“Helen after Halen” — poetry — nomination
Out There Screaming (
Jordan Peele & JJA, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
A People's Future of the United States (
Victor LaValle & JJA, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Afronauts Podcast
(1 nomination; 1 win)
Ember award — winner
Abbott 1973 (by SA &
Sami Kivelä) — comics team — nomination
“A Witch's Transition in the City of Ghosts” — short story — winner
This Place: 150 Years Retold — anthology/collected works — nomination
“Tongue-Tied: A Catalog of Losses” — creative nonfiction — nomination
PodCastle — fiction podcast — nomination
PodCastle — fiction podcast — nomination
“The Voice of a Thousand Years” — short story — nomination
Amari and the Night Brothers — middle grade novel — nomination
Our Opinions are Correct (by CJA &
Annalee Newitz) — creative nonfiction — nomination
Beneath Ceaseless Skies — fiction podcast — nomination
Beneath Ceaseless Skies — fiction podcast — nomination
Light from Uncommon Stars — adult novel — nomination
“Thin Ice” — short story — nomination
“Those Who Tell the Stories” — poetry — nomination
Awesome Black
(1 nomination)
community award — nomination
The Wild Ones — YA novel — nomination
Empire of the Feast — novella — nomination
Maya and the Rising Dark — middle grade novel — nomination
This Poison Heart — YA novel — nomination
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
(1 nomination)
fiction podcast — nomination
“A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair” — novelette — nomination
Black Women Are Scary
(1 nomination; 1 win)
fiction podcast — winner
To Shape a Dragon's Breath — adult novel — nomination
critics award — nomination
critics award — nomination
Josephine Against the Sea — middle grade novel — nomination
Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion — middle grade novel — nomination
Ember award — nomination
Writing the Other: Online Classes and Workshops (by
Nisi Shawl & KTB) — Community award — nomination
Ember award — nomination
Ember award — nomination
critics award — winner
Night of the Living Queers (
Shelly Page & AB, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Ember award — nomination
critics award — winner
critics award — winner
“While Dragons Claim the Sky” — novelette — nomination
Sing Me to Sleep — ya novel — nomination
Ember award — winner
LeVar Burton Reads — fiction podcast — winner
“The Fifth Horseman” — short story — nomination
artist — winner
artist — nomination
“Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan” — short story — nomination
A Phoenix First Must Burn — anthology/collected works — winner
Carl Brandon Society
(1 nomination)
community award — nomination
Cast of Wonders
(1 nomination)
fiction podcast — nomination
Kingdom of Copper — adult novel — nomination
“Dragonslayer” — poetry — nomination
The Saint of Bright Doors — adult novel — winner
“Symmetry, Horror, and Identity” — creative nonfiction — nomination
“Omphalos” — novelette — nomination
Black Water Sister — adult novel — nomination
“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” — novelette — winner
Clarion West
(2 nominations)
community award — nomination
Ember award — nomination
The Unbroken — adult novel — nomination
We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 (CLC &
Charles Payseur, eds.) — anthology/collected works —
winner
“You Perfect, Broken Thing” — short story — winner
Abeni's Song — middle grade novel — winner
A Master of Djinn — adult novel — winner
“If the Martians Have Magic” — short story — winner
Ring Shout — novella — nomination
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 — novella — nomination
The Marvellers — middle grade novel — nomination
Ember award — winner
Everlasting Rose — YA novel — nomination
“Delete Your First Memory for Free” — short story — nomination
“The Recipe for Time Travel” — poetry — nomination
Sordidez — novella — nomination
Reclaim the Stars — anthology/collected works — winner
Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with a Fresh Bite (ZC &
Natalie C. Parker, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Year of the Unicorn Kidz — poetry — nomination
“We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist” — creative nonfiction — winner
The Blood Trials — adult novel — winner
Fireheart Tiger — novella — nomination
The Inaccessibility of Heaven — novelette — winner
Bloodmarked — YA novel — winner
Legendborn — YA novel — winner
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls — ya novel — nomination
“A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century” — poetry — winner
Just a Pinch of Magic — middle grade novel — nomination
The Kindred — YA novel — nomination
Ember award — winner
Ember award — nomination
Ember award — nomination
“Black Horror Rising” — creative nonfiction — winner
“Spell for Grief and Longing” — novelette — winner
Stone and Steel — novella — nomination
