Woo! And the website is back!
As has become tradition at this time of year, I’m gathering all the award eligibility and recommended reading posts I can find and linking them here as a central repository for folks to refer to when considering what to nominate for various awards this year. It’s also a great way to find new work you may have missed, because there’s so much fabulous stuff out there it’s impossible to keep up.
At some point, I’ll be putting together my own eligibility and recommendation posts. In the meantime, I’ll be updating this post as often as I can.
For example, at the moment, I’m editing to add a link to this excellent article by Lyndsie Manusos that talks about the award nomination process, eligibility posts, and year-end lists in general. It’s a helpful explainer on what eligibility posts are and why they’re important, as well as some helpful examples and other info for authors, editors, and publishers.
Please feel free to email me at a.c.wise [at] hotmail.com with your own links, or find me on Twitter (for now) as @ac_wise and on Mastodon as acwise@writing.exchange and share your links there, and I will add them to the post.
The categories should be pretty self explanatory. The first section contains general information about awards, the second is author/editor/publisher eligibility posts, and the last section is recommended reading links. Happy reading!
Award Information
Locus Awards (Currently open for anyone to vote; deadline April 15.)
Nebula Awards (Currently open for SFWA members to nominate work.)
Stoker Awards (Currently open for HWA members to vote; deadline February 28.)
World Fantasy Awards (Judges currently accepting submissions; deadline June 1.)
Eligibility Links
Ajeigbe, Oluwatomiwa
Alexander, Phoenix
Allen, B. Morris
Anathema Magazine
Aoki, Betsy
Atthis Arts
Bailton, Adria
Barb, Patrick
Barlow, Devan
Bartles, Jason A.
Bell, E.D.E.
Bernardo, Renan
Biswas, Sharang
Blackwell, Laura
Bobi, Zainab
Boey, Eliane
Boden, Derrick
Brazilian Authors Eligibility Link Round Up
Brothers, Laurence Raphael
Brown, Jen
Buchanan, Andi C.
Cahill, Martin
Caldwell-Kelly, Christopher
Carro, Paul
Chen, Tania
Cherry Jr., Danny
Cho, Jessica
Chowdhury, Mehzeb
Chronister, Kay
Chu, John
Clark, Chloe N.
Clarke, Cassandra Rose
Clay, Kat
Claybourne, Zig Zag
Codega, Noah
Coleman, Kel
Cook, Amanda
Cornell, P.A.
Criley, Marc A.
Crilly, Brandon
Croal, Lyndsey
Croke, Marie
de Anda, Victor
Daley, Ray
Damilola, Oyedotun
Das, Indrapramit
Datlow, Ellen
Dean, Sunyi
Death in the Mouth
Delmas, Kai
Donohue, Jennifer R.
Dosser, Max
Dunato, Jelena
Duncan, R.K.
Edelman, Scott
Emelumadu, Chikodili
Epeki, Oghenechovwe Donald
Eselojor, Naomi
Farrenkopf, Corey
Feldman, Stephanie
Field, C.M.
Fogg, Vanessa
Fusion Fragment
Gale, Ephiny
Garcia, Rhonda J.
Garcia, R.S.A.
Garcia-Rosas, Nelly Geraldine
Garfinkle, Gwynne
gCopaleen, Amy na
Ginther, Chadwick
Glover, Jenna
Gomez, Cynthia
Goodman, Dave
Grauer, Alyson
Grech, Amy
Greenblatt, A.T.
Greene, John R.
Grigore, Adriana C.
Ha, Thomas
Haber, Elad
Haddad, May
Handley, Rachel
Harbowy, Gabrielle
Harlock, J.D.
Haskins, Maria
Haynes, Michael
Heartfield, Kate
Heijndermans, Joachim
Hexagon Magazine
Houser, Chip
Howell, A.P.
Hudak, Jennifer
Hugenbruch, Brian
Ihezue, Somto
Jack, Ariel Marken
Jamnia, Naseem
Jiang, Ai
Jones, Shelly
Julian, Jen
Kai, Rhada Zan
Kaleidotrope
Kamei, Toshiya
Kaplan, Zoe
Kelly, Michael
Kim, Isabel J.
Kindred, L.P.
Kinney, Benjamin C.
Kiste, Gwendolyn
Klausner, Jack
Klein, Annika Barranti
Kohl, Chana
Krasnoff, Barbara
Krishnan, M.L.
Kurella, Jordan
Lamplight Magazine
Latine Writers Awards Eligibility Round Up
Lavigne, C.J.
Leal, Angel
Lee, P.H.
Leong, Sloane
Lesley, Kiera
Levai, Jessica
Lin, Su-Yee
Lingen, Marissa
Liu, Angela
Lost Colony
Louise, A.Z.
