Eligibility Lists

These are the current eligibility lists for 2025 works.

Best Novel

  • A Confluence of Obsidian, Lydia M. Hawke (Michem Publishing) [Info]
  • A Most Puzzling Murder, Bianca Marais (MIRA Books) [Info]
  • A Shift of Time, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW Books) [Info]
  • A Song to Drown the World, Rowena Spring (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing) [Info]
  • A Tale of Two Fates, Julia Lauzon (Julia Lauzon) [Info]
  • A Tangle of Obsidian, Lydia M. Hawke (Michem Publishing) [Info]
  • A Web of Obsidian, Lydia M. Hawke (Michem Publishing) [Info]
  • Barnaby’s Luck, Al Onia (Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing) [Info]
  • Beltane Curse, Tracy Cooper-Posey (Stories Rule Press) [Info]
  • Black Annis Year, Kim McDougall (WrongTree Press) [Info]
  • Black Corrosion, Costi Gurgu (Kult Books) [Info]
  • Blight, Rachel A. Rosen (The BumblePuppy Press) [Info]
  • Breaking Point, Tracy Cooper-Posey (Stories Rule Press) [Info]
  • Castoff, Brandon Crilly (Atthis Arts, LLC) [Info]
  • Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World, Mark Waddell (Ace) [Info]
  • Dark Circuitry, Kirk Bueckert (Dark Matter Ink) [Info]
  • Darkest at Dusk, Eve Silver (Independently Published) [Info]
  • Dawn of the Firebird, Sarah Mughal Rana (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.) [Info]
  • Death at a Wedding, Marc Watson (Fluky Fiction) [Info]
  • Direct Descendant, Tanya Huff (DAW) [Info]
  • Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, Heather Fawcett (Random House Worlds) [Info]
  • Five Points on an Invisible Line, Su J Sokol (Flame Arrow Publishing) [Info]
  • Gods of a New World, Ryan Melsom (Shadowpaw Press) [Info]
  • Hope of the Wasteland, Matt Watts (Donovan Street Press Inc.) [Info]
  • Julius Julius, Aurora Stewart de Peña (Strange Light) [Info]
  • Juniper Wiles Does Not Want to Be Queen, Charles de Lint (Triskell Press) [Info]
  • Ladder to Heaven, Katie Welch (Wolsak & Wynn) [Info]
  • Mero and the City of Ghosts, Jesse McMinn (IFWG Publishing International) [Info]
  • Mother of God, Sara Peters (McClelland & Stewart) [Info]
  • My Ex, the Antichrist, Craig DiLouie (Run For It) [Info]
  • Other Evolutions, Rebecca Hirsch Garcia (ECW Press) [Info]
  • Picks and Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Tor Books) [Info]
  • Remains to be Seen, Arlene F. Marks (Brain Lag) [Info]
  • Seventhblade, Tonia Laird (ECW Press) [Info]
  • Shatter Dark: A Satire of the Post-Apocalypse, R. Graeme Cameron (Celticfrog Publishing) [Info]
  • Silversong, Rhonda Parrish (Poise and Pen Publishing) [Info]
  • Solar Whisper, Cameron Cooper (Stories Rule Press) [Info]
  • Squad 13, DG Valdron (Fossil Cove Press) [Info]
  • Strangers at the Red Door, Dennis Bock (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.) [Info]
  • Sylvalight, Taylen Carver (Stories Rule Press) [Info]
  • Terminal Solstice, Sean Minogue (Turnstone Press) [Info]
  • The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Random House Worlds) [Info]
  • The Book of Records, Madeleine Thien (Knopf Canada) [Info]
  • The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine, Robert J. Sawyer (Audible Originals) [Info]
  • The Dragon Next Door, Vanessa Ricci-Thode (Vanessa Ricci-Thode) [Info]
  • The Faces We Forgot, Chandan Singh (Dr.) (Independently Published) [Info]
  • The First Sin, Cheyenne Brammah (Cheyenne Brammah) [Info]
  • The Grail and Glory, Tracy Cooper-Posey (Stories Rule Press) [Info]
  • The Guest Children, Patrick Tarr (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.) [Info]
  • The Haunting of Paynes Hollow, Kelley Armstrong (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) [Info]
  • The Hunger We Pass Down, Jen Sookfong Lee (Erewhon Books) [Info]
  • The Last Boy on Earth, West Ambrose (Rebel Satori) [Info]
  • The Longest Night, Lauren Carter (Freehand Books) [Info]
  • The Lost Art of Finding Where You Belong, Ellie Ash (Ellie Ash) [Info]
  • The Lost Art of Life Magic, Ellie Ash (Ellie Ash) [Info]
  • The Lost Art of Revealing Hidden Truths, Ellie Ash (Ellie Ash) [Info]
  • The Lost Art of Seducing a Mage Warrior, Ellie Ash (Ellie Ash) [Info]
  • The Lost Art of Woodworking and Taking Risks, Ellie Ash (Ellie Ash) [Info]
  • The Malevolent Eight, Sebastien De Castell (Arcadia Books) [Info]
  • The Midnight Project, Christy Climenhage (Wolsak & Wynn) [Info]
  • The Moon the Sun Forgot, B.J. Wagner (Mythic Roads Press) [Info]
  • The Stragori Deception, Arlene F. Marks (Brain Lag) [Info]
  • The Trial of Katterfelto, Michael Redhill (Knopf Canada) [Info]
  • The Witch of Willow Sound, Vanessa F. Penney (ECW Press) [Info]
  • The Wonder Lands War, Peter Darbyshire (Wolsak & Wynn) [Info]
  • These Memories Do Not Belong to Us, Yiming Ma (McClelland & Stewart) [Info]
  • Veal, Mackenzie Nolan (ECW Press) [Info]
  • We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine, Deni Ellis Béchard (House of Anansi) [Info]
  • Where the Axe is Buried, Ray Nayler (MCD) [Info]
  • Who Nuked Silicon Valley?, Mike Donoghue (MPD Press) [Info]
  • Wild Life, Amanda Leduc (Random House Canada) [Info]
  • Wolf, Moon, Dog, Thomas Wharton (Random House Canada) [Info]
  • World’s Sundered, James W. Lackie (FriesenPress) [Info]
  • Written on the Dark, Guy Gavriel kay (Viking) [Info]
  • Yalum, Matthew Hughes (Matthew Hughes) [Info]

Best YA Novel

  • A Lion’s Head, D.M. De Alwis (Ahasae Tharu Publications) [Info]
  • A Mastery of Monsters, Liselle Sambury (Margaret K. McElderry Books) [Info]
  • A Riddle of Thorns, Sarena Nanua & Sasha Nanua (Candlewick Press) [Info]
  • Among Ghosts, Rachel Hartman (Tundra Book Group) [Info]
  • Avatar Legends: City of Echos, Judy I Lin (Harry N. Abrams) [Info]
  • Bad in the Blood, Matteo L. Cerilli (Tundra) [Info]
  • Best of All Worlds, Kenneth Oppel (Tundra Book Group) [Info]
  • Blood Letters, Ariel Gordon & GMB Chomichuk (Great Plains Publications) [Info]
  • Breath of the Dragon, Shannon Lee & Fonda Lee (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) [Info]
  • Cheat Code, M.J. McIssac (Orca Books) [Info]
  • Danica dela Torre, Dream Detective, Mikaela Lucido (Annick Press) [Info]
  • Fireboy, Edward Willett (Shadowpaw Press) [Info]
  • Goblin Girl, K.A. Mielke (K.A. Mielke) [Info]
  • Hope of the Wasteland, Matt Watts (Donovan Street Press) [Info]
  • Life, Death, and Expiration Dates, Michelle Hair (Teal Sunset Press) [Info]
  • Meet Me at Blue Hour, Sarah Suk (Quill Tree Books) [Info]
  • Minotaur, Jamieson Wolf (Rebel Satori Press) [Info]
  • Noetic Gravity, R. P. Gage (R. P. Gage) [Info]
  • Not Today, Satan, Samantha Joyce (Entangled: Teen) [Info]
  • One Morning Sun, Avi Silver (Molewhale Press) [Info]
  • Prophecy, M.L. Fergus (Tundra Book Group) [Info]
  • Rebel Witch, Kristen Ciccarelli (Wednesday Books) [Info]
  • Robot Island, Cary Fagan (Tundra Books) [Info]
  • Roots & Rubble, Kalleigh Royn (Kalleigh Royn) [Info]
  • Sky on Fire, E.K. Johnston (Dutton Books for Young Readers) [Info]
  • Something’s Up with Arlo, Matteo L. Cerilli (HarperCollins Canada) [Info]
  • Songs for Ghosts, Clara Kumagai (Tundra Book Group) [Info]
  • Spirit Service, Sarena Nanua & Sasha Nanua (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) [Info]
  • Stealing From Wizards: Arson, Ryan Consell (Ryan Consell) [Info]
  • Steel & Spellfire, Laura E. Weymouth (Margaret K. McElderry Books) [Info]
  • The Afterdark, E. Latimer (Tundra) [Info]
  • The Copper Tarnish, Éric Desmarais (River City Siren Press) [Info]
  • The Enemy’s Daughter, Melissa Poett (Quill Tree Books) [Info]
  • The Forest King’s Daughter, Elly Blake (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) [Info]
  • The Great Dinosaur Sleepover, Linda Bailey, illustrated by Joe Bluhm (Tundra Books) [Info]
  • The Little Ghost Quilt’s Winter Surprise, Riel Nason, illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler (Tundra Books) [Info]
  • The Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall, Charis Cotter (Tundra Books) [Info]
  • The Others, Cheryl Isaacs (Heartdrum) [Info]
  • The Vanished Kingdom: The War of the Maps, Jonathan Auxier (Puffin Canada) [Info]
  • The Whisperings, Joel A. Sutherland (Tundra Books) [Info]
  • The World’s End, David A. Robertson (Tundra) [Info]
  • Titan of the Stars, E.K. Johnston (Tundra Books) [Info]
  • To Steal from Thieves, M.K. Lobb (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) [Info]
  • Turn to Burn, Michael F. Stewart (Renaissance Press) [Info]
  • Vampire Jam Sandwich, Casey Lyall, illustrated by Nici Gregory (Tundra Books) [Info]
  • Winging It, Jen Desmarais (Renaissance Press) [Info]

