The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America announced nominees for the 2016 Nebula Awards, the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book. The awards will be presented during the annual Nebula Conference in May. See the full lists here.
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A longlist has been announced for the 2017 Branford Boase Award, which was created to recognize a book for seven-year-olds and upwards by a first time novelist and to honor "the most promising new writers and their editors, as well as to reward excellence in writing and in publishing." The shortlist will be released May 8 and a winner named this summer. Check out the complete Branford Boase longlist here.
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The finalists for the 2017 George Washington Prize, which recognizes "the best-written works on the nation's founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of early American history," are:
George Washington's Journey: The President Forges a New Nation by T.H. Breen (Simon and Schuster)
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf (Liveright Publishing)
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley by Jane Kamensky (Norton)
The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution by Michael J. Klarman (Oxford University Press)
Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle by Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone (University of Oklahoma Press)
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking)
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor (Norton)
The winner of the $50,000 prize, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, George Washington's Mount Vernon and Washington College, will be announced at a gala on May 25 at Mount Vernon.