- 2025 Lambda Literary AwardsThe winners of the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards were announced on October 4. The “Lammys” garner national visibility for LGBTQ books. The winner of the sff category is listed below, as is one other winner of genre interest. The complete list … Continue reading
- Pixel Scroll 10/4/25 Faraway Pixels With Strange-Sounding Scrolls(1) BRITISH LIBRARY FAIRY TALES EXHIBIT OPENS IN 2026. [Item by Steven French.] Advanced notice of an interactive family-oriented exhibition coming to the British Library in London next March: “Fairy Tales”. Take your family on a magical adventure in a … Continue reading
- Wonderland Book Awards 2025 FinalistsThe Wonderland Book Awards are a recognition presented annually at BizarroCon for superior achievement in bizarro fiction writing. Preliminary voting on 2025 the awards, for books published in 2024, has ended and the final ballot was announced September 29. The winners will be revealed … Continue reading
- Grey Walker Review: Absinthe: Sip of SeductionAbsinthe: Sip of Seduction: a Contemporary Guide by Betina J. Wittels and Robert Hermesch (Corvus Publishing, 2003) By Grey Walker: This book promises a great deal, and delivers most of it. It’s designed beautifully from beginning to end — the … Continue reading
- Pixel Scroll 10/3/25 So Obvious It’s Probably Already Been Done(1) MILESTONE. File 770’s 400,000th comment was posted today by Lenora Rose. Can you imagine? (2) GOLDSMITH’S PRIZE SHORTLIST. [Item by Steve French.] There are a couple of SF adjacent novels on this year’s ’genre defying’ shortlist for the Goldsmith’s … Continue reading
- Pike Wins 2025 Glass Bell AwardDebut writer Rosanna Pike has been named the winner of the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2025 for her historical novel A Little Trickerie (Fig Tree). The award, judged by a team at Goldsboro Books in London, is called “the only prize … Continue reading
- Broadway at the BallparkA reimagined Damn Yankees comes to Arena Stage By Rich Lynch: The start of the Major League Baseball playoffs has caused me to think back to when I’d been a pre-teen – a pre-pre-teen actually – and had discovered there … Continue reading
- 2026 Baen Short Story Contest Deadline Is 2/1Entries in the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award writing contest are being accepted through February 1, 2026. The submission window opened October 1. See rules and specifications at the site. The annual competition honors speculative fiction that explores the positive aspects … Continue reading
- Pixel Scroll 10/2/25 Up The Airy Pixel, Down The Skiffy Glen, We Daren’t Go A-Scrolling, For Fear Of Little Fen(1) THEODORE STURGEON AWARD. Conrad Loyer’s “The Carcossa Pattern,” published by Fiyah Magazine, is the winner of the 2025 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science fiction short story published in 2024. The announcement was made today by the Gunn … Continue reading
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