Recommending Other Work for the Hugos

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March 16, 2026

Here are some recommendations for Hugo Award nominations other than (but including) me. Please consider them for your nominations. This, BTW, is not all of my recommendations. This is just the set I have written down now. Nominations will close on Saturday, March 28, 2026 at 9:00am Pacific Time / 12:00pm Eastern Time / 4:00pm GMT.

Best Novel: Overgrowth by Mira Grant. This was the best book I read in 2025. No doubt about it.

Best Novella: Sauúti novella “Descent” by Wole Talabi, Clarksworld, Issue 224.

Best Novelette: “Songs for Obsidian” by Rosemary Claire Smith, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 437.

Best Series: October Daye by Seanan McGuire, Silver and Lead. (I had to. You know I did. I’ve been rereading this series from the beginning and it is SO good.)

Best Fancast: If This Goes On (Don’t Panic) https://itgodp.wordpress.com/

Best Fancast: The Skiffy and Fanty Show https://skiffyandfanty.com/podcasts/skiffyandfanty/

Best Related Work: “Mining the Genre Asteroid: Author Jo Clayton” by Trish Matson, Skiffy and Fanty.

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Sinners, Proximity Media.

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: K-Pop Demon Hunters, Sony Pictures Animation.

Best Game or Interactive Work: Hades II, Supergiant Games.

Best Editor, Short Form: John Joseph Adams.

Best Editor, Short Form: Jennifer Brozek.

Best Editor, Short Form: John Helfers.

Best Editor, Short Form: Henry L Herz.

Best Editor, Long Form: Lee Harris, Tor.

Best Editor, Long Form: Diana Pho, Erewhon.

Best Semiprozine: Augment magazine (get the first issue for free). (This is me, John Helfers, Kathleen Hardy)

Best Semiprozine: Flash Fiction Online magazine.

Best Semiprozine: On Spec magazine.

Best Fan Writer: Trish Matson, Her eligibility post.

Best Fan Artist: Terri Ash, The Cowl of SMOFdom, Her eligibility post.

Best Fan Artist: Raven Oak, Westside Oracle Cover Art, Her artwork.

Best Poem: “I Was Lt. Uhura” by January Gill O’Neil, Poetry Magazine.

Best Poem: “Trogdor Walks into a Scout Meeting” by Jennessa Hester, Strange Horizons.

Best Poem: “Watching Migrations” by Kevan Bowes, Strange Horizons.

Best Poem: “Hugo Award for Best Poem” by Brandon O’Brien, Worldcon 2025

Meet Jennifer Brozek

Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her YA tie-in novels, BattleTech: The Nellus Academy Incident and Shadowrun: Auditions, have both won Scribe Awards. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and multiple Hugo Awards. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar. Jennifer’s short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars, Masters of Orion, Well World, and Predator.

Jennifer has been a full-time freelance author and editor for over seventeen years, and she has never been happier. She keeps a tight schedule on her writing and editing projects and somehow manages to find time to teach writing classes and volunteer for several professional writing organizations such as SFWA, HWA, and IAMTW. She shares her husband, Jeff, with several cats and often uses him as a sounding board for her story ideas. Visit Jennifer’s worlds at jenniferbrozek.com or her social media accounts on LinkTree.

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