Best Novelette/Novella

  • A Covenant of Ice, Karin Lowachee (Solaris) [Info]
  • A Palace Near the Wind, Ai Jiang (Titan Books) [Info]
  • A Planet Full of Sorrows, M. L. Clark (Clarkesworld) [Info]
  • After the Suns Go Down, P.A. Cornell (The Growers: Best of New Myths vol. V) [Info]
  • Blood Ties, RD Rivers (RD Rivers) [Info]
  • Blood Upon the Wind, Nora Gibson (Nora Gibson) [Info]
  • Contrition: An Isekai, André Alexis (McClelland & Stewart) [Info]
  • Heart of Thunder, Raahem Alvi (Clarkesworld) [Info]
  • In the Gardener’s Service, Michèle Laframboise (Asimov’s) [Info]
  • In The Seam Between Both Worlds, Corinne Lewandowski (Self-published) [Info]
  • In the Splinterlands the Crows Fly Blind, Siobhan Carroll (Asimov’s) [Info]
  • Interconnections and Porous Boundaries, Lance Robinson (Analog Science Fiction & Fact) [Info]
  • Last Train from Deadwall, André Geleynse (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) [Info]
  • Most Things, Rich Larson (Asimov’s) [Info]
  • No Love Lost, Jane Glatt (Tyche Books Ltd.) [Info]
  • No One To Hold the Distant Dead, K.L. Schroeder (Psychopomp) [Info]
  • Olive and the Dragon, Victoria Goddard (Underhill Books) [Info]
  • One Step Away, Lance Robinson (Analog Science Fiction & Fact) [Info]
  • Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens, Lynn Hutchinson Lee (Stelliform Press) [Info]
  • Quiet Like Fire, Cameron Cooper (Stories Rule Press) [Info]
  • Savage Daughters of the Secret Isle, J. Patricia Anderson (Root of the World Publishing) [Info]
  • Sky Devil and The Haunted Air, R. Overwater, GMB Chomichuk (Stranger Fiction) [Info]
  • Surveillance Camera 22, T.R. Fletcher (T.R. Fletcher) [Info]
  • Thaumaturgic Tapas, Tao Wong (Starlit Publishing) [Info]
  • The Angel Azrael Visits the Trading Post at the End of the World a Final Time, Peter Darbyshire (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) [Info]
  • The Desert Talon, Karin Lowachee (Solaris) [Info]
  • The Drowned Man’s Daughter, C. J. Lavigne (NeWest Press) [Info]
  • The First Thousand Trees, Premee Mohamed (ECW Press) [Info]
  • The Hole, Ferenc Samsa (Clarkesworld) [Info]
  • The Lure of Stone, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Uncanny Magazine) [Info]
  • The River Has Roots, Amal el-Mohtar (Tordotcom) [Info]
  • The Sack of Burley Cottage, Rich Larson (Reactor) [Info]
  • The Scarlet Thread Irregulars, Éric Desmarais (JenEric Designs) [Info]
  • The Sun & The Moon, RD Rivers (RD Rivers) [Info]
  • The Twenty-One Second God, Peter Watts (Lightspeed Magazine) [Info]
  • The Weight of What is Hollow, Premee Mohamed (Psy­chopomp) [Info]
  • Wolf Moon, Antler Moon, A. C. Wise (Reactor) [Info]

