Best Author

• WINNER: Luís Filipe Silva (Portugal)

• Marc Elsberg (Austria)
• Alessandro Forlani (Italy)
• Agnieszka Hałas (Poland)
• Christian Léourier (France)
• Ruth Frances Long (Ireland)
• Julija Lukovnjak (Slovenia)
• Michael Marrak (Germany)
• Emil Minchev (Bulgaria)
• Ondřej Neff (Czech Republic)
• Luís Filipe Silva (Portugal)
• Cosimo Suglia (Luxembourg)
• Dănuț Ungureanu (Romania)
• Володимир Єшкілєв/Volodymyr Yeshkiliev (Ukraine)

Best Artist

• WINNER: Stéphanie Hans (France)

• Daniel Atanasov-Satanasov (Bulgaria)
• Maya Hahto (Finland)
• Андрій Лесів/Andriy Lesiv & Романа Романишин/Romana Romanyshyn (Ukrainian)
• Luis Louro (Portugal)
• Mikuláš Podprocký (Czech Republic)
• Mojca Poljanc (Slovenia)
• Valentin Tănase (Romania)
• Adrian van Schwamen (Germany)
• Lucrezia Viperina (Italy)

Best Magazine

• WINNER: Supernova (Slovenia)

• Agamor Gamebooks Magazine (Bulgaria)
• Dangan (Portugal)
• Exodus (Germany)
• Helion (Romania)
• Hypnos (Italy)
• Parsec (UK)
• Le Rocambole (France)
• Tähtivaeltaja (Finland)

Best Publisher

• WINNER: Ohneohren (Austria)

• Carcosa (Germany)
• Cristian PlusArt (Romania)
• Critic (France)
• Editorial Divergência (Portugal)
• Jakub Němeček (Czech Republic)
• Newcon Press (UK)
• The O’Brien Press (Ireland)
• Orange Books (Bulgaria)
• Vivat Publishing (Ukraine)
• Zona 42 (Italy)

Best Promoter

• WINNER: Francesco Verso (Italy)

• Afonso Cruz (Portugal)
• Dmytro aka Khajiit (Ukraine)
• Bojan Ekselenski (Slovenia)
• Alain Grousset (France)
• Karo Leikomaa (Finland)
• Helmuth W. Mommers (Austria)
• Václav Pravda (Czech Republic)
• Prez 9 Zemi [Through Nine Lands] team (Bulgaria)
• Science Fiction & Fantasy Society Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
• Cornel Secu (Romania)
• Klaudia Seibel (Germany)
• Francesco Verso (Italy)
• Jo Zebedee (Ireland)

Best Translator

• WINNER: Mariano Martin Rodriguez (Spain, nominated by Moldova)

• Pavel Bakič (Czech Republic)
• Andrea Cassini (Italy)
• Gilles Goullet (France)
• Sergej Hvala (Slovenia)
• Emil Minchev (Bulgaria)
• Ana-Veronica Mircea (Romania)
• Ursula Phillips (Poland)
• Mariano Martin Rodriguez (Moldova)
• Богдан Стасюк/Bohdan Stasiuk (Ukraine)
• Teresa Fernandes Swiatkiewicz (Portugal)
• Austin Wagner (UK)
• Karin Will (Germany)

The Achievement Awards winners are:

Best Written Work of Fiction

• WINNER: Tecnologie del Futuro, Marco Passarello, ed. (Italy)

• Легендарій міських див [The Legendary of the City Wonders], Антонян А., Горбунов Андрій, Кузнєцов В., Павло Дерев’янко/Pavlo Derevianko, Легендарій міських див, Роман Колган, Владислав Лєнцев & Олег Сілін (Ukraine)
• Ochiul tigrului [Eye of the Tiger], Emilia Burca (Moldova)
• Prometheus Dezlănțuit [Prometheus Unleashed], Adrian Chifu (Romania)
• Wolfszone, Christian Endres (Germany)
• Será de Madrugada, Raquel Fontão (Portugal)
• Metamorf, Karolina Francova (Czech Republic)
• The Sword Triumphant, Gareth Hanrahan (Ireland)
• Lumenlaulaja, Emmi Itäranta (Finland)
• Skrivnost Srži, Jakob Konda (Slovenia)
• Mrak, Emil Minchev (Bulgaria)
• Das zweigeteilte All, Ralph Alexander Neumüller (Austria)
• Sintonia, Audrey Pleynet (France)
• Roserei, Cosimo Suglia (Luxembourg)
• When There Are Wolves Again, E.J. Swift (UK)

