Some Hugo Nomination Recommendations

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February 28, 2025

Awards Season is fraught with danger for some of us—imposter syndrome, guilt, and the general malaise of everything *waves to the world at large*… and all of it stops us for putting our creative works out there. However, it is these creative works that keep the world going—even while it is on fire. It is not a sin to say “Hey, I did a thing last year and it was good. Please consider it!”

(Ahem: Jennifer Brozek for Best Editor, Short Form for 99 Fleeting Fantasies; Magic, Machines, & Mayhem; and Through the Decades anthologies. Or Shadowrun: The Mosaic Run by Jennifer Brozek [Catalyst Game Labs] for the Lodestone award.)

It also behooves us to point to people we believe deserve some recognition. So, I have some other Hugo nomination recommendations for you. This is, by no means, an exhaustive list.

Best Novel

Magic Breaker by Marie Bilodeau, SNG Publishing
Dragon Road by Joseph Brassey, Falstaff
The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed, Solaris

Best Novella

Duskmourn by Seanan McGuire, WotC
Shadowrun: Off Beat by Marie Bilodeau, Catalyst Game Labs
The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler, MacMillian

Best Novelette

Encore by Wole Talabi, Deep Dream
In the Arena by Amanda Cherry, Afoul & Affairs

Best Series

The Gray Assassin Trilogy by Greg Wilson, Heretic
Incryptid series by Seanan McGuire, Backpacking Through Bedlam
Ruby Killingsworth series by Amanda Cherry, Time and Again
Drifting Lands series by Joseph Brassey, Dragon Road

Best Related Work

Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths by Raven Oak, Grey Suns Press
The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship by Jason Sanford, Genre Grapevine & File770

Best Editor, Short Form (My competition.)

John Helfers (Magic, Machines, & Mayhem; and Through the Decades anthologies)

Best Fan Writer

Jason Sanford, Genre Grapevine
Trish Matson, Skiffy and Fanty

Best Fan Artist

Geek Calligraphy, https://geekcalligraphy.com/blog/2024/12/30/fanart-dump

Best Poem

Ever Noir, Mari Ness, Haven Spec
Text Messages From Myself, Beth Cato, Daikaijuzine
What Giants Read, Mary Soon Lee, Strange Horizons

There you have it. Some other recommendations of people you may or may not have heard of—but should get to know. Go forth and nominate for the Hugo awards—nominations close March 14, 2025. (You can leave your own recommendations in the comments.)

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 the Hugo Award. 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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