Eligibility Lists

These are the current eligibility lists for 2022 works.

Best Novel

A Burning We Will Die, Betty Guenette (Renaissance Press)
A Connecticut Gumshoe in the Cavern of the Weird Sisters, Randy McCharles (Tyche Books Ltd.)
A Killer Match, Joan Donaldson-Yarmey (Renaissance Press)
A Rip Through Time, Kelley Armstrong (Minotaur Books)
A Thousand Li: the Third Kingdom, Tao Wong (Starlit Publishing)
A Turn of the Tide, Kelley Armstrong (K.L.A. Fricke Inc)
A Veiled and Distant Sky, Sherry D. Ramsey (Tyche Books Ltd.)
Admiral’s Oath, Glynn Stewart (Faolan’s Pen Publishing)
All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley)
Allaigna’s Song: Chorale, JM Landels (Pulp Literature)
An End to Sorrow, Michael R. Fletcher (Self published)
Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers, Jen and Éric Desmarais (Renaissance Press)
Autonomy, Victoria Hetherington (Dundurn Press)
Ballet is Not for Muslim Girls, Mariam S Pal (Renaissance Press)
Beneath the Stairs, Jennifer Fawcett (Atria Books)
Beyond the Eyes of Mars, Glynn Stewart (Faolan’s Pen Publishing)
Black Dove, Colin McAdam (Hamish Hamilton Canada)
Blue Haven, Lisa King (The Story Plant)
Captains and Conspiracies, Jane Glatt (Tyche Books Ltd.)
Cascade, Rachel A. Rosen (The BumblePuppy Press)
Catalyst, Brandon Crilly (Atthis Arts, LLC)
City of Sensors, A.M. Todd (Now or Never Publishing)
Daughter of the Wolves, K.S. Villoso (K.S. Villoso)
Discretion, Glynn Stewart (Faolan’s Pen Publishing)
Dweller on the Threshold, Skyla Dawn Cameron (Skyla Dawn Cameron)
Easter Pinkerton And The Case Of The Heretic Blood, Evan May (Renaissance Press)
Eileen’s Promise, Matthew Villeneuve (Matthew Villeneuve)
Freedom’s Myth, Stephen B. Pearl (Brain Lag)
Ghost Light Burn, Stephen Graham King (Renaissance Press)
Griffin and the Spurious Correlations, Krista Wallace (Krista Wallace)
Ground That Grows Roses, Elizabeth Hirst (Renaissance Press)
Hooked, A.C. Wise (Titan Books)
Huntress, Glynn Stewart (Faolan’s Pen Publishing)
Icebreaker, Glynn Stewart (Faolan’s Pen Publishing)
Into the Broken Lands, Tanya Huff (DAW)
Jumpship Dissonance, Adria Laycraft (Tyche Books Ltd.)
Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls, Charles de Lint (Triskell Press)
Kerfuffle, Dorothy Ellen Palmer (Renaissance Press)
Motherthing, Ainslie Hogarth (Strange Light)
My Volcano, John Elizabeth Stintzi (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Nether Regions, Randal Graham (ECW Press)
No Land For Heroes, Cal Black (Bearberry Studio)
Obscure, Krista Walsh (Raven’s Quill Press)
Ordinary Monsters, J. M. Miro (McClelland & Stewart)
Pawns and Phantoms, Misha Handman (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Plenum: The First Book of Deo, Geoffreyjen Edwards (Untimely Books)
Pure Colour, Sheila Heti (Knopf Canada)
Radioland, Matt Cahill (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.)
Remnant Faction, Glynn Stewart (Faolan’s Pen Publishing)
River of Shadows, Karina Halle (Karina Halle)
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
Servitude, Costi Gurgu (Kult Books)
Shadow Rose, Elsie Quail (Elsie Quail Books)
Shadowed Passage, Al Onia (Self published)
Shadows of Slavery, Simon A. G. Spencer (Brain Lag)
Sisters of Jade, James Downe (Self Published)
Small Miracles, Olivia Atwater (Starwatch Press)
Songbroken, Heather Osborne (Forest Path Books)
System Finale, Tao Wong (Starlit Publishing)
Tea and the Transcendent, Genevieve Clovis (Sweet Cacophony Press)
The Book of Cold Cases, Simone St. James (Berkley)
The Clockwork Empire, Lucas J.W. Johnson (Fireside Fiction Company)
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
The Embroidered Book, Kate Heartfield (HarperVoyager)
The Flaws of Gravity, Stephanie Caye (SC Smith)
The Long-Forgotten Winter King, Annette Marie (Dark Owl Fantasy)
The Magus Conspiracy, An Assassin’s Creed novel, Kate Heartfield (Aconyte)
The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD)
The New Empire, Alison McBain (Woodhall Press)
The Petting Zoos, K.S. Covert (Dundurn Press)
The Rosetta Mind, Claire McCague (EDGE)
The Shadow of War, Timothy S Johnston (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
The Sins We Seek, Krista D. Ball (Krista D. Ball)
The Sisters Sputnik, Terri Favro (ECW Press)
The Stars in Their Eyes, Kristy Gardner (City Owl Press)
The Tangled Stars, Edward Willett (DAW Books)
The Things We Lost, Maggie Giles (Rising Action Publishing Co.)
The Twice-Scorned Lady of Shadow, Annette Marie (‎ Dark Owl Fantas)
The Unbreakable Bladesong Druid, Annette Marie (Dark Owl Fantasy)
The Void Ascendant, Premee Mohamed (Solaris Books)
The Witches of Moonshyne Manor, Bianca Marais (MIRA)
Threader God, Gerald Brandt (DAW)
Threader War, Gerald Brandt (DAW)
To Each This World, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
To Stand Defiant, Glynn Stewart (Faolan’s Pen Publishing)
To Wake a Kingdom, Nisha J. Tuli (Nisha J. Tuli)
Treehawke, Deven Kane (Smoke Valley Press)
Under Fortunate Stars, Ren Hutchings (Solaris)
Until the Last of Me, Sylvain Neuvel (Tordotcom)
Weekends Can Be Murder, Arlene F. Marks (Brain Lag)
Woman On The Wall, Robin Rivers (Robin Marie Rivers)
Ymir, Rich Larson (Orbit)

