The winner was announced October 21, 2026, Le Guin’s birthday. For more information, see the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust website.

• First Place: “How to Become a Sea Witch”, Theodora Goss (The Orange & Bee 4/25)

• Second Place: “The Mourning Robot”, Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/25)
• Third Place: “Final Moments of a Witch: A Poem Told in Reverse”, Pedro Iniguez (StokerCon 2025 Souvenir Anthology)

Honorable Mentions

• “Reaper”, Mary Soon Lee (Strange Horizons 4/25)
• “I Try to Explain the Concept of Teeth to My Alien Roommate”, Rachel Linton (Asimov’s 7-8/25)
• “I Was Lt. Uhura”, January Gill O’Neil (Poetry 11/25)

Long Poem Category

• First Place: “Hex Supply Customer Support Log”, Elis Montgomery (Strange Horizons 8/25)

• Second Place: “His New Antlers”, Rick Christiansen (Sheila-Na-Gig ’25)
• Third Place: “One Hundred Thousand Legends and the Longing Underneath”, Gwendolyn Hicks (Dangerous to Go Alone! 2)

Honorable Mentions

• “Components”, PS Cottier (AntipodeanSF 11/25)
• “A Priestess of Bast Reflects on a Past Life”, Clarabelle Miray Fields (The Orange Rose 11/25)
• “”Stationary”, David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Focus ‘25)

• WINNER: The Antidote, Karen Russell (Knopf) amazon / bookshop

• Blind Date with a Werewolf, Patricia Briggs (Ace) amazon / bookshop
• When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• Hole in the Sky, Daniel H. Wilson (Doubleday) amazon / bookshop
• Making Amends, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct) amazon / bookshop

The winner was selected by a panel of judges and announced at the Endeavour Writers Conference on October 10, 2026 in Milwaukie OR. The winning author receives a grant of $1,000 and an etched trophy.

For more information, see the official website.

• Pascal Blanche for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol. 3 edited by Stephen Kotowych​ (Ansible)
• Lindsey Carr for Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings (Tor)
• Tristan Elwell for Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher​ (47North)
• Maurizio Manzieri for The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories edited by Allan Kaster (AudioText)
• Kurt Miller for Behind the Veil by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer​ (Baen)
• Kurt Miller for The Presence Malign by Michael Mersault​ (Baen)
• Kim Myatt for I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang​ (HarperTeen)
• Eleonor Piteira for A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen (Del Rey)
• Cynthia Sheppard for Queen Demon by Martha Wells​ (Tor)
• Stephen Youll for The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear (S&S/Saga)

Book Cover Honorable Mentions

• Paul Davey for Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf)​
• Jeff Langevin for Sky on Fire by E.K. Johnston (Dutton)
• Kurt Miller for Dancing with Destruction edited by Jason Cordova (Baen)
• John Picacio for The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio (Brown)
• Cynthia Sheppard for Angel Maker by Elizabeth Bear (Sobbing Squonk)

Best Magazine Cover

• Gal Barkan for Star*Line Summer ’25​
• Pascal Blanche for Clarkesworld 3/25
• Thomas Elliott for Cosmic Horror Monthly 6/25​
• Natasa Ilincic for Apex 10/25
• Tithi Luadthong for Lightspeed 4/25
• Maurizio Manzieri for Asimov’s 7-8/25​
• Alexandra Petruk for Nightmare 10/25
• Alex Rommel for Clarkesworld 1/25
• Warmtail for Lightspeed 8/25
• Eldar Zakirov for Analog 11-12/25

Magazine Cover Honorable Mentions

• Pascal Blanche for Clarkesworld 8/25
• Hamish Frater for Clarkesworld 2/25
• Tithi Luadthong for Lightspeed 3/25
• Tomislav Tikulin for The Dark 1/25
• Tomislav Tikulin for The Dark 3/25

Winners will be announced at Philcon 2026, to be held November 20-22, 2026 in Cherry Hill NJ. Winners will receive $500 and a trophy. For more information, see the official Frank R. Paul Award webpage.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• WINNER: Upon a Starlit Tide, Kell Woods (Tor US; Titan UK)

• 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)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

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

• 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)

Best Novella

• WINNER: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom US; Arcadia UK)

• The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella, Eugen Bacon (Stars and Sabers)
• Fate’s Bane, C.L. Clark (Tordotcom)
• “Walking A Wounded Land”, Andrew Knighton (Wiz Duos 3)

Best Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Shadow Jack”, CL Hellisen (GigaNotoSaurus 5/1/25)

