Nebula Award News

In the muted background, snapshots of Kansas City highlights. In the foreground, the Nebula Conference logo and the words "Kansas City, We're on our Way! Nebula Awards Conference registration is now open!"

Nebula Conference Registration Now Open!

In the muted background, snapshots of Kansas City highlights. In the foreground, the Nebula Conference logo and the words "Kansas City, We're on our Way! Nebula Awards Conference registration is now open!"

SFWA is excited to announce that the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference will be held in-person and online from the Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza, in the beautifully transformed downtown core of Kansas City, Missouri.

Conference registration is now open at https://membership.sfwa.org/event-6093098.

SFWA recognizes that the current political climate in the United States may leave some people uncertain whether they are willing to travel to the US in general, or Missouri, in particular. Kansas City has made explicit commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. For example, the Kansas City Council approved a resolution designating Kansas City as a “sanctuary city” for LGBTQ+ people. In 2024, Kansas City received a perfect score on HRC’s Municipality Equality Index for the fourth year running – an index which measures support for LGBTQ+ individuals throughout daily life. SFWA will also have both volunteer and professional security available to actively prevent and resolve harassment. We believe that Kansas City is a welcoming place for all writers, and we look forward to celebrating our diamond anniversary with all of you!

If you plan to join us in Kansas City, please use this link to book your room in the hotel block by Monday, May 19th: Book your group rate for SFWA Nebula Conference 2025. We encourage you to only book a hotel room after registering for the Nebula Conference. This courtesy to fellow attendees helps us to plan accurately for the big event, and keeps space open for those joining us in person.

In-person registration includes all online access. With every conference ticket, you can watch and listen to all recorded panels and presentations that took place over the weekend. We are looking forward to celebrating with our many members in other states and countries!

Our focus this year is to provide high level professional development, foster community and networking opportunities throughout the day and evening receptions, and of course, to celebrate our Nebula Award finalists and honorees throughout the weekend, especially at the Nebula Award ceremony.

Your online conference ticket helps support the programs and services that SFWA provides for not only its members but every SFF genre writer and industry professional. Thank you.

The SFWA Events Team

If you are interested in being a sponsor, please visit: https://events.sfwa.org/our-2025-conference/2025-sponsorship-opportunities or email: sponsors@sfwa.org.

Accessibility accommodation requests can be communicated directly with accessibility@sfwa.org.

If you or someone you know needs a scholarship to participate in the conference, please email office@sfwa.org and we’ll get back to you with information as soon as possible.

SFWA Announces the 60th Annual Nebula Awards® Finalists!

 

March 12, 2025 – The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 60th Annual Nebula Awards®! Our congratulations go out to each and every finalist for the recognition of their excellent works published in 2024. 

The awards will be presented in a ceremony on Saturday, June 7, that will be streamed live as it is held in-person in Kansas City, MO as part of the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference. Winners in each category will be determined by the vote of Full, Associate, and Senior members of SFWA.

Here is the complete list of finalists:

Nebula Award for Novel

Nebula Award for Novella

Nebula Award for Novelette

Nebula Award for Short Story

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Nebula Award for Game Writing

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

 

  • Doctor Who: “Dot and Bubble” by Russell T. Davies (BBC)
  • Dune: Part Two by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve (Warner Bros)
  • I Saw the TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun (A24 Films LLC)
  • KAOS by Charlie Covell, Georgia Christou (Netflix)
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 by Mike McMahan (Paramount+)
  • Wicked by Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox (Universal Pictures)

We look forward to celebrating all the finalists with aspiring and professional creators in the science fiction and fantasy genres at the 2025 Nebula Conference, June 5-8, 2025.

Questions about the awards or the upcoming conference may be directed to the SFWA Events Team at events@sfwa.org.

About the Nebula Awards®

The Nebula Awards® are voted on and presented by Full, Associate, and Senior members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Founded as the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1965 by Damon Knight, the organization began with a charter membership of 78 writers; it now has over 2,500 members, among them many of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy.