Best YA Novel

A Consuming Fire, Laura E. Weymouth (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
A Cruel and Fated Light, Ashley Shuttleworth (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
A Magic Steeped in Poison, Judy I. Lin (Feiwel & Friends)
A Venom Dark and Sweet, Judy I. Lin (Feiwel & Friends)
Antuna’s Story (The Antunite Chronicles Book 1), Terry Birdgenaw (Cyborg Insect Books)
Antunites Unite (The Antunite Chronicles Book 3), Terry Birdgenaw (Cyborg Insect Books)
Beguiled, Cyla Panin (‎Harry N. Abrams)
Black Hole Radio – Ka’Azula, Ann Birdgenaw (DartFrog Books)
Blood Like Fate, Liselle Sambury (Margaret K. McElderry)
Blood Scion, Deborah Falaye (HarperTeen)
Book of Dreams, Kevin Craig (Chicago Review Press)
Cold, Mariko Tamaki (Roaring Brook Press)
Daughters of the Dawn, Sarena Nanua & Sasha Nanua (HarperTeen)
Double O Stephen and the Ghostly Realm, Angela Ahn (Tundra Books)
Echoes and Empires, Morgan Rhodes (Razorbill)
Edgewood, Kristen Ciccarelli (Wednesday Books)
Fractured, Gordon G. Bowman (Bowman Books)
Frozen Hearts and Death Magic, Day Leitao (Sparkly Wave)
Gabrielle and the Rebels, Maureen Ulrich (Flatlands Press)
Ghostlight, Kenneth Oppel (Puffin Canada)
In the Serpent’s Wake, Rachel Hartman (Penguin Teen Canada)
It Ends With Her, Natasha Buylding (Natasha Buylding)
Kingdomless, Michelle Garyfalakis (Michelle Garyfalakis)
Knowledge Itself, Shelly Campbell and Megan King (Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing)
Lost Rings and Other Things, Vanessa Raccio (Vanessa Raccio)
Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove, Rati Mehrotra (Wednesday Books)
Nura and the Immortal Palace, M.T. Khan (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Ravenous Things, Derrick Chow (Disney Hyperion)
Road of the Lost, Nafiza Azad (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
Seekers of the Fox, Kevin Sands (Puffin Canada)
Silver in the Mist, Emily Victoria (Inkyard Press)
The Bear House: Scales and Stardust, Meaghan McIsaac (Holiday House)
The Final Trial, Kelley Armstrong (Puffin Canada)
The Further Adventures of Miss Petitfour, Anne Michaels (Tundra Books)
The Grave Thief, Dee Hahn (Puffin Canada)
The Hollow Boys: The Dream Rider Saga, Book 1, Douglas Smith (Spiral Path Books)
The Last Minute, Nissa Harlow (Nimble Hope Publishing)
The Limitless Sky, Christina Kilbourne (Dundurn Press)
The Rabbit’s Gift, Jessica Vitalis (Greenwillow Books)
The Rise and Fall of Antocracy (The Antunite Chronicles Book 2), Terry Birdgenaw (Cyborg Insect Books)
The Stone Child, David A. Robertson (Puffin Canada)
The Valkyrie’s Daughter, Tiana Warner (Entangled: Teen)
Water, Water, Cary Fagan (Tundra Books)
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Xiran Jay Zhao (Margaret K. McElderry Books)

Best Novelette/Novella

A Batch of Twenty, Chris Edwards (Chris Edwards)
A Pearl from the Dark, Julie E. Czerneda (Julie E. Czerneda)
A Sky and a Heaven, Eric Choi (Just Like Being There: A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories (Springer Nature))
All the Horses of Iceland, Sarah Tolmie (Tordotcom)
Arboreality, Rebecca Campbell (Stelliform Press)
Balefire, Glynn Stewart (Faolan’s Pen Publishing)
Ballroom Blitz, Chadwick Ginther (When the Sky Comes Looking For You (Ravenstone Books))
Birth of the Aetherverse, Éric Desmarais (JenEric Designs)
Captain Maven and the Shadow Man, Jamieson Wolf (Wolf Flow Press)
Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
Far Gone and Out, Chadwick Ginther (When the Sky Comes Looking For You (Ravenstone Books))
Flying Whistle Stop, JD DeLuzio (Brain Lag)
Ghosts & Garlands, Kelley Armstrong (K.L.A. Fricke Inc)
Gypsy Biker’s Coming Home, Douglas Smith (On Spec Magazine (issue #120))
Helpmeet, Naben Ruthnum (Undertow)
High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (TorDotCom)
Into the Green, A.C. Wise (Looming Low Volume II (Dim Shores Press))
Lost Cargo, P.A. Cornell (Mocha Memoirs Press)
Lost Ladies of the Nightmare, S.B. Medina (S.B. Medina)
Lure, Tim McGregor (Tenebrous Press)
Manua’s Children, Arlene F. Marks (Brain Lag)
Mnemotechnic, Fiona Moore (Cossmass Infinities)
No Sunshine in Hel, Chadwick Ginther (When the Sky Comes Looking For You (Ravenstone Books))
Objects of Iniquity, Leslie Ann Brown (Renée Gendron)
October’s Feast, Michèle Laframboise (Asimov’s Vol. 46, 1-2)
One Day in the Afterlife of Detective Roshni Chaddha, Rati Mehrotra (Lightspeed Magazine)
Our Migraine, Christopher O’Halloran (AFM Press)
Push A Little Button, Fiona Moore (Cossmass Infinities 2021: The Second Year)
Quandary Animu vs. the Butterfly Man, Rich Larson (Tor.com)
Red Wet Grin, Gemma Files (Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Tor Nightfire))
Screaming Fire, Michèle Laframboise (Asimov’s Vol. 46, 7-8)
Siolaigh, Siobhan Carroll (Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Tor Nightfire))
Sisters of the Crimson Vine, P.L. McMillan (Timber Ghost Press)
The Church of the Hot Pink Jesus, Ben Berman Ghan (Wrongdoing Magazine)
The Hearty Spoon, Helga R. Paxton (Renée Gendron)
The Jade Setter of Janloon, Fonda Lee (Subterranean Press)
The Latch Key, Olivia Atwater (Olivia Atwater)
The Talosite, Rebecca Campbell (Undertow)
The Tiger Came to the Mountains, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Amazon Original Stories)
This is Where We Talk Things Out, Caitlin Marceau (Darklit Press)
Wicked Is the Reaper, Nisha J. Tuli (Nisha J. Tuli)

