2025 Pulp Factory Awards open for nominations!

On behalf of the Pulp Factory Awards committee, we're pleased to announce that it's time to submit your nominations for this year's awards, recognizing the best in new pulp writing and art. Full details posted below:

Every year, fans gather at the Westin Hotel near Yorktown Mall in metro Chicago to celebrate the best in classic and New Pulp literature. As part of those celebrations, nominations for the Pulp Factory Awards are open. The 2026 awards will cover works published during the calendar year 2025.

The nomination process will be as follows:

• Members of the Pulp Factory Facebook group have through Monday, February 2, to submit their initial nominations for the Pulp Factory Awards. Any work published in print in 2025 can be considered for nomination. (Digital-only books are excluded.) Reprints are not eligible for individual awards such as Best Short Story but may be included in collections if those collections feature stories published for the first time in 2025.
  
  
• Nominations (by members of the Pulp Factory only) should be e-mailed directly to PulpAwards@gmail.com, with choices in any or all of the following categories. (You may nominate as many works in each category as you wish.)
  
  
• BEST PULP NOVEL
  
  
• Any novel published in 2025 in print format
  
  
• BEST PULP COVER
  
  
• Best cover produced for a pulp novel or anthology. Any final artistic product produced by AI app/server/machine will not qualify for any PF awards.
  
  
• BEST PULP SHORT STORY
  
  
• Best short story published in 2025 in print format
  
  
• BEST PULP INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS
  
  
• Best interior illustrations for a novel or anthology, produced by a single artist for the book. Single illustrations or books with illustrations by multiple artists are not eligible for the awards. Any final artistic product produced by AI app/server/machine will not qualify for any PF awards.
  
  
• BEST PULP ANTHOLOGY OR COLLECTION
  
  
• Any anthology or collection featuring multiple stories by a single author (a collection) or stories by a variety of authors (a normal anthology). The book must have been printed in 2025 and must have contained at least one new story. In the case of a new story plus reprints, the book is eligible for Best Pulp Anthology but only the new story is eligible for the Best Pulp Short Story category.
  
  
• Members are encouraged to discuss their choices on the Pulp Factory Facebook group but note that your nominations must be emailed directly to PulpAwards@gmail.com to be included.
  
  
• After February 2, the committee will tally and craft a final ballot for voting (deadline to be scheduled), and that ballot will be submitted for fans to vote electronically for the awards. Awards will be handed out to winners during the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention on Friday, March 27, 2026.

Questions and nominations should be directed to PulpAwards@gmail.com. This will ensure a more prompt response than reaching out to individual committee members.

Thank you for your interest, and we're looking forward to your nominations!

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After all, my goal has always been to maintain the "best damn writing blog" for indie writers. 

NOMINATIONS FOR PULP FACTORY AWARDS NOW OPEN UNTIL 3/7;

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Lombard, Illinois – February 7, 2021

Every year, fans gather at the Westin Hotel near

Yorktown Mall in metro Chicago to celebrate the best in classic and New Pulp literature. Although the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention has been rescheduled for September, we are opening the Pulp Factory Award Nomination process for delivery in April 2021.   The 2021 PFAs will cover works published during the calendar year 2020. 

The nomination process will be as follows:

    • Members of the Pulp Factory Facebook group have through Sunday, March 7th  to submit their initial nominations for the Pulp Factory Awards. Any work published in print in 2020 can be considered for nomination. (Digital-only books are excluded.) Reprints are not eligible for individual awards such as Best Short Story but may be included in collections if those collections feature stories published for the first time in 2020.

    • Nominations (by members of the Pulp Factory only) should be e-mailed directly to PulpAwards@gmail.com, with choices in any or all of the following categories. (You may nominate as many works in each category as you wish.)

        ◦ BEST PULP NOVEL

        ◦ BEST PULP COVER

        ◦ BEST PULP SHORT STORY

        ◦ BEST PULP INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS

        ◦ BEST PULP ANTHOLOGY

    • The Best Pulp Anthology category covers any anthology or collection featuring multiple stories by a single author (a collection) or stories by a variety of authors (a normal anthology). The book must have been printed in 2020 and must have contained at least one new story. In the case of a new story plus reprints, the book is eligible for Best Pulp Anthology but only the new story is eligible for the Best Pulp Short Story category.

