Inaugural Utopia Awards Nominees

Nominees for the first Utopia Awards, presented in association with the Climate Fiction Conference (CliFiCon22), to be held online October 1, 2022, have been announced.

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.


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