Best Short Fiction

‘Til Death, C. J. Lavigne (PodCastle)
A Beautiful Nightmare, Sarah Van Goethem (World Weaver Press)
A Collection of Secrets, Rhea Rose (Pulp Literature Issue 35, Summer 2022)
A Fall Backward Through the Hourglass, P.A. Cornell (Cossmass Infinities)
A New and Different Hunger, Tiffany Morris (Sliced Up Press)
A New Brave World, Eric Choi (Brave New Worlds (Zombies Need Brains))
A Night on Jishu Shan, Calvin D. Jim (The Astronaut Always Rings Twice)
A Perfect Cup of Tea, Kate Heartfield (Audible)
A Sword Has One Purpose, Phoebe Barton (Lightspeed Magazine)
Absolution.com, Robert Bose (Terrace V: Penitent’s Gold (The Seventh Terrace))
All Legacy Hardware, Owen McManus (Cossmass Infinities)
All That Burns Unseen, Premee Mohamed (Slate)
All the King’s Men, James Wood (TDotSpec)
An Extant Form of Life, André Geleynse (The Sprawl Mag)
And in the Arcade, Ego, Kate Heartfield (Pulp Literature Issue 33, Winter 2022)
And in This Corner, the Indomitable Feather Rex, Rebecca Bennett (Translunar Travelers Lounge)
Apolepisi: A De-Scaling, Suzan Palumbo (Lightspeed Magazine)
Ardal and the Forest King, Lee F. Patrick (Polar Borealis #23)
As Far as is Feasible, Sally McBride (Polar Borealis Magazine #23)
Asylum, Alison McBain (Wyldblood Magazine)
Audrey and the Crow, Candence Mandybura (Pulp Literature Issue 35, Summer 2022)
Aurora Borealis, Caitlin Marceau (Polar Borealis Magazine #21)
Bees in Winter, C. J. Lavigne (Corvid Queen)
Behind the Blue Door, Dale L. Sproule (Black Hart Publications: That is ALL Wrong)
Benni and Shiya are Leaving, Jerri Jerreat (Grist Magazine:Fix Solutions)
Better By Half Elf, Sally Bend (Bold Strokes Books)
Better to Be Haunted, Lynne Sargent (ParABnormal Magazine)
Big Trouble in Droidtown, Hayden Trenholm (The Astronaut Always Rings Twice)
Blister, Judy Helfrich (On Spec Magazine, Issue #122)
Blood Shadow, Gina Easton (Polar Borealis Magazine #23)
Boomer Trap, Dale L. Sproule (Dark Recesses Webzine)
Born Again, Andrew Wilmot (Fusion Fragment)
Born of Night, Without Warning, Christopher O’Halloran (Dark Recesses Press)
Botman’s Tale, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm (On Spec Magazine, Issue #122)
Bottom’s Dream, Glenn Clifton (On Spec Magazine, Issue # 121)
Broken Vow: The Adventures of Flick Gibson, Intergalactic Videographer, Peter G. Reynolds (On Spec Magazine, Issue # 120)
Caught Dead, Shawn L Bird (Pulp Literature Issue 36, Autumn 2022)
Choices, Miles Cameron (Shapers of Worlds Volume III (Shadowpaw Press))
Choose Your Own Adventure – Welcome to Westmeath, Jen Desmarais (JenEric Designs)
Choose Your Own, C. J. Lavigne (Daily Science Fiction)
Cōlony, David F. Shultz (Grandpa’s Deep-Space Diner)
Come In, Children, Ai Jiang (Hexagon Magazine)
Confession, Lee F. Patrick (Javari Press)
Conflict Resolution, Holly Schofield (Nature’s Futures)
Constructed, Brandon Crilly (Haven Speculative)
Court Day in Shelocta County, Robert Penner (Shapers of Worlds Volume III (Shadowpaw Press))
Crick Crack Rattle Tap, A.C. Wise (Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Tor Nightfire))
Critical Mass, Peter Watts (Lightspeed Magazine)
Crows’ Hoard, Jayne Barnard (Renaissance Press)
Cruising, Lisa Timpf (NewMyths.com)
Currant Voices in a Convection Oven, Sarah Ramdawar (Augur Magazine)
Darkly Through the Glass Place, Kirk Bueckert (The Astronaut Always Rings Twice)
Date Night Plan, Gregg Chamberlain (Flash in a Flash Newsletter)
Dead But Dreaming Still, Michael Kelly (Dim Shores)
Death by Index, Shannon Allen (The Astronaut Always Rings Twice)
Decorative, P.A. Cornell (Flame Tree Press)
Douen, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark)
Dragon’s Fire, Katrina Nicholson (On Spec Magazine, Issue 119)
Eat the Rich, Sarah L. Pratt (Terrace V: Penitent’s Gold (The Seventh Terrace))
Eat Your Rage, Taija Morgan (Tales to Terrify audio reading)
Essential Maintenance, Michèle Laframboise (Neo-Opsis 33)
False Gills, Ariel Marken Jack (Uncharted Magazine)
Final Word, Gregg Chamberlain (Flash in a Flash Newsletter)
Fire Flows Downhill, Alex Langer (On Spec Magazine, Issue #122)
First Class, Mireille Theriault (Prairie Soul Press)
Fisheyes, Ai Jiang (The Dark Magazine)
Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead, KT Bryski (Strange Horizons)
Free Will, Gregory B. Taylor (The Accidental Time Travelers Collective)
Freely Given, Connor Mellegers (Metaphorosis)
FREYA’S BLESSING, Leslie Wibberley (Prairie Soul Press)
Ghostwind, Violette Malan (Shapers of Worlds Volume III (Shadowpaw Press))
Girl, Cat, Wolf, Moon, Rati Mehrotra (Uncanny Magazine)
Give Me English, Ai Jiang (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
Gold Digger, Taija Morgan (The Seventh Terrace)
Green Witch, Elizabeth Whitton (Prairie Soul Inc.)
Gumdrop: A Bekker Story, JJ Lee (Pulp Literature Issue 35, Summer 2022)
Gwannyn’s Song, JM Landels (Pulp Literature Issue 35, Summer 2022)
Hallowed Camping, Greg Fewer (Page & Spine: Fiction Showcase)
Hare Raising, Lee F. Patrick (small shifts, Lintusen Press)
Health Benefits, Jessica Corra (Nothing Without Us Too (Renaissance Press))
Heart on Your Sleeve, Holly Schofield (Renaissance’s Nothing Without Us Too anthology)
Herbalista, Cordelia Kelly (Prairie Soul Press)