Since 1965, the Nebula Awards® have been given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story eligible for that year’s award. The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction was added in 2005, followed by the Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation in 2009, and the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing in 2018. An anthology including the winning pieces of short fiction and several runners-up is also published every year.

The 60th Nebula Awards Finalist Announcement

Nebula Awards Conference logo, with the words "The 60th Annual Nebula Awards Finalist Announcement"

We’re on the launch pad, readying for lift-off!

Join the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association on March 12, 2025 at 5 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time for this year’s 60th Nebula Awards Finalist Announcement, in which we will announce this year’s finalists for the Nebula Awards, as chosen by SFWA members.

Subscribe to our SFWA YouTube channel to get notification of the video’s launch, or simply join us at the direct link when the hour approaches. Oh, and don’t forget to share your excitement with others in the genre via our chat window on YouTube!

Finalists are listed here.

SFWA members will vote for this year’s winners in advance of our 60th Nebula Annual Nebula Awards Conference, which will be held in Kansas City, Missouri from June 5-8. Whether you’ll be there in person or joining us for more Nebula activities online, we’re thrilled to have you along for the ride.

Let’s celebrate some great science fiction and fantasy together soon!

2025 Service to SFWA Award Announcement: C.J. Lavigne

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) is pleased to announce that the 2025 Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award will be presented to C.J. Lavigne at the 60th Annual SFWA Nebula Awards® for her outstanding work on behalf of the organization.

C.J. Lavigne is a Canadian SFF writer who first volunteered as a member of the SFWA flight crew (tech support team) at the 2020 Nebulas, when the conference had suddenly gone online for the first time and everyone was still figuring out how to push the videoconferencing buttons. A month later, she offered to help run the weekly writing dates, where she has remained as part of the tech team for the last five years. In 2022, she became co-captain of the flight crew, in which capacity she has helped to run numerous online panels and parties, schedule committee meetups, organize volunteers, answer tech support queries, and maintain the events website. She has worked hard to ensure the Nebula Conference maintains a vibrant, accessible virtual and hybrid presence for any member who can’t attend “in person.”

SFWA President Kate Ristau says, “C.J. confidently and swiftly helped us navigate our transition to online in 2020, and she has continued to lead us forward in virtual spaces, using best practices, and a heck of a lot of kindness. She is focused, supportive, and very knowledgeable. We are lucky to get to work with her.”

SFWA is excited to honor C.J. this year at our conference in Kansas City, and we hope you’ll join in honoring her service to the organization either in person or online during the event.

Photo Credit: Berni Scott

2025 Nebula Conference Announcement!

SFWA is excited to announce that the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference will be held at the Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza, in the beautifully transformed downtown core of Kansas City, Missouri.

Join us from June 5 – June 8 for our diamond-year celebration of science fiction, fantasy, and related genre creators around the globe!

If you’re not making use of our massively discounted self-parking rate of $5 per day, hop on the free-to-ride Kansas City StreetCar to visit local sites between conference events and our 60th Annual Nebula Awards Ceremony. The Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza is six miles from the Kansas City Zoo, and ZTrip is available, in addition to Uber, Lyft, and cab services, for all your other local transport needs.

At our fingertips this year are:

  • The Kansas City Power & Light Entertainment District
  • The Kauffman Center of the Performing Arts
  • The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
  • The National WWI Museum at Liberty Memorial
  • The Negro League Baseball Museum
  • The American Jazz Museum
  • River Market and the Crossroads Arts District (via StreetCar)

Or stay in for the whole show! With rooms at $179/night plus tax, and free in-room Wi-Fi when you join Marriott Bonvoy (at no extra cost), there’s plenty to do in this fully modernized and renovated downtown conference hub.

The Main Street Grill at Kansas City Marriott is open all day, and the M.I. Greatroom offers cocktail and lounge space starting at 3 p.m.—or visit the nearby Country Club Plaza, a historic open-air shopping and dining destination at the heart of the city, for your meet-ups with new and old friends in the genre. All guests have free access to a well-equipped fitness center.