• “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)
• “No One Knows the Old Ways Anymore and It Will Be the End of Everything”, LJ McMenemy (Hiding Under the Leaves)

Best Collection

• WINNER: 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

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

• 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)
• Blood in the Bricks, Neil Williamson, ed. (NewCon)

Best Independent Press

• WINNER: NewCon

• Black Shuck
• Flame Tree
• Luna Press Publishing

Best Non-Fiction

• WINNER: Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution, Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke (Routledge India)

• “Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other”, Eugen Bacon (Strange Horizons 3/24/25)
• 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

• WINNER: Remains

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

Best Artist

• WINNER: Jenni Coutts

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

Best Audio (Fiction)

• WINNER: The Shape of Monsters, CL Hellisen, narrated by Omari Douglas (Audible Originals)

• PodCastle
• PseudoPod
• The Tiny Bookcase

Best Audio (Non-Fiction)

• WINNER: The Folklore Podcast

• Breaking The Glass Slipper
• Fantasy Book Swap
• Uncanny

Best Newcomer

• WINNER: Annabel Campbell for The Outcast Mage (Orbit)

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

Best Novel

• WINNER: Dancing in the Purple Rain, Judy L. Mohr (Black Wolf)

• Identical, Vanessa Di Gianni (Self published)
• The Deadly Life of Diana Penn, Shawn Inmom and Kirsten McKenzie (Squabbling Sparrows)
• How to Find a Nameless Fae, A.J. Lancaster (Camberion)
• Blade of the Wanderer, Steven Raaymakers, (Self published)

Best Youth Novel

• Thunder Snow, Melissa Gunn (Rose Kowhai)
• Jupiter Drake – Talisman, Marc Meaney (Spin Shift)
• Truth Needs No Colour, Heather McQuillan (Cloud Ink)
• Lone Fighter Blue, A.J. Woolf (Oblivion)

Best Novella or Novelette

• Spellcasting On, Andi R. Christopher (Sleepy Squid)
• A Date with the Devil, A.J.S. Imms (North Shore)
• The Baker’s Son’s Iced Buns, G.B. Ralph (Many Talented Authors)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: Have a Nice Death, Brandon Keaton, (F(r)iction Magazine)

• “Zeal For the Lord”, S. Jayne Bradley (North Shore)
• “Truth & Reconciliation”, Michael Botur (Gingernuts of Horror)
• “The Five Towers”, J.M. Goldie (Massive Crush)
• “Miner Difficulties”, Brandon Keaton (Michael Terrence)
• “The Cold Burns”, Anne Wilkins (Clarkesworld)

Best Collected Work

• Imploding Imagination Armageddon Authors (Kate Haley)
• The Knight Witch and Other Epic Poems, S. Jayne Bradley (Rookery)
• The Emotion Dealer and Other Works, Jack Remiel Cottrell (Canterbury University Press)

Best Artwork

• Cover for Grimoires and Green Tea, Melissa Gunn (Rose Kowhai)
• Cover for Dancing in the Purple Rain, E.L. Julian (Black Wolf)
• Cover for Unexpected Guests, Antonia Martin (North Shore)

Best Production/Publication

• “Dominion, Vol. 1”, memoh. Comics

Best Dramatic Presentation

• WINNER: Warren’s Vortex, Kitchen Table Productions (WV) Limited

Services to Fandom

• The Fantasizers Festival, Carl Yates

Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror

• Lee Murray

Best New Talent

• Judy L. Mohr

Novel

• WINNER: Slashed Beauties, A. Rushby (Berkley) amazon / bookshop

• Black Soil White Bread, Madeleine D’Este (self-published) amazon / bookshop
• The Woman in the Well, Dmetri Kakmi (IFWG) amazon / bookshop
• The Obituary, Martin Livings (self-published) amazon
• This Stays Between Us, Margaret McGovern (Penguin) amazon
• The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Titan) amazon / bookshop

Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction

• WINNER: The Cold House, A.G. Slatter (Titan) amazon / bookshop

• “The Leper’s Garden”, Jeff Clulow (The Leper’s Garden: And Other Contagions)
• “The Hidden God”, T.R. Napper (Asimov’s 3-4/25)
• “The Meatamorphosis”, Aaron Sterns (Into the Cthulhu-Universe: Lovecraftian Horrors in Other Literary Realities)
• “Drowning in the Dark”, Matt Tighe (Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories)

Short Fiction

• WINNER: “If I am to Earn my Tether”, Geneve Flynn (Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)

