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The results of the 2025 Scribe Awards were revealed on July 25 at San Diego Comic-Con.

Each year the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers presents the Scribe Awards to celebrate outstanding works tied to popular licences such as novelizations of movies and TV shows, as well as numerous original works set in the worlds of Star Wars, the MCU, the DCU, video games, popular TV shows, and much more.

ADAPTED NOVEL

Blast from the Past! By Chris McGuire (The Racoons)

Cwej: Requiem by James Hornby (Doctor Who)

Doctor Who: 73 Yards by Scott Handcock

Doctor Strange: Dimension War by James Lovegrove

Terrifier 2: The Official Novelization by Tim Waggoner   WINNER

AUDIO DRAMA

Archipelago by Tim Foley (Doctor Who)    WINNER

Cass-Cade by James Moran (Doctor Who)

The Krillitane Flint by John Dorney   (Doctor Who)

Nowhere Never by Katherine Armitage  (Doctor Who)

Star Cops – Blood Moon by James Swallow   WINNER

GRAPHIC NOVEL

Alex Rider: Snakehead by Antony Johnston     WINNER

Dark Souls: The Willow King by George Mann  (Dark Souls)

Godzilla vs. Cthulhu by Jonathan Maberry

Infinite Darkness: The Beginning by Keith R.A. DeCandido   (Resident Evil)

Wheel of Time by Rik Hoskin

Wrath of Beth by Jake Black (Rick and Morty)

ORIGINAL NOVEL, GENERAL

A Bitter Taste: A Daidoji Shin Mystery by Josh Reynolds  (Legend of the Five Rings)   WINNER

Murder, She Wrote Murder Backstage by Terrie Farley Moran

Off Beat (Top Drek 1) by Marie Bilodeau (Shadowrun)

Quantum Paradox by Justin Sloan (PlanetQuest A game by Galactic Entertainment)

ORIGINAL NOVEL, SPECULATIVE

Arkham Horror: The Forbidden Visions of Lucius Galloway by Carrie Harris

Batman: Resurrection by John Jackson Miller

Firefly: Aim to Misbehave by Rosiee Thor

Runescape: The Gift of Guthix by Erin M. Evans

Star Trek – Strange New Worlds: Asylum by Una McCormack   WINNER

SHORT STORY

“Family History” by David Mack  (Star Trek: The Next Generation)    WINNER

“Here There Be Monsters” by Tim Waggoner  (The Mythago Wood novels by Robert Holdstock)

“The Lilac and the Stone” by  Catherynne Valente          (World of Warcraft)        WINNER

“O’ Deadly Deathtrap” by Bobby Nash (Remo Williams, The Destroyer: The Adventures Continue)

“The Tomorrow Ghost” by Robert Jeschonek  (Kolchak: The Night Stalker)

YA/MG

Down in the London Underground by George Ivanoff (Doctor Who)

Life is Strange: Heatwaves by Brittney Morris

Prince of Glass and Midnight by Linsey Miller (Disney’s Cinderella)

The Raccoons: The One That Got Away by Iain McLaughlin

Star Wars: The High Republic: Tears of the Nameless by George Mann

Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft (Disney Fairies)           WINNER