Eligibility Year:
2025
Short Story
- “Autogas Ferryman”, Champ Wongsatayanont (Nightmare Sep 2025)
- “Because I Held His Name Like a Key”, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 16 Jun 2025)
- “Commensalism, Or the Labyrinth's Vessels”, Albert Nkereuwem (Will This Be a Problem? Issue V)
- “Ichthyosis”, M. L. Krishnan (Fantasy 2 Jan 2025)
- “The Octopus Dreams of Personhood”, Hannah Yang (Diabolical Plots 16 Apr 2025)
Poetry
- “After the Storm”, Ishita Basu Mallik (The Deadlands 5 May 2025)
- “In an attempt to seduce Death my sister starts calling him Love”, Karan Kapoor (Strange Horizons 17 Feb 2025)
- “The Language of Fireflies”, Angela Liu (The Deadlands 13 Feb 2025)
- “The oblique light at Kakushima (a memory of persimmons)”, Ryu Ando (Strange Horizons 24 Feb 2025)
- “Set It Off (1996) -- Fans' Cut”, Nova Cypress Black (Strange Horizons 30 Jun 2025)
Fiction Podcast
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Escape Pod
- khōréō
- Lightspeed
- Nightmare
Anthology/collected Works
- Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Fururity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon)
- As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline)
- The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, André M. Carrington, ed. (Luna Press Publishing)
- Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
- We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga)
Creative Nonfiction
- “A Conjuror's Manifesto: Notes on the Afrosurreal”, Shyheim Williams
- The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers, Terry Bisson
- “Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisual and Anti-Muslim Violence”, Tanvir Ahmed
- Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris (Amistad)
- The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction, Gautam Bhatia
Community Award
- Augur
- Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
- Sistah Scifi
- Strange Horizons
- Will This Be a Problem?