• “Wrong”, Emma Gertz (Never Say Die)
• “Whispers”, Martin Livings (Samhain Screams)
• “It Will Only Hurt If I Want It To”, Kirstyn McDermott (Midnight Echo 10/25)
• “The Shelter”, Carol Ryles (Midnight Echo 10/25)
• “Bitter Skin”, Kaaron Warren (Night and Day)

Collected Work

• WINNER: The Leper’s Garden: And Other Contagions, Jeff Clulow (Third Eye) amazon / bookshop

• This Dark Architect and Other Grim Tales, Pamela Jeffs (Four Ink) amazon / bookshop
• Shadows of Razorhurst, Craig Stanton (Oceaniacom) amazon / bookshop
• The Connections We Keep, Pauline Yates (self-published) amazon

Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and Criticism

• WINNER: “The Horror of Australia’s Literary Censorship”, Louise Zedda-Sampson (Midnight Echo 10/25)

• “Folklore Beginnings for Horror Writers”, Monica Carroll (Midnight Echo 10/25)
• “Frankenstein in Pop-Culture – Atomic Adaptations”, Claire Fitzpatrick (Aurealis 10/25)
• “August Derleth and the Rise of the Cthulhu Mythos”, Stephen Herczeg (The Pontine Dossier: Millenium Edition Winter ’25)
• “Fox Girl: A Speculative Journey”, Lee Murray (Speculative Insight 6/25)

Poetry

• WINNER: “Anatomy of a Haunting”, Katya de Becerra (Midnight Echo 10/25)

• “Speak”, L.E. Daniels (This Way Lies Madness)
• “A Pocket of Soil”, Geneve Flynn (Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)
• “Charcoal Skies”, Lee Murray (Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)

Edited Work

• WINNER: This Way Lies Madness, Dave Jeffery & Lee Murray, eds. (Flame Tree) amazon / bookshop

No award in the Graphic Novels/Comics category was presented. No shortlist was presented in the Edited Work category.

For more information, see the AHWA website.

• Paradiso 17, Hannah Lillith Assadi (Knopf)
• Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You, Julián Delgado Lopera (Liveright)
• Mad Eden, Morgan Thomas (MCD)

• Holloway, Elana K. Arnold (Clarion)
• When Tomorrow Burns, Tae Keller (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic, Keala Kendall (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America, Gabriel Duckels & David Levithan (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• Shook, Julian Randall (Henry Holt BYR)

• The School of Night, Karl Ove Knausgård, tr. Martin Aitken (Penguin)
• Centroeuropa, Vicente Luis Mora, tr. Rahul Bery (Bellevue Literary)
• Night of a Thousand Hells, Intan Paramaditha, tr. Stephen Epstein & Tiffany Tsao (Europa)
• Pure Men, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, tr. Lara Vergnaud (Other)

• “Not a Fish”, Andrew Dykstal (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/12/25)
• “Half Life”, Stephen Harper (Skull X Bones)
• “The Last Mardi Gras”, Raven Jakubowski (DreamForge Anvil 6/1/25)
• “The Teleporting Disaster Fairy”, Rati Mehrotra (Uncanny 11-12/25)
• “Blackrock”, R.M. Olson (Skull X Bones)
• “Billionaire’s Tears”, Vanessa Ricci-Thode (Escape Pod 7/24/25)
• “Bag of Holding”, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm (On Spec 10/25)

The award, recognizing “the best original short fiction published by small presses in the previous year,” was presented at Capclave, held October 2-4, 2026 at the Rockville Hilton in Rockville MD. The winner was chosen by members of WSFA. For more, see the WSFA Small Press Award website.

Outstanding Novel: Adult

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

• 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
• Harmattan Season, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor) amazon / bookshop

Outstanding Novel: YA

• WINNER: They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury) amazon / bookshop

• 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
• (S)Kin, Ibi Zoboi (Versify) amazon / bookshop

Outstanding Middle Grade

• WINNER: The Glade, Naseem Jamnia (Bittersweet)

• Afia in the Land of Wonders, Mia Araujo (Scholastic)
• 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

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

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

Outstanding Novelette

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

• “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
• “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

• WINNER: “Commensalism, Or the Labyrinth’s Vessels”, Albert Nkereuwem (Will This Be a Problem? Issue V)

• “Ichthyosis”, M.L. Krishnan (Fantasy 1/2/25)
• “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

• WINNER: “The Language of Fireflies”, Angela Liu (The Deadlands 2/13/25)