Louzon, Monica
Lu, Lark Morgan
Lu, S. Qioyi
McClellan, Elizabeth
McIvor, Katie
Madden, Anna
Mamatas, Nick
Manusos, Lyndsie
Marceau, Caitlin
Maresca, Marshall Ryan
Mariz, Rae
Mathieu, R. Jean
Miller, Sam J.
Mittra, Archita
Mohamed, Premee
Moher, Aidan
Mohlere, Virginia
Moleti, Carole Ann
Mondal, Mimi
Moore, Fiona
Morris, Tiffany
Murray, Meg
Murray, Samantha
Nacarat Game Labs
Nations, Victoria
Ndlovu, Yvette Lisa
Ning, Leah
Nkomo, Mandisi
Norton-Kerson, Justine
Nwaka, Uchechukwu
O’Connell, Tabitha
Ogrundian, Tobi
Okungbowa, Suyi Davies
Osani, Kristin
Othenin-Girard, Leon
Palumbo, Suzan
Pattnaik, Mandira
Pauling, Sarah
Payseur, Charles
Pearce, C.H.
Perez, Aleta
Phan, Cindy
Pichette, Marisca
Piper, Hailey
Polk, C.L.
Povanda, Jennifer
Queen of Swords Press
Ragland, Parker
Rajotte, Mary
Rappaport, Jenny Rae
Ratnakar, Arula
Ring, Lauren
ring, dave
Rose, Christopher Mark
Rountree, Josh
Royce, Eden
St. George, Carlie
Salcedo, Sarah
Samba, Samuel
Sanni, Timi
Sayre, A.T.
Schrater, Maria
Shelby, Jennifer
Shirey, Austin
Shivley, Jordan
Singh, Amal
Smith, Chloe
Smith, Cislyn
Snow, Elizabeth
Space Cowboy Books
Stack, B.E.
Sui, A.D.
Sulaiman, Sonia
Sullivan, Nwuguru Chidibere
Tabing, N.A.
Talabi, Wole
Ten, Kristina
Thayer, A.P.
Theodoridou, Natalia
Tighe, Matthew
Toase, Steve
Tobler, E. Catherine
Tomova, Daniela
Tordotcom Books
Tordotcom Short Fiction
Treasure, Rebecca
Triantafyllou, Eugenia
Twelfth Planet Press
Undertow Publications
Uncanny Magazine
Vibbert, Marie
Victoria, Ricardo
Villar, Gnesis
Vourvoulias, Sabrina
Walker, K.S.
Walrath, Holly Lyn
Wilde, Fran
Williamson, Neil
Wilson, Aigner Loren
Wilson, Lorraine
Whitcher, Ursula
Wolf, Risa
Yates, Pauline
Yeager-Rodriguez, Karlo
Zweifler, David Lee
Recommendation Links
Amazon Best Books of 2022
Alex Brown Year in Review
Entertainment Weekly Best Books of 2022
Esquire Best Horror Books of 2022
Goodreads Choice Awards Best Books of 2022
Guardian Best SFF of 2022
Paula Guran Year in Review
Matt Handle Best Free Short Speculative Fiction of 2022
Hugo Book Club Recommendation List
Maya C. James Year in Review
Russell Letson Year in Review
Locus Recommended Reading List
Colleen Mondor Year in Review
Fiona Mossman Favorite Short Fiction of 2022
Mysterious Galaxy Recommended Reading
Nerds of a Feather Hugo Recommendations: Fiction Categories
Nerds of a Feather Hugo Recommendations: Individual Categories
Nerds of a Feather Hugo Recommendations: Institutional Categories
Nerds of a Feather Hugo Recommendations: Visual Categories
New York Public Library Best Books of 2022
New York Times Best Books of 2022
New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2022
NPR Best Books of 2022
Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2022
Charles Payseur Year in Review
Tim Pratt Year in Review
Graham Sleight Year in Review
Carlie St. George Recommended Short Fiction Reading List
Tor Best Books of 2022
Tor Notable YA of 2022
Eugenia Triantafyllou Favorite Short Stories 2022
What Nerd Best Standalone Sci-Fi of 2022
Vulture Best Fantasy Novels of 2022
Vulture Best Horror Novels of 2022
Fran Wilde’s Recommended Reading List
John Wiswell Recommended Short Fiction Reading List
Gary K. Wolfe Year in Review
Alvaro Zinos Amaro Year in Review
The Mythopoeic award is somewhere in between?
All paid members of the Mythopoeic society can submit entries to the longlist (no non-Mythopoeic members can submit works to the longlist, but different administrators have had different policies for whether they circular-file non-member solicitations, offer them to a known member to see if they WANT to nominate the work, or do something of each, so honestly a better approach is the annual awards post (although mythopoeic is technically a two year eligibility with members and the jury tending to favor more recent works and use the second year of eligibility for overlooked works most of the time).
The longlist’s contents are confidential (but usually locked in by february or march); the volunteer jury determines the shortlist of finalists (which is public) as well as picking the eventual winners each year.