Best Short Fiction

  • A Bird in the House, Rebecca Hirsch Garcia (PRISM International) [Info]
  • A Bothy Among the Stars, M. J. Pettit (Nature) [Info]
  • A Dunce of Dodoes, Gregg Chamberlain (Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things) [Info]
  • A Mouth Full of Stones, Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran (The Daily Tomorrow) [Info]
  • A Pinch of Salt, Lorina Stephens (Masque & Maelström Volume 1: The Reluctant Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe (JayHenge Publishing)) [Info]
  • A Puppet to His Thoughts, Lorina Stephens (Hauntings & Hoarfrost (ed., Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • A Realm Alive After Dusk, Ai Jiang (The Map of Lost Places (Apex Book Company)) [Info]
  • A Species Called Hope, Ai Jiang (Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers) [Info]
  • A White Day Comes, A.D. Sui (Fusion Fragment #26) [Info]
  • After Ever, Happily, Elis Montgomery (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • After the Rain, P.A. Cornell (Escape Pod) [Info]
  • All That Came From Our Lips Were Lilies, Shantell Powell (Hedone Books) [Info]
  • All That Glitters, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm (Starship Librarians (eds., Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • All Thumbs, Lisa Timpf (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • An Ear for Magic, Esi Aboagye (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • An Even Greater Cold to Come, Rich Larson (Clarkesworld Magazine) [Info]
  • An Obligation of Obols, Lorina Stephens (Behind the Revolving Door, an Anthology of Choices #1 (Celestial Echo Press)) [Info]
  • An Unsparing Harvest, Stefani Cooke (On Spec #133 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Ancestration, Michael F. Stewart (Red Deer Press) [Info]
  • And I Will Read to You About Butterflies, P.A. Cornell (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Apeldoorn, Tanya Huff (Combat Monsters: Untold Tales of World War II (Blackstone Publishing)) [Info]
  • Aphrodite’s Promise, Melody E. McIntyre (Flame Tree Press) [Info]
  • Archived, Lesley Moody (Starship Librarians (eds., Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • Baba Yaga and the Bear, Gregg Chamberlain (Pulp Literature 45) [Info]
  • Barnaby’s Deceit, Al Onia (Heroic Fantasy Quarterly) [Info]
  • Beachside Sundays, Ash Wahking (Augur Magazine Issue 8.1) [Info]
  • Before the Flood, Shantell Powell (The Storms Issue 4) [Info]
  • Between the Heavens and the Embers, Shannon Allen (Tyche Books Ltd.) [Info]
  • Bigfoot on the Move, Carolyn Clink (Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters, Middle West Press) [Info]
  • Billionaire’s Tears, Vanessa Ricci-Thode (Escape Pod) [Info]
  • Bloodtaster, Adria Laycraft (Hauntings & Hoarfrost (ed., Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • Cape Town, Rich Larson (Spring in the City: A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction) [Info]
  • ChatGPT user delighted to combine sloth with theft, James Davis Nicoll (The Beaverton) [Info]
  • Chew, Chew, Chew, Z. M. Asafzah (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Children of Mitzvah, Su J Sokol (After the Storm Magazine) [Info]
  • Chlorophilia, Mike Thorn and Miriam Richer (Augur Magazine Issue 8.3) [Info]
  • Come Crow Come Death, Madeleine Pelletier (Uncharted Magazine) [Info]
  • Come Help Me, William Kitcher (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • Concurrence, Heather Campbell (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • Counterbalanced, Corinne Lewandowski (Corinne Lewandowski (Fantasy Tales Collection)) [Info]
  • Crickets in Lost Light, Jonathan Olfert (Lightspeed) [Info]
  • Crumbling Of the Sandwich Generation, K.A. Wiggins (Factor Four Magazine) [Info]
  • Cupid 2.0, Brad C. Anderson (Shapers of Worlds Volume V) [Info]
  • Dark River, Brent Nichols (Hauntings & Hoarfrost (ed., Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • Diorama, Don DeBrandt (Polar Borealis Magazine #32) [Info]
  • Efficiencies, Corinne Lewandowski (Corinne Lewandowski (Fantasy Tales Collection)) [Info]
  • Eris, Glenn Willmott (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Falling Forever, p.a. cornell (Factor Four) [Info]
  • Fifth Book from the Sun, R. Overwater (Starship Librarians (eds., Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • Flutterbies, Corinne Lewandowski (Corinne Lewandowski (Fantasy Tales Collection)) [Info]
  • Flying Carpet, Michèle Laframboise (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • For All Love is Prayer, Lynne Sargent (Chaotic Cupids: When Love Goes Awry) [Info]
  • For the Rectitude of Our Intentions, Stephen Kotowych (Intergalactic Rejects (Calendar of Fools)) [Info]
  • For the Seer, Who Sees in the Snow, Sarah Van Goethem (Hauntings & Hoarfrost (ed., Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • Forest Dark, P.L. Stuart (Shapers of Worlds Volume V: Science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers) [Info]
  • Forever Bound, KT Wagner (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Four Elements of the Affair, Britt Gillman (Augur Magazine Issue 8.2) [Info]
  • Freosan, Konn Lavery (Hauntings & Hoarfrost (ed., Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • Fruiting Body, Alex McGilvery (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • Fury Be My Goddess, June Orchid Parker (New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6) [Info]
  • Galina, Carol B. Duncan (Tales & Feathers Volume 3) [Info]
  • Geosapiology: a brief history of geogenesis, the Stones, and the Theory of Appeasement, K.A. Wiggins (The Daily Tomorrow) [Info]
  • Good Bones, Chandra Fisher (Graveside Press) [Info]
  • Gothic Heroine, Pixelated, KT Wagner (Bizarro Circus of Madness anthology, Riley Odell) [Info]
  • Grey Scale, Hayden Trenholm (Shapers of Worlds V, Shadowpaw Press) [Info]
  • Halli Reid, Love You Like Crazy (Supernatural Parables – Into Darkness, Dead Birds Publishing) [Info]
  • Hard as a Mirror of Cast Bronze, Grigory Lukin (Bullet Points #11) [Info]
  • Harvest Special, Jen Desmarais (River City Siren Press) [Info]
  • Haunted House on the Prairie, EC Dorgan (Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: An Anthology of Haunting Tales from Canada) [Info]
  • Her Shadow, Nailed to the Floor, A. C. Wise (Three-Lobed Burning Eye) [Info]
  • Hera’s Bargain, Cat Girczyc (Polar Borealis Magazine) [Info]
  • Here-and-Now-and-Then, Jonathan Olfert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) [Info]
  • Hex Triplet #00F00, Laura Chilibeck (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Highway 1, Past Hope, Maria Haskins (The Deadlands) [Info]
  • Hobo Queen, KT Wagner (Briar & Thorn Issue, The Fairy Tale Magazine) [Info]
  • Hold Us in the Light, A. C. Wise (Night / Day (Saga Press)) [Info]
  • Home Grown, Madeleine Vigneron (Clarkesworld Magazine) [Info]
  • Home on the Range, Linda Bloodworth (Supernatural Parables – Into Darkness, Dead Birds Publishing) [Info]
  • Home to Roost, Holly Schofield (Black Cat Weekly) [Info]
  • house, quartz. home, Kelsey Hutton (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society-On Spec VOL 35 No 1) [Info]
  • How Grey was my Valley, M. J. Pettit (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • How I Saved the World (and lost my job), Ira Nayman (Black Cat Weekly) [Info]
  • Hunted To Extinction, Premee Mohamed (Gallery Books) [Info]
  • I Ain’t Your Doll Face, Jacqueline Thorpe (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • I am Snowman, Éric Desmarais (River City Siren Press) [Info]
  • I Was Made For Loving You, Angela James (Flash Fiction Online) [Info]
  • Ice Lamp, EC Dorgan (Hauntings & Hoarfrost (ed., Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • If Time Travel Were Possible…, Grigory Lukin (Black Cat Weekly #193) [Info]
  • If You Listen, Shantell Powell (Terrain.org) [Info]
  • Imaginary Monsters, Madeleine Pelletier (Comma Press) [Info]
  • Immortal, Jim Robb (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • In Luck’s Panoply Clad, I Stand, Phoebe Barton (Clarkesworld Magazine) [Info]
  • Inscription, JR Campbell (Starship Librarians (eds., Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • Is There Anyone Out There?, Rhonda Parrish and E.C. Bell (Starship Librarians (eds., Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • Island, Emma Russell-Trione (Fusion Fragment #26) [Info]
  • Just Drive, Matthew D. Del Papa (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • Katabasis, Joanna Rifkin (On Spec) [Info]
  • Keep The Devil Down, Rio Youers (Gallery Books) [Info]
  • Kissing, Brain Parasites, and a (Mild) Nuclear Explosion, J. Needham (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Lady Affra’s Curse, Marie Bilodeau (Smoke and Mirrors (Daw Books)) [Info]
  • Landline, Kelly Robson (Reactor Magazine) [Info]
  • Last Vacation of a Termite, Michele Laframboise (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Les Guériseurs, Jonathan Simmons (On Spec #133 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Leto’s Demons, Colleen Anderson (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Librarian’s Assistant, Robert Lauderdale (Starship Librarians (eds., Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • Lies As the Natural State of Things, Rich Larson (Apex Magazine) [Info]
