2025 Hugo Nominations Are Open

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. These awards will be presented at Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, to be held August 13th-17th, 2025, in Seattle WA. The convention says,

Nominations can be submitted by all individuals holding WSFS Memberships in either the 2024 (Glasgow) or 2025 (Seattle) Worldcons as of 11.59 p.m. Seattle time on January 31, 2025. […]

All ballots, whether submitted electronically or by postal mail, must be received by the deadline of March 14th, 2025, 23:59 PDT (UTC-7).

Instructions will also be sent to all eligible WSFS Members by email, using the email address associated with their membership. We encourage members to check their junk/spam/promotions folders for this email if you do not appear to have received it. […]

Works and creators with sufficient nominations will move onto the final ballot for the 2025 Hugo Awards, which will be announced later this year after the close of nominations. At that time we will also publish the reasons for any disqualifications of potential finalists, and any withdrawals of potential finalists from the ballot.

Eligible voters may log in and nominate at the Seattle Worldcon site. Printable PDF nomination ballots are also available, and must be postmarked by March 14, 2025.

Questions about voting, membership status, or the site should be directed to hugo-help@seattlein2025.org.

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