• Storm-Dragon, Dave Freer (Raconteur) amazon / bookshop
• War By Other Means, Karl K. Gallagher (Kelt Haven) amazon
• No Man’s Land Volumes 1-3, Sarah A. Hoyt (Goldport) amazon / bookshop
• Powerless, Harry Turtledove (Caezik SF & Fantasy) amazon / bookshop

Storm-Dragon by Dave Freer (Raconteur) won the first Special Prometheus Award Winner for Young Adult Fiction.

• The Star Dwellers, James Blish (Faber & Faber; Avon)
• That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis (Scribner)
• Salt, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
• Singularity Sky, Charles Stross (Ace)

Novel

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: “Emily”, Vanessa Santos (Make a Home of Me)

• 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)
• The Confirmed Bachelors, Stephen Volk (Black Shuck)

Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Bitter Skin”, Kaaron Warren (Night & Day)

• “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)
• “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter”, Audrey Zhou (Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)

Single-Author Collection

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER (TIE): Unquiet Guests, Dan Coxon, ed. (Dead Ink)
• WINNER (TIE): Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)

• Roots of My Fears, Gemma Amor, ed. (Titan)
• 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)

For more information, see the award website.

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.