  • Lincoln, You—, Joel Buxton (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • Little Bag of Wind, Danica Klewchuk (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society On Spec VOL 35 No 1) [Info]
  • Lost You Again, Ian Rogers (The Dark (Prime Books)) [Info]
  • Love Bites, Colleen Anderson (gavagai.com) [Info]
  • Love, An Act of Terraforming, Lynne Sargent (This Exquisite Topology) [Info]
  • Love’s Lacuna, Mark A. Rayner (The Gates of Polished Horn Donovan Street) [Info]
  • Luna Awoken, Isobel Cunningham (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • Mabel’s Creek, Rhonda Parrish and M.L.D. Curelas (On Spec Magazine) [Info]
  • Made to Be Broken, Kari Maaren (The Orange & Bee) [Info]
  • Mars fans anticipate trading only known habitable planet for world where any unprotected human would immediately perish, James Davis Nicoll (The Beaverton) [Info]
  • Mavka, A.D. Sui (Pseudopod) [Info]
  • Memories Are Only Valuable If They Can Be Lost, Ai Jiang (Clarkesworld Magazine) [Info]
  • Men with Tails, Rati Mehrotra (Uncanny Magazine) [Info]
  • Merriment, Cat Girczyc (Amazing Stories Magazine) [Info]
  • Mile Roads, Chadwick Ginther (Hauntings & Hoarfrost (ed., Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • Moist Breath of a Cold Stranger, KT Wagner (Flash Fiction Online) [Info]
  • Montréal, Su J Sokol and D.F. McCourt (Spring in the City: A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction, Ruadán Books) [Info]
  • More Things in Heaven, R.H. Wesley (Incensepunk Magazine) [Info]
  • Most Likely to … (Class of 1997), A. C. Wise (The Dark (Prime Books)) [Info]
  • Mother Tree’s Idols, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga (Augur Magazine Issue 8.2) [Info]
  • Mr. Palomar Goes to Space, Hayden Trenholm (Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact) [Info]
  • Murder in the Clavist Autonomous Zone, Rich Larson (Strange Horizons) [Info]
  • Murder of the Orient Express, Grigory Lukin (Pulp Asylum #7) [Info]
  • Murgatroyd and the AI, Robert Runte (Lintusen Press) [Info]
  • Murgatroyd and the Clerk, Robert Runte (Lintusen Press) [Info]
  • My flesh, my beating heart, a willing meal that refuses to remember the danger of being eaten, Deanna J. Valdez (Flash Fiction Online) [Info]
  • Need For Space, Marie Labrousse (translation to English by Margaret Sankey) (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Night Gallery, John Sloan (Polar Borealis Magazine #32) [Info]
  • Night Shift With the Demon Drive, Jarrett Poole (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Ninnagan Says Remember, Jonathan Olfert (Lightspeed Magazine) [Info]
  • Not With A Splash But a Gurgle, KT Wagner (Fractured Reveries anthology, Storied Imaginarium) [Info]
  • Of Blood and Pomegranates, Saad Omar Khan (Augur Magazine Issue 8.2) [Info]
  • Of Flowers and Snails, Allie Leigh (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Of Seagrass Fins and Slippery Fingers, A.J. Van Belle (Augur Magazine Issue 8.2) [Info]
  • Oh Oh Oh, Ken Deeprose (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • Oil and Water, Holly Schofield (Vivid Worlds) [Info]
  • On Fields of Purple Grass, Ian Li (Augur) [Info]
  • On the Rainy Side of the Mountain They Grow Columbine, Nightshade, and Stinging Nettle, KT Wagner (Hell Itself) [Info]
  • Once Upon the Crossing of Mars, D.A. Straith (Fusion Fragment #26) [Info]
  • One Hand Washes the Other, Karl El-Koura (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Orders, Grace Seybold (Augur Magazine Issue 8.1) [Info]
  • Pagan Poetry, Oliver Brackenbury (New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6) [Info]
  • Patchwork Boy, J.S. Brevik (Crow & Cross Keys) [Info]
  • Payment is Commensurate, Elizabeth Smith (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Penny Dreadful, Lorina Stephens (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society- On Spec VOL 35 No 2) [Info]
  • Pig Lion, Leo Oliveira (Fusion Fragment #26) [Info]
  • Plants, Fungus, and Zombies!, Éric Desmarais (River City Siren Press) [Info]
  • Pod People, rich larson (Intergalactic Rejects (Calendar of Fools)) [Info]
  • Portraits, in Sepia and Umber, D. Thomas Minton and Annette Bowman (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • Poured from the Stars, Ian Li (Saros SF #2) [Info]
  • Powerhouse, K.A. Wiggins (THE KINDREAD COAST (Black Cat Books)) [Info]
  • Québec, Lorina Stephens (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Queen of the Sword, Fiona Heath (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Quid est Veritas?, Edward Willett (Shapers of Worlds Volume V: Science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers) [Info]
  • Ranger of the Sea (from Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain), Cait Gordon (Dinsdale Press) [Info]
  • Ransom and the Giant, Robert Runte (Big Smoke Pulp, Vol 1. (Pesto Comics)) [Info]
  • Red God Waiting, Ai Jiang (The Rack II: More Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks) [Info]
  • Rent-A-Joe, A.D. Sui (Saros SF #1) [Info]
  • Replacement Wanted, Premee Mohamed (Cosmic Horror Monthly #59) [Info]
  • Ribbons, Elis Montgomery (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Right to Kill, S.F.Parker (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • Rituals, Mark Hill (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • Rocky Mountain Gothic, Ev Datsyk (Augur Magazine Issue 8.3) [Info]
  • Ron, Howard, Cindy Phan (Baffling Magazine) [Info]
  • Roots of the Storm, Taylen Carver (Stories Rule Press) [Info]
  • Sabertongue, Jonathan Olfert (A Book of Blades Volume 3 anthology, Rogues in the House Presents) [Info]
  • Safe Passage, Melody E. McIntyre (Inkd Publishing) [Info]
  • Schism, Kiernan Livingstone (Flash Fiction Online) [Info]
  • Scores and Scars Forever, Glenn Mori (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • Seedlings, Al Onia (Analog Science Fiction) [Info]
  • Serving Celebrity, Mark A. Rayner (The Gates of Polished Horn Donovan Street) [Info]
  • Seven For a Secret, Chris Patrick Carolan (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Shadows Below Seaway Trains, Ai Jiang (Apex Magazine) [Info]
  • Sick, A. C. Wise (Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts) [Info]
  • Skinny Legs, Pauline Barmby (Utopia Science Fiction) [Info]
  • Slay the Princess, Save the Dragon, A. C. Wise (Titan Books) [Info]
  • Snow Day, Jen Desmarais (River City Siren Press) [Info]
  • Snow, Stars, Stone, Ariel Marken Jack (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • So Many Things to See, p.a. cornell (Trollbreath Magazine) [Info]
  • Socratic Insanity, Mark A. Rayner (The Gates of Polished Horn, Donovan Street) [Info]
  • Some Are Rather Quiet and Some are Really Loud, Kristopher Galbraith (On Spec #133 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Someone to Dream With, Eli K.P. William (Shapers of Worlds Volume V: Science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers) [Info]
  • Songs Never Sung, Premee Mohamed (Three-Lobed Burning Eye) [Info]
  • Steward of the Stars, Rhea E. Rose (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • Strange Children of the Sour Gas, EC Dorgan (Augur) [Info]
  • Synapses, Jennifer Rahn (Starship Librarians (eds., Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • System Impermanence, Mark A. Rayner (The Gates of Polished Horn, Donovan Street) [Info]
  • Tapetum Lucidum, Ugochi M. Agoawike (Augur Magazine Issue 8.3) [Info]
  • Tetrominos and Seekers, Trisha Jenn Loehr (Starship Librarians (eds., Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • That Changing Prairie Light, EC Dorgan (Reckoning) [Info]
  • The Adventure of the Flightless Ornithopter, M.L.D. Curelas (Brave New Girls : Tales of Girls who Invent and Imagine) [Info]
  • The Bag of Holding, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm (On Spec #133 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • The Billy Goat’s Bluff, Stephen Kotowych (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • The Bones of Heroes, Chadwick Ginther (Shapers of Worlds Volume V: Science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers) [Info]
  • The Care and Feeding of Your Void, Lynne Sargent (Myriad: Nocturnal) [Info]
  • The Challenge Unit, Hugh A.D. Spencer (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society- On Spec VOL 35 No 1) [Info]
  • The Colour of Longing, Leo Oliveira (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • The Cost of Living, Jen Cornick (Marrow Magazine) [Info]
  • The Dam, R.H. Wesley (Polymorphic Magazine) [Info]
  • The Department of Destiny, David E. Burga (Polar Borealis Magazine #32) [Info]
  • The Dragon She Didn’t Want, Adrian Croft (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • The Epitaph of Antigone, Fatima Shafiq (Augur Magazine Issue 8.1) [Info]
  • The Event Horizon of Honey, Braydon Beaulieu (Augur Magazine Issue 8.2) [Info]
  • The Expert, Jen frankel (Bullet Points) [Info]
  • The Fall that Dreams of Summer, Lynne Sargent (Unseen Agreements:A Speculative Fiction Anthology) [Info]
