2026 Seiun Awards Winners
Japan’s 64th Science Fiction Convention, Hellcon 2026, announced the 2026 Seiun Awards, the country’s premier sci‑fi honors comparable to the Hugo Awards. Alastair Reynolds’s novel “Eversion,” translated by Naoya Nakahara, won Best Translated Novel, while Greg Egan’s short story “After Zero,” translated by Makoto Yamagishi, secured Best Translated Short Story. The awards span categories from Japanese original works to media, comic, and non‑fiction, with the ceremony scheduled for July 11‑12 in Oita. The winners highlight a growing pipeline of English‑language speculative fiction entering the Japanese market.
Issue 785 Table of Contents, June 2026
The June 2026 issue of Locus (vol. 96, no. 6) features in‑depth interviews with Robert Jackson Bennett and Isabel J. Kim, a visual spotlight on artist Dante Luiz, and a comprehensive roundup of genre awards. Highlights include the 2026 Locus Awards winners, Daniel Kraus’s...
2025 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees
The Shirley Jackson Awards announced their 2025 nominees across six categories, recognizing excellence in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy. The novel slate includes titles from major publishers such as HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Berkley, while the novella, novelette,...
Phillips Wins 2026 Climate Fiction Prize
Helen Phillips’ novel *Hum* has been named the winner of the second‑annual Climate Fiction Prize, receiving a £10,000 award (about $12,700). The prize, founded by Leo Barasi, Rose Goddard and Imran Khan and backed by Climate Spring, celebrates fiction that tackles...
2026 British Book Awards Book of the Year Winners
The Bookseller announced the 2026 British Book Awards winners on May 11, with a livestream from Grosvenor House. Philippa Gregory’s historical novel "Boleyn Traitor" captured Fiction Book of the Year, while SenLinYu’s "Alchemised" topped Science Fiction & Fantasy. Sally Smith’s...
2025 Analog AnLab Awards and Asimov’s Readers’ Award Finalists
The 2025 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Awards and the 2025 Asimov’s Readers’ Awards have released their finalist lists across novella, novelette, short story, poetry, and science‑fact categories. Analog’s slate features veterans such as Larry Niven and emerging voices like Jay...
Thomas Tessier (1947-2026)
Horror novelist Thomas Tessier, 78, passed away on March 26, 2026. Over a five‑decade career he published more than 20 novels, including the award‑winning Fog Heart (1997) and the Locus‑nominated Phantom (1982). His short‑fiction collections earned International Horror Guild, Locus...
2026 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were announced, naming Daniel Kraus’s novel Angel Down as the Fiction winner and Yiyun Li’s memoir Things in Nature Merely Grow as the Memoir/Autobiography winner. Kraus’s work is praised for its single‑sentence structure that fuses World War I, allegory,...
New Imprint: 3AM Books
Transworld, a division of Penguin Random House, has launched 3AM Books, the company’s first imprint dedicated solely to horror. The imprint will be led by publishing director Rachel Winterbottom and editorial director Simon Taylor, supported by a team of editors...
Weekly Bestsellers, 4 May 2026
Elizabeth Helen’s "Frozen by Stardust," the fifth entry in the Beasts of the Briar series, entered the trade‑paperback bestseller arena this week, cracking the top‑15 on three major lists (NY Times, LA Times, USA Today). The weekly Locus roundup also recorded notable movements...
Eluki Bes Shahar (1956-2026)
Eluki Bes Shahar, a prolific science‑fiction and fantasy author who also wrote as Rosemary Edghill and James Mallory, died on April 7, 2026 at age 69 from sepsis. Over a three‑decade career she published the Bast series, the Hellflower and...
Issue 784 Table of Contents, May 2026
Locus Magazine’s May 2026 issue (No. 784) spotlights interviews with Emily Tesh and Sunyi Dean, and presents the 2026 Hugo Awards ballot. The issue reports major award wins—including M.R. Carey’s Philip K. Dick Award, Christopher Caldwell’s Crawford Award, and David Langford’s Solstice Award—while noting Hachette’s decision...
The Tolkien Society Awards 2026
The Tolkien Society announced the 2026 award winners on April 27. Michael D.C. Drout’s The Tower and the Ruin captured Best Book, Tom Hillman’s article won Best Article, Miriam Ellis’s illustration earned Best Artwork, and the website Tea with Tolkien was named Best Online...
Clarion West Announces Partnership for Residency Program
Clarion West announced a partnership with Seattle‑based nonprofit Common AREA Maintenance (CAM) to transform the 30,000‑square‑foot El Rey Building into its new home for the six‑week workshop and year‑round artist residencies. CAM purchased the abandoned Belltown property for a symbolic...
Magazines Received – March
Locus’s March roundup catalogs 27 speculative‑fiction periodicals spanning print, digital and free‑online formats. The list includes established titles such as Asimov’s and Clarkesworld alongside niche newcomers like Reckoning X and Fiyah, a Black speculative‑fiction magazine. Pricing varies widely, from free web‑based...