Hope in Her Devouring, Tiffany Morris (Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror (Strangehouse Books))
How to Check if Your Peacekeeper-2000 Is Loaded, David F. Shultz (TDotSpec)
How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put Your Restaurant on the Galactic Map, P.A. Cornell (The Drabblecast)
How to Set a Starship on Fire, Claire Scherzinger (Polar Borealis Magazine #23)
I’ll Have My Toast With Jam, Please, Andrea Bernard (On Spec Magazine, Issue #122)
I’ll Be Moon for Christmas, Michèle Laframboise (Asimov’s Vol. 46, #11-12)
Immaterial Witness, Graham J. Darling (Dark Matter Magazine)
In Memory, Rory Say (OnSpec Magazine, Issue #121)
In the Grip of Yesterday, P.A. Cornell (Cossmass Infinities)
In the Karakum Desert, Jerri Jerreat (Flyway:Journal of Writing and the Environment)
In the Lush Forest Nothing Dies, Kat Siddle (On Spec Magazine, Issue #121)
In the Stillness of Bone and Sea, KT Bryski (Lackington’s)
In Water, We Survive, Ai Jiang (The Deadlands)
Into the Frozen Wilds, P.A. Cornell (Galaxy’s Edge Magazine)
Jurisdiction, Al Onia (The Astronaut Always Rings Twice (Tyche))
Lament of the Lotus Eater, Erin Rockfort (Nothing Without Us Too (Renaissance Press))
Let the Water Drink First, V. F. LeSann (Megan Fennell and Leslie Van Zwol) (Pirating Pups: Salty Sea-Dogs and Barking Buccaneers)
Light Bent Strangely There, Tiffany Morris (Heads Dance Press)
Lightning in 35–, Jerri Jerreat (Alluvian Journal)
Lilies and Claws, Kate Heartfield (Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue (Third Man Books))
Lullaby at Lammas, Jayne Barnard (Prairie Soul Press)
Lullaby, David Worn (Dark Matter Magazine)
Ma Soeur Marie, Lareina Abbott (Prairie Soul Press)
Madman of Candle Point, Jonathan Olfert (Dark Recesses Press)
many hands, many mouths, Ziggy Schutz (On Spec Magazine, Issue #121)
Mary Kaye Will Always Break Your Heart, J.W. Schnarr (The Astronaut Always Rings Twice)
Maximum Efficiency, Holly Schofield (Analog magazine)
Minutes to Midnight, Jessica Peter (Hell Hath Only Fury (Independently published by SH Cooper))
Mired, Jessica Peter (LampLight Magazine, Volume 10 Issue 4)
Misrule, Fiona Moore (Luna Station Quarterly)
Moby Dick’s Doors, Michèle Laframboise (Stories Rule Press)
Mr. Farnsworth Versus the Alien Demons of Ancient Egypt, Sebastien de Castell (Shapers of Worlds Volume III (Shadowpaw Press))
Never Walk the Tracks at Night, Taija Morgan (Prairie Soul Press)
New Tudors, Cat Girczyc (Neo-Opsis Magazine #33)
Nickel-Plated Demon, M.L.D. Curelas (Poise and Pen Publishing)
Nine Lives, P.A. Cornell (If There’s Anyone Left: Volume 2)
Nix Delicious, James Grotkowski (Polar Borealis Magazine #21)
Occult Library Science, Greg Fewer (Nafallen University 2022-2023 Course Catalog (Madness Heart Press, Austin, Texas))
Oh, But Her Beautiful Eyes, Mary Rajotte (Dark Dispatch)
On Land, We Drown, Ai Jiang (Augur Magazine)
On the Inside, Robert Runté (First Line Literary Journal)
Once Upon an End Time, Jessica Peter (Nothing Without Us Too (Renaissance Press))
One Night in a Sushi Bar of Uncertain Parameters, D.K. Latta (TDotSpec)
Oneiric One, Adam McPhee (Dark Moon Digest)
Out of the Glamour, Dale L. Sproule (All Worlds Wayfarer)
Parch, Mary J. Daley (On Spec Magazine, Issue #121)
Partners, JR Campbell (The Astronaut Always Rings Twice)
Phoenix in Red Ochre, Katie Sweet (Polar Borealis Magazine #21)
Printed Guns and Sold Schematics, SJ Klapecki (TDotSpec)
Quirks, Arinn Dembo (On Spec Magazine, Issue #122)
Rare Earths Pineapple, Michèle Laframboise (Analog July-August)
Rare Providers, Ariel Marken Jack (Fusion Fragment)
Raw & Cooked, Connor Mellegers (Neon Magazine)
Redfin Spine, Jonathan Olfert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Renter’s Report, Michèle Laframboise (Polar Borealis 21)
Return Policy, Ai Jiang (Radon Journal)
Ringing In The New Year, Jen Desmarais (JenEric Designs)
Rink of Dreams, M.L.D. Curelas (Poise and Pen Publishing)
Roaches, Ai Jiang (Dark Matter Magazine)
Sales Pitch, Michèle Laframboise (On Spec 119)
Schrodinger’s Cats, Wayne Cusack (Polar Borealis Magazine #22)
Scintillae, Ariel Marken Jack (Dark Matter Magazine)
Secrets About Time Envelopes, Derek Nason (Polar Borealis Magazine #21)
Seen Small Through Glass, Premee Mohamed (Fireside Fiction)
Seven Times Seven, A.C. Wise (Kaleidotrope)
Sharp Things, Killing Things, A.C. Wise (Nightmare Magazine)
Shattered, Marie Bilodeau (Rogue Artists (Atthis Arts))
Shortest Route, Aaron Humphrey (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society- On Spec #120)
Should I Stay, Dianna Gunn (Nothing Without Us Too (Renaissance Press))
Sins Between Man and His Fellow, Alex Langer (On Spec Magazine, Issue 119)
Sister, Silkie, Siren, Shark, Ariel Marken Jack (Strange Horizons)
Sisyphus Descending, Colleen Anderson (OnSpec #121)
Smile, Dayle Sharpe (Polar Borealis Magazine #22)
Snow Blindness, Laika Wallace (Flame Tree Collections)
Software Update, Derwin Mak (Other Worlds Ink)
Something Borrowed, Michael Kelly (Three-Lobed Burning Eye Magazine)
Southern Ontario Gothic, Jessica Peter (The Antihumanist)
Space Comprimari, JD DeLuzio (Brain Lag)
Starship Sepulcher, David F. Shultz (Dark Void Magazine)