  • The Fish of Cart Lake, Monique Cuillerier (Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: An Anthology of Haunting Tales from Canada) [Info]
  • The Fishwife Who Killed Death, D.A. Straith (On Spec #132) [Info]
  • The Futility of Warning You, P. A. Cornell (Factor Four) [Info]
  • The Future is Ours, Manley Fisher (Polar Borealis #35) [Info]
  • The Ghost in the Casement, Robert Runte (Horrific Scribblings) [Info]
  • The Gift, Ruth E. Walker (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • The Girl With Candy-floss Pink Hair, Geoffrey Hart (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • The Good Life and the Gaze of Staivash, Jonathan Olfert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) [Info]
  • The Guelph Gryphon, K.A. Mielke (Dark Canadiana, Iron Fang Press) [Info]
  • The Happiness of Ozymandias, Jean-Louis Trudel (Polar Borealis #32) [Info]
  • The Heartbreaker’s Apprentice, Catherine George (Flash Fiction Online) [Info]
  • The Heaven That Tastes Like Hell, Ai Jiang (silk and sinew (bad hand books)) [Info]
  • The Homework Assignment, Mark David Campbell (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • The Honesty Boutique, Shana Ross (Metastellar) [Info]
  • The Honey Harvest, Tiffany Morris (Cursed Morsels Press) [Info]
  • The Humming of Tamed Dragons, A.M. Dellamonica (Asimov’s Science Fiction) [Info]
  • The Infective, Shantell Powell (Flying Body Press) [Info]
  • The Infinity Effect, Mark A. Rayner (The Gates of Polished Horn, Donovan Street) [Info]
  • The Itch of Guilt, Lynne Sargent (Gavagai Magazine) [Info]
  • The Knife that Makes the Cut, Lynne Sargent (Artifice and Access) [Info]
  • The Knotted Hand, Jonathan Olfert (On Spec #132) [Info]
  • The Last Chance Locksmith, Niall Spain (Tales & Feathers) [Info]
  • The Last Human, Steve Gold (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • The Last Lunar New Year, Derek Kunsken (Clarkesworld Magazine) [Info]
  • The Last Woman from Earth, D.G. Valdron (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • The Liberties, Timothy Quinn (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society- On Spec VOL 35 No 1) [Info]
  • The Library of the Apocalypse, Rati Mehrotra (Clarkesworld Magazine) [Info]
  • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Teleporter, M. J. Pettit (Flash Fiction Online) [Info]
  • the love song of house and lake, Gillian Secord (On Spec #133 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • The Maiden of the Serpent Moon, Premee Mohamed (New Edge Sword & Sorcery #5) [Info]
  • The Matchmaker, Devan Erno (Polar Borealis Magazine #32) [Info]
  • The Memory Technician, Ian Li (Small Wonders) [Info]
  • The Monster Hunter, Gregg Chamberlain (Supernatural Parables – Into Darkness, Dead Birds Publishing) [Info]
  • The Neon Dread of Leaves, Tiffany Morris (Cursed Morsels Press) [Info]
  • The New Shape of Care, Lynne Sargent (Analog) [Info]
  • The Night House, Gemma Files (Night / Day (Saga Press)) [Info]
  • The Permission is all Mine, Melissa Ren (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • The Puzzles of Everdome, Éric Desmarais (JenEric Designs) [Info]
  • The Qalupalik, Shantell Powell (Flash Fiction Online) [Info]
  • The Real Life Adventures of Awesome Girl, Gregg Chamberlain (Where Legends Walk: Oddity Prodigy Publications) [Info]
  • The Red Hourglass, Tiffany Morris (Brigid’s Gate Press) [Info]
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Fertilized, J.W. Schnarr (Starship Librarians (eds., Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • The Robot Dad Thread, JYT Kennedy (Polar Borealis #34) [Info]
  • The Room Where We Hid, Derwin Mak (Brain Lag) [Info]
  • The Sea, Like Glass, Ainsley Hawthorn (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society -On Spec VOL 35 No 1) [Info]
  • The Second Maud, Cat Girczyc (Sally Port Magazine) [Info]
  • The Serene Hospice of the Sisterhood of Baba Yaga, Lorina Stephens (On Spec #133 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • The Space Between Us, P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed Magazine) [Info]
  • The Space Librarian’s Code, Lisa Timpf (Starship Librarians (eds., Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • The Steady March of Progress, Andrea Bernard (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • The Stone Played at Tengen, R.H. Wesley (Clarkesworld Magazine) [Info]
  • The Stopover, Douglas Smith (Merganser Magazine) [Info]
  • The SUmmer of ’99 and How I Died, Éric Desmarais (JenEric Designs) [Info]
  • The Superposition of Ramen, Jed Looker (On Spec #133 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • The Swarm’s Creation, Thomas Harrison (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • The Tale of How You Were Born, Eleanor Elizabeth Fog (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) [Info]
  • The Teleporting Disaster Fairy, Rati Mehrotra (Uncanny Magazine) [Info]
  • The Thunder Boy, Cathy Smith (Augur Magazine Issue 8.2) [Info]
  • The True Tale of Yehawellon Son of Serpents, Saltwater Be my Blood and Cedarwood my Skin, Steve Hugh Westenra (New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6) [Info]
  • The Tupilaq, Shantell Powell (Kinsman Avenue Publishing, Inc.) [Info]
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  • The Wanderer and the Wight, Kevin Weir (Hauntings & Hoarfrost (ed., Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books Ltd.)) [Info]
  • The Windkeeper, Simo Srinivas (Tales & Feathers Volume 3) [Info]
  • The Years Between The Stars, Al Onia (On Spec V35N3) [Info]
  • There Be Monsters, Suzan Palumbo (The Sunday Morning Transport) [Info]
  • Thinking of You, Mary Sanche (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society -On Spec VOL 35 No 2) [Info]
  • This Ambiguous Miracle, Mark A. Rayner (The Gates of Polished Horn, Donovan Street) [Info]
  • Through the Machine, P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed Magazine) [Info]
  • Time-Share, Geoffrey Hart (Polar Borealis Magazine #32) [Info]
  • Title IX, Derryl Murphy (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • To Fly or Not to Fly, Grigory Lukin (Where Legends Walk (Oddity Prodigy Productions)) [Info]
  • To Navigate the Night, Rich Larson (Lightspeed Magazine) [Info]
  • Tornado Seeds, Chadwick Ginther (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society- On Spec VOL 35 No 1) [Info]
  • Twelve Things that Will Occur Immediately Following Your Invention of Teleportation, p.a. cornell (Factor Four) [Info]
  • Twisted Roots, in the anthology Fractured Reveries—A Storied Imaginarium Salon, Leslie Wibberley (Storied Imaginarium Books) [Info]
  • Two Bikes, One Red, One Silver, A.D. Sui (The Sunday Morning Transport) [Info]
  • Two Voices, One Song, David Jon Fuller (On Spec #133 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Unbeaten, Grace Seybold (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) [Info]
  • Under the Skin, T.R. Steele (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Underwater Fireflies, Christy Climenhage (F(r)iction OCEANS 24, Summer) [Info]
  • Us, in Another Universe, A. C. Wise (Lightspeed Magazine) [Info]
  • Vancouver, Maria Haskins (Spring in the City: A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction (Ruadan Books)) [Info]
  • Victim Impact Statement, Catherine Austen (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Waking Up, D.G. Valdron (On Spec #134 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • We Dwell in Its Many-Chambered Heart, A. C. Wise (Weird Horror Magazine) [Info]
  • Wedding on Southern Comfort, Derwin Mak (Brain Lag) [Info]
  • Welcome to Spruceway, Brianne Battye (Augur Magazine Issue 8.1) [Info]
  • Werewolf Girl Swallows the Moon, A. C. Wise (Howl: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror (Black Spot Books)) [Info]
  • What If We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire’s Yacht?, Rachel A. Rosen (Not a Pipe Publishing) [Info]
  • What They Don’t Tell You, Mackensie Baker (Tyche Books Ltd.) [Info]
  • What to Do When A Demon is Talking Shit at You, Cindy Phan (Inner Worlds) [Info]
  • What’s Mine, Lulu Kadhim (Augur Magazine Issue 8.2) [Info]
  • When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears, John Park (On Spec #133 (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)) [Info]
  • Where the Slugs Go, Max Olesen (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • White Crane and Red Fox, Chezza Lee (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • White Smoke from the West, J. Y. Zhang (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Witchful Thinking, Sebastien de Castell and Kristi Charish (Chaotic Cupids: When Love Goes Awry, WordFire Press) [Info]
  • With Child, KT Wagner (Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror, Renaissance Press) [Info]
  • Within Dead Branches, Andy W. Taylor (Nature: Futures) [Info]
  • Worm Song, Derek Kunsken (asimov’s science fiction) [Info]
  • You are Now Breathing Manually, Rich Larson (Polar Borealis Magazine #32) [Info]
  • You’ll Be Home For Christmas, Colleen Anderson (Kozy Krampus (Underland Press)) [Info]
  • Zugunruhe, KT Wagner (Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Essential Dreams Press) [Info]