Best Work of Art

• WINNER: DOFRESH for the cover of La Vie secrète des robots [The Secret Life of Robots], Suzanne Palmer (France)

• Franco Brambilla for the illustration of Tecnologie del Futuro, Marco Passarello, ed. (Italy)
• Michaela Konrad for “Embrace the Future” (Austria)
• Tania Mincheva for the cover of Mrak (Bulgaria)
• Eleonor Piteira for “Time’s End” (Portugal)
• Оксана Сіненко/Oksana Sinenko for the covers and illustration of the Litopys Siroho Ordeny books, Pavlo Derevianko (Ukraine)
• Adrian van Schwamen for “Dreieck des Schreckens” (Germany)
• Nick Wells for the covers of The Fractal Series, Allen Stroud (UK)

Best Fanzine

• WINNER: Journey Planet #93 (Ireland)

• Agamor #3 (Bulgaria)
• ArtZone SF 12/25 (Romania)
• Basis 11/24 (France)
• Emarginacje #1 (Poland)
• Faun #5 (Austria)
• Il magazzino dei mondi #1 (Italy)
• Pacto #2 (Portugal)
• Weltenportal 9/25 (Germany)

Best Work for Children

• WINNER: Fantastyczne Smoki [Fantastic Dragons], Marcin Kończewski (Poland)

• Der kleine Perry 3: Meister der Roboter, Olaf Brill, illustrated by Michael Vogt (Germany)
• Was macht ein Dino im Museum?, Marie Gamillscheg (Austria)
• Station Symbiose, Noëmie Lemos (France)
• Corvinho, Luis Louro (Portugal)
• Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution, Una McCormack (UK)
• Mitko and the Enchanted Cave, Емил Минчев/Emil Minchev (Bulgaria)
• Apollo credici, Adrian Fartade, Leo Ortolani & Luca Perri (Italy)
• Platanos, Doina Rusti (Romania)
• Вандалізм [Vandalism], Валерія Савотіна/Valeriia Savotina (Ukraine)

Best Comic Book or Graphic Novel

• WINNER: Tales from Nevermore, Manuel Monteiro, illustrated by Pedro Nascimento (Portugal)

• Der kleine Perry 3: Meister der Roboter, Olaf Brill, illustrated by Michael Vogt (Germany)
• Silver: Unearthed, Michael Carroll, illustrated by Joe Currie, lettering by Simon Bowland (Ireland)
• Cristina Covrig
• Мор. Частина 2: Потойбіччя [Pestilence. Volume 2: The Beyond], Andrii Dankovych (Ukraine)
• Daga #3, Giuliano Dimitrov, Kancho Kozhuharov, Haralambi Markov, Diana Naneva, Blagovesta Neycheva, Marko Nikolic, Satanasov, Marko Stoyanovich & Alyosha Tomic (Bulgaria)
• Oskar Ed: Můj nejlepší přítel, Branko Jelínek (Czech Republic)
• Ionheart, Lukas Kummer (Austria)
• La Route, Manu Larcenet (France)
• Arv, Adrian Nen (Romania)
• Guida pratica e un po’ comic(a) al Solarpunk, Francesco Verso, ed. (Italy)

Best Internet Publication

• WINNER: Intergalactic Robot, Artur Coelho (Portugal)

• Actusf.com (France)
• Knigi-igri.bg (Bulgaria)
• Legie.info (Czech Republic)
• Nörttikulttuurivisa [Geek Culture Quiz] (Finland)
• Other Than a Fanzine: Fantastica Magazine (Romania)
• Reading Wildlife (Italy)
• SciFiNet (Germany)
• Vlad the Storyteller (Ukraine)

Best Event, Festival or Convention organised by Fans

• WINNER: Аль Мор [All Mor] 2025 (Ukraine)

• Archipelacon 2 (Finland)
• Bazyliszek x Polcon (Poland)
• Contacto 2025 (Portugal)
• DeepCon 2025 (Italy)
• Eastercon 2025 (Ireland)
• Elstercon 2024 (Germany)
• Fantasy-Con (Wien) (Austria)
• FénixCon (zech Republic)
• Les Intergalactiques, 13e édition (France)
• LuxCon 2025 (Luxembourg)
• Na meji nevidnega 2025 (Slovenia)
• Romcon 2025 (Romania)
• Through Nine Lands 2025 – Monstrous Encounters (Bulgaria)
• World Fantasy Convention 2025 (UK)