Starship Seraphim, David F. Shultz (The Astronaut Always Rings Twice)
State vs Hades, Altaire Gural (Luna Station Quarterly)
Sunday in the Park With Hank, Leah Bobet (The Deadlands)
Swim the Darkness, Michael Kelly (The Dark)
Teeny Tiny Terror Tales, Gregg Chamberlain (Paper Butterfly Flash Fiction)
Terms And Conditions, Fiona Moore (ParSec 5)
The Barbecue Battle, Derwin Mak (Speculative City, issue 13 (Summer 2022))
The Birds, David Kloepfer (Spank the Carp)
The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things, Ariel Marken Jack (PseudoPod)
The Blue Ghost, Taija Morgan (The Rabbit Hole Volume 5, Tom Wolosz)
The Bogatyr and the Cursed Inn, Charles Moffat (Polar Borealis Magazine #21)
The Call of the Carrion Crows, Mary Rajotte (Quill & Crow Publishing House)
The Corpse of Hours, Tiffany Morris (Dreadstone Press)
The Earthquakes Are Coming, Ai Jiang (The Puritan)
The Eighth Cigarette, Lisa Cai (The Dark)
The Empress of Marshmallow, Chadwick Ginther (Pirating Pups: Salty Sea Dogs and Barking Buccaneers)
The Envoy’s Blessing, Chris Patrick Carolan (Terrace V: Penitent’s Gold (The Seventh Terrace))
The Girl Who Was Only Three Quarters Dead, Craig H. Bowlsby (Mystery Magazine)
The Herald, Sheryl Normandeau (Polar Borealis Magazine #22)
The Hippogriff, Adam McPhee (Wyngraf)
The Inspector of Moons, Lisa Cai (Polar Borealis)
The Iron Spider, Jameson Grey (Dark Recesses Press: Vol. 6 – Issue 15)
The Jarl’s Butter, Adam McPhee (SFS Stories)
The Little Friend, Fiona Moore (Fission #2)
The Many Smiles Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Jean-Louis Trudel (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society- On Spec #121)
The Memory Spider, Fiona Moore (Abyss & Apex)
The Metamorphosis of Thomas Darrow, Gerald Brandt (Shapers of Worlds Volume III (Shadowpaw Press))
The Midnight Library, Lena Ng (Polar Borealis #22)
The Midsummer Wilding, Jameson Grey (Heads Dance Press)
The Morning House, Kate Heartfield (Podcastle)
The Morthouse, Maria Haskins (The Deadlands)
The Night Reclaims Its Shadows, Dale L. Sproule (Theme of Absence)
The Once Beating Heart of the Future, Kristene Perron (On Spec Magazine, Issue # 120)
The Red Scarf, Rhea Rose (Crystal Lake Publishing)
The Resting Place of Trees, Ben Berman Ghan (Clarkesworld Magazine)
The Road, Robert Runté (Sirens Call)
The Skeptic and the Primrose, Michèle Laframboise (WMG Holiday Spectacular 2022)
The Slow Deaths of Automobiles, Fiona Moore (Clarkesworld)
The Switch Fairy, Monica Wang (Pulp Literature Issue 33, Winter 2022)
The Switch, Lisa Timpf (NewMyths.com)
The Thing in the Play, Edward Willett (Shapers of Worlds Volume III (Shadowpaw Press))
The Trouble with Time Machines, Karen Jessica New (Augur Magazine, issue 5.1)
The Uncertainty Principle, Robert Runté (Fairfield Scribes Micro #21)
The Undine’s Voice, Melanie Marttila (Polar Borealis 21)
The Watersprite, Nina Munteanu (Polar Borealis Magazine #22)
The Youngest Son Misses His Boat to the Crusades, Premee Mohamed (Tales & Feathers Magazine)
There Are No Hellos In Heaven, KT Bryski (Fusion Fragment)
This is I, KT Bryski (The Deadlands)
Thresholds, Kristi Charish (Shapers of Worlds Volume III (Shadowpaw Press))
Tooth, Teeth, Tongue, Ai Jiang (The Dark Magazine)
Toronto Isn’t Real And Other Metropolitan Anomalies, A.D. Sui (Augur)
Torvi, Viking Queen, Melanie Marttila (Pirating Pups: Salty Sea-Dogs and Barking Buccaneers)
Unwelcome Visitors, Gregg Chamberlain (Wyrms anthology/Shacklebound Books)
User Warning, Charlotte Ariel Finn (Radon Journal)
Vi’Hun Heal, Michelle Tang (Escape Pod)
Villainy: A Reluctant Memoir, Erin Rockfort (Translunar Travelers Lounge)
Water From a Duck’s Back, Geoff Hart (On Spec Magazine, Issue # 120)
Water Rights, Lorina Stephens (On Spec Magazine)
Wayfinder, Marcelle Dubé (On Spec Magazine, Issue 119)
We Are the Thing That Lives on the Moon, Gillian Secord (Fireside Fiction)
We Have Made A Home Beyond Death, Tiffany Morris (Moonflowers and Nightshade: An Anthology of Sapphic Horror)
What Cats (and Dragons) Do, KT Bryski (CatsCast)
What Frisky Wrought When the Wheels Fell Off the World, E.C. Bell (Pirating Pups: Salty Sea-Dogs and Barking Buccaneers)
What the Dead Whisper to the Living, Mary Rajotte (Brigid’s Gate Press)
What the Ghouleh Said on Thursday of the Dead, Sonia Sulaiman (Seize the Press)
What We Look For At The Night Market, Ai Jiang (The Dread Machine)
When AI Goes Rogue, Robert Runté (Fairfield Scribes Micro #24)
Where Lilacs Bloom, Chandra Fisher (Prairie Soul Press)
Where the Devil Can’t Go, J. Gordon (The Astronaut Always Rings Twice)
Whiskey Mud, Jonathan Olfert (Radon Journal)
White Diode, Nick Brandt (Polar Borealis Magazine #23)
Wind Come Down the Mountain, A.C. Wise (The Dark)
With All Souls Still Aboard, Premee Mohamed (The Reinvented Heart (Caezik SF & Fantasy))
Words of Advice at the End of the World, Aleksandra Hill (BSFA Fission Anthology)
Would We Had Time, Lorina Stephens (Pulp Literature Issue 34, Spring 2022)
Xiǎo Èmó—Little Demon, Ai Jiang (The Dark Magazine)
You Have What I Need, Ian Rogers (Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Tor Nightfire))
Yukon Gold, Sarah L. Pratt and Robert Bose (Terrace V: Penitent’s Gold (The Seventh Terrace))