Ember award — nomination
Ember award — nomination
This Is How You Lose the Time War (by AE &
Max Gladstone) — novella —
winner
Pet — YA novel — nomination
Where Black Stars Rise (by ME &
Nadia Shammas) — comics team —
winner
Escape Pod
(1 nomination)
fiction podcast — nomination
We Hunt the Flame — YA novel — winner
Blood Scion — YA novel — nomination
Flights of Fountry
(1 nomination; 1 win)
community award — winner
“The Magic is in the Roots: Cultural Reconnection Through Magical Realism” — creative nonfiction — winner
“Tequila Mockingbird” (by RGF, translated by
Juan Martínez) — poetry — nomination
“Girl Oil” — short story — nomination
artist — winner
Frightville: Curse of the Wish Eater — middle grade novel — nomination
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century — anthology/collected works — nomination
“The Alt-history of King Kong” — poetry — nomination
Gallery of Curiosities
(1 nomination)
fiction podcast — nomination
“Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” — short story — nomination
“Bishop's Opening” — novella — nomination
“Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma” — novella — nomination
The Transition of Osoosi — novelette — nomination
“To Every Other Jobu Tupaki After Jamie Lee Curtis's Oscar Win” — creative nonfiction — nomination
This Is How You Lose the Time War (by
Amal El-Mohtar & MG) — novella —
winner
“Lips Like Sugar” — short story — nomination
Good Morning Antioch
(1 nomination)
fiction podcast — nomination
Shadow Life (by HG &
Ann Xu) — comics team — nomination
“Express to Beijing West Railway Station” (by C'MG, translated by
Kiera Johnson) — short story — nomination
“Window Boy” — short story — nomination
critics award — nomination
critics award — nomination
“Aborteras del Viejo Mundo” (by
Claudia Vaca, translated by BH) — poetry — nomination
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe — middle grade novel — nomination
Khoréo Magazine — Community award — nomination
“None of the Star Trek Ships Are Named After Confederate Generals” — poetry — nomination
“Hungry Ghost” — poetry — nomination
“My Mother, she ate me” — poetry — winner
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday — novella — nomination
The Water Outlaws — adult novel — nomination
“Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness” — novelette — nomination
Blackbird Vol. 1 — comics team — nomination
Redemptor — YA novel — nomination
Raybearer — YA novel — nomination
“I Shall Not Surrender” — poetry — nomination
“Rat and Finch Are Friends” — short story — nomination
Whisper of the Woods — comics team — nomination
White Smoke — YA novel — nomination
The City We Became — adult novel — nomination
“Emergency Skin” — novelette — winner
“How to Make a Family: Queer Blood Bonds in Black Feminist Vampire Novels” — creative nonfiction — nomination
“goddess in forced repose” — poetry — nomination
critics award — nomination
critics award — nomination
“We Smoke Pollution” — poetry — winner
The Spear Cuts Through Water — adult novel — nomination
Vagabonds (by HJ, translated by
Ken Liu) — adult novel — nomination
Reconstruction — anthology/collected works — nomination
“Express to Beijing West Railway Station” (by
Congyun 'Mu Ming' Gu, translated by KJ) — short story — nomination
“Men, Women, and Chainsaws” — novelette — nomination
The Only Good Indians — adult novel — nomination
& This is How to Stay Alive — novella — winner
Cuisine Chinoise: Five Tales of Food and Life (by
Zao Dao,
Diana Schutz & BK) — comics team — nomination
One Hand in the Coffin — novelette — nomination
Nothing But Blackened Teeth — novella — nomination
khoréo
(2 nominations; 2 wins)
community award — winner
fiction podcast — winner
The Mystwick School of Musicraft — middle grade novel — nomination
“Wanderlust” — short story — nomination
Community Award — nomination
Babel — adult novel — nomination
The Dragon Republic — adult novel — nomination
Beholder — ya novel — nomination
Escape Pod — fiction podcast — nomination
A People's Future of the United States (VL &
John Joseph Adams, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Jade War — adult novel — nomination
The Four Profound Weaves — novella — nomination
LeVar Burton Reads
(1 nomination; 1 win)
fiction podcast — winner
artist — nomination
artist — nomination
artist — nomination
“Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends” — poetry — nomination
“Where Will You Place Us When We Are Dead?” — creative nonfiction — nomination
A Snake Falls to Earth — YA novel — winner
Elatsoe — YA novel — nomination
“Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon” — novelette — nomination
Vagabonds (by
Hao Jingfang, translated by KL) — adult novel — nomination
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation — anthology/collected works — nomination
Off-Time Jive — novella — nomination
Loyalty Bookstore's Crowdcast
(1 nomination)
community award — nomination