Best Dramatic Presentation

• WINNER: Ти — космос [U Are the Universe] (Ukraine)

• À l’ouest d’Arkham (Luxembourg)
• Another End (Italy)
• Chien 51 (France)
• The Dex Legacy Season 3 (UK)
• Färjan (Finland)
• Moonflower (Bulgaria)
• O Velho e a Espada (Portugal)
• Poate visezi [Maybe You’re Dreaming] (Romania)

The Chrysalis Awards winners were also announced:

• Thomas Arnaud (France)
• Ondřej Blaho (Czech Republic)
• Vida Delcheva (Bulgaria)
• Marcel Gherman (Moldova)
• Elia Gonella (Italy)
• Ben J.A. Hansen (Luxembourg)
• Svenja Knisel (Austria)
• Matjaž Marinček (Slovenia)
• Afonso Molinar (Portugal)
• Kevin Moran (Ireland)
• Yulia Nahorniuk (Юлія Нагорнюк) (Ukraine)
• Tessa (Germany)
• Alina Voinea (Romania)

Other finalists were:

• Veronica Mok
• Lily Myers
• Sanjay Nair
• Nevin Roy
• Ayazhan Shuinshbay
• Nina-Rose Smith
• Sarah Witte

The scholarship contest is open to residents of any country who are enrolled as full-time students at an accredited four-year university and majoring in math, engineering, the physical sciences, or science fiction as literature. Applicants must submit a 500-1,000 word essay on a provided topic. The scholarship cannot be offered to incoming freshmen.

For guidelines and more information, visit The Heinlein Society website.

Finalists for the 2026 Deutsche Science Fiction Preis, presented by Science Fiction Club Deutschland (SFCD), have been announced.

Best German-Language SF Novel:

Winners are chosen by jury, and receive a €1,000 prize. Second and third place runners-up are recognized with €500 and €300 respectively. Awards will be presented during Elstercon, to be held September 18-20, 2026 in Leipzig, Germany. For more information, see the award site.

• 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) amazon
• The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death, Helen Marshall (Titan) amazon / bookshop
• Veal, Mackenzie Nolan (ECW) amazon / bookshop

• The Unseen, Ania Ahlborn (Gallery)
• Last Chance Live!, Helena Haywoode Henry (Nancy Paulsen)
• Infinite Archive, Mur Lafferty (Ace)
• Transmentation: Transience, Darkly Lem (Blackstone)
• The Coming Dark, D.J. Molles (published by the author)
• Labyrinth, A.G. Riddle (Head of Zeus/AdAstra)
• Shadows Upon Time, Christopher Ruocchio (DAW)
• Children of Solitude, Michael G. Williams (Gold Dust)
• Closing Time at the Sunny-Side-Up, David Niall Wilson (‎Shotgun Honey)
• Fallen City, Adrienne Young (Saturday)

The 2026 selection panel includes Nicola Griffith, Mat Johnson, Fonda Lee, Darcie Little Badger, and Peter Rock. The winner will be announced October 21, 2026, Le Guin’s birthday.

For more information, see the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust website.

Mejor Novela Original (Best Original Novel)

• WINNER: Animales difíciles, Rosa Montero (Seix Barral)

• Impía, J.V. Gachs (Dolmen)
• U.N.I., Antonio Garber (Menoscuarto)
• Salitre y cenizas, Carlos Di Urarte (El transbordador)

Mejor Novela Traducida (Best Translated Novel)

• WINNER: El vado de los zorros [Fox Fords], Anna Starobinets, tr. Viktoria Leftérova & Enrique Maldonado (Impedimenta)

• Los diablos [The Devils], Joe Abercrombie, tr. Manu Viciano (Runas)
• El reformatorio [The Reformatory], Tananarive Due, tr. María Pérez de San Román (La biblioteca de Carfax)
• El diablo te lleva a casa [The Devil Takes You Home], Gabino Iglesias, tr. Miguel Sanz Jiménez (La biblioteca de Carfax)

Mejor Novela Juvenil Original (Best Original YA Novel)

Mejor Novela Juvenil Traducida (Best Translated YA Novel)

The winner of Mejor Portada Edición Española (Best Spanish Edition Cover) was Borja González for Ogros [Ogres] by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Dolmen).

Winners will be honored during the Celsius 232 festival, to be held July 14-18, 2026 in Avilés, Spain. For more information, see the Kelvin 505 website.