All together now!

Celebrate SFWA’s 60th Anniversary with us, at the 2025 Nebula Awards Conference.

When and where is it going down?

Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza (4445 Main Street)

Kansas City, Missouri

June 5 – June 8

Where can I learn more about the hotel?

At the Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza website, of course!

Room Rate: $179/night plus tax

Register for the conference and hotel?  Here!

 

 

At long last, Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 on Kindle

Due to factors beyond SFWA’s control, the Kindle edition of Nebula Awards Showcase 2019, which was published in 2022, has been stuck in Amazon limbo. Until now, that is. This Nebula Showcase covers the nominees and winners from 2017 presented at the 2018 Nebula Awards. The Nebula anthologies have been published continuously since 1966 and feature the very best of science fiction and fantasy short fiction. Edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, this year’s anthology includes stories from Nebula Winners Rebecca Roanhorse, Martha Wells, and Kelly Robson as well as finalists Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Richard Bowes, K.M. Szpara, Jonathan Brazee, Sarah Pinsker, Caroline M. Yoachim, Fran Wilde, Matthew Kressel, and Jamie Wahls.

Buy it at Amazon.

Nebula Awards Showcase 56 is here!

 

Nebula Awards Showcase 56 has arrived!  The newest Nebula Showcase is now available at Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords and Kobo outlets.  The much-delayed Nebula Awards Showcase 56, containing a selection of Nebula Award winners and nominees presented in 2021. This release is a continuation of the longest-running continuous series of Best-of anthologies in speculative fiction, begun with the publication of Nebula Awards Stories in 1966. With an introduction by past SFWA President Cat Rambo and stories by John Wiswell, Sarah Pinsker, Meg Ellison and many more, this volume represents the beginnings of a change in strategy for the organization that will result in a speed-up of the publication  process.

This and future volumes will be edited by SFWA’s own Publications Committee. These new volumes will be jam-packed with the best stories of the year as chosen by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association with fewer excepts and no filler.

Here’s the table of contents for Nebula Awards Showcase 56:

INTRODUCTION by Cat Rambo

PART ONE ESSAY

CERBERUS IS THE FAMILY DOG: ADAPTING GREEK MYTH IN HADES by Greg Kasavin

THE GOOD PLACE: LIFE, DEATH, AND THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING by Kelly Robson

PART TWO SHORT STORY

ADVANCED WORD PROBLEMS IN PORTAL MATH by Aimee Picchi

BADASS MOMS OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE by Rae Carson

THE EIGHT-THOUSANDERS by Jason Sanford

A GUIDE FOR WORKING BREEDS by Vina Jie-Min Prasad

MY COUNTRY IS A GHOST by Eugenia Triantafyllou

OPEN HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL by John Wiswell (Nebula Winner: Best Short Story)

PART THREE NOVELETTE

BURN OR THE EPISODIC LIFE OF SAM WELLS AS A SUPER by A. T. Greenblatt

THE PILL by Meg Elison

SHADOW PRISONS by Caroline M. Yoachim

STEPSISTER by Leah Cypess

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE  by Sarah Pinsker (Nebula Winner: Best Novelette)

WHERE YOU LINGER  by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

PART FOUR NOVELLA (Excerpts)

FINNA  by Nino Cipri

THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES by R.B. Lemberg

IFE-IYOKU, THE TALE OF IMADEYUNUAGBON by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

RING SHOUT by P. Djèlí Clark (Nebula Winner: Best Novella)

RIOT BABY by Tochi Onyebuchi

TOWER OF MUD AND STRAW by Yaroslav Barsukov

PART FIVE NOVEL (Excerpt)

NETWORK EFFECT by Martha Wells (Nebula Winner: Best Novel)

PART SIX MIDDLE GRADE AND YOUNG ADULT FICTION (Excerpt)

A WIZARD’S GUIDE TO DEFENSIVE BAKING by T. Kingfisher (Winner: Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade & Young Adult Fiction)

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