artist — nomination
“The H Word: Horror in a Country that Is Not Afraid of Death” — creative nonfiction — winner
Suee and the Strange White Light (by GL &
Molly Park) — comics team — nomination
artist — nomination
artist — nomination
Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan — anthology/collected works — nomination
You Brought Me the Ocean (by
Alex Sanchez & JM) — comics team — nomination
Lei and the Fire Goddess — middle grade novel — nomination
Ember award — nomination
Tristan Strong Keeps Punching — middle grade novel — nomination
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky — middle grade novel — winner
Nubia: Real One (by LLM &
Robyn Smith) — comics team —
winner
Lakelore — YA novel — nomination
Mage and the Endless Unknown — comics team — nomination
critics award — nomination
No One Will Come Back for Us — anthology/collected works — winner
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer — anthology/collected works — nomination
“The Harrowing” (by GAM, translated by
Juan Martínez) — poetry —
winner
Gods of Jade and Shadow — adult novel — winner
Slay — YA novel — nomination
Green Fuse Burning — novella — nomination
A Song Below Water — YA novel — nomination
Nerds of a Feather
(1 nomination; 1 win)
critics award — winner
“Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast” — poetry — nomination
“The Epic of Qu-Shittu” — novelette — nomination
“The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library” — short story — winner
“The Tale of Jaja and Canti” — short story — nomination
“The African Superhero and the Legacy of Captain Africa” — creative nonfiction — nomination
“Dune Song” — short story — nomination
Old Gods of Appalachia
(1 nomination)
fiction podcast — nomination
Ballad & Dagger — YA novel — nomination
The Mimicking of Known Successes — novella — nomination
“The Locked Pod” — short story — nomination
“The Badger’s Digestion; or The First First-Hand Description… of Deneskan Beastcraft by an Aouwan Researcher” — novelette — nomination
“Fine Weather, Isn't It?” — creative nonfiction — nomination
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest” — creative nonfiction — winner
Riot Baby — novella — winner
War Girls — YA novel — nomination
critics award — nomination
Witchlings — middle grade novel — winner
Ghost Squad — middle grade novel — winner
The Sun and the Star (by
Rick Riordan & MO) — middle grade novel — nomination
You Only Live Once, David Bravo — middle grade novel — nomination
The Insiders — middle grade novel — nomination
“The Equations of the Dead” — novelette — nomination
“Indigeneity in SFF Gaming: The Ongoing Need for Respectiful, Native-Centered Storytelling” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Night of the Living Queers (SP &
Alex Brown, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Giga (by AP &
John Lê) — comics team — nomination
The Mythic Dream (DP &
Navah Wolfe, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Suee and the Strange White Light (by
Ginger Ly & MP) — comics team — nomination
Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with a Fresh Bite (
Zoraida Cordova & NCP, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Kaikeyi — adult novel — nomination
critics award — nomination
We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 (
C. L. Clark & CP, eds.) — anthology/collected works —
winner
critics award — nomination
critics award — nomination
Out There Screaming (JP &
John Joseph Adams, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Community award — nomination
Community Award — nomination
Community award — nomination
Community Award — nomination
artist — nomination
artist — nomination
artist — nomination
“In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White” — poetry — nomination
“Appeal to the Doppelgänger” — poetry — nomination
“Fin” — poetry — nomination
PodCastle
(3 nominations)
fiction podcast — nomination
fiction podcast — nomination
fiction podcast — nomination
“Ivy, Angelica, Bay” — novelette — nomination
Even Though I Knew the End — novella — nomination
“Music of the Siphorophenes” — novelette — nomination
The Midnight Bargain — adult novel — nomination
Pseudopod
(2 nominations)
fiction podcast — nomination
fiction podcast — nomination
Ram V
(1 nomination; 1 win)
These Savage Shores — comics team — winner
“And Now His Lordship Is Laughing” — short story — nomination
Excellence — comics team — nomination
Nightlight Podcast — fiction podcast — winner
“Body, Remember” — short story — nomination
“Heaven Is Expensive” — poetry — nomination
Rich in Color
(1 nomination)
critics award — nomination
community award — nomination
Community award — nomination
Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn't Die — anthology/collected works — nomination
The Sun and the Star (by RR &
Mark Oshiro) — middle grade novel — nomination
Black Sun — adult novel — winner
Race to the Sun — middle grade novel — nomination