• WINNER: “A Blade Drawn from Envy”, Ty Ogunade
• RUNNER-UP: “There Will Come Soft Rains”, Jessica Tsang

• “A Song of Shir’ja”, Harps Aujla
• “Zonbi”, Zarah Elouis-Ro
• “Crooked Straits”, Olivia Ho
• “One Thousand and One Wishes”, Rakan Khashman
• “The Sun Wells”, Aiden Ng
• “A Corruption of Death”, Hadiyah Sama

The judges of the Prize included Carolynne Bain, Ese Erheriene, Eric Huang, Nahrein Kemp, and Chris Pak. The winner receives £4,500, the runner-up £2,500, and the remaining six each receive £850. All eight will receive mentoring from the prize’s publishing partners. The award is funded by author Ben Aaronovitch and actor Adjoa Andoh.

For more information, see the prize’s website.

The Costigan—Literary Achievement

• WINNER: Old Gods and Other Tales, Scott Oden (self-published)

• Conan: Comrades, Brian D. Anderson (Titan)
• Conan: The Amulet of Nakamar, Brendan Deneen (Titan)
• Kull: The Talons of Deep Time, Francesco Dimitri (Titan)
• Solomon Kane: The Lair of the Mari Lwyd, Shaun Hamill (Titan)
• Barnaby’s Luck, Al Onia (Cursed Dragon Ship)
• “This Light of Mine”, Steven Shrewsbury (Black Diadem Fall/Winter ’25/’26)
• “Jirel Meets Death”, Molly Tanzer (New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #5)
• Weird Trails, C.P. Webster (Bizarchives)

The Atlantean—Outstanding Achievement, Nonfiction Book

• WINNER: Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author, Willard M. Oliver (University of North Texas Press)

The Valusian—Outstanding Achievement, Nonfiction Anthology/Collection

• WINNER: The Solomon Kane Companion: An Informal Guide to Robert E. Howard’s Dark Avenger, Fred Blosser (Pulp Hero)

• Windy City Pulp Stories #24, Tom Roberts, ed. (3/25)

The Hyrkanian—Outstanding Achievement, Essay

• WINNER: “Shadows of the Serpent: Howard, Kull and the Birth of Sword and Sorcery”, Jeff Shanks (Scourge of the Serpent #1-4)

• “Dove cavalcano le sierene: La Poesia di R. H Howard”, Mariano D’Anza (Zothique 8/25)
• “Relectura de Conan el Bárbaro desde las coordenadas de la era postheroica”, Alfonso Freire-Sánchez (Barataria 2025)
• “On REH, Conan, and Weird Tales”, Naomi Kanakia (self-published)
• “‘The Ultimate Barbarian’: Robert E. Howard, Frank Frazetta, and the Pulp Fantasy of Prehistory”, Ryan Linkof (New Worlds, Old Worlds, Lost Worlds: Picturing Prehistory in American Culture)
• “Conquest Comics Press (An Insider’s View)”, Rick McCollum (Spraguedecampfan)
• “Robert E. Howard, Grettir the Outlaw, and the origins of two-fisted Weird Fiction”, Eric Williams (Adam’s Notes)

The Venarium—Emerging Scholar

• WINNER: The Conan Chronology YouTube channel, Dan Yergert

• Might Makes Right: The Colonial Underpinnings of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian, Teemu Tarkkala (University of Helsinki)

The Black Lotus—Outstanding Achievement, Web-Based

• WINNER: The World of Robert E. Howard website, Ståle Gismervik

• “Robert E. Howard’s Occult Detectives: Kirowan & Conrad” YouTube video, Bob Freeman (Bob Freeman: Occult Detective)
• Sword & Sorcery Book Club YouTube channel, Lion (Eleazar Tamez)
• “The Most Accurate Comic Adaptations list of EVERY Robert E Howard’s Conan Story – Battle Royale 25!” YouTube video, Robert MacFarlane (Tennessee Fats)
• Stygian Dogs YouTube channel, Evan Todd
• “The Robert E. Howard Show” YouTube series, Michael K. Vaughan
• The Conan Chronology YouTube channel, Dan Yergert

The Rankin—Artistic Achievement

• WINNER: Pete Pantazis, Tyler Smith, Richard Starkings & Patrick Zircher for Solomon Kane: The Serpent Ring (Titan)

