FLORENZER by Phil Melanson was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2025 First Novel Prize. The shortlist will be announced in the fall, and the overall winner will be announced at the Center for Fiction's Annual Awards Benefit on December 9, 2025. W. W. Norton published the book on June 10, 2025.

HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER by Muriel Leung is a finalist for the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. The winners will be announced via virtual ceremony on October 4, 2025. W.W. Norton & Company published the book on April 25, 2025.

ANNIE BOT by Sierra Greer is the winner of the 2025 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the prestigious award given to the best science fiction novel of the year. ANNIE BOT was published by Mariner Books on March 19, 2024.

FIFTY BEASTS TO BREAK YOUR HEART by GennaRose Nethercott is the winner of the Vermont Book Award in Fiction. The ceremony took place at the College Hall chapel in Montpelier on May 3. The collection was published by Vintage on February 6, 2024.

Kailee Pedersen’s SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS has been honored by the Otherwise Award as one of five works on its 2024 Long List. The Otherwise Award (formerly known as the Tiptree Award), founded in 1991, is a juried award for speculative fiction works that explore gender. The novel and other honored works will be celebrated at the WisCon 2025 convention gala on May 25. SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS was published by St. Martin’s Press on August 20, 2024.

Maggie Millner has won the “5 Under 35” honor from the National Book Foundation for her debut work COUPLETS: A LOVE STORY. The book was selected by C Pam Zhang. Praising COUPLETS, she writes: “These words cut to the hot quick of longing; these pages bleed beauty. Tender, prickly, funny, self-effacing, cerebral, erotic, and luminous, this is a book that never settles, forever restless, an ode to that deepest and most abiding form of love — that for one’s many infinite selves.” COUPLETS was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux on February 6, 2024.

FIFTY BEASTS TO BREAK YOUR HEART by GennaRose Nethercott was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Vermont Book Awards in the Fiction category. The winners will be announced on May 3 during the Vermont Book Awards celebration at the College Hall chapel in Montpelier. FIFTY BEASTS TO BREAK YOUR HEART was published by Vintage on February 6, 2024.

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.