Inaugural Utopia Awards Nominees

UTOPIAN NOVELLA

• The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, Octavia Cade (Stelliform)
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
• ​”Submergence”, Arula Ratnakar (Clarkesworld 3/21)
• The Necessity of Stars, E. Catherine Tobler (Neon Hemlock)
• After the Dragons, Cynthia Zhang (Stelliform)

UTOPIAN NOVELETTE

• “#buttonsinweirdplaces”, Simon Kewin (Abyss & Apex 9/8/21)
• “The Future Library”, Peng Shepherd (Tor.com 8/18/21)
• “A Song Born”, Remi Skytterstad (Reckoning 5)

UTOPIAN ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTION

• Reckoning 5, Cécile Cristofari & Leah Bobet, eds. (Reckoning)
• Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin & Sarah Rafael Garcia, eds. (Mad Creek)
• Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, Christoph Rupprecht, Deborah Cleland, Norie Tamura, Rajat Chaudhuri, & Sarena Ulibarri, eds. (World Weaver)

UTOPIAN SHORT STORY

• “All We Have Left Is Ourselves”, Oyedotun Damilola Muees (Reckoning 5)
• “Superbloom”, Lynne Peskoe-Yang (Metaphorosis 1/21)
• “Epicenter”, Jennifer Lee Rossman (Hexagon Winter ’21)
• “Dandelion Brew”, Ana Sun (DreamForge Anvil 6)
• ​”Blood Ties”, Jade Wilburn (FIYAH Spring ’21)

UTOPIAN POEM

• “when the coral copies our fashion advice”, Ashley Bao (Reckoning 5)
• “Mythic Book Emporium”, Mary Soon Lee (DreamForge Anvil 2)
• “If”, Bruce McAllister (Analog 1-2/21)
• “We Must Believe the Road Ahead is Full of Light”, Lisa Timp (Utopia Science Fiction 10-11/21)
• “Terraformer of Bigotry”, Dawn Vogel (Utopia Science Fiction 4/21)

UTOPIAN ART

• “Solarpunk”, Dustin Jacobus (Sci Phi Journal Autumn ’21)
• “Erewhon and Other Strange Utopias”, Roger Leege (The Fabulist Spring ’21)
• “Cephalopod Heart” cover art, Dante Luiz (Hexagon 7)
• “Longing of Hope”, Jane Noel DreamForge Anvil 4)
• “The Leaves”, Tracy Whiteside (Reckoning 5)

UTOPIAN NONFICTION

• “On the Destruction and Restoration of Habitats”, Prya Chand (Reckoning 5)
• “On Solarpunk”, Eric Hunting (Sci Phi Journal 9/30/21)
• “You’ve Got the Future All Wrong. We All Do.”, Scot Noel (DreamForge Anvil 3)
• “Our Winter’s Tales”, Joshua Wilson (The Fabulist 12/21/21)

UTOPIAN CURATOR

• DreamForge
• Hexagon 
• Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
• Reckoning
• World Weaver

Voting for winners will be open to the public from August 1-21, 2022 at the Utopia Awards page. Winners will be announced at the Utopia Award ceremony on October 1, 2022 at CliFiCon22.