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The 61st Annual Nebula Award Winners

This weekend, The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association presented the 61st annual Nebula Awards. If you saw the finalist roster I shared in March and thought, “Gosh, I wonder who will win?” well, wonder no more!

Just some of the winners of the Nebula awards for the best speculative fiction from 2025:

The Nebula Award for Novel

★ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) ★

The Nebula Award for Novella

★ The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia) ★

The Nebula Award for Novelette

★ “Uncertain Sons”, by Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Undertow Publications) ★

The Nebula Award for Short Story

★ “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”, by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25) ★

For more, see the complete list of finalists and winners at SFFWorld!

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SFWA Mar 16

We can't wait to keep this party going on the road to Chicago! If you haven't secured your tickets yet, online or in-person, for our 61st Nebula Awards Conference this June 3-7, we look forward to seeing you out! sfwa.org/nebula-conference

And SFWAns! Keep a sharp look-out for the start of our Final Nebula Ballot at 7pm PDT.

All good things ahead!

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SFWA Mar 16

Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the FIRST EVER Nebula Award for Best Poem!

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SFWA Mar 16

Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novel!

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SFWA Mar 16

Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novella!

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SFWA Mar 16

Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novelette!

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