We're thrilled to announce our most EXCELLENT judging panel for the 2025 #FutureWorldsPrize: Amita Suman, Mahmud El Sayed, Rogba, Saara El-Arifi (not active here) and Amandeep!

🚨 COVER REVEAL 🚨 ☀️🧡 FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN🧡☀️

My Caribbean gothic has been shortlisted!!! You can also read everyone’s excerpts by following the link!

We had a fantastic evening at the indie bookshop, bookhaus in Bristol yesterday! Thanks to everyone who came along to support the event & listen to our brilliant speakers.🤩 Our panel: authors Nikesh Shukla and M H Ayinde 🍉 A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST out NOW!, editor Zulekhá A. Afzal & literary agent Amandeep Singh!

Huge congratulations, M. H. Ayinde, A Song of Legends Lost is a Sunday Times bestseller!

We’re gearing up for tonight’s exciting prize ceremony! Will we see you there? We’re so excited to celebrate with our fantastic #FutureWorldsPrize community and reveal the 2025 prize winner…✨

We can't wait!

It’s happening!!!! 😱

At the station, ready to go out for FutureWorldsPrize Awards tonight! 🤩 Can’t wait to meet the new shortlisters!

Our 2025 Future Worlds Prize runner-up is... Amber Houlders for Blood in the Water 🩸⚓️ Ambrosia #FutureWorldsPrize #SFF #WritingCompetition

And our 2025 Future Worlds Prize winner is... Harmony Knight for Earth S.O.S. 🌍 #FutureWorldsPrize #SFF #WritingCompetition

We had an utterly wonderful evening celebrating the 2025 shortlistees and this year’s winner & runner-up! Such a joy to see our #FutureWorldsPrize community continue to grow & thrive 🤩

It’s been a while since the The Wall Street Journal years and working from the News Building every day (the views!), but it was great to return for the FutureWorldsPrize awards ceremony. Congrats to the winners — and to all the talented writers on the shortlist 🎉

The winner of the FutureWorldsPrize have been announced! scifinow.co.uk/news/novel-win…

What a night! Joyful, joyful, joyful!

Harmony Knight has won the FutureWorldsPrize with Earth S.O.S - the novel is set on a future Earth, which has been ravaged following a super quantum arms race bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

The FutureWorldsPrize was founded by author Ben Aaronovitch in 2020 and this year’s winner and runner-ups have been announced… scifinow.co.uk/news/novel-win…

Ooh I got a mention in the British Fantasy Society Community Blog this month, which is all about our favourite books on folklore & ritual in SFFH. 🤩 👇

Join us Bradford Literature Festival on 6th July, where Future Worlds Prize finalists M H Ayinde 🍉 A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST out NOW! & Marve with an 'E'✨ will delve into the craft of worldbuilding – from creating magic systems & futuristic technology to developing languages & rich cultural traditions! 📚 bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/future-w…

Happy National Writing Day — grab your pens, pencils or laptops and celebrate this year’s theme #ShareYourVoice! Head over to First Story to take part in the writing activity by author Dean Atta, and share your words using #NationalWritingDay! 📚✍🏽📝