Best Graphic Novel/Comic

Birds of Maine, Michael deForge (drawn and quarterly)
Cover of Darkness (collection of original issues published in 2022), George Michail and Chris Cam (Source Point Press)
Crash and Burn, Kate Larking and Finn Lucullan (Astres Press)
Cupcake War Machine, Marika Kapogeorgakis (webcomic)
Daisy, Colin Lorimer (Dark Horse Comics)
Folklore, Adam Ma and Colin Tan Wei (webcomic)
Forward, Mason “Tailsteak” Williams (webcomic)
Goblins, Ellipsis Hana Stephens (webcomic)
Godhead 2, Ho Che Anderson (Fantagraphics)
Heavy Metal Presents: Arena Mode, Blake Northcott (Simon and Schuster)
It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (Webcomic)
Kings of Nowhere, Soroush Barazesh (Dark Horse Comics)
Lies Within, Brannen Lacey (webcomic)
Little Monsters, Jeff Lemire (Image Comics)
Mistress of the Winds, Michèle Laframboise (Échofictions)
Oh My Gods II: Forgotten Maze, Stephanie Cooke and Insha Fitzpatrick (Clarion Books)
Over My Dead Body, Sweeney Boo (HarperAlley)
Pop Terra, Dominic Bercier (Mirror Comics)
Questionable Content, Jeph Jacques (webcomic)
Reckoner Rises, volume 2: Version Control, David A. Robertson (Portage and Main Press)
Rising Sand, Jenn Lee and Ty Dunitz (webcomic)
Shifting Earth, Cecil Castellucci (Berger Books)
Siegfried: Dragon Slayer, Mark Allard-Will (Renegade Arts)
Sins of the Black Flamingo, Andrew Wheeler (Image Comics)
Sparks, Revel (webcomic)
Squire, Nadia Shammas & Sara Alfageeh (HarperCollins)
Stillwater: The Escape, Chip Zdarsky (Image Comics)
The Junction, Norm Konyu (Titan Comics)
The Last Days of Black Hammer, Jeff Lemire (Substack)
There’s Something Wrong with Patrick Todd, Ed Brisson (Aftershock Comics)
Verse – book two, “The Second Gate”, Sam Beck (Wonderbound)
Wychwood, Ally Rom Colthoff (webcomic)

Best Poem/Song

A Game No More, Angi Garafolo (Polar Starlight Magazine #7)
A Mortal In Armour, Among Immortals Walking, Ai Jiang (The Dread Machine)
a sinkhole invites a street to consider its future, Dominik Parisien (Uncanny Magazine)
A Vision of the Future, J.Y.T. Kennedy (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
Abandoned on Earth, Josh Connors (Polar Borealis #21)
Adrift, Cait Gordon (Polar Borealis, Issue 21)
After the Apocalypse, Colleen Anderson (Newmyths 61)
After the Quest is Over, Lisa Timpf (Eye to the Telescope Issue 46, Quests)
Angels, Frances Skene (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
Antiparticular, Robert Dawson (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
At the Magical Furniture Store, Lisa Timpf (Polar Starlight #7)
Avalon, Melanie Marttila (Polar Starlight 7)
Awake, Greg Fewer (Scifaikuest, xviii(4))
Bear, Irena Nikolova (Polar Starlight Magazine #7)
Behold, James Grotkowski (Polar Borealis Magazine #22)
Black-Crested Night, Geoffrey W. Cole (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
Blood Flower Moon, Melanie Marttila (Polar Starlight 7)
Breaking Horses, Leah Bobet (Grain Magazine)
Cannibal Canteen, LeRoy Gorman (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
Caveat Emptor, Greg Fewer (Polar Starlight, #7)
Circus Aqua, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
Concessions, Pamela Yuen (On Spec Magazine #121)
Cruel Johnny, C.S. MacCath (Shatter and Rise EP)
Dante Goes West, Colleen Anderson (OnSpec #120)
Daughter of Spring, Frances Skene (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
Do the Gods Laugh?, Lisa Timpf (Star*Line Vol 45.4, Fall 2022)
Dririmancy, Tiffany Morris (Under Her Skin: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection)
Evidence Disposal, Greg Fewer (Scifaikuest, xviii(4))
fertile week, Leah Bobet (Reckoning: Our Beautiful Reward)
First Contact, Lisa Timpf (Eye to the Telescope Issue 44, Notional Ekphrasis, April 2022)
First Course, Janine Cross (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
For All the Magical Horse Girls, Lynne Sargent (Polar Starlight Magazine #7)
Four Transformations, N.R.M. Roshak (Polar Starlight Magazine #7)
Ghost Stories, James Grotkowski (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
Ghost Train, Lisa Timpf (New Myths Issue 61)
Grassgreen, J.Y.T. Kennedy (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
Gravity Well, Geoff Hart (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
Gravity, Time, Silk, Cynthia A. Rose (Polar Starlight Magazine #7)
Haunted House, Rhonda Parrish (Dread Machine)
Home for the Holidays, Douglas Shimizu (Polar Borealis #21)
Homestar, Gregg Chamberlain (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
Horrorku, Greg Fewer (Polar Starlight, #6)
I Am A Little Hotel, Ai Jiang (Uncanny Magazine)
I am a Night of Endless Radiance, Jim Smith (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
If Planets could Dream, they would be Nightmares, R.K. Persaud (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White, Terese Mason Pierre (Uncanny Magazine)
Leave the Myths, Leave Home, Lynne Sargent (Penumbric Magazine)
Little Poems: A Mystery Song, Virginia Carraway Stark (Polar Borealis Magazine #23)
Local Leopards, Leah Bobet (Qwerty Magazine)
Lonely, Jo McBride (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
Love and Amoebas, Frances Skene (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
Machine (r)Evolution, Colleen Anderson (Radon Journal #2)
making planetfall, Greg Fewer (Scifaikuest, xviii(4))
Man on the Moon, Shayne Dahl (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
Martian windmills spin, Greg Fewer (Scifaikuest, xviii(4))
monster mine mon monstre, Dominik Parisien (Tupelo Quarterly – Disability Folio)
Necklace, Carolyn Clink (Frost Zone Zine)
October Birds, Neile Graham (Polar Borealis Magazine #22)
Other Worlds Than These, Jamieson Wolf (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
Our Lady of Holy Death, Colleen Anderson (HWA Poetry Showcase IX)
Our Planets, James Grotkowski (Polar Borealis Magazine #23)
Paradiso: A Found Cyborg Poem, Tiffany Morris (Haven Speculative)
Paths, Frances Skene (Polar Borealis Magazine #22)
Pillar, Melanie Marttila (Polar Borealis 22)
Poltergeist, Rhonda Parrish (Star*Line)
Prey, Elina Taillon (Polar Starlight Magazine #7)
Primordial Hymn, Tracy Shepherd (Polar Borealis Magazine #23)
Rapunzel in the Desert, Melissa Yuan-Innes (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society- On Spec #122)
Regeneration/Collapse, Tiffany Morris (Under Her Skin: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection)
Remodel, Shannon K. Green (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
Run Run Renegade, Lisa Timpf (Radon Journal Issue 2)
Samson, Edwin Tam (Polar Borealis Magazine #23)
Shatter and Rise, C.S. MacCath (Shatter and Rise EP)
Smoke and Dusk, Jameson Grey (Polar Borealis #23)
Solution, Greg Fewer (Polar Borealis, #22)
Some Like It Hot, Robert Dawson (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
Song of the Exiles, Swati Chavda (On Spec Magazine)
Sonnet of the Two Princes in the Tower, Jessica Peter (The Minison Project Sonnet Collection Series, Volume 5)
Soul?, Robert Stevenson (Polar Borealis #21)
Space Rip, James Grotkowski (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
Sweet Morning Fog, Catherine Girczyc (Polar Borealis #21)
Swinging Gryphon, Gerald L. Truscott (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
Tasty, Greg Fewer (Polar Starlight, #7)
The Afghan, Rhonda Parrish (Polar Starlight #7)
The Cool Neighbours, Lisa Timpf (Polar Starlight Issue 6)
The Cryogenic Option, Sandra Hunter (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
The Dark, Karl Johanson (Polar Starlight Magazine #7)
The End of the Earth, Carolyn Clink (Polar Borealis #21)
The Flight of the Jonah, Mathias Kom and Ren Hutchings (Music single (song performed by The Burning Hell))
The Frightening Spirit, Heddy Johannesen (Polar Borealis #21)
The God of Gravity, Neile Graham (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
The God of the Ill Wind, Neile Graham (Polar Starlight Magazine #7)
The Gods of Old Homes and New, Neile Graham (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
The Lai of the Danse Macabre, Jessica Peter (Howls from the Dark Ages: Tales of Medieval Horror)
The New Knights, Lynne Sargent (The Sprawl Magazine)
The Price of Magic, Lynne Sargent (Quaranzine, Third Estate Art)
The Time Traveller’s Key, Bianca Anghel (Polar Borealis Magazine #22)
The Walking Man, Gerald L. Truscott (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
The Ways of Straw, Colleen Anderson (Polar Starlight, #7)
The Wolf of Your Passions, Lynne Sargent (Augur Magazine)
Then, What?, Shayne Dahl (Polar Borealis Magazine #22)
There will be a Short Prayer after the Ceremony, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
Thought I’d Fixed It, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
Three Herons, Geoffrey W. Cole (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)
We are Stardust, We are Golden, Jack Mackenzie (Polar Borealis Magazine #23)
What Awaits, Lisa Timpf (Polar Borealis Magazine #22)
What You’re Paying For, Lynne M MacLean (On Spec: Magazine, issue #119, vol 32(1))
Whisper Among the Trees, J.Y.T. Kennedy (Polar Borealis Magazine #23)
Yellow-Crested Night, Geoffrey W. Cole (Polar Starlight Magazine #5)

