The nominees for the inaugural Utopia Awards, to be given in connection with The Climate Fiction Conference (#CliFiCon22), were announced on June 6.

Public voting for the 2022 Utopia Awards will take place from August 1 – August 21. 

The Utopia Award Ceremony will take place on October 1, 2022 during the virtual conference. 

The links lead either to places where the works are available free, or to where they can be purchased.

UTOPIAN NOVELLA

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

UTOPIAN NOVELETTE

• A Song Born by Remi Skytterstad (Reckoning Press)
• #buttonsinweirdplaces by Simon Kewin (Abyss & Apex)
• The Future Library by Peng Shepherd (Tor Books)

UTOPIAN ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTION

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

UTOPIAN SHORT STORY

• Dandelion Brew by Ana Sun (DreamForge Magazine)
• ​Blood Ties by Jade Wilburn (FIYAH Literary Magazine)
• All We Have Left Is Ourselves by Oyedotun Damilola Muees (Reckoning Press)
• Epicenter by Jennifer Lee Rossman (Hexagon SF Magazine)
• Superbloom by Lynne Peskoe-Yang (Metaphorosis Magazine)

UTOPIAN POEM

• If by Bruce McAllister (Analog Science Fiction and Fact)
• Mythic Book Emporium by Mary Soon Lee (DreamForge Magazine)
• We Must Believe the Road Ahead is Full of Light by Lisa Timp (Utopia Science Fiction Magazine)
• when the coral copies our fashion advice by Ashley Bao (Reckoning Press)
• Terraformer of Bigotry by Dawn Vogel (Utopia Science Fiction Magazine)

UTOPIAN ART

• The Leaves by Tracy Whiteside (Reckoning Press)
• Erewhon and Other Strange Utopias by Roger Leege (The Fabulist)
• “Cephalopod Heart” Cover Art byDante Luiz (Hexagon Magazine)
• Longing of Hope by Jane Noel (DreamForge Magazine)
• Solarpunk by Dustin Jacobus (Sci Phi Journal)

UTOPIAN NONFICTION

• Our Winter’s Tales by Joshua Wilson (The Fabulist)
• On the Destruction and Restoration of Habitats by Prya Chand (Reckoning Press)
• You’ve Got the Future All Wrong. We All Do. by Scot Noel (DreamForge Magazine)
• On Solarpunk by Eric Hunting (Sci Phi Journal)

UTOPIAN CURATOR

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