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2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award Announcement: Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer. … (#AstoundingAward #HugoAwards #LodestarAward)

Full post: https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/06/2025-hugo-awards-lodestar-award-for-best-young-adult-book-and-astounding-award-announcement/

Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

The full list of finalists is available on the 2025 Hugo Award Finalists page.

https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/06/2025-hugo-awards-lodestar-award-for-best-young-adult-book-and-astounding-award-announcement/

#AstoundingAward #HugoAwards #LodestarAward

These authors are in their second year of eligibility for the Astounding, meaning that their qualifying work was published in 2022. Their eligibility clocks run out after the Glasgow Worldcon ballot.

Check the #astounding2024 tag for a more complete list of eligible authors and more of these spotlight posts, focusing on authors who qualify with their short fiction.

Parker Ragland has a law degree and experience as a technical writer. His short fiction includes “Sensation and Sensibility” (Clarkesworld), “The Carrion Droid, Zoe, and a Small Flame” (Clarkesworld), and “Cherry-Blossom Droid” (The Dread Machine).

YM Resnick has published flash fiction and short stories, with more to come. Check out “Bashert” (Small Wonders), “Across the Great Divide” (Factor Four), “Magic is Like a Box of Chocolates” (Wyld Flash), and “Shalom Aleichem” (Diabolical Plots).

A.D. Sui is a Ukrainian-born author, formerly an academic and a competitive fencer for Canada. Her recent short stories include “Hunt” (Apparition Lit), “The Succubus and the Store Clerk” (Baffling), “A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Apocalypse Go Down” (Haven Speculative), and “Svitla” (Embroidered Worlds). Her debut novella, The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock), drops in 2024.

Nadine Aurora Tabing is a designer and author who lives in the Pacific Northwest with an obscenely adorable Shiba Inu. Her recent stories include “The Conditions for Blooming” (Utopia Science Fiction), “An Inherited Taste” (No Trouble at All), and “The Bright in the Gyre” (Reckoning).

Kanishk Tantia is an Indian immigrant to the U.S. whose recent stories include “The Moonlight Muse” (Solarpunk Magazine), “Gathering Stitches” (Hidden Realms Short Stories), “I Promise I’ll Visit, Ma” (Monstrous Futures), and “Red Berry, White Berry” (Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories).

Guan Un lives in Sydney, Australia. His short fiction includes “Re: Your Stone” (Diabolical Plots), “Phoenix Tile” (khōréō), and “Wok Hei St” (Strange Horizons).

Aigner Loren Wilson is a baker, hiker, editor, and writer. Her recent stories include the 2023 Ignyte nominee “To Carve Home in Your Bones” (F&SF), “Building Blocks” (Interzone), “You Who Does Not Exist” (Baffling), and “The Black and White” (Fantasy).

Hannah Yang enjoys painting, guitar playing, and rock climbing. Her short fiction includes “A Girl of Nails and Teeth” (Nightmare), “Inheritance” (Analog), “A Monster in the Shape of a Boy” (Apex), and “How to Make a Man Love You” (Fantasy).

Kelsea Yu is a Taiwanese Chinese American living in the Pacific Northwest. Her short fiction includes “A Scarcity of Sharks” (Reckoning), “Harvest of the Deep” (Fantasy), “The Orchard of Tomorrow” (Clarkesworld), and “Wanted: Bone-White Skull-Patterned Lace Trim” (Pseudopod). The novella Bound Feet earned a Shirley Jackson Award nomination, and the novel It’s Only a Game debuts this year.

David Lee Zweifler has traveled the world and spent long stints in Jakarta, Hong Kong, and New York City. His recent short fiction includes “The Best Buggy Whip You Ever Saw” (Obsolescence), “Catch and Keep” (Creepy Podcast), “Reconnecting” (Martian Magazine), and “Standard Deviation” (Seven Day Weekend).

https://aphowell.com/2024/01/27/2024-astounding-eligible-authors-roundup-3/

#shortStories #astoundingAward #newWriters #nadineAuroraTabing #kanishkTantia #davidLeeZweifler #aignerLorenWilson #aDSui #astounding2024 #parkerRagland #guanUn #hannahYang #kelseaYu #ymResnick

Travis Baldree wins the #AstoundingAward for Best New Writer! #HugoAwards

Congratulations to all the BCS authors who are #hugoawards finalists!