Best Graphic Novel/Comic

  • Altered States: Purgatori Grindhouse, Ray Fawkes (Dynamite Comics) [Info]
  • Astronautical!, Brooklin Stormie (Annick Press) [Info]
  • Atana and the Jade Mermaid, Vivian Zhou (HarperCollins) [Info]
  • Avengers Academy #29-60, Anthony Oliveira (Marvel Comics) [Info]
  • Big City Buns (Fluffle Bunnies, Book #2), Anna Humphrey, illustrated by Irma Kniivila (Tundra Books) [Info]
  • Blood and Motor Oil, Allison Danger (Wayside Creative) [Info]
  • Blood Letters, Ariel Gordon (Great Plains Press) [Info]
  • Blue Palo Verde, Ray Fawkes (Mad Cave Studios) [Info]
  • Bonds of the Forest, Ally R Coltoff (Augur Magazine Issue 8.3) [Info]
  • Captain America #1-6, Chip Zdarsky (Marvel) [Info]
  • Conan the Barbarian: Scourge of the Serpent (FCBD 2025), Jim Zub (Titan Comics) [Info]
  • Cult of the Lamb: Schism Special, Troy Little (Oni Press) [Info]
  • Cursed at Sea, Nancy Zhang ((self-published)) [Info]
  • Doctor Awesome Woman, Ann Pirvu and Christopher Giroux (Vortex Comics) [Info]
  • Everything Dead and Dying #1-4, Tate Brombal (Image) [Info]
  • Forward, Mason “Tailsteak” Williams (webcomic) [Info]
  • Free Piano (Not Haunted), Whitney Gardner (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) [Info]
  • Future Me is Fat, Mollie Cronin (Conundrum Press) [Info]
  • Galactic, Curt Pires (DSTLRY) [Info]
  • Goblins, Ellipsis Hana Stevens (webcomic) [Info]
  • Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer, Kris Bertin and Alex Forbes (Oni Press) [Info]
  • Holy Lacrimony, Michael DeForge (Drawn and Quarterly) [Info]
  • It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (webcomic) [Info]
  • Krypto: Last Dog of Krypton #1-6, Ryan North (DC Comics) [Info]
  • Life: The Necropolis – Six Doomwrecked Knights, Everything Dead and Dying #1-4, Nick Kilie, Tate Brombal (webcomic, Image) [Info]
  • Lost Fantasy volume 1, Curt Pires (Image) [Info]
  • Minor Arcana vol. 1, Jeff Lemire (Boom! Studios) [Info]
  • Minor Arcana vol. 2, Jeff Lemire (Boom! Studios) [Info]
  • Moon Patrol, GMB Chomichuk (Stranger Fiction) [Info]
  • Mordecai Crow: Blood and Fire, Bill Slavin (Renegade Arts Entertainment) [Info]
  • Murderbird! My love!, Jillian Fleck (webcomic) [Info]
  • My Sister the Werebeast, Alina Tysoe (Macmillan) [Info]
  • Not-So-Sweetie Pie (Weenie Featuring Frank and Beans Book #3), Maureen Fergus, illustrated by Alexandra Bye (Tundra Books) [Info]
  • One World Under Doom, Ryan North (Marvel Comics) [Info]
  • Orphan and the Five Beasts: Bath of Blood, James Stokoe (Dark Horse Comics) [Info]
  • Phantom Road #11-15, Jeff Lemire (Image) [Info]
  • Pluto Rocket: Full Blast! (Pluto Rocket #3), Paul Gilligan (Tundra Books) [Info]
  • Pluto Rocket: Over the Moon (Pluto Rocket #4), Paul Gilligan (Tundra Books) [Info]
  • Prairie Gods volume 1, Shane Connery Volk (Mad Cave Studios) [Info]
  • Precious Metal: From the World of Little Bird, Darcy Van Poelgeest (Image) [Info]
  • Questionable Content, Jeph Jacques (webcomic) [Info]
  • Quiet Crossings, Vivi Partridge (Conundrum Press) [Info]
  • Resilient, George Michail (Renegade Arts Entertainment) [Info]
  • Romeo vs Juliet, Anthony del Col (Gemstone Publishing) [Info]
  • Shark Girl, Kate Beaton (Quill and Quire) [Info]
  • Skinbreaker, David Finch (Image) [Info]
  • Soul Machine, Jordana Globerman (Annick Press) [Info]
  • Super Business! (Simon and Chester Book #6), Cale Atkinson (Tundra Books) [Info]
  • The Last Witch: Blood and Betrayal, Conor McCreery (Boom! Studios) [Info]
  • The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Children of the Night, Tate Brombal (Dark Horse Comics) [Info]
  • The Thing vs the Marvel Universe, Ryan North (Marvel Comics) [Info]
  • Thistle Grimoire, GMB Chomichuk (Stranger Fiction) [Info]
  • Three Thieves Volume 2: The Sign of the Black Rock, Scott Chantler (‎ Papercutz) [Info]
  • Three Thieves: the Captive Prince, Scott Chantler (Papercutz) [Info]
  • Time Waits, Chip Zdarsky (DSTLRY) [Info]
  • White House Robot Romance #1-4, Chip Zdarsky (DSTLRY) [Info]
  • Wychwood, Ally Rom Colthoff (webcomic) [Info]
  • X-Men: Age of Revelation #0, Jed MacKay (Marvel Comics) [Info]
  • Zeroed Out, Jim Munroe (At Bay Press) [Info]

