It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Or is that the most nerve wracking? It’s the beginning of award season in SFF world, kicked off by the opening of the Nebula Award nomination period.
As I have done every year for the past few years, I am assembling here a links post compiling various awards eligibility posts from authors, editors, and publishers, along with recommendation posts, and links to various review sites. The goal is to help folks remember what was published this year, or catch work they might have missed. If you are an author/editor/publisher/reader with a post of your own, please let me know! Drop a note in the comments, reach out on twitter (@ac_wise), or send an email to a.c.wise[at]hotmail.com. I update this post regularly and try to keep it in folks’ minds throughout award nomination season, so do check back often!
If you’re in doubt about whether or not you should make an eligibility post – do it! Self-promotion can feel squirmy and awkward, but it’s incredibly useful to those who nominate to know what works are out there, and what category they fall into. You’re doing people a service, so please, please, please, post and share! Now, on to the links, which are broken down by category and organized alphabetically by last name.
Eligibility Posts
Anderson, G.V.
Anathema Magazine
Apex Magazine
Apparition Lit
Ashby, Madeline
Bangs, Elly
Bear, Elizabeth
Beck, Rachel
Beckett, L.X.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Best Series eligibility list compiled by File 770
Blackwell, Laura
Bolander, Brooke
Booth, Ruth EJ
Bovenmyer, Karen
Broaddus, Maurice
Broadswords and Blasters
Buhlert, Cora
Byrne, Kerrie Colleen
Cahill, Martin
Camp, Bryan
Case, Stephen Reid
Cato, Beth
Charette, Stephanie
Chen, Curtis
Chng, Joyce
Cipri, Nino
Clark, P. Djèlí
Codair, Sara
Cohen, L.J.
Coppersmith, Fred
Criley, Marc
Crilly, Brandon
Czerneda, Julie
Daley, Raymond
Dandenell, Karl
Dawson, J.R.
Day, Julie C.
DePass, Tanya
Diabolical Plots
Dollarhyde, Kate
Donnelly, Lizz
Donohue, Jennifer R.
Douglas, Carol Ann
Dovey, Matt
Drayden, Nicky
Duncan, R.K.
Edelman, Scott
Elasigue, Eva
Fan Writers List
Feistner, Victoria
Feldman, Stephanie
Fitzgerald, Elizabeth
Fiyah Magazine
Fogg, Vanessa
Forest, Susan
French, Lee
Gailey, Sarah
Gale, Ephiny
Gallery of Curiosities
Garcia, R.S.A.
Ginther, Chadwick
Greenblatt, A.T.
Goslee, Sarah
Gower, Jasmine
Gray, Lora
Grigsby, Sean
Griswold, Amy
Hardwick, Stuart C.
Harris, Nin
Haskins, Maria
Heartfield, Kate
Heijndermans, Joa
Held, Rhiannon
Hutchins, M.K.
Inklings Press
Iriarte, José Pablo
James, Lauren
Kania, Kathryn
Kemp, Juliet
Kinney, Benjamin C.
Kritzer, Naomi
Kunsken, Derek
Kurella, Jordan
Lawrence, Briana
Levine, David
Lewis, L.D.
Li, Mina
Liburd, Tonya
Lingen, Marissa
Lundoff, Catherine
Mack, David
MacNutt, Toby
Malik, Joseph
Mamatas, Nick
Manuel, Keith
Martine, Arkady
Matheson, Michael
Maxwell, Matt
Mayer, Jaime O.
McCosh, Emily
McGuire, Seanan
Mead-Brewer, K.C.
Mohamed, Premee
Moher, Aidan
Mondal, Mimi
Monroe, Ben
Moore, L.H.
Morrison, Diane
Mythic Delirium
New York Review of Science Fiction (NYRSF)
Nikel, Wendy
Nordhagen, Johnnemann
Novakova, Julie
O’Brien, Brandon
O’Dell, Claire
Odell, Sandra
Ogle, L’Erin
Oghaegbu, Chimedum
Older, Malka
O’Reilly, Finbar
Osborne, Emma
Osborne, Karen
Palumbo, Suzan
Payseur, Charles
Pinsker, Sarah
Piveral, C.
Polk, C.L.
Powell, Gareth L.
Prevost, A.E.
