my 2025 Hugo nominations

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This is my entire Hugo nominating ballot (unless I make some last-minute change). I'm only a little bit of the way into "Young Hag" but it seems cool and has been vouched for in a "probably isn't going to do something that makes me hate it" kind of way so it seemed worth using that last Graphic slot for.



Category: Best Novel

Title: The Warm Hands of Ghosts, Author: Katherine Arden, Publisher: Del Rey
Title: The City In Glass, Author: Nghi Vo, Publisher: Tordotcom
Title: A Sorceress Comes To Call, Author: T Kingfisher, Publisher: Tor Books
Title: Glass Houses, Author: Madeline Ashby, Publisher: Tor Books

Category: Best Novella

Title: North Continent Ribbon, Author: Ursula Whitcher, Where Published: Neon Hemlock
Title: It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, Author: Anne de Marcken, Where Published: New Directions
Title: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Author: Sofia Samatar, Where Published: Tordotcom

Category: Best Novelette

Title: Lake of Souls, Author: Ann Leckie, Where Published: Lake of Souls collection, Orbit
Title: Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, Author: A.W. Prihandita, Where Published: Clarkesworld
Title: Himalia, Author: Carrie Vaughn, Where Published: Clarkesworld
Title: The Best Version of Yourself, Author: Grant Collier, Where Published: Clarkesworld
Title: Fisher of Stars, Author: Ursula Whitcher, Where Published: North Continent Ribbon, Neon Hemlock

Category: Best Short Story

Title: The Enceladus South Pole Base Named After V.I. Lenin, Author: Zohar Jacobs, Where Published: Clarkesworld
Title: Nothing of Value, Author: Aimee Ogden, Where Published: Lightspeed
Title: Median, Author: Kelly Robson, Where Published: Reactor
Title: The Spindle of Necessity, Author: B. Pladek, Where Published: Strange Horizons
Title: Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth, Author: Ann LeBlanc, Where Published: Three-Lobed Burning Eye

Category: Best Series

Series Name: Xuya Universe, Author: Aliette de Bodard, 2024 Example from Series: In the Shadow of the Ship

Category: Best Graphic Story or Comic

Title: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Vol 2, Author: Emil Ferris, Publisher: Fantagraphics
Title: Sacred Bodies, Author: Ver, Publisher: ShortBox Comics Fair
Title: Plain Jane and the Mermaid, Author: Vera Brosgol, Publisher: First Second
Title: The Deep Dark, Author: Molly Knox Ostertag, Publisher: Graphix
Title: Young Hag and the Witches' Quest, Author: Isabel Greenberg, Publisher: Harry N Abrams

Category: Best Game or Interactive Work

Title: The Ghost and the Golem, Developer: Benjamin Rosenbaum, Choice of Games

Category: Best Professional Artist

Artist/llustrator: Kuri Huang, Example: cover of The Last Dragon of the East
Artist/llustrator: Galen Dara, Example:
Artist/llustrator: Alyssa Winans, Example:

Category: Best Semiprozine

Title: Strange Horizons

Category: Best Fanzine

Title: The Rec Center

Category: Best Fan Writer

Author: Bitter Karella, Example:

Category: Best Fan Artist

Artist/Illustrator: Geneva Bowers, Example:
Artist/Illustrator: Autun Purser, Example:
Artist/Illustrator: Michelle Morrell, Example:

Category: Best Poem

Title: The Last Voyage: Island Relocation Program, Author: Steve Wheat, Where Published: Radon Journal
Title: there are no taxis for the dead, Author: Angela Liu, Where Published: Uncanny
Title: The Sail, Author: Ian Li, Where Published: Orion's Belt
Title: Dodging the Bullet, Author: Lisa M. Bradley, Where Published: Small Wonders
Title: The Quickening, Author: Rachel Pittman, Where Published: Strange Horizons

Category: Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo)

Title: The Sapling Cage, Author: Margaret Killjoy, Publisher: The Feminist Press
Title: The Forbidden Book, Author: Sacha Lamb, Publisher: Levine Querido
Title: Sheine Lende, Author: Darcie Little Badger, Publisher: Levine Querido

Category: Astounding Award for Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo)

Author: Moniquill Blackgoose, Example: To Shape a Dragon's Breath
Author: Zohar Jacobs, Example: The Enceladus South Pole Base Named after V.I. Lenin, Clarkesworld
Author: Nadia Radovich, Example: Another Old Country, Apparition Lit
Author: Grant Collier, Example: The Best Version of Yourself, Clarkesworld
Author: A.W. Prihandita, Example: Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, Clarkesworld