It’s Nebula Awards® voting season again!

As of December 1, 2025, our Nebula Awards Nomination Ballot is now open. In this year’s ballot, we are honored to celebrate our first-ever Nebula Awards in two new categories, along with our classic range of fiction. Full, Associate, and Senior member of SFWA, are eligible to submit a nomination ballot for the Nebula Awards.

This year SFWA members will be voting for top Nebula honors in the following fields:

• Best Short Story
• Best Novelette
• Best Novella
• Best Novel
• Best Game Writing
• Best Comic
• Best Poem
• The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
• The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction 

Many of these works will then be available in our next Nebula Awards Showcase, for sale right after the winners are announced in June, when we celebrate our latest bright stars in genre at the Nebulas in Chicago.