Nebula Awards 2026
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Chicago IL :
June 6, 2026
Eligibility Year: 2025
Associated Awards: Ray Bradbury Award, Andre Norton Award (also listed below)
Eligibility Year: 2025
Associated Awards: Ray Bradbury Award, Andre Norton Award (also listed below)
Novel
- Winner: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
- Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)
- The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
- Katabasis, R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire)
- Wearing the Lion, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia)
- When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga)
Novella
- Winner: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)
- Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)
- But Not Too Bold, Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom)
- The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
- “Descent”, Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld May 2025)
- Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, Renan Bernardo (Dark Matter INK)
Novelette
- Winner: “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
- “The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2025)
- The Name Ziya, Wen-Yi Lee (Tor)
- “Never Eaten Vegetables”, H. H. Pak (Clarkesworld Jan 2025)
- “Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh”, Marie Croke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9 Jan 2025)
- “We Begin Where Infinity Ends”, Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld Feb 2025)
Short Story
- Winner: “Laser Eyes Ain't Everything”, Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots May 2025)
- “Because I Held His Name Like a Key”, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 16 Jun 2025)
- “In My Country”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld Apr 2025)
- “Six People to Revise You”, J. R. Dawson (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2025)
- “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead”, E. M. Linden (PodCastle 18 Feb 2025)
- “Through the Machine”, P. A. Cornell (Lightspeed May 2025)
Game Writing
- Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Guillaume Broche & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Kepler Interactive) (Developer: Sandfall Interactive, Sandfall S.A.S.)
- Blue Prince, Tonda Ros (Raw Fury) (Developer: Dogubomb)
- Dispatch, Ashley Jeffalone, Suzee Matson, Chris Rebbert, Chad Rhiness & Pierre Shorette (AdHoc Studios)
- Hades II, Greg Kasavin (Supergiant Games)
- Hollow Knight: Silksong, Ari Gibson & William Pelan (Team Cherry)
- Spire, Surge, and Sea, Stewart C. Baker (Choice of Games)
Comic
- Winner: Mary Shelley's School for Monsters: The Killing Stone, Jessica Maison, illustrated by Anna Wieszcyk (Wicked Tree)
- Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal, Amy Chu, Sal Cipriano & Soo Lee, illus23 (Berger)
- Fishflies, Jeff Lemire (Image)
- The Flip Side, Jason Walz (Rocky Pond)
- Helen of Wyndhorn, Tom King, illustrated by Bilquis Evely & Matheus Lopes, lettered by Clayton Cowles (Dark Horse)
- Second Shift, Kit Anderson (Avery Hill)
- The Stoneshore Register, G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by M. K. Perker, lettered by Richard Bruning (Berger)
- Strange Bedfellows, Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley)
Poetry
- Winner: “The World to Come”, Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 22 Dec 2025)
- “Care for Lightning”, Mari Ness (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2025)
- “The Mourning Robot”, Angela Liu (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2025)
- “They Said Robots Are”, Casey Aimer (Penumbric Jun 2025)
- “Though You Always Are”, Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge (Everything Endless)
- “To Be the Change”, Nico Martinez Nocito (Strange Horizons 10 Mar 2025)
— Associated Awards —
Winner
- Murderbot: Season One, Chris Weitz
Finalists
- KPop Demon Hunters, Danya Jimenez, Maggie Kang & Hannah McMechan
- Pluribus: Season One, Vince Gilligan
- Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”, Dan Erickson & Mark Friedman
- Sinners, Ryan Coogler
- Superman, James Gunn
Winner
- Into the Wild Magic, Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick)
Finalists
- Gemini Rising, Jonathan P. Brazee (Semper Fi Press)
- Gobling Girl, K. A. Mielke (self-published)
- Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
- The Tower, David Anaxagoras (Recorded Books)
- Wishing Well, Jubilee Cho (Atthis Arts)
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