Rabinowitz, Ted
Rakunas, Adam
Rambo, Cat
Ramdas, Shiv
Rappaport, Jenny Rae
Reardon, Matthew
Roanhorse, Rebecca
Roberts, Erin
Robson, Kelly
Rodriguez, Karlo Yeager
Rossman, Jennifer Lee
Rowat, Frances
Rowland, Alexandra
Royce, Eden
Rustad, A. Merc
Sabet, Amman
Sanford, Jason
Santiago, Gabriela
Schoffstall, John
Seiberg, Effie
Seybold, Grace
Singh, Amal
Sjunneson-Henry, Elsa
Stone, Hayley
Stufflebeam, Bonnie Jo
Strange Horizons
Stuart, Alisdair
Szbranski, Henry
Teffeau, Lauren C.
Theodore, R.J.
Theodoridou, Natalia
Toase, Steve
Tobler, E. Catherine
Tomaras, Joseph
Tomlinson, Patrick
Townsend, Tracy
Triantafyllou, Eugenia
Trota, Michi
Uncanny Magazine
Valentinelli, Monica
Vogel, Dawn
Vourvoulias, Sabrina
Walker, Tammy
Wallis, Wren
Wanak, LaShawn
Wasserstein, Izzy
Weber, Christopher
Wehm, Darusha
Weimer, Paul
Westin, O.
Wilde, Fran (And a bonus thread specific to non-fiction work.)
Wiswell, John
Worrad, James
Yap, Isabel
Recommended Reading/Favorites Fiction
Amazon Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018 (So Far)
Barnes and Noble Best SFF of 2018
Barnes and Noble Bookseller’s Picks for 2018
Barnes and Noble Best Horror of 2018
Barnes and Noble Blogger’s Choice Best of 2018
Book Smugglers Best Books of 2018
British Science Fiction Association Recommended Reading List (Crowd-sourced. Add your own recommendations!)
Cameron N. Coulter Favorite Short Fiction of 2018
Diabolical Plots Recommended Reading
Earl Grey Editing’s Recommended Reading
Fantasy Faction Best Books of 2018
Fantasy Inn’s Best of 2018
Maria Haskins Recommended Reading
Hugo Spreadsheet (Crowd-sourced. Add your own recommendations!)
Hugo Wikia (Crowd-sourced. Add your own recommendations!)
Kirkus Reviews Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018
Kirkus SFF Blog’s Best of the Best
Latinx Authors Database 2018
Library Journal’s Best Books of 2018
Marissa Lingen’s Short Fiction Recommended Reading
Nerds of a Feather Top 9 Books of 2018
Nerds of a Feather Hugo Recommendations: Fiction, Visual Works, Individual Categories, Institutional Categories.
NPR’s Best Books of 2018
New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2018
Paste Magazine’s Best YA of 2018
Quick Sip Reviews Recommended Reading List
Jason Sanford Best Short SFF January – June 2018
Shouting About Queer SF 2018 Recommended Reading
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry’s Recommended Reading
SFWA Recommended Reading List (Crowd-sourced. SFWA members, add your own recommendations!)
Strange Horizons Favorites of 2018
Tiptree Award Recommended Reading List (Note: not all recommended works are 2018.)
E. Catherine Tobler’s Favorites of 2018
Joseph Tomaras’ Favorites of 2018
Tor.com Reviewer’s Choice Best Books of 2018
Tor.com Best Comics of 2018
Eugenia Triantafyallou’s Favorite Short Fiction of 2018
Paul Weimer – Best Books of 2018
John Wiswell’s Favorite Short Fiction of 2018
Review Sites and Resources
The links in this section point to ongoing sites/columns etc. that review work throughout the year. Note, not all work reviewed is published in 2018, so double-check its eligibility before nominating.
Antler Review (monthly reviews, short fiction, long fiction, non-fiction, etc.)
Fiction Unbound (various)
Forest of Glory (short fiction)
In Short (short fiction)
It’s a Jumble (short and long fiction)
Kirkus SFF Blog (short and long fiction)
Lady Business (short fiction, long fiction, media, fan works, etc.)
Locus Online (short and long fiction)
Nerds of a Feather (long fiction, media, comics, etc.)
Non-Binary Authors to Read (short and long fiction, not all 2018 titles)
Otherwordly/NY Times (long fiction)
Quick Sip Reviews (primarily short fiction, some longer works)
Reading the End (various)
Reviews and Robots (various lengths)
Robots with Keyboards
(monthly lists of favorite short fiction)
Salute Your Shorts (monthly short fiction round-ups/reviews)
SFF Reviews (short fiction)
Skiffy and Fanty
(various)
Squee and Snark (short fiction)
Strange Horizons Reviews (short fiction, long fiction, media, etc.)
Tor.com (short fiction, long fiction, media, etc.)
Women to Read (short and long fiction, not all 2018)
Words for Thought (short fiction)
X Marks the Story (short fiction)
