Nebula Awards shortlist
The 61st Nebula Awards shortlist has been announced ahead of the ceremony set for June 3–7, 2026 in Chicago — nominees for best sci‑fi and fantasy are now circulating among readers and jurors. (The shortlist release and event dates were reported this week.) (comicon.com)
Voting on the final Nebula ballot opened at 7:00 p.m. PDT on March 15, 2026 and closes at 11:59 p.m. PDT on April 15, 2026. (sfwa.org)) SFWA added two inaugural award categories this year — Best Poem and Best Comic — marking the first time those formats appear on the Nebula final ballot. (sfwa.org)) The Best Comic finalists include Second Shift (Kit Anderson), Carmilla Vol. 3: The Eternal (Amy Chu), Helen of Wyndhorn (Tom King), Fishflies (Jeff Lemire), Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: The Killing Stone (Jessica Maison), Strange Bedfellows (Ariel Slamet Ries), The Flip Side (Jason Walz), and The Stoneshore Register (G. Willow Wilson). (comicsbeat.com)) The Best Novel shortlist features When We Were Real (Daryl Gregory), The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Stephen Graham Jones), Katabasis (R.F. Kuang), Death of the Author (Nnedi Okorafor), The Incandescent (Emily Tesh), Sour Cherry (Natalia Theodoridou), and Wearing the Lion (John Wiswell). (nebulas.sfwa.org)) Novella finalists include Renan Bernardo, Amal El‑Mohtar, Jordan Kurella, Annalee Newitz, Hache Pueyo, and Wole Talabi (for “Descent”); novelette and short‑story shortlists feature writers such as Somto Ihezue, Thomas Ha, Marie Croke, P.A. Cornell, J.R. Dawson, E.M. Linden, Aimee Ogden and Effie Seiberg. (sfwa.org)) SFWA says winners of the final ballot will be announced on Saturday, June 6, 2026 during the organization’s conference program. (sfwa.org)) Online attendance tickets are available and SFWA is still offering an early in‑person weekend registration price of $275 USD until May 1, 2026, with further registration and banquet details posted on the Nebula Conference page. (nebulas.sfwa.org))
