The World Horror Convention 2013 will be hosted by the Horror Writers Association, and will incorporate the Bram Stoker Awards. The event will be held in New Orleans from 13 – 16 June 2013. The event is billed as the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend incorporating World Horror Convention 2013, and it has its website HERE.

The convention will be held at the historic Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Membership sales will begin in the second half of 2012, as will voting for the WHC Grandmaster Award. Guests of Honour will be announced in due course.

For further details as they arise visit the website HERE

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top five finalists in each category of the 2012 Locus Awards. The winners will be announced during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend to be held in Seattle, USA in June 2012.

View the full list of finalists HERE

In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing (which includes the classic The Haunting of Hill House), The Shirley Jackson Awards “recognise outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic”. The Awards are given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year, and the nominees for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards have now been announced.

Nominees include: two nominations for Reggie Oliver (Best Novel and Best Novella), three nominations for Stephen Jones‘ A Book of Horrors from Jo Fletcher Books (nominations for two of its stories in the Novella category, along with a nomination for Best Edited Anthology), and two nominations for PS Publishing titles in the Single-Author category.

The Awards will be presented on 15 July 2012 at Readercon 23, the Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts, US, hosted by Guests of Honour, Peter Straub and Caitlin R. Kiernan.

SFScope reports that the winners of the 2011 BSFA Awards, announced at the recent Eastercon weekend in London, were:

Best Novel: The Islanders by Christopher Priest (Gollancz)

Best Short Fiction: The Copenhagen Interpretation by Paul Cornell (Asimov’s Science Fiction)

Best Non-Fiction: The SF Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, edited by John Clute, Peter Nicholls and David Langford (Gollancz website)

Best Art: Cover of Ian Whates’ The Noise Revealed (Solaris) by Dominic Harman

Congratulations to all the winners!

The 2012 Hugo and Campbell Awards nominees have been announced. Nominees for Best Novel include A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK) and Embassytown by China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan). Other nominees include: three episodes of Doctor Who are nominated in the category of Best Dramatic Presentation – Short; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is one of the nominees for Best Dramatic Presentation – Long; Interzone (TTA Press) has received a nomination in the Best Semiprozine category; and StarShipSofa has been nominated in the Best Fancast category.

The full list of nominees is available HERE

Also, Locus reports that the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award for a “distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2011 in the US” has gone to The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden (Orbit). A special citation was given to The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit).

Full details HERE

The full list of nominees for the 2012 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards has been announced. Named after acclaimed comics creator Will Eisner, the awards are in their 24th year of highlighting the best publications and creators in comics and graphic novels.

Mike Carey‘s The Unwritten has received two nominations in the categories Best Writer and Best Single Issue.

Voting will take place over a total of 27 categories, and ballots will be going out in mid-April to comics creators, editors, publishers, and retailers. The results in all categories will be announced in a gala awards ceremony on the evening of Friday 13 July 2012 at Comic-Con International, San Diego, USA.

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Films has announced the nominees for its 38th annual Saturn Awards. Leading contenders in film include Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hugo, The Adjustment Bureau and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. TV nominations include Doctor Who, Torchwood: Miracle Day, Being Human and American Horror Story. The winners will be announced on 20 June 2012.

In additon to the Saturn Awards, filmmaker Martin Scorsese will receive The George Pal Memorial Award in recognition of his career achievements.

Full story HERE

Locus Online have listed the 2011 Nebula Awards nominees. These Awards are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The winners will be announced at SFWA’s 47th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend, to be held 17 – 20 May 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, US.

See the full list of nominees HERE

The organisers of The David Gemmell Legend Awards are seeking short reviews, by DGLA Members eligible to vote, of any of the LEGEND or MORNINGSTAR novels. Reviews will be sent out to all members in a bulletin as well as being on the website. Here’s what you have to do:

1. Choose three novels you might like to read and list your favourites in order of preference. You’ll be sent a novel from your top three.
2. Read the book.
3. Write your review: 200 – 1000 words maximum.
4. Email a copy to the Awards Administrator. You can keep the book, as a ‘thank-you’.

For full details visit The David Gemmell Legend Awards

Voting for the British Fantasy Awards is now open and will close on 31 March 2012.

The new constitution for the awards may be found HERE

Members of the BFS (votes cast by a member whose membership expires after the vote is cast remain valid), members of FantasyCon 2011 and members of FantasyCon 2012 who register before voting closes on 31 March 2012 are eligible and encouraged to vote for works published for the first time in the English language in any part of the world in any format during the calendar year January to December 2011.

Each member may put forward up to three Recommendations in any category, expressed in preferential order. All Recommendations should ideally be accompanied with publication details: year of publication, publisher, and title of collection, magazine, editor, etc, if applicable.

Recommendations may not be made for the recommender’s own material.  The British Fantasy Society discourages the practice of canvassing for votes.

The four titles or names with the highest number of Recommendations will go forward to form the shortlist of nominations.

In the case of the award for Best Novel, members are invited to list up to three Recommendations in the categories of Horror and Fantasy.

The voting form is available online HERE

Thank you for voting and please spread the word! Postal voting forms are available by request from the Awards Administrator.

Regards,
Sarah Ann Watts
BFS Awards Administrator
bfsawards@britishfantasysociety.org