• João Canola, Roberto De La Torre, Ivan Gil, Tyler Smith, Richard Starkings & Jim Zub for Conan: Scourge of the Serpent (Titan Comics)
• Roberto De La Torre & Roy Thomas for “Mark of the Beast” (The Savage Sword of Conan #7)
• Alex Horley, Tyler Smith, Richard Starkings & Jim Zub for “The Nomad” (Conan the Barbarian #25)
• Valentin Sécher for Conan Illustrated: The Tower of the Elephant (Titan Comics)
• Liam Sharp for “Tattered Wings” (The Savage Sword of Conan #11)

The Black River—Special Achievement

• WINNER: Ståle Gismervik for creating and running the Robert E. Howard Foundation website, formatting and establishing the REHF Press Ultimate Edition books

The Crom

• WINNER: Lee Breakiron

The Black Circle—Special Achievement

• WINNER: Marcelo Anciano

• Chris Gruber
• Fred Malmberg
• Donald A. Wollheim

• WINNER: La fille qui sauva Hiroshima, Stéphane Desienne (Gephyre)

• Entre Autres Univers [In Universes], Emet North, tr. Gilles Goullet (Bigbang)
• La Police du temps [Doing Time], Jodi Taylor, tr. Cindy Colin-Kapen (Hervé Chopin)
• Une espèce en voie de disparition [The Vanishing Kind], Lavie Tidhar, tr. Julien Bétan (Une Heure-Lumière)
• A Language of Dragons, S.F. Williamson (Bigbang)

Prix Spécial

• WINNER: Célestopol 1922: Le jeu de rôle

• The Ars Obscura series, François Baranger
• The Vampyria universe, Victor Dixen
• Fallout season 2

The Prix d’honneur went to Victor Dixen for works in the Vampyria universe. The Prix Graphique for art went to the Urban Comics editions of Batman: Gotham by Gaslight and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight 1893.

Winners were chosen by a jury and will be celebrated at the 2026 Hypermondes Festival, to be held September 26-27 in Mérignac, France. For more information, see the official announcement.

Long Form

• Pagans, James Alistair Henry (Moonflower)
• Tobacco Republic: What If The 13 Colonies Never United?, R.A. Moss (Beck & Branch)
• Ten Incarnations of Rebellion, Vaishnavi Patel (Ballantine)

Short Form

• “Two If by Seekrieg”, Lee Allred (Thin Red Tales: Military Alternate History)
• “The Leavitt Space Telescope”, Kelli Fitzpatrick (Twisting, Turning Timeshifts: HERitage Vol. 2)
• “Caesar at Sea”, Alan Smale (Skull X Bones)
• “Darwin’s Rocket”, Alan Smale (The Sunday Morning Transport 10/19/25)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• The Charlatan Duology, Holly Black (Tor)
• Audition for the Fox, Martin Cahill (Tachyon)
• The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking)
• Snake-Eater, T. Kingfisher (47North)
• The West Passage, Jared Pechaček (Tordotcom)
• Water Moon, Samantha Sotto Yambao (Del Rey)
• The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Young Adult Literature

• The Corruption of Hollis Brown, K. Ancrum (HarperCollins)
• The Leaving Room, Amber McBride (Feiwel & Friends)
• The Little Thieves series, Margaret Owen (Henry Holt & Co.)
• On the Wings of La Noche, Vanessa L. Torres (Knopf)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest, Aubrey Hartman (Little, Brown)
• The Village Beyond the Mist, Sachiko Kashiwaba, tr. Avery Fischer Udagawa (Yonder)
• The Island of Forgotten Gods, Victor Pinñeiro (Sourcebooks Young Readers)
• The Misewa Saga, David A. Robertson (Tundra; Puffin Canada)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

• Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Cartographies, Anahit Behrooz (Bloomsbury Academic)
• The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation, Michael D.C. Drout  (Norton)
• A Real Taste for Fairy-Stories, Verlyn Flieger (Walking Tree)
• Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many, Thomas P. Hillman (Kent State University Press)
• Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation, Giuseppe Pezzini (Cambridge UP 2025)
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics, Hamish Williams (Bloomsbury Academic)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works, Patrick Curry, (Routledge 2023)
• Enheduanna: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author, Sophus Helle, ed. (Yale University Press)
• Fantasy: A Short History, Adam Roberts (Bloomsbury Academic)
• The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology, Paul R. Rovang (Lexington)
• Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, Dennis Wilson Wise, ed. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)

Mejor Novela Original (Best Original Novel)

• Impía, J.V. Gachs (Dolmen)
• U.N.I., Antonio Garber (Menoscuarto)
• Animales difíciles, Rosa Montero (Seix Barral)
• Salitre y cenizas, Carlos Di Urarte (El transbordador)