Best Related Work

5 Cases from the GGPD Files, Michèle Laframboise (Échofictions)
5 Hard and Crunchy SF Tales, Michèle Laframboise (Échofictions)
5 Hard and Hopeful SF Tales, Michèle Laframboise (Échofictions)
Benny the Antichrist and Other Stories, Scott Ellis (Fossil Cove Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba.)
Bestiarium Vocabulum, Brandon Crilly and Geoff Gander (Fat Goblin Games)
Buffalo Is the New Buffalo, Chelsea Vowel (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Chinese Cinderella, Fairy Godfathers & Beastly Beauty, Melissa Yuan-Innes (Windtree Press)
Dog vs. Aliens, Grandma Othello & Shaolin Monks in Space, Melissa Yuan-Innes (Windtree Press)
Drunk Slutty Elf and Other Stories, D.G. Valdron (Fossil Cove Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba.)
Elegies of Rotting Stars, Tiffany Morris (Nictating Books)
Escape to Fantasy with Elizabeth Whitton, Randy Lacey (Between the Lines, S1 E14 Podcast)
Flight From the Ages And Other Stories, Derek Künsken (Solaris)
Folklore & Fiction: Folklore Scholarship Meets the Storytelling Craft, Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran (Triskele Media Inc.)
Fusion Fragment #10-#14, Cavan Terrill (Fusion Fragment)
How to Take Over the World, Ryan North (Riverhead Books)
Howls from the Dark Ages, P.L. McMillan & Solomon Forse (Howl Society Press LLC)
I Dreamed a World, Colleen Anderson (Lycan Valley Press)
Imaginary Friends, Arlene F. Marks (Brain Lag)
Imaginings 25th Anniversary Collection, Julie E. Czerneda (Julie E. Czerneda)
Just Like Being There: A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories, Eric Choi (Springer Nature)
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu (Coach House Books)
Live Nude Aliens and Other Stories, JD DeLuzio (Brain Lag)
Management Lessons from Game o Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros, Fiona Moore (Edward Elgar)
Midnight Storm Moonless Sky, Alex Soop (UpRoute)
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Issue #0, Oliver Brackenbury (BrackenBooks)
Nothing Without Us Too, Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson (Renaissance)
Oikos Needs Cook, Margaret Sankey translated the original story by Genevieve Blouin (On Spec Magazine #119)
On Spec Magazine, Diane Walton and the On Spec Editorial Team (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)
Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, Andrea D. Lobel & Mark Shainblum (Ben Yehuda Press)
Palimpsest: A Collection of Contemporary Horror, Caitlin Marceau (Ghost Orchid Press)
Pirating Pups: Salty Sea-Dogs and Barking Buccaneers, Rhonda Parrish (Tyche Books Ltd.)
Prairie Witch, Stacey Kondla (Prairie Soul Press)
Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry, David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Shapers of Worlds Volume III, Edward Willett, Editor (Shadowpaw Press)
Spacefaring Civilization, Ron S. Friedman (Quora)
Strange Religion: Speculative Fiction of Spirituality, Belief, & Practice, Andy Dibble (TDotSpec)
Strange Wars: Speculative Fiction of Coalitions in Conflict, Don Miasek (TDotSpec)
Terrace V: Penitent’s Gold, Sarah L. Pratt and Robert Bose (The Seventh Terrace)
The Astronaut Always Rings Twice, Shannon Allen and JR Campbell (Tyche Books Ltd.)
The Belt and the Necklace, C.S. MacCath (Odyssey Theatre)
The Other Ones, Jamesie Fournier (Inhabit Media)
These Long Teeth of the Night collection, Alexander Zelenyj (Fourth Horseman Press)
Three Left Turns to Nowhere, Jeffrey Ricker, J. Marshall Freeman, ‘Nathan Burgoine (Bold Strokes Books)
TicTok Daily SF Videos, Robert J. Sawyer (Robert J. Sawyer -Ongoing Series of daily Science Fiction TicTok Videos)
Trenchcoats, Towers and Trolls: Cyberpunk Fairy Tales, Rhonda Parrish (World Weaver Press)
Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Sheree Renée Thomas, Pan Morigan (Canadian editor), Troy L. Wiggins (Third Man Books)
Weird Horror Magazine, Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
What Remains When The Stars Burn Out, P.L. McMillan (Salt Heart Press)
When the Sky Comes Looking for You, Chadwick Ginther (Ravenstone Books)

Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration

Allaigna’s Song Chorale, Melissa Mary Duncan (Pulp Literature)
Arboreality cover art, Rachel Yu Lobbenberg (Stelliform Press)
Birthday of the Unicorn, Marco Marin (TdotSpec)
Black Hole Radio – Ka’Azula, E.M. Roberts (DartFrog Books)
Black Tortoise Kowtows, Herman Lau (Pulp Literature, Issue 34, Spring)
Clockwork Raven, Kari-Ann Anderson (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society- On Spec)
Collector, Akem (Pulp Literature, Issue 35, Summer)
Dryads Kiss cover art, Kari-Ann Anderson (Polar Starlight #5)
Edgar, BOT, Lynne Taylor-Fahnestalk (photography by Steve Fanhestalk) (On Spec Magazine, Issue #122, Vol 32, no 4, page 67)
Gatekeeper’s Deception I – Deceiver, Krista Wallace/Brian Rathbone (Krista Wallace)
Gatekeeper’s Deception II – Deceived, Krista Wallace/Brian Rathbone (Krista Wallace)
Gothic Demon-Girl cover art, Lily Blaze (Polar Borealis Magazine #22)
Ground That Grows Roses, Nathan Frechette (Renaissance Press)
Henry 300, BOT, Lynne Taylor-Fahnestalk (photography by Steve Fanhestalk) (On Spec Magazine, Issue 120 Vol 32 No 2, Page 46)
Hills of Hindrance, Herman Lau (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society- On Spec)
Imaginings 25th Anniversary Collection, Roger Czerneda (Julie E. Czerneda)
Kawaii3, BOT, Lynne Taylor-Fahnestalk (photography by Steve Fanhestalk) (On Spec Magazine, Issue #119, Vol 32, no 1, page 63)
Klang, BOT, Lynne Taylor-Fahnestalk (photography by Steve Fanhestalk) (On Spec Magazine, Issue #121, Vol 32, no 3, page 12)
Lady Starlight, M.D. Jackson (Polar Borealis Magazine #21)
Live Nude Aliens and Other Stories, D. S. Barrick (Brain Lag)
Lizardry, Lily Blaze (Polar Starlight #7)
Moonwalk cover art, M.D. Jackson (Polar Borealis Magazine #23)
Prairie Witch, Maia Kondla Wolf (Prairie Soul Press)
Ray Gunn, Mel Anastasiou (Pulp Literature, Title Page, Issue 34, Spring,)
Remnant Faction cover art, Sam Leung (Faolan’s Pen Publishing)
Saturn Return, Tracy Shepherd (Polar Starlight Magazine #6)
Shadows of Slavery, Catherine Fitzsimmons (Brain Lag)
Space Cat, Bronwyn Schuster (Pulp Literature, Issue 33, Winter)
The Astronaut Always Rings Twice cover art, Kayla Kowalyk (Tyche Books Ltd.)
The Butterfly Witch, Melissa Mary Duncan (Pulp Literature, Issue 36, Autumn)
The House of Drought cover art, Rachel Yu Lobbenberg (Stelliform Press)
The Sisters Sputnik cover art, Andrew Presutto (ECW Press)
The World We Left Behind, Swati Chavda (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society-On Spec)
Weird Fishes, Julia Louise Pereira (Stelliform Press)

Best Fan Writing/Publication

Book Review: Deathspell (Ascendant #1), Greg Fewer (Greg Fewer)
Corpse Merchants, Greg Fewer (Greg Fewer)
Great Galloping Ghu, R. Graeme Cameron (Self-published)
James Nicoll Reviews, James Davis Nicoll (Self)
JenEric Movie Reviews, Éric Desmarais (JenEric Designs)
Multiple reviews of Canadian SpecFic books & Magazines Jan-Dec, R. Graeme Cameron (Amazing Stories Magazine (Steve Davidson))
Notes on Squeecore, Simon McNeil (Self-published)
Opuntia, issues 516-540, Dale Speirs (Self-published)
Polar Borealis Magazine #21 (May), #22 (July), #23 (Dec), R. Graeme Cameron (R. Graeme Cameron)
Polar Starlight Magazine #5 (Mar), #6 (Jun), #7 (Dec), Rhea E. Rose (R. Graeme Cameron)
SideTrekked, issues 65 and 66, Mark C. Ambrogio & Stephanie Hanna (editors) (Self-published)
The Obdurate Eye #15 – 22, Garth Spencer (Self-published)
The Travelling TARDIS, Jennifer Desmarais (JenEric Designs)
WARP #111-112, Danny Sichel (MONSFFA)
Young People Read Old SFF, James Davis Nicoll (Self)

Best Fan Related Work

Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Alan Weiss and Ames Geddes (York University)
Augurcon 2022, Terese Mason Pierre and Kerry C. Byrne (AUGUR Magazine)
Author Chats, A.E. Prevost, organizer (Argo Bookshop, Montreal)
Bag of Giving, Brandon Crilly & Michael R Underwood (ArvanEleron (Twitch stream))
Can*Con, Derek Kunsken, Marie Bilodeau Co-Chairs (Fan Festival)
ephemera Reading Series, KT Bryski and Jen R. Albert (The ephemera Collective)
FilKONtario 2022, Sally Headford, chair (Fan convention)
Hal-Con, fan convention in Halifax (Fleurette Benoit (chair))
Keycon, literary con in Winnipeg (Linda Thorlakson)
Programming as Art (with example of the art) page 7, Hendrick Boom (WARP issue 112)
Sci and Sci-Fi, Ron S. Friedman (YouTube)
Sci-Fi on the Rock 2022, fan convention in St John’s (N/A)
Scintillation, Jo Walton (literary con in Montreal)
The Worldshapers Podcast, Edward Willett (Edward Willett)
Two Old Farts Talk Sci-Fi, David Clink & Troy Harkin (Two Old Farts Talk Sci-Fi)
When Words Collide, Randy McCharles, chairperson (Fan festival)