Best Poem/Song

  • 3044, Spencer Keene (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • 618 Days in Longsleep, Mahaila Smith (Strange Horizons) [Info]
  • A Parallel Universe, Irena Nikolova (Polar Starlight Magazine #20) [Info]
  • A Taste of Clean Water, Ian Li (Small Wonders) [Info]
  • A Vegetal Greed, Colleen Anderson (Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins) [Info]
  • Adrift, James Grotkowski (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • Aliens, Carolyn Clink (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • Apples Rolling Out of Time, Lene MacLeod (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • At the Spaceport Bar, Lisa Timpf (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • Between Bonobos and Circuits, Rhea Rose (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • Bigfoot Farewell, Carolyn Clink (Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters) [Info]
  • Biologists say it will take at least a generation for the river to recover (Klamath River hymn), Leah Bobet (Reckoning, 9) [Info]
  • Blueberry, Jade Riordan (Augur Magazine Issue 8.3) [Info]
  • Breathless Blue, Rhea E. Rose (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • Bunch Crossing, Lynne Sargent (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • Choices in the Multiverse, Lundy Nicklen (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • Climate Change Response, Greg Fewer (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • Colony World Tanka, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • Comatose Cthulhu, Heath Bleau (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • Cosmic Rave, Malaya Barroso (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • De Rigueur Mortis, Aaron Grierson (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • Deer Migration, Irena Nikolova (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • Descent, Colleen Anderson (Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins) [Info]
  • Detritivore, Binoy Zuzarte (Augur Magazine Issue 8.2) [Info]
  • Deviance, Melissa Yi (Polar Borealis Magazine #32) [Info]
  • Dragon Karaoke, David Clink (Polar Starlight, April 2025, Issue #18) [Info]
  • Early Space Travel, Greg Fewer (Polar Borealis #32) [Info]
  • Elegy with Transformation Myth, Sarah Hilton (Augur Magazine Issue 8.1) [Info]
  • Elven Forest Meets Climate Apocalypse, Lynne Sargent (Eye to the Telescope: Plants) [Info]
  • Empty Sky, Guy Immega (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • Epistolary Monsters, Sandra Kasturi (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • Escritoire for Wraiths, West Ambrose (Necksnap Magazine) [Info]
  • Eugenics in the Modern Era, Colleen Anderson (HWA Poetry Showcase XII) [Info]
  • Explosive, Derek Newman-sStille (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • Faded Flower, Colleen Anderson (Polar Borealis 35) [Info]
  • Fait Accompli, Heath Bleau (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • Familial Astrodynamics: A Dizain, Lynne Sargent (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • Fast Radio Burst, Guy Immega (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • festive lights blinking, Greg Fewer (Sublimation, 2.1 (January/February)) [Info]
  • Filial Filet, J. Y. Zhang (The /t3mz/ Review Issue 31) [Info]
  • Final Fare, Colleen Anderson (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • finally happy, Colleen Anderson (Amazing Stories) [Info]
  • Flame Weeding, equisetum arvense, Colleen Coco Collins (Augur Magazine Issue 8.3) [Info]
  • Flighty, Ian Li (Kaleidotrope) [Info]
  • Flowered Wallpaper Follows You Everywhere, David Clink (Star*Line) [Info]
  • flowers without meadow, Tiffany Morris (Eye to the Telescope #56) [Info]
  • fog swirling, Greg Fewer (Sublimation, 2.1 (January/February)) [Info]
  • For Each of Us is a Thing Upon Which the World Rests, Lynne Sargent (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • For Godzilla, Qurat Dar (Augur Magazine Issue 8.2) [Info]
  • Forever Between Galaxies, Rebecca Franklyn (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • Forgive Me, Rhonda Parrish and Beth Cato (Dreams and Nightmares) [Info]
  • Forgotten Language, Colleen Anderson (Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins) [Info]
  • From Dust, J. Y. Zhang (Small Wonders) [Info]
  • Garden Variety Problem, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • Godiva, Colleen Anderson (Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins) [Info]
  • Gorgon, Colleen Anderson (Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins) [Info]
  • grotto, Leah Duarte (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Haunt Me Not, Lene MacLeod (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • Hex Supply Customer Support Log, Elis Montgomery (Strange Horizons) [Info]
  • Honey in the End Times, Shantell Powell (ALOCASIA) [Info]
  • Hope, Greg Fewer (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • Horrorku Suite, Marion Lougheed (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • Hotel for the Dead, Ian Li (Orion’s Belt) [Info]
  • How I Am Here, Jesse Keith Butler (On Spec Vol 35 No 2, #132) [Info]
  • How to Care for your Baby Dragon Just After it Got Spayed, David Clink (Polar Starlight, April 2025, Issue #18) [Info]
  • Humanity’s Darkest Hits, Renee Cronley (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • Humpty Dumpty, Elizabeth Creith (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • Hunters Haven, Colleen Anderson (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • I have been to the market, Shana Ross (Kaleidotrope Autumn 2025) [Info]
  • icy wind and snow, Greg Fewer (Sublimation, 2.1 (January/February)) [Info]
  • If gender is a performance, then all the world’s a stage. Either we should get season tickets, or go on a whim, Jonathan Michael Bessette (Augur Magazine Issue 8.1) [Info]
  • If You Could Look in the Witch’s Window, Lynne Sargent (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • In Star Dust, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • Interpreters of Water, Ian Li (Utopia Science Fiction) [Info]
  • Interstellar Catalog: Death Penalty, Shana Ross (Small Wonders issue 24) [Info]
  • Interstellar Catalogue: Fog, Shana Ross (This Exquisite Topology, Angry Gable Press) [Info]
  • Intrepid, Spencer Keene (Polar Borealis Magazine #32) [Info]
  • John Keats 2.0, West Ambrose (Utopia Science Fiction) [Info]
  • Just Another Love Story, Renee Cronley (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • Last Breath, Masha Riumina (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • Leaves, Colleen Anderson (Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins) [Info]
  • Letter from Distant Star to the Earth, Jesse Holth (Augur Magazine Issue 8.1) [Info]
  • Life Abides, Hayden Trenholm (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • Life Number Ten, Donald B. Campbell (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • lightning-lit undead, Greg Fewer (Scifaikuest, xxii(3)) [Info]
  • Losing it, Candas Jane Dorsey (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • Lost Words, Sheryl Normandeau (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • Malediction, Neile Graham (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • Microscopic Fungi, or the Yeastlings, Marion Lougheed (Polar Borealis Magazine #32) [Info]
  • Mission Failure, Greg Fewer (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • Moon Rising, Colleen Anderson (Absythe Spring 2025) [Info]
  • Morning in the Garden of Fear, Candas Jane Dorsey (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • Morning; 37°, Jonathan Olfert (Eye to the Telescope #58) [Info]
  • Morsels, Colleen Anderson (Penumbric 2k25) [Info]
  • My Ancestors were Sorcerers, Marion Lougheed (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • My Skin is Slipping, Thaddeus Cramer (On Spec #134) [Info]
  • My Song, My Dance, Reneecronley (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • Needs of the Many, Colleen Anderson (Newmyths.com #72) [Info]
  • Never Hurry the Sky, Derek Newman-Stille (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • Night at the Strip Bar, Colleen Anderson (Starline 48.4) [Info]
  • No One Gets Out Alive, Colleen Anderson (Quest Magazine #1) [Info]
  • Not Quite, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • not tied down, Ian Li (Strange Horizons) [Info]
  • Nuliajuk and the Birds, Shantell Powell (Strange Horizons) [Info]
  • Observer Effect, Morgan Cross (Augur Magazine Issue 8.3) [Info]
  • Observer Effect, Heath Bleau (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • Offal Offering, Heath Bleau (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • Ogress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman), Shana Ross (Strange Horizons) [Info]
  • Old Brooklyn Magic, Ian Li (Nightmare Magazine) [Info]
  • On the Devil’s Wings, Lori Green (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • On Time We Have Spent, Holly Easton (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • One Slice at a Time, Rebecca Franklyn (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • Packlist, James Grotkowski (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • Paper Knife, Neile Graham (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • Perhaps, James Grotkowski (Polar Borealis Magazine #32) [Info]
  • Phi Nang Lum, PW Jarungpiterah (Augur Magazine Issue 8.1) [Info]
  • Photon, Heath Bleau (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • Pocket Dimension, Melani Marttila (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • prayers in zero gravity, Lesley Hart Gunn (Amazing Stories) [Info]
  • Press Releases for Late Cretaceous Predators, Sandra Kasturi (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • Pulp Literature, Carolyn Clink (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • Pulse, James Grotkowski (Polar Borealis Magazine #32) [Info]
  • raging storm, Greg Fewer (Star*Line #48.4) [Info]
  • Rat-a-tat-tat Biofeedback, SheLa Nefertiti Morrison (On Spec, VOL 35 No 2, Issue 132) [Info]
  • Red Cliff, Eva Haas (Augur Magazine Issue 8.2) [Info]
  • Red-Coded and Weary, Lesley Hart Gunn (Uncanny Magazine) [Info]
  • Removed, Shantell Powell (Bloodletter: Trans Voices in Horror) [Info]
  • Resolution, Kellee Kranendonk (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • S.O.S., Gregg Chamberlain (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • saguaro, at sunset, Tiffany Morris (Alocasia issue 14) [Info]
  • Saturn and I, Kelley Tai (Utopia Science Fiction) [Info]
  • Scavenger Trip, Greg Fewer (Scifaikuest, xxii(3)) [Info]
  • Sedna, Colleen Anderson (Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins) [Info]
  • Shear, Colleen Anderson (Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins) [Info]
  • Shedding, Colleen Anderson (Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins) [Info]
  • Sleep Paralysis, Corrina Mae (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • Solar Affair, C.A. Rose (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • Some Shining Earth, Dianthe West (Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon) [Info]
  • Sonnet 116, Melissa Yi (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • Stairs of the Disappeared, Lene MacLeod (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • Star-Clad and Howling, Rhonda Parrish and Beth Cato (Not One of Us) [Info]
  • Stillborn, Shantell Powell (Nightmare Magazine) [Info]
  • Sun Rose, Mahaila Smith (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • Tapestry, Derek Newman-Stille (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • Tempestuous, Colleen Anderson (The Orange and Bee) [Info]
  • The Alien, Ivanka Fear (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • The Ballad of the Phantom and the Wraith, Jen Desmarais (Winging It) [Info]
  • The Big Crunch, Guy Immega (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • The Big One, Guy Immega (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • The Day of the First MarsLanding, Lisa Timpf (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • The Earth Needs Trees and I Need You, Ian Li (On Spec #134) [Info]
  • The End of a Cycle, Renee Cronley (Hauntings & Hoarfrost, Tyche Books Ltd.) [Info]
  • The Fiend, Aidrick Comtois (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • The Goddess of Curiosities, Neile Graham (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • The Goddess of What Isn’t There, Neile Graham (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • The Great Divide, Meryem Yildiz (Augur Magazine Issue 8.3) [Info]
  • The Inner Life of Objects, David Clink (Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters) [Info]
  • The Irony of Death, Rebecca Franklyn (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • The King in Yellow, Colleen Anderson (Weird Fiction Quarterly) [Info]
  • The Legend of Isolde, Lisa Cai (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • The Love We Send, Jean-Louis Trudel (Polar Borealis) [Info]
  • The Lowest Kind of Fable, Lynne Sargent (Just Keep Up) [Info]
  • The Machinery of Plants, Sandra Kasturi (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • The Minotaur’s Tale, Colleen Anderson (On Spec, Issue #131) [Info]
  • The Ohio Grassman, David Clink (Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters) [Info]
  • The Point of Measurement, Lynne Sargent (Baubles from Bones) [Info]
  • The Princess and the Sack of Peas, KT Wagner (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • The Return, William Kingsley (Polar Borealis Magazine #32) [Info]
  • The Seeds of Kwah, Karen Bingley (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • The Selkie, Shantell Powell (Gwyllion Magazine, issue 10) [Info]
  • The Throne of Prejudice, Michèle Laframboise (Polar Borealis Magazine #34) [Info]
  • The Weavers, Colleen Anderson (Newmyths.com #73) [Info]
  • Time Frame, Jameson Grey (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • To His Koi Mistress, Colleen Anderson (On Spec Vol. 133 no. 4) [Info]
  • Tower, Colleen Anderson (Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins) [Info]
  • Tree, Colleen Anderson (Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins) [Info]
  • Twinkle, Twinkle, Lisa Timpf (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • Typhoid Harry, Dave Cherniak (On Spec, VOL 35 No 2, Issue 132) [Info]
  • Uncertainty, Ian Li (Brilliant Poetry) [Info]
  • Underneath This Surface, Mahaila Smith (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • Unnatural Eyes, Guy Immega (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • unrepeat: an incantation, Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal (Augur Magazine Issue 8.2) [Info]
  • Weave, Colleen Anderson (Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins) [Info]
  • Well-woven, Lynne Sargent (On Spec, Issue #132) [Info]
  • Whalesong, Colleen Anderson (This Exquisite Topology) [Info]
  • What the Baby God Made, Pam Martin (Polar Starlight #19) [Info]
  • Why I don’t Swim at the Cottage Anymore, Chris Clemens (Polar Borealis Magazine #33) [Info]
  • Winning the Sky, Michèle Laframboise (Polar Starlight #20) [Info]
  • Wisconsin Giants Emerging, Darkness, David Clink (Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters) [Info]
  • Wisdom of the Ages, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]

