Where and When:
Eastercon,
Belfast :
April 18, 2025
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April 21, 2025
Eligibility Year:
2024
Shorter Fiction (novelette Or Novella)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole”, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld Feb 2024)
- “Intrinsic – Extrinsic – Terrific”, Aliya Whiteley (The Utopia of Us)
- “The Portmeirion Road”, Fiona Moore (Clarkesworld May 2024)
- “Unquiet on the Eastern Front”, Wole Talabi (Subterranean Oct 2024)
Translated Short Fiction
- Winner: “Bone by Bone”, Mónika Rusvai, translated by Vivien Urban (Samovar Jul 2024)
- “The Coffee Machine”, Celia Corral-Vázqeuz, translated by Sue Burke (Clarkesworld Dec 2024)
- “The Rambler”, Shen Dacheng, translated by Cara Healey (Clarkesworld Apr 2024)
- “Songs of the Snow Whale”, K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman (Reactor Dec 2024)
- “Unicorn 2512”, Nora Nagi, translated by Mayada Ibrahim (Egypt + 100)
- “You Glow in the Dark”, Liliana Colanzi, translated by Chris Andrews (You Glow in the Dark)
Fiction For Younger Readers
Nonfiction (short)
- Winner: “Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art”, Ted Chiang (The New Yorker 31 Aug 2024)
- “The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion”, Chris M. Barkley & Jason Sanford (File 770; Genre Grapevine)
- “An Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal”, Eugen Bacon (Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction)
- “Beyond Conventions: Unleashing the Palestinian Struggle through the Lens of Science Fiction”, Yasmin Kanaan (Shoreline of Infinity Spring 2024)
- “Considering the Cosy Turn in SFF: Who Gets to be Comforted?”, Liz Bourke (blog post 4 Oct 2024)
- “Machine Learning in Contemporary Science Fiction”, Jo Lindsay Walton (SFRA Review Winter 2024)
- “Science Fiction and Abolishing the Police”, S. J. Groenewegen (Shoreline of Infinity Summer 2024)
Artwork
- Winner: Jenni Coutts for Nova Scotia Vol 2 by Neil Williamson & Andrew J. Wilson, eds. (Luna Press)
- Kelly Chong for Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan (Orbit)
- Fangorn for A Jura for Julia by Ken MacLeod (NewCon)
- Fangorn for ParSec (PS Publishing)