Mejor Novela Traducida (Best Translated Novel)

• Los diablos [The Devils], Joe Abercrombie, tr. Manu Viciano (Runas)
• El reformatorio [The Reformatory], Tananarive Due, tr. María Pérez de San Román (La biblioteca de Carfax)
• El diablo te lleva a casa [The Devil Takes You Home], Gabino Iglesias, tr. Miguel Sanz Jiménez (La biblioteca de Carfax)
• El vado de los zorros [Fox Fords], Anna Starobinets, tr. Viktoria Leftérova & Enrique Maldonado (Impedimenta)

Mejor Novela Juvenil Original (Best Original YA Novel)

Mejor Novela Juvenil Traducida (Best Translated YA Novel)

The finalists for Mejor Portada Edición Española (Best Spanish Edition Cover) were also announced.

Winners will be honored during the Celsius 232 festival, to be held July 14-18, 2026 in Avilés, Spain. For more information, see the Kelvin 505 website.

LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction

• WINNER: Beings, Ilana Masad (Bloomsbury)

• Volatile Memory, Seth Haddon (Tordotcom)
• Cry, Voidbringer, Elaine Ho (Bindery)
• Two Truths and a Lie, Cory O’Brien (Pantheon)
• Blood on Her Tongue, Johanna Van Veen (Poisoned Pen)

For more information, including complete list of winners, see the official web page.

• “A Song of Shir’ja”, Harps Aujla
• “Zonbi”, Zarah Elouis-Ro
• “Crooked Straits”, Olivia Ho
• “One Thousand and One Wishes”, Rakan Khashman
• “The Sun Wells”, Aiden Ng
• “A Blade Drawn from Envy”, Ty Ogunade
• “A Corruption of Death”, Hadiyah Sama
• “There Will Come Soft Rains”, Jessica Tsang

The judges announced include Carolynne Bain, Ese Erheriene, Eric Huang, Nahrein Kemp, and Chris Pak. The winner will receive £4,500, one runner-up £2,500, and the remaining six receive £850. All those shortlisted will receive mentoring from the prize’s publishing partners. The award is funded by author Ben Aaronovitch and actor Adjoa Andoh.

For more information, see the prize’s website.

• “Six People to Revise You”, J.R. Dawson (Uncanny 1-2/25)
• “The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn”, Louise Hughes (Kaleidotrope 9/25)
• “The Shadow on the Nest”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Uncanny 9-10/25)
• “Wire Mother”, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 10/25)
• “The Sack of Burley Cottage”, Rich Larson (Reactor 6/25/25)
• “his love’s ashes on his tongue”, Monte Lin (The Deadlands 1/27/25)
• “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”, Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)
• “We, the Fleet”, Alex T. Singer (Clarkesworld 5/25)
• “Missing Helen”, Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld 7/25)
• “Woolly”, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 5-6/25)

The Omega Sci-Fi Awards has revealed the winners of its Tomorrow Prize short story competition:

• FIRST PLACE: “File: Anna Bishop”, Abigail Lee
• SECOND PLACE: “The Continuity States of America”, Jadyn Manguera Shin
• THIRD PLACE: “Bellwethers”, Theodore Kinsella

Other finalists include:

• “The Drought Code”, Hanaa Belkacemi
• “Mother”, Yedsen Troy Dela Cruz

Honorable mentions were given to the following stories:

• “A Tale of Loneliness”, Kelly Chen
• “Hybrid City”, Kyra Feliciano
• “The Lovelies”, Erin Foss
• “The Distilled Soul”, Olivia Hammond & Kayla Thompson
• “In Cision”, Chiara Hoffman
• “Half Human”, Wenen Tan

Results of the 2026 Green Feather Award competition were also announced. The winner is “Last Life” by Michaela Tobitt.

Honorable mentions were given to the following stories:

• “Capital of Air”, Noah Bernstein & Kata Murayoshi
• “The Filth Gate”, Jaedyn Flowers
• “Parable of the Scorched Earth”, Zoe Gibson
• “Aftermath”, Preston Hinds

The Tomorrow Prize and the Green Feather Award are open to Los Angeles County high school students. The Tomorrow Prize first-place winner receives $250 and publication in L.A. Parent Magazine, second prize is $150, and third prize is $100. The Green Feather Award gives $250 and publication by the Nature Nexus Institute for an eco-themed SF story.

All finalists had their stories performed by celebrity guests during the culminating event in Pasadena, CA in May 2026.

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.