The Locus Awards are put on by Locus Magazine, a monthly indie publication (since 1968!) focusing on SFF book news and reviews. They're pretty good about including small press stuff in their weekly new releases posts, which is nice.

Winner highlights:

Science fiction novel: The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexander Boldizar
Fantasy novel: A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher
Horror novel: Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle
YA novel: Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee
First novel: Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell
Novella: What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher
Novelette: “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars“, Premee Mohamed
Short story: “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole“, Isabel J. Kim
Anthology: The Black Girl Survives in This One, Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell, eds.
Collection: Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I get it, it just feels very different to me. And, of course, as with all things, the line is blurry anyway. For instance, Orson Scott Card wrote an alternate history where the change is that American folk magic actually works, which seems pretty explicitly fantasy. It's similar to the way it's pretty hard to clearly differentiate between SF and fantasy. I get it, it's just annoying.