Alix E. Harrow, Nghi Vo, Marie Vibbert, @catvalente @samtasticbooks @BenCKinney @tinaconnolly @jasonsanford and Astounding Award finalist Isabel J. Kim.

https://file770.com/2023-hugo-finalists-2/
#hugoawards #astoundingaward #sff #fantasy #litmag

#HappyBookBirthday to Kristine Smith's CODE OF CONDUCT, hard #SF available again from Book View Cafe. And the series intro has an intro price. :)

Intrigue, genetics, betrayal, great alien race--this book launched Kris and snagged her an Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

#HardSF #GeneticManipulation #AstoundingAward @bookstodon #bookstodon

*The aliens called her Kièrshia. Toxin.*

https://bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announces-code-of-conduct-by-kristine-smith/

Not sure who to vote for in the #AstoundingAward category on the #HugoAward ballot? Check out the roundups on my blog, which focus on short fiction authors and link out to some of their work.

https://aphowell.com/tag/astounding2023/

Lyndsey Croal co-founded the Edinburgh Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers and has a background in climate and nature policy. Her pile of published short fiction includes "First Blood," "(Un)Censored," "The Last Call of the Deep," and "Patchwork Girls."

https://crowcrosskeys.com/2023/03/18/first-blood-lyndsey-croal/
https://www.inspiringfiction.com/post/un-censored-by-lyndsey-croal
https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/the-last-call-of-the-deep-lyndsey-croal/
https://darkmattermagazine.shop/blogs/issue-012/patchwork-girls

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

Renan Bernardo lives in Rio de Janeiro and writes in English and Portugese. His short fiction includes "The Eight Hundred Legs of the Rio-Niterói Bridge," "The Walking Mirror of the Soul," "Look to the Sky, My Love," "A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity," and "The Small Shop of Me."

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

https://podcastle.org/2022/05/31/podcastle-737-the-eight-hundred-legs-of-the-rio-niteroi-bridge/
https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/the-walking-mirror-of-the-soul/
https://solarpunkmagazine.com/look-to-the-sky-my-love-renan-bernardo/
https://escapepod.org/2022/11/17/escape-pod-863-a-shoreline-of-oil-and-infinity/
https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/future-societies/renan-bernardo/the-small-shop-of-me

A.D. Sui competed on the Canadian National Fencing Team, earned a PhD in Health Promotion, and writes a lot. Try "The War Moves Forward by a Meter" (Every Day Fiction), "Banquet of the Shooting Stars" (Etherea), "BFFs" (If There's Anyone Left Vol. 3), and "Toronto Isn't Real and Other Metropolitan Anomalies" (Augur).

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

https://everydayfiction.com/the-war-moves-forward-by-a-meter-by-a-d-sui/
https://ethereamagazine.com/product/etherea-magazine-13/
https://www.amazon.com/If-Theres-Anyone-Left-3-ebook/dp/B0BKVG8WJX
https://www.augurmag.com/toronto-isnt-real-and-other-metropolitan-anomalies/

Rick Danforth lives in Yorkshire, works as a Systems Architect, and practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. His short fiction includes "A Date to Memoir" (Translunar Travelers Lounge), "Don't Forget Your Goat" (Etherea), and the BSFA finalist "Seller's Remorse" (Hexagon).

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2022/08/15/a-date-to-memoir-by-rick-danforth/
https://ethereamagazine.com/goat/
https://hexagonmagazine.ca/issue-11-winter-2022/

Wen Wen Yang is a first generation Chinese American from the Bronx. Some of her short publications include "The Huli Jing of Chinatown," "The Magical Sow," "Minor Magics of Chinatown," and "Skin Anomalies."

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

https://zooscape-zine.com/huli-jing-of-chinatown/
https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/the-magical-sow/
https://factorfourmag.com/minor-magics-of-chinatown-by-wen-wen-yang/
https://www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/stories/wenwenyang

Hey! I have some more authors to shout about! They write SF/F/H and are in their first or second year of eligibility for the #AstoundingAward!

If you're nominating, ballots are due April 30th. Check out some of the new writers in this thread and on my blog.

https://aphowell.com/2023/01/25/some-astounding-award-eligible-writers/

Eris Young is the fiction editor of Shoreline of Infinity, the recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award, and author of books on the ace, nonbinary, and genderqueer experience. A number of their stories can be found for free online reading or listening, including "Deal," "The Archivist," and "Superfine."

https://escapepod.org/2021/01/28/escape-pod-769-deal/
https://theselkie.co.uk/eris-young/
https://www.metastellar.com/fiction/superfine/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

Ursula Whitcher is a mathematician, knitter, game designer, poet, and SCAdian whose short fiction includes "The Last Tutor," "The Association of Twelve Thousand Flowers," and "The Spirits of Cabassus."

https://www.asimovs.com/store/
https://www.cossmass.com/stories/the-association-of-twelve-thousand-flowers/
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-228-spirits-cabassus-ursula-whitcher

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

Tehnuka is an Aotearoa New Zealand volcanologist whose stories include "Stains of Home," "Fortune Favors the Parrot," and "Clutch. Stick. Shift."

https://www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/stories/tehnuka
https://writingquarter.com.au/competitions/the-writing-quarter-march-2021-competition-winner/
https://mermaidsmonthly.com/2021/07/20/clutch-stick-shift/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

Kiran Kaur Saini is an award-winning Punjabi-American writer of films and fiction, and paddler of kayaks. Check out "Your Tomorrow Clothes" and "Coiffeur Seven."

https://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/34.1-winter/spring-2022/your-tomorrow-clothes/
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/coiffeur-seven/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