    • Members are encouraged to discuss their choices on the Pulp Factory FB group but note that your nominations must be e-mailed directly to PulpAwards@gmail.com to be included.

    • After March 8th, the committee will tally and craft a final ballot for voting (deadline to be scheduled), and that ballot will be submitted for fans to vote electronically for the awards. Awards will be shipped to winners in the month of April 2021. 

Questions and nominations should be directed to PulpAwards@gmail.com. This will ensure a more prompt response than reaching out to individual committee members.

Thank you for your interest, and looking forward to your nominations!

NOMINEES FOR THE 2018 MANLY WADE WELLMAN AWARD ANNOUNCED!

ANNOUNCING THE NOMINEES FOR THE 2018 MANLY WADE WELLMAN AWARD

(Durham, NC) The North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation is proud to announce the nominees for the 2018 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy. These nominees are the result of voter selection from the final eligibility list through the nominations process, presented in alphabetical order by author last name:

• Frost & Filigree by Natania Barron (Falstaff Books)
• Amazing Grace by John G. Hartness (Falstaff Books)
• The Stravinsky Intrigue by Darin Kennedy (Curiosity Quills Press)
• Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty (Orbit)
• Scourge by Gail Z. Martin (Solaris)

The Manly Wade Wellman Award was founded in 2013 to recognize outstanding achievement in science fiction and fantasy novels written by North Carolina authors. The 2018 award, voted on by the combined membership of North Carolina science fiction and fantasy conventions (illogiCon, ConCarolinas, and ConGregate), covers novels published in 2017. Nominations open at illogiCon in January and the nominees are announced at ConCarolinas in June ahead of the final voting round, with the award being presented at ConGregate in July.

The award is named for long-time North Carolina author Manly Wade Wellman with the permission of his estate.

Learn more at http://ncsff.org.

2014 NEW PULP AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED.

Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners.

The 2014 New Pulp Awards, formerly the Pulp Ark Awards, have announced the winners of its 12 Awards for this year. Nominations were open to the public followed by a period of voting open to any and all voters as well. The Awards will be presented to winners present at the Memphis Hilton during MidSouth Con in Memphis, Tennessee, on Sunday, March 23rd.The Winners of the 2014 New Pulp Awards are --

2014 New Pulp Best Novel- Slow Burn by Terrence McCauley (Noir Nation Books)

2014 New Pulp Best Collection/Anthology Award – Bumping Noses and Cherry Pie by Charie D. La Marr (Chupa Cabra House)

2014 New Pulp Best Short Story Award – A Bullet’s All It Takes by Terrence McCauley, The Kennedy Curse (Exeter Press)

2014 New Pulp Best Novella Award – The Scarlet Jaguar by Win Scott Eckert (Meteor House)

2014 New Pulp Best Cover Art Award – The Scarlet Jaguar by Mark Sparacio (Meteor House)

2014 New Pulp Best Interior Art Award – The Adventures of Gravedigger Volume One by Will Meugniot (Pro Se Productions)

2014 New Pulp Best Pulp Related Comic – Doc Savage (Dynamite Entertainment)

2014 New Pulp Best Pulp Magazine – Pro Se Presents (Pro Se Productions)

2014 New Pulp Best Pulp Revival – The Avenger (Moonstone Books)

2014 New Pulp Best New Character Award – Gravedigger from the Adventures of Gravedigger Volume One by Barry Reese.

2014 New Pulp Best Author Award – Terrence McCauley.

2014 New Pulp Best New Author Award – Ralph Angelo, Jr.

Follow www.newpulpawards2014.blogspot.com for updates in the coming months concerning the 2015 New Pulp Awards.

NOTE: Yes, I announced this earlier, but since the awards are being given out this weekend, I figured it was time to make note of it again.