• “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)
• “After the Storm”, Ishita Basu Mallik (The Deadlands 5/5/25)

Critics Award

• WINNER: Alex Brown

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

Outstanding Fiction Podcast

• WINNER: khōréō

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Escape Pod
• Lightspeed
• Nightmare

Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works

• WINNER: We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga)

• Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
• The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, André M. Carrington, ed. (Luna Press Publishing)
• 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

• WINNER: The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction, Gautam Bhatia (Alter 11/22/25)

• “Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence”, Tanvir Ahmed (Strange Horizons 11/24/25)
• 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

• WINNER: Martha Wells

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

Community Award

• WINNER: Strange Horizons

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

Finalists are chosen by the committee and winners are selected by open vote. For more information, see the Ignyte Awards website.

• WINNER (TIE): Du ventre des montagnes, Fanie Demeule (Québec Amérique)
• WINNER (TIE): Entre nos mains, Elisabeth Vonarburg (Alire)

• Vespérale, Raphaëlle B. Adam & Ariane Gélinas (Alire)
• La maison du rang Lynch, Alexie Morin (Le Quartanier)
• L’herbe naïve, Esther Rochon (Alire)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “Autres Temps autres mers”, Marie Labrousse (Solaris Spring ’25)

• “Ténébrance”, Raphaëlle B. Adam (Territoires enchantés, royaumes ensorcelés)
• “Surtout pas Jonathan”, Dave Côté (Vols en dérive)
• “Chimère”, Alaine Ducharme (Vols en dérive)

Science Fiction/Fantasy

• WINNER: Scorched Skies, E.J. Mellow (Montlake)

• Godwaker, Kendra Merritt (Blue Fyre)
• Redneck Revenant, David Slayton (Blackstone)

Mystery, Thriller & Horror

• WINNER: This is My Body, Lindsay King-Miller (Quirk)

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)

Young Adult Literature

• WINNER: Away, Megan E. Freeman (Aladdin)

• Between Tungsten and Gold, Taryn Skipper (Splinter)

For more information, see the Colorado Humanities 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)
• “Wire Mother”, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 10/25)
• “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)
• “Missing Helen”, Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld 7/25)
• “Woolly”, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 5-6/25)

• The Mystical Mister Kay, Meihan Boey (Epigram)
• The Waiting Room, Choo Yi Feng (Epigram)
• Sister Snake, Amanda Lee Koe (Ecco)
• When They Burned the Butterfly, Wen-yi Lee (Tor)
• Be Your Own Bae, Daryl Qilin Yam (Epigram)
• Utama, Ng Yi-Sheng (Epigram)

The Prose judges are Kamal Al-Solaylee, Meira Chand (chair), and Audrey Chin. The shortlist is to be announced October 13. The SLP is “a biennial competition open to Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents whose works of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have been published in Singapore or abroad.” Winners receive S$5,000 and a plaque.

For more information, including the complete longlists for each category, see the Singapore Book Council website

• Look What You Made Me Do, John Lanchester, narrated by Louise Brealey & Genevieve Gaunt (WF Howes)
• Nonesuch, Francis Spufford, narrated by Lydia Wilson (Faber)

Crime & Thriller

• Murder at the Spirit Lounge, Jess Kidd, narrated by Philippa Dunne (Faber)
• Cully & More, Ian Rankin, narrated by James Bryce, Jimmy Chisholm, Sarah Collier, Dominic Cooper, Alec Heggie, Crawford Logan, James MacPherson, Steven McNicoll, Alexander Morton & Billy Riddoch (BBC Audio)

Romance

• Bachelorettes, Rosa Rankin-Gee, narrated by Erin Doherty & Georgie Sadler (Audible)
• Daggermouth, H.M. Wolfe, narrated by Teddy Hamilton & Angel Pean (Bramble)
• Portrait of Clare, Francis Brett Young, narrated by Justin Avoth (Naxos Audiobooks)

Young Adult Books

• Everything Not Saved, NMJ Coveney, narrated by George Greenland, Alix Wilton Regan & Jordan Renzo (Fire Hills)
• Survival Show, Juno Dawson, narrated by Hannah Berchtold (Gallery YA)
• Piper at the Gates of Dusk, Patrick Ness, narrated by Zach Barack & Jordan Renzo (Bolinda Audio)

Shortlists were also announced for Children’s, Non-Fiction, Specialist Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction Memoir, and more. Winners will be honored on November 23, 2026. For the complete shortlists, see the official web page.

For more information, including the complete longlist, see the Booker Prize website.