OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT

for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an Adult audience

• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon – Wole Talabi (DAW Books)
• The Water Outlaws – S.L. Huang (Tordotcom)
• WINNER The Saint of Bright Doors – Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath – Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
• We are the Crisis – Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone Publishing)

OUTSTANDING NOVEL: YOUNG ADULT

for novel-length (40k+ words) works intended for the young adult audience

• WINNER I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me – Jamison Shae (Henry Holt & Co.) 
• That Self-Same Metal – Brittany N. Williams (Harry N. Abrams)
• Funeral Songs for Dying Girls – Cherie Dimaline (Tundra Books)
• Beholder – Ryan La Sala (PUSH)
• Sing Me to Sleep – Gabi Burton (Bloomsbury YA)

OUTSTANDING MIDDLE GRADE

for works intended for the middle grade audience

• WINNER Abeni’s Song – P. Djèlí Clark (Starscape) 
• Just a Pinch of Magic – Alechia Dow ‎(Feiwel & Friends)
• Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew – DaVaun Sanders (Inkyard Press)
• Lei and the Fire Goddess – Malia Maunakea (Penguin Workshop)
• The Sun and the Star – Mark Oshiro, Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion)

OUTSTANDING NOVELLA

for speculative works ranging from 17,500-39,999 words

• Off-Time Jive – A.Z. Louise (Neon Hemlock Press)
• Green Fuse Burning – Tiffany Morris (Stelliform Press)
• WINNER The Lies of the Ajungo – Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom)
• The Mimicking of Known Successes – Malka Older (Tordotcom)
• Sordidez – E.G. Condé (Stelliform Press)

OUTSTANDING NOVELETTE

for speculative works ranging from 7,500-17,499 words

• A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair – Renan Bernardo (Samovar)
• Ivy, Angelica, Bay – C L Polk (Reactor)
• Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon – Angela Liu (Clarkesworld)
• WINNER Spell for Grief and Longing – Eboni J. Dunbar (FIYAH)
• Zhuangzi’s Dream – Cao Baiyu, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu (Clarkesworld) 

OUTSTANDING SHORT STORY

for speculative works ranging from 2,000-7,499 words

• Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 – R.S.A. Garcia (Uncanny)
• Window Boy – Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld)
• WINNER A Witch’s Transition In The City Of Ghosts – Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• Lips Like Sugar – Cynthia Gómez (Luna Station Quarterly)
• Thin Ice – Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Clarkesworld)

OUTSTANDING SPECULATIVE POETRY

• Helen after Helen – Rasha Abdulhadi (Apparition Lit Magazine)
• Imported Entry Into An Android Cosmos – Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (FIYAH)
• Aborteras del Viejo Mundo | Aborting the Old World – Claudia Vaca, translated by Brittany Hause (Samovar) 
• Alternate Rooms – Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (Nightmare)
• WINNER My Mother, she ate me – Akua Lezli Hope (FIYAH)

CRITICS AWARD

for reviews and analysis of the field of speculative literature

• Aigner Loren Wilson
• WINNER Alex Brown
• Archita Mittra
• Bookbaddiebri
• The Blerd Library

OUTSTANDING FICTION PODCAST

for excellence in audio performance and production for speculative fiction

• PodCastle – The Podcastle Team
• Old Gods of Appalachia – Steve Shell and Cam Collins
• Cast of Wonders – The CoW Team
• Simultaneous Times Podcast (Space Cowboy Books)
• WINNER Levar Burton Reads

OUTSTANDING ARTIST

for contributions in visual speculative storytelling

• WINNER Rovina Cai
• Cathy Kwan
• Paul Lewin
• Godwin Akpan
• Dante Luiz

OUTSTANDING COMICS TEAM

for comics, graphic novels, and sequential storytelling

• Whisper of the Woods – Ennun Ana Iurov (Mad Cave)
• Brooms – Jasmine Walls, Teo DuVall, Bex Glendining, Ariana Maher (Levine Querido)
• Mage and the Endless Unknown – S.J. Miller (Iron Circus Comics)
• WINNER Kill Your Darlings – Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, Bob Quinn (Image Comics)
• Suee and the Strange White Light – Ginger Ly and Molly Park (Abrams Fanfare)

OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTED WORKS

• Never Whistle at Night – Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Vintage)
• Night of the Living Queers – Shelly Page and Alex Brown (Wednesday Books)
• WINNER No One Will Come Back for Us – Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)
• Out There Screaming – Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams (Random House)
• Who Lost, I Found – Eden Royce (Broken Eye Books)

OUTSTANDING CREATIVE NONFICTION

for works related to the field of speculative fiction

• The H Word: The Fear Horror of Change – L. Marie Wood (Nightmare Magazine)
• WINNER The Magic is in the Roots: Cultural Reconnection Through Magical Realism – Lysz Flo (FIYAH)
• Symmetry, Horror, and Identity -Tania Chen (Apparition Lit)
• To Every Other Jobu Tupaki After Jamie Lee Curtis’s Oscar Win – Maya Gittelman (Reactor)
• The Substitute – Yi Izzy Yu (Unquiet Spirits)

THE EMBER AWARD

for unsung contributions to genre

• WINNER Sheree Renée Thomas
• DaVaun Sanders
• Kate Elliott
• Kwame Mbalia
• A.C. Wise

THE COMMUNITY AWARD

for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre

• WINNER Khōréō – The Khōréō Team
• Voodoonauts Summer Fellowship – Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, LP Kindred, Hugh “H.D” Hunter
• Stone Soup: Personal Canons Cookbook – Sarah Gailey
• Samovar Magazine – Laura Friis, Sarah Dodd and Greg West
• Awesome Black – Awesome Black Team