AN IMAGE OF MY NAME ENTERS AMERICA is a finalist for the 2024 Vermont Book Awards in the Creative Nonfiction category. The winners will be revealed at the Vermont Book Awards celebration on Saturday, May 3rd in Montpelier featuring a keynote from Bill McKibben. AN IMAGE OF MY NAME ENTERS AMERICA was published by Graywolf Press on October 15, 2024.

BLOOD IN THE CUT by Alejandro Nodarse is a 2025 International Thriller Writers Awards finalist in the Best First Novel category. ITW will announce the winners at ThrillerFest XX on Saturday, June 21, 2025 at the New York Hilton Midtown, New York City. Flatiron published the novel on June 4, 2024.

GOD BLESS YOU OTIS SPUNKMEYER is a finalist for the 2024 LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Winners will be announced in a ceremony on Friday, April 25 at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. Grand Central Publishing published the book on June 18, 2024.

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has named Emily Hamilton’s THE STARS TOO FONDLY as one of five finalists for the 2025 Compton Crook Award, honoring the best debut SF/fantasy/horror novel of the year. The winner will receive a cash prize and an invitation to be the Compton Crook Guest at the society’s annual event, Balticon. Members of the BSFS will vote on a winner to be announced in early April. Harper Voyager published the book on June 11, 2024.

Kathy MacLeod's debut graphic memoir CONTINENTAL DRIFTER is the winner of the 2025 APALA Award for Literature in Children's Fiction. Administered by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), an affiliate of the American Library Association, the award celebrates artistic and literary merit in works that promote Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage. CONTINENTAL DRIFTER was published by First Second on April 4, 2024.

Divya Victor has been selected as a recipient of a 2025 Creative Capital Award for her essay project KIN. The applicants, chosen from a pool of 5, 683 applications, will be provided up to $50,000 each in unrestricted funding to complete their work.

SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS by Kailee Pedersen has been selected as a 2025 Libby Book Awards finalist in the Best Horror category. The winners will be announced on March 5. SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS was published by St. Martin’s Press on August 20, 2024.

AN IMMENSE WORLD was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Prize for 2025. The committee’s citation reads: “Ed Yong’s AN IMMENSE WORLD: HOW ANIMAL SENSES REVEAL THE HIDDEN REALMS AROUND US challenges readers to regard the world through different eyes—not to mention sensory hairs, electroreceptors, and lyriform organs. It is an exemplary work of science writing—prodigiously reported, sharply crafted, and packed with information. Like all the best works of nonfiction, AN IMMENSE WORLD is rigorously grounded in fact and, at the same time, invites us all to be open to the great mysteries of life.” AN IMMENSE WORLD was published by Random House on June 21, 2022.

THE LAST ANIMAL was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Prize for 2025. The committee’s citation reads: “With tremendous skill, Ramona Ausubel shows how a newly-single mother and her two teenage daughters survive while trying to help save the planet. Sharp and delightful, the novel explores how science works—and doesn’t work—and the sexism so pervasive that even those not working in the field understand the need to navigate its imposed limitations. THE LAST ANIMAL is a tour de force that takes readers around the world and asks if we should resurrect those we’ve lost, how to move on without them, and to which part of this globe we belong.” The award consists of a $10,000 prize, and the winners will be celebrated at a ceremony in March. THE LAST ANIMAL was published by Riverhead on April 18, 2023.

Edward Ashton’s novel MAL GOES TO WAR has been selected as a 2025 Audie Award finalist in the Science Fiction category. The Annual Audie Awards are the “premier awards program recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.” The winners will be announced at the 2025 Audies Gala in New York on March 4th. MAL GOES TO WAR was published by St. Martin’s Press on April 9, 2024.