“A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy” — short story — winner
Storm of Locusts — adult novel — nomination
Flowers for the Sea — novella — nomination
The Night Sun — novelette — nomination
Who Lost, I Found — anthology/collected works — nomination
Root Magic — middle grade novel — winner
Helpmeet — novella — nomination
“Post Massacre Psyche Evaluation” — poetry — winner
Samovar
(1 nomination)
community award — nomination
You Brought Me the Ocean (by AS &
Jul Maroh) — comics team — nomination
Ember award — nomination
Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew — middle grade novel — nomination
Cuisine Chinoise: Five Tales of Food and Life (by
Zao Dao, DS &
Brandon Kandor) — comics team — nomination
artist — nomination
artist — nomination
“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Excellence” — creative nonfiction — nomination
“Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island” — short story — nomination
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me — ya novel — winner
Where Black Stars Rise (by
Marie Enger & NS) — comics team —
winner
“The Center of the Universe” — short story — nomination
Writing the Other: Online Classes and Workshops (by NS &
K. Tempest Bradford) — Community award — nomination
Ember award — nomination
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color — anthology/collected works — winner
“The Future Library” — novelette — winner
The Magnus Archives — fiction podcast — nomination
Simultaneous Times Podcast
(1 nomination)
fiction podcast — nomination
Sorrowland — adult novel — nomination
The Last Mapmaker — middle grade novel — nomination
A Wish in the Dark — middle grade novel — nomination
critics award — nomination
“What You Might Have Missed” — creative nonfiction — nomination
AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction — creative nonfiction — nomination
Coda — comics team — nomination
The Submission Grinder — Community award — winner
Stone Soup: The Personal Canons Cookbook
(1 nomination)
community award — nomination
Strange Horizons
(1 nomination; 1 win)
Community Award — winner
Just South of Home — middle grade novel — nomination
“Alternate Rooms” — poetry — nomination
“Imported Entry into an Android Cosmos” — poetry — nomination
A Sky Beyond the Storm — YA novel — nomination
critics award — nomination
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon — adult novel — nomination
“Preliminary Observations from an Incomplete History of African SF” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Night of the Living Rez — anthology/collected works — nomination
“The Line Between Science Fiction and Fantasy is Blurring and I'm Into It” — creative nonfiction — nomination
critics award — nomination
critics award — nomination
The Dark Fantastic — creative nonfiction — nomination
Ember award — winner
Ember award — nomination
Love Hangover — novelette — nomination
Nine Bar Blues — anthology/collected works — nomination
The Survival of Molly Southbourne — novella — nomination
Nightlight Podcast — fiction podcast — nomination
“My Country Is a Ghost” — short story — nomination
We are the Crisis — adult novel — nomination
The Lies of the Ajungo — novella — winner
“Aborteras del Viejo Mundo” (by CV, translated by
Brittany Hause) — poetry — nomination
Never Whistle at Night (
Shane Hawk & TCVA, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Into the Riverlands — novella — winner
Siren Queen — adult novel — nomination
Empress of Salt and Fortune — novella — nomination
Voodoonauts Summer Fellowship
(1 nomination)
community award — nomination
Bitter Root — comics team — nomination
Other Words for Home — middle grade novel — nomination
We Need Diverse Books
(1 nomination)
Community award — nomination
critics award — nomination
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction — anthology/collected works — nomination
“The Necessity of Slavery Stories” — creative nonfiction — nomination
That Self-Same Metal — ya novel — nomination
“When Black Boys Find Magic” — creative nonfiction — nomination
critics award — nomination
critics award — nomination
“To Carve Home In Your Bones” — novelette — nomination
Ember award — nomination
critics award — nomination
The Mythic Dream (
Dominik Parisien & NW, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
“The H Word: The Fear Horror of Change” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Writing the Other
(1 nomination)
Community Award — nomination
Shadow Life (by
Hiromi Goto & AX) — comics team — nomination
“Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy” — novelette — nomination
Never Have I Ever — anthology/collected works — nomination
“Colors of the Immortal Palette” — novelette — nomination
“The Archronology of Love” — novelette — nomination
“The Substitute” — creative nonfiction — nomination
“Zhuangzi's Dream” (by
Cao Baiyu, translated by SJZ) — novelette — nomination