Christina DongowskiMay 31

Falls Ihr noch Lesestoff sucht: Die #Locus #Awards für #SFF #Genres wurden verliehen. Super Liste, und auch viele kürzere Formen dabei, wenn man sich gerade nicht durch 300plus seitige Romane lesen kann. Die meisten Short Stories kann man sogar for free online lesen.

#Lesen #Literature #Literatur #LiteraryAwards

https://locusmag.com/2026/05/2026-locus-awards-winners/

2026 Locus Awards Winners - Locus

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2026 Locus Awards on May 30, 2026, during the Bay Atea Book Festival. Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and Nnedi Okoraforwere Guests of Honor, withFeatured Local Artist Alyssa Winans. Additional weekend events included readings and panels with leading authors and a catered reception. SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL WINNER:Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)amazon/bookshop …Read More

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disassociated.comMay 24

The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2026 longlist

The longlist for the 2026 Miles Franklin award was published on Wednesday 20 May 2026, and includes the following ten titles: Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts Fierceland by Omar Musa First Name Second Name by Steve MinOn I Want Everything, Dominic Amerena Little World by Josephine Rowe My Heart at Evening by Konrad Muller Salt Upon the Water by Lyn Dickens Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan You Must Remember This by Sean Wilson Presented annually, the […]

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jaimedavid327May 22

How My Debut Book “Wonderment Within Weirdness” Won a 4-Star Literary Titan Award

There are moments in life that do not fully register at first. Moments where you stare at a screen, reread the same sentence multiple times, and wonder if what you are seeing is actually real. For me, one of those moments came when I found out that my debut book, Wonderment Within Weirdness, had received a 4-star silver award from the Literary Titan. Now, before anyone misunderstands what I am saying, no, the Literary Titan award is not the Pulitzer Prize. It is not one of those century-old […]

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/05/22/23/18/18/analysis/jaimedavid327/10928/how-my-debut-book-wonderment-within-weirdness-won-a-4-star-literary-titan-award/

disassociated.comMay 22

The Serpent in the Grove, winner of the Commonwealth Prize, written with AI help?

Congratulations to Trinidad and Tobago based writer Jamir Nazir for taking out the Commonwealth Short Story Prize this year, with his work, The Serpent in the Grove. Since being named winner though, suggestions have emerged that the work is the product of an AI agent. When asked to assess the story, a number of other AI agents (how else would you check?) concluded The Serpent in the Grove was likely written with at least some AI assistance. Prize organisers say they do not use tools to […]

https://disassociated.com/the-serpent-in-the-grove-jamir-nazir-commonwealth-prize-ai-help/

The Serpent in the Grove, winner of the Commonwealth Prize, written with AI help?

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N-gated Hacker NewsMay 20
🎉 Breaking news: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk outsources her #creativity to AI! 🤖 In a shocking twist, the machines are now winning literary awards while we humans are still struggling to write grocery lists. 🍞📑
https://lithub.com/nobel-laureate-olga-tokarczuk-apparently-used-ai-to-write-her-latest-novel/ #NobelPrize #AI #LiteraryAwards #TechInnovation #HackerNews #ngated
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel.

In a recent interview (conducted and published in Polish), Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk admitted to using AI in her creative process. The writer Maks Sipowicz, who drew attention to the interv…

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disassociated.comMay 13

Cannon by Lee Lai, becomes first graphic novel to win Stellar Prize

In winning the 2026 Stellar Prize, Montréal, Canada, based Australian cartoonist Lee Lai becomes the first graphic novelist to claim the Australian literary award, with Cannon. Lai's debut graphic novel, Stone Fruit, was shortlisted for the 2022 award, which went on to be won by Evelyn Araluen, with her poetry collection Dropbear. Dropbear was the first work of poetry to take out the Stellar, and Araluen was in the running for the 2026 award, with The Rot, her follow up collection of […]

https://disassociated.com/cannon-by-lee-lai-becomes-first-graphic-novel-to-win-stellar-prize/

Mathrubhumi EnglishApr 23
Padmaprabha Award for novelist R Rajasree https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/books/padmaprabha-award-for-novelist-r-rajasree-ht6mrbmq?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PadmaprabhaLiteraryAward #LiteraryAwards #RRajasree
Show threadElliott BledsoeApr 1

The State Library of Queensland has handed off the Queensland Literary Awards to Brisbane Writers Festival and handed black&write! back to Creative Australia. The reason is because of independent reviews and reconciling the library’s role with the ‘expectations of the Crisafulli Government’.

https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-28/
#LiteraryAwards #ArtsAndPolitics

WTF now?! #28 – Thursday 26 March–Wednesday 1 April 2026

A new copyright law for orphan works has passed, the State Library of Queensland hands off its awards and social media addiction is being tackled in court and in law and regulation.

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Otherwise AwardMar 25

In 2025, past Otherwise Award winners & fellows released many books, comics, short stories, poems, & more:

https://otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/eligible-2025-works-by-past-winners-fellows

Consider them as you read, and nominate and vote for awards.

#sff #genre #SpeculativeFiction #scifi #sciencefiction #horror #fantasy #LiteraryAwards #GenreFiction #books

disassociated.comMar 13

The longlist for the 2026 Stella Prize literary award

Twelve titles have been included on the longlist for this year's Stella Prize, the Australian literary award recognising the work of women and non-binary writers. 58 Facets: On violence and the law, by Marika Sosnowski Ankami, by Debra Dank Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea, by Natalie Harkin Cannon, by Lee Lai Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family, by Micaela Sahhar Fireweather, by Miranda Darling I Am Nannertgarrook, by Tasma Walton KONTRA, by Eunice […]

https://disassociated.com/longlist-2026-stella-prize-literary-award/

The longlist for the 2026 Stella Prize literary award

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