2021 Finalists
Judges
Tamara Payne · Diane Smith · Tom Nolan
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Erin Aubrey Kaplan · Bill Boyarsky · Celeste Fremon
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Jenny McPhee · Melissa Chadburn · Rick Whitaker
Art Seidenbaum was the founder of the Book Prizes. At The Times from 1962 until his death in 1990, Seidenbaum was successively a columnist, book editor and opinion editor. The award recognizing debut works of fiction, was established in his honor in 1991.
Judges
Jenny McPhee · Melissa Chadburn · Rick Whitaker
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Sloane Leong · Joel Christian Gill · Cathy G. Johnson
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Anna-Lisa Cox · Laurent Dubois · Martha S. Jones
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Paula Woods · Alex Segura · Oline Cogdill
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Cyrus Cassells · Adriana Ramirez · Tyehimba Jess
The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, sponsored by the Ray Bradbury Foundation, honors and extends Bradbury’s literary legacy by celebrating and elevating the writers working in his field today. Bradbury always made his own rules, writing across specific genre boundaries throughout his career.
Judges
Gwenda Bond · Megan Giddings · Veronica Roth
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Erika Check Hayden · Betsy Mason · Adam Mann
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Christopher A. Brown · Renee Roberson Tecco · Sharon Levin
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Past years awards
2019 award winners
The ceremony begins
Poetry Judge, Cyrus Cassells
Author Jason Reynolds accepting the YA Prize for Long Way Down
