From Locus Magazine: The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2026 Locus Awards on May 30, 2026, during the Bay Area Book Festival. Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and Nnedi Okorafor were Guests of Honor, with featured local artist Alyssa Winans.
The winners include:
- Best Science Fiction Novel: “Death of the Author” by Nnedi Okorafor
- Best Fantasy Novel: “The Everlasting” by Alix E. Harrow
- Best Horror Novel: “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jones
- Best Young Adult Novel: “Starstrike” by Yoon Ha Lee
- Best First Novel: “Sour Cherry” by Natalia Theodoridou
- Best Translated Novel: “On the Calculation of Volume: Bookstory III” by Solvej Balle and translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
- Best Novella: “The River Has Roots” by Amal El-Mohtarshort
- Best Nonfiction: “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What Best to Do About It” by Cory Doctorow
- Best Novelette: “We Begin Where Infinity Ends“, Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)
- Best Short Story: “In My Country“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
- Best Anthology: We Will Rise Again, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga)
- Best Collection: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow)
- Best Magazine: Clarkesworld
- Best Publisher: Orbit.
Note: Tor Publishing Group & Subterranean Press have recused themselves from this category. Tor UK is an imprint of Pan Macmillan, not TPG.)
- Best Editor: Neil Clarke
- Best Artist: John Picacio
- Best Illustrated and Art Book: The Space Cat, Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford (First Second)
- Best Non-Fiction:: Enshittification, Cory Doctorow (MCD)
SPECIAL AWARD 2026: Supporting the Speculative Writing Community
The Submission Grinder, David Steffen & Volunteers
Congratulations to all nominees and winners!
