Awards -- Stoker & Locus

I'm trying to clean up everything I have saved in Google Reader -- since it goes away tomorrow -- and that includes these recent genre-fiction awards, which you may well have already heard about:

2013 Bram Stoker Awards

These were announced two weeks ago by the Horror Writers Association at the World Horror Convention:

• Superior Achievement in a NOVEL: The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL: Life Rage by L.L. Soares (Nightscape Press)
• Superior Achievement in a YOUNG ADULT NOVEL: Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster)
• Superior Achievement in a GRAPHIC NOVEL: Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times by Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton (McFarland and Co., Inc.)
• Superior Achievement in LONG FICTION: The Blue Heron by Gene O’Neill (Dark Regions Press)
• Superior Achievement in SHORT FICTION: "Magdala Amygdala" by Lucy Snyder (Dark Faith: Invocations, Apex Book Company)
• Superior Achievement in a SCREENPLAY: The Cabin in the Woods by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard (Mutant Enemy Productions, Lionsgate)
• Superior Achievement in an ANTHOLOGY: Shadow Show edited by Mort Castle and Sam Weller (HarperCollins)
• Superior Achievement in a FICTION COLLECTION (tie):
  • New Moon on the Water by Mort Castle (Dark Regions Press)
  • Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco Press)
• Superior Achievement in NON-FICTION: Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton (Reaktion Books)
• Superior Achievement in a POETRY COLLECTION: Vampires, Zombies & Wanton Souls by Marge Simon (Elektrik Milk Bath Press)

(via SF Signal)

2013 Locus Awards

These were announced yesterday -- I'm catching up, more or less -- at a gala ceremony in Seattle. (I was supposed to attend a Locus Awards ceremony in Seattle, back in '07, but the job disappeared just before the conference.)

• SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
• FANTASY NOVEL: The Apocalypse Codex, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
• YOUNG ADULT BOOK: Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
•  FIRST NOVEL: Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz ’13)
• NOVELLA: “After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall,” Nancy Kress (Tachyon) 
• NOVELETTE: “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi,” Pat Cadigan (Edge of Infinity)
• SHORT STORY: “Immersion,” Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)
• ANTHOLOGY: Edge of Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• COLLECTION: Shoggoths in Bloom, Elizabeth Bear (Prime)
• MAGAZINE: Asimov’s
• PUBLISHER: Tor Books
• EDITOR: Ellen Datlow
• ARTIST: Michael Whelan
• NON-FICTION: Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson (Putnam)
• ART BOOK: Spectrum 19: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)

(I saw this first at Tor.com.)

Congratulations to all of the winners.