Best Related Work

  • A Primer to Gemma Files, Gemma Files (Dark Moon Books) [Info]
  • A Song for Wildcats: Stories, Caitlin Galway (Dundurn Press) [Info]
  • All the Broken Blades, Y. M. Pang (Myriad Flames) [Info]
  • Amazing Stories: Best of 2024, Lloyd Penney, editor (Steve Davidson, Experimenter Publishing Company) [Info]
  • As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre (House of Anansi Press) [Info]
  • Augur Magazine, Issues 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3, Kerry C. Byrne, Sonia Urlando, et al (Augur Society) [Info]
  • Bright Weaving, Martin Springett (Martin Springett) [Info]
  • Cats and Dogs in Space, Lisa Timpf (Hiraeth Publishing) [Info]
  • Changelog: Collected Fiction, Rich Larson (Fairwood Press) [Info]
  • Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror, Dianna Gunn (Renaissance Press) [Info]
  • Connections! The Unexpected First Collection, Jen and Éric Desmarais (River City Siren Press) [Info]
  • Fantasy Tales: A collection of fractured figments, nosey deities, and battles against the dark, Corinne Lewandowski (Corinne Lewandowski) [Info]
  • Fusion Fragment #24-#26, ed. Cavan Terrill (Fusion Fragment) [Info]
  • Hauntings & Hoarfrost, Rhonda Parrish (Tyche Books Ltd.) [Info]
  • Heartlines Spec, Issue 7-9, Rebecca Bennett (managing editor) (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Hexagon Magazine Issue 20/Spring 2025, JW Stebner (Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine) [Info]
  • James Davis Nicoll Reactor Articles, James Davis Nicoll (Reactor Magazine) [Info]
  • Little Horn: Stories, Gemma Files (Shortwave Media) [Info]
  • Murder Chickens on Mars: And Other Curious and Exotic Speculations, DG Valdron (Fossil Cove Press) [Info]
  • Myth, Terese Mason Pierre (House of Anansi Press) [Info]
  • Neo-Opsis #29, Karl and Stephanie Johanson (Neo-Opsis) [Info]
  • New Edge Sword & Sorcery #5–#7, Oliver Brackenbury (editor) (Brackenbury Books) [Info]
  • Oberon’s Bathtime Stories, Kevin Hearne (Horned Lark press) [Info]
  • On Spec Magazine, Issues #131 – 134, Vol 35, Diane Walton (The Copper Pig Society) [Info]
  • One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp) [Info]
  • Other Worlds: Stories, André Alexis (McClelland & Stewart) [Info]
  • Princess Nai and Other Stories, Jamal Saeed (ECW Press) [Info]
  • Seed Beetle, Mahaila Smith (Stelliform Press) [Info]
  • Shapers of Worlds Volume V, Edward Willett, Editor (Shadowpaw Press) [Info]
  • Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain, Cait Gordon (Dinsdale Press) [Info]
  • Starship Librarians, Shannon Allen and JR Campbell (Tyche Books Ltd.) [Info]
  • The Gates of Polished Horn, Mark A. Rayner (Donovan Street Press Inc.) [Info]
  • The Kindread Coast, Caroline Lavoie & Monique Riel (Black Cat Books) [Info]
  • The Other Shore, Rebecca Campbell (Stelliform Press) [Info]
  • The Scrolls of Bishop Eubulus, and Other Stories, Rebecca Bradley (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing) [Info]
  • Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins, Colleen Anderson (Poetry collection, Stephanie Wytovich editor) (Raw Dog Screaming Press) [Info]
  • XY-Girls and More Stories, Derwin Mak (Brain Lag) [Info]
  • Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Volume 2, JW Stebner (Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine) [Info]
  • Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych (ed.) (Ansible Press) [Info]

Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration

  • A Lion’s Head, D. Corlosquet (Ahasae Tharu Publishing) [Info]
  • A Song of Legends Lost, Jeff Brown (Orbit) [Info]
  • As the Echo Rises, Allie Preswick (Rising Moon Creatives) [Info]
  • Back Alley Bots, Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk and Steve Fahnestalk (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society- On Spec VOL 35 No 3) [Info]
  • Blood Letters, GMB Chomichuk (Great Plains Publications) [Info]
  • Bright Weaving, Martin Springett (Self Published) [Info]
  • Cracked Earth, Lily Blaze (Polar Starlight Magazine #20) [Info]
  • Crow Witch, Witch Knight: Corpse of the Ancient God Cover & Interior Illustrations, Tracy Shepherd, GMB Chomichuk (Polar Starlight Magazine #19, Stranger Fiction) [Info]
  • Dancing With the Holly King, Janice Blaine (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society On Spec VOL 35 No 4 Issue #134) [Info]
  • Depths of Vanalf, Jeff Brown (Lightfire Publishing) [Info]
  • Fear Files: Hide and Seek, Mathais Ball (Walker Books Ltd) [Info]
  • Firebird, Jeff Brown (Tor Publishing Group) [Info]
  • Fusion Fragment #25 Cover Art, Nickolej Villiger (Fusion Fragment) [Info]
  • Gods, Mark David Campbell (Polar Starlight Magazine #17) [Info]
  • Heartlines Spec, Issue 7, Alice M (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Heartlines Spec, Issue 8, Alice M (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Heartlines Spec, Issue 9, Alice M (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Hexagon Magazine Issue 20 Cover Art, Elaine M. Will (Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine) [Info]
  • Lunar Base, Dan O’Driscoll (On Spec #132) [Info]
  • Never Ever After, Maxine Vee (Hodderscape) [Info]
  • Other Evolutions, Elizabeth Ranger (ECW Press) [Info]
  • Patchwork Man, Derek Newman-Stille (Polar Starlight #18) [Info]
  • Pirates in Peril, Tim Hammell (On Spec VOL 35 No 1, Issue 131) [Info]
  • POLAR BOREALIS #33 – March 2025, Mark David Campbell (R. Graeme Cameron) [Info]
  • Saga #72, Fiona Staples (Image Comics) [Info]
  • Seed Beetle, Julia Louise Pereira (Stelliform Press) [Info]
  • Sensory, Robert Pasternak (Polar Borealis Magazine #35) [Info]
  • Shapers of Worlds Volume V (interior illustrations), Wendi Nordell (Shadowpaw Press) [Info]
  • Sky Devil and the Haunted Air, GMB Chomichuk (Stranger Fiction) [Info]
  • Star Goddess, Derek Newman-Stille (Polar Borealis #34) [Info]
  • Starship Librarians, Lorna Antoniazzi (Tyche Books Ltd.) [Info]
  • The Blackfire Blade, Jeff Brown (Tor Books) [Info]
  • The Dragon Wakes with Thunder, Mathais Ball (Penguin Random House Canada) [Info]
  • The First Thousand Trees, Veronica Park (ECW Press) [Info]
  • The Other Shore, Kerry Pagdin (Stelliform Press) [Info]
  • The Sapphire Heart, Jeff Brown (Three Scribes) [Info]
  • The Shadows of Stars, Jeff Brown (Starlight Fantasy Publishing LLC) [Info]
  • The Storm Beneath the Glass, Jeff Brown (Gatestone Publishing) [Info]
  • The Sun & The Moon, Lyra Logan (RD Rivers) [Info]
  • Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Six, Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe (Uncanny Magazine) [Info]
  • Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Two, Maxine Vee (Uncanny Magazine) [Info]
  • Wild Life, Emma Dolan (Random House Canada) [Info]
  • Witch Knight: Corpse of the Ancient God Cover & Interior Illustrations, GMB Chomichuk (Stranger Fiction) [Info]
  • Wooing the Witch Queen, Mike Pape (Bramble) [Info]

Best Fan Writing/Publication

  • A Note on Republishing Microfiction, Greg Fewer (Greg Fewer) [Info]
  • Amazing Stories online columns, Steve Fahnestalk (Amazing Stories) [Info]
  • James Nicoll Reviews, James Davis Nicoll (James Nicoll Reviews) [Info]
  • JenEric Movie Reviews, Éric Desmarais (JenEric Designs) [Info]
  • Polar Starlight Magazine issues #17,18,19 & 20, Rhea E. Rose (R. Graeme Cameron) [Info]
  • See You After Dark (When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder), Laura DeHaan (Heartlines Spec) [Info]
  • Speculative Poetry and the Hugos, Lynne Sargent (Strange Horizons) [Info]
  • The Travelling TARDIS, Jen Desmarais (JenEric Designs) [Info]
  • WARP #115-116, Danny Sichel (MONSFFA) [Info]
  • Young People Read Old Science Fiction, James Davis Nicoll (James Nicoll Reviews) [Info]

Best Fan Related Work

  • Can*Con, Marie Bilodeau (Chair) (Rocket Words Society) [Info]
  • Keycon 41, Amanda Brant & Willow Skylor (n/a) [Info]
  • murmurstations, Sonia Urlando (Augur Society, podcast) [Info]
  • Prairie Comics Festival, S.M. Beiko (Artistic Director) and the Prairie Comics Festival Organizing Board (Prairie Comics Festival) [Info]
  • Re-Creative: Christopher Sweet and Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, Joe Mahoney and Mark A. Rayner (Donovan Street Press Inc. in association with MonkeyJoy Press) [Info]
  • Scintillation, Jo Walton / Rene Walling (n/a) [Info]
  • SFF Addicts Podcast, Adrian M. Gibson, M.J. Kuhn & Greta Kelly (Adrian M. Gibson) [Info]
  • Super Pulp Science Podcast, GMB Chomichuk & Justin Currie (GMB Chomichuk & Justin Currie) [Info]
  • The Worldshapers Podcast, Edward Willett (Edward Willett) [Info]
  • Transformations CD, Jane Garthson with Phil Mills (Jane Garthson) [Info]
  • Two Old Farts Talk Sci-Fi, Troy Harkin and David Clink (Troy Harkin and David Clink) [Info]
  • Wizards & Spaceships, Rachel A. Rosen & David L. Clink (Night Beats) [Info]
  • Writing the Wrong Way, Jonathan Ball (Stranger Fiction) [Info]
  • Youth Imagine the Future–a Festival of Writing and Art, Jerri Jerreat (Executive Director) and Nikki Alward (Managing Director) (Youth Imagine the Future–a Festival of Writing and Art) [Info]