Reed Mingault engages in various arts and crafts. "The Scribe's Garden" was a winnder of the Cast of Wonders flash fiction contest, and fans of worldbuilding and lichen may enjoy "Everything was perfect on a utopian island nation... until the invasive hallucinogenic lichen arrived."

https://www.castofwonders.org/2021/05/cast-of-wonders-452-little-wonders-29-flash-fiction-contest-winners/
https://stone-soup.ghost.io/building-beyond-mossing-around/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory #lichensubscribe #mosstodon

Lindz McLeod is a queer, working-class Scottish writer of poetry and short fiction, some of which is collected in Turducken. "The Immortal Game," "Them at Number Seventy-Four," and "Hindbrain."

https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/the-immortal-game/
https://pseudopod.org/2022/03/25/pseudopod-803-them-at-number-seventy-four/
https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-12/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

C. E. McGill is a once and current Scot, an academic interdisciplinarian and two-time finalist for the Dell Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. Their first novel, Our Hideous Progeny, is out later this year, and you can read "Things to Bring, Things to Burn, Things Best Left Behind" and "Passengers" now.

https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/things-to-bring-things-to-burn-things-best-left-behind/
http://www.strangeconstellations.com/?page_id=501

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

Nic Lipitz is a Brooklyn-based writer of science fiction and humor. Check out "The Office Drone."

https://future-sf.com/fiction/the-office-drone/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

Jessica Lévai has a PhD in Egyptology and, after an extended stint adjuncting, now writes full time. Her novella, The Night Library of Sternendach: A Vampire Opera in Verse, came out in 2021, and her short fiction appearances include Cossmass Infinities and In Somnio: A Collection of Modern Gothic Horror.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-night-library-of-sternendach-a-vampire-opera-in-verse-jessica-levai/15712650?ean=9781941360514
https://www.cossmass.com/issues/
https://tenebrous-press.square.site/product/in-somnio-anthology-softcover-180-pages-includes-ebook-/21?cs=true&cst=custom

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

Annika Barranti Klein is a tired Angeleno writer, poet, copy editor, and photographer. Her published short fiction includes "The Big Deep," "AITA for throwing away my wife's haunted dolls?," and "A Touch of Magic."

https://www.asimovs.com/store/
http://futurefire.net/2022.63/fiction/aita.html
https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/summer-2022/a-touch-of-magic-by-annika-barranti-klein/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

Isabel J. Kim is a Korean-American attorney, podcaster, and writer. Her short fiction includes "The Narrative Implications of Your Untimely Death," "Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black," and the Shirley Jackson Award-winning "You'll Understand When You're a Mom Someday."

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-narrative-implications-of-your-untimely-death/
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_11_22/
https://www.khoreomag.com/fiction/youll-understand-when-youre-a-mom-someday/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

Kehkashan Khalid is a visual artist and writer whose short fiction includes “The Petticoat Government” and “The Shape of Snowflakes.”

https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/the-petticoat-government/
https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2021/02/15/the-shape-of-snowflakes-by-kehkashan-khalid/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

With Hugo voting opening soon, here's my last round up of short fiction authors eligible for the Astounding Award.

https://aphowell.com/2023/02/24/2023-astounding-eligible-authors-roundup-5/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction

Thomas Ha's short stories and novelettes include “To People Who’d Never Known Good," “Sweetbaby," “Where You Left Me," “Our Quiet Guests," and “Where the Old Neighbors Go” (which was reprinted in Paula Guran's Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Vol. 2).

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/to-people-whod-never-known-good/
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_10_22/
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/where-you-left-me/
https://www.3lobedmag.com/issue37/3lbe37_story3.html
https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2020/where-the-old-neighbors-go-thomas-ha/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

Alyson Grauer is an actor, cosplayer, and vocalizer of stuff. She’s written a novel and a number of short pieces, including “Lavender, Juniper, Gunpowder, Smoke," “Their Eyes Like Stars, Their Horns Aloft," and “Porch Light for the Lonely."

https://apparitionlit.com/lavender-juniper-gunpowder-smoke/
https://www.rhondaparrish.com/home/publications/anthologies/untethered/
https://www.castofwonders.org/2021/05/cast-of-wonders-452-little-wonders-29-flash-fiction-contest-winners/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

David Goodman lives in Scotland, founded the Edinburgh Genre Writers workshop, and published “Vegvísir” and “Carapace” (short story and novelette, respectively) in Clarkesworld.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/goodman_12_21/
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/goodman_07_22/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

A. L. Goldfuss is an infrastructure geek and speaker. Following a 2021 story in Fantasy (“The Woman with No Face”), xe ran the Adamant Press gamut with stories in Nightmare (“Fenworth City Municipal Watersheds Field Survey”) and Lightspeed (“Between the Stones and Stars”).

https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/the-woman-with-no-face/
https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/fenworth-city-municipal-watersheds-field-survey/
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/between-the-stones-and-the-stars/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory