Awards Eligibility 2025

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I’m extremely proud of the stories and poetry I published in 2025. I’ve had the most feedback from readers of any year so far—thanks to everyone who wrote in!

This year, my work is eligible for the Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, Locus, BSFA, and Rhysling awards. I’ve indicated below which stories are eligible for which award.

For anything paywalled that you’d like to read, you can contact me on BSky, use my contact form, or email me at “arthur(dot)h(dot)manners(at)gmail(dot)com”.

Flash fiction:

• Woodsong — published in Flash Fiction Online (Wilderness Horror issue), October 2025 (free to read)
  • Can a father and son, lost for years in a nightmarish woodland, finally find their way to something beautiful?
  • This is my personal favourite of the year, and has been very well received. It’s due to be reprinted in audio form in Oct 2026 in Pseudopod.
  • Eligible for: Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Locus, Bram Stoker

It hit me last night, as a chorus of woodsong filled our hiding spot: we’re never getting out of here.

But even if I want to lie down and die, I’m clutching one last thread of hope. It’s all I have to offer Chase—it’s still my job to offer him something, even if it’s a lie…

Short stories:

• The Discipline of Small Evil  — published in Illustrated Worlds Magazine, March 2025 (buy issue)
  • Eligible for: Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Locus
• Boomtown Atoll  – published in Phano, March 2025 (free to read)
  • Eligible for: Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Locus

Poetry:

• Looking Back — published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September/October issue 2025 (buy issue)
  • I think this is the best poem I’ve ever written, and I’ve received great feedback! Being published in Analog, it’s hard to get a copy, but I’m happy to send anyone a copy who wants to read it.
  • Eligible for Hugo (poetry) and Rhysling

When they look back at us,

stumbling on petrified data

in the tombs of the

old internet like

Cretaceous mosquitoes

trapped in amber,

will they distinguish our

grandest theories of

quantum gravity

from red-ochre bison

painted on the walls of

Lascaux caves? …

• Martian Gardeners Paring Memories of Old Earth  – published in Solarpunk Magazine, March 2025 (buy issue)
  • Eligible for Hugo (poetry) and Rhysling