

Best Juvenile/YA Novel

• Well-Behaved Children Seldom Make History, Chris Chan (Level Best)
• Miles in Time, Lee Matthew Goldberg (Wise Wolf)
• The Scammer, Tiffany D. Jackson (Quill Tree)
• Death in the Cards, Mia P. Manansala (Delacorte)

Best Short Story

• “Six-Armed Robbery”, Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier (Donna Andrews Presents Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Humorous)
• “Hollywood Prometheus”, Christa Faust (Crime Ink: Iconic: An Anthology of Crime Fiction Inspired by Queer Icons)
• “The Skies Are Red”, Richie Narvaez (On Fire and Under Water: A Climate Change Crime Fiction Anthology)

Best Anthology or Collection

• Crime Ink: Iconic: An Anthology of Crime Fiction Inspired by Queer Icons,
  John Copenhaver & Salem West, eds. (Bywater)
• On Fire and Under Water: A Climate Change Crime Fiction Anthology,
  Curtis Ippolito et al. (Rock and a Hard Place)

Critical/Non-Fiction

• The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story, Pagan
  Kennedy (Vintage)

Other awards categories include Best Paperback Original/E-Book/ Audiobook Original Novel. Winners will be announced during Bouchercon, to be held October 21-25, 2026 in Calgary, Canada. For more information, including complete lists of nominees, see the Bouchercon website.

French Novel

• WINNER: Aatea, Anouck Faure (Argyll)

• Festin de larmes, Morgane Caussarieu & Vincent Tassy (ActuSF)
• Tovaangar, Céline Minard (Rivages)
• Sintonia, Audrey Pleynet (Le Bélial’)
• Une vie de saint, Christophie Siébert (Au Diable Vauvert)

Foreign Novel

• WINNER: Le Livre des passages [Crossings], Alex Landragin, tr. Caroline Nicolas (Le Cherche-Midi)

• Le Chant des noms [The Naming Song], Jedediah Berry, tr. Jonathan Baillehache (Hachette Heroes)
• Sur toutes les vagues de la mer [All the Seas of the World], Guy Gavriel Kay, tr. Mikael Cabon (L’Atalante)
• Les Sœurs de la Muée [The Tiger Flu], Larissa Lai, tr. Sylvie Bérard & Suzanne Grenier (Le Quartanier)
• Le Cœur des Nagas [The Heart of the Nhaga], Young-Do Lee, tr. Marion Gilbert (Hachette Heroes)
• La Reine sirène [Siren Queen], Nghi Vo, tr. Mikael Cabon (L’Atalante)

French Short Fiction

• WINNER: “L’Âge des tempêtes”, Thomas Day (Bifrost 117)

• “Fiancées du silence”, Sabrina Calvo (Soleil·s: 12 fictions héliotopiques)
• “Les Noueurs”, Chloé Chevalier (Utopiales 2025)
• Épicènes, Thierry Crouzet (À la flamme)
• “La Femme inachevée”, Claude Ecken (Bifrost 120)

Foreign Short Fiction

• WINNER: La Migration annuelle des nuages [The Annual Migration of Clouds] et Ce qui se dit par la montagne [We Speak Through the Mountain], Premee Mohamed, tr. Marie Surgers (L’Atalante)

• Un lieu ensoleillé pour personnes sombres [A Sunny Place for Shady People], Mariana Enriquez, tr. Anne Plantagenet (Le Sous-Sol)
• La Vie secrète des robots [The Secret Life of Bots], Suzanne Palmer, tr. Pierre-Paul Durastanti (Le Bélial’)
• Hard Mary, Sofia Samatar, tr. Patrick Dechesne (Argyll)

French YA Novel

• WINNER: Station Symbiose, Noëmie Lemos (Critic)

• Les Âmes de l’ouest, Elie S. Green (Gulf Stream)
• L’énigme de Camford, Ariel Holzl (Slalom)
• L’Institut du nouveau lendemain, Chloé Vollmer-Lo (Nathan)

Foreign YA Novel

• WINNER: Le Voleur [The Thief] et La reine d’Attolie [The Queen of Attolia], Megan Whalen Turner, tr. Yoko Lacour (Monsieur Toussaint Louverture)

• Le Miroir sombre [The Dark Mirror], Samantha Shannon, tr. Benjamin Kuntzer (De Saxus)

Jacques Chambon Translation Prize

• WINNER: Les Sœurs de la Muée [The Tiger Flu], Larissa Lai, tr. Sylvie Bérard & Suzanne Grenier (Le Quartanier)

• Petit, Grand ou Le parlement des fées [Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament], John Crowley, tr. Patrick Couton (L’Atalante)
• Le Livre des passages [Passages], Alex Landragin, tr. Caroline Nicolas (Le Cherche-Midi)
• House of windows [House of Windows], John Langan, tr. Thibaud Eliroff (J’ai Lu)

Wojtek Siudmak Award for Art

• WINNER: Yvan Belikov for the art of the five-book The Bone Season series, Samantha Shannon (De Saxus)

• Nicolas Caminade for the cover art of the French editions of several books by J.R.R. Tolkien (Pocket)
• Morgane Caussarieu for the cover and interior art of Festin de larmes, Caussarieu & Vincent Tassy (ActuSF)
• Thibault Daumain for the cover and interior art of Petit, Grand ou Le parlement des fées [Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament], John Crowley, tr. Patrick Couton (L’Atalante)
• Anouck Faure for the cover art of Hard Mary, Sofia Samatar, tr. Patrick Dechesne (Argyll)

Non-Fiction

• WINNER: Petites histoires de la science-fiction française, Alain Grousset (ActuSF)

• L’Encyclopédie H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi & David E. Schultz (Bragelonne)

Prix Spécial

• WINNER: Demain commence hier, George W. Barlow (Flatland)

• Derrière le grillage 1, Guillaume Chamanadjian, Sébastien Juillard & luvan (Scylla)