Friday, 8 November saw the presentation of the fifth annual Ignyte Awards. Originally attached to the virtual convention FIYAHCON, these awards, which celebrate science fiction, fantasy, and horror by diverse creators, have continued to take place every year despite the convention being on hiatus since 2021. Here are the highlights of the 2024 Ignyte Awards.
Daniel Crary on Opening Doors to the Comics Industry at Rose City Comic Con
Rose City Comic Con’s (RCCC) Creator Pro track, launched in 2022, presents the alt-creative paths within the comics industry: jobs in comics publishing, jobs in comics retailing, jobs in comics education (teaching or studying comics in K-12 and higher education settings). What’s unique about this track at RCCC is that there’s no requirement for special…
2024 Dragon Awards: John Scalzi and Rebecca Yarros Are Winners While AI Art Loses
The Dragon Awards are presented annually at the Dragon Con convention in Atlanta, and the ninth iteration of the awards ceremony was held on Sunday. Eleven works of science fiction, fantasy and horror, as decided by a public online poll, were awarded with trophies.
2024 Hugo Award Winners Explore Spacefaring Futures and Technological Doubts
This year marks the turn of Glasgow to host the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), and Sunday saw the convention’s best-known event: the presentation of the Hugo Awards.
The 2024 Hugo Awards Heralds the Clearing of Corruption
The finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards were announced on Friday, and as is typical for the Hugos, the ballot has a mixture of the familiar and the fresh. Established Hugo favourites such as John Scalzi (Starter Villain), Ann Leckie (Translation State), Martha Wells (Witch King), Nghi Vo (Mammoths at the Gates, On the Fox…
Breaking Down the Chengdu Hugo Awards Ineligibilities
Every year brings with it a new World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon. And every year brings a new set of Hugo Awards, voted for by the convention’s paying members.
2023 Ignyte Awards: N. E. Davenport, Nghi Vo and John Chu Among Winners
Although the virtual convention FIYAHCON has been on hiatus since 2021, one of its draws has carried on unabated: the annual Ignyte Awards. The 2023 iteration of these awards, which celebrate diverse science fiction and fantasy, took place on Saturday 21 October. The Ignytes have three novel categories, divided by age range. The category for…
Space Opera, Social Commentary and Twisted Fairy Tales Win at China’s First Hugo Awards
The winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards were announced this Saturday. A whole year’s worth of science fiction and fantasy talent as voted for by members of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) were duly honoured with gleaming trophies in the shape of a panda with a rocket. The winner of the Hugo Award for…
Timothy Zahn and Martha Wells Among Winners of 2023’s Rejigged Dragon Awards
The Atlanta convention Dragon Con handed out its eighth set of Dragon Awards on Sunday. Voted for by the public via an online poll, the awards have been a fixture of the annual convention since 2016 and celebrate science fiction and fantasy storytelling across a variety of media. The Best Science Fiction Novel category was…
Where Barbara Brandon-Croft is Coming From
At this year’s MoCCA Arts Fest, cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft sat down to discuss her groundbreaking career as the first syndicated Black woman newspaper comics artist in the US. She talked about the origins of her weekly strip, Where I’m Coming From, its growth and reception, and its contemporary resonance and recent recognition as historically important.
CON DIARY: Emily and Masha go to MoCCA 2023!
April 1 and 2, people from all over the world gathered at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan for the MoCCA Arts Fest, the annual celebration of Comics and Cartoon Arts organized by the Society of Illustrators in New York City. Intrepid WWAC contributors Masha and Emily met up there on the Saturday to browse the…
Carmilla’s Kindred: Affairs of an Oily-Eyed Woman
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.