Seattle Worldcon 2025 began accepting nominations for the 2025 Hugo Awards on February 10.
The nominations period for Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer will close on March 14th, 2025, 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7).
Seattle Worldcon 2025 will administer the eighteen Hugo Award categories specified in the WSFS Constitution, plus a Special Category this year for Best Poem, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, presented by the World Science Fiction Society, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, presented by Dell Magazines.
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. Pacific time on January 31.
More information about the Hugo Awards can be found on the Seattle Worldcon 2025 website.
A PDF version of the paper nominating ballot can be downloaded by members who prefer to submit their nominations by postal mail. All ballots, whether submitted electronically or by postal mail, must be received by the deadline of March 14th, 2025, 23:59 Pacific (UTC-7).
Instructions will also be sent to all eligible WSFS Members by email, using the email address associated with their membership.
Worldcon members who are uncertain of their status or who experience problems with the online nominating form should contact the committee at hugo-help@seattlein2025.org.
Seattle 2025 Hugo Administrator Nicholas Whyte says:
The Hugo Awards are fan-run, fan-given, and fan-supported. We encourage all eligible members to nominate whatever works and creators you have personally read or seen that were your favourites from 2024. The 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.
While members of both the 2024 and 2025 Worldcons can nominate for the 2024 Awards, only members of the 2025 Worldcon are eligible to vote on the final ballot. To become a member of Seattle 2025, see theirr Membership Page for information about joining the convention.
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There is a crowd-sourced spreadsheet showing eligible works at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KQjsMzaagArvNGp4PsTwgGO0HDKDNbdSqdQ6BNTaPtw, it looks like they keep up with the vetting, but of course, always do your own as well.
The person who hosts that spreadsheet blocks me in social media for reasons I have never understood.
(I hope I’m not standing in the path of the stampede I will have just caused by making people even more eager to click through. Barbra Streisand ain’t in it.)
Just got my email. Off to put in my initial picks.
Got my email. Successfully logged in.
I hope the system continues to be smooth. Please don’t hesitate to reach out via the help email for Seattle, any issues will be forwarded to me where I’ll work on them as Real Life™ permits.
@Chris R
All went smoothly for me. Logging in, saving nominations, and getting my email confirmation.
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Could use some help with Poetry. The spreadsheet did not have that.
nerds of a feather included poems in part 4 of their recommendations.
@Linda Robinett There is a speculative poetry tab on the bottom, here
Thanks, Michelle!
I thought the spreadsheet would have had that. Just have to keep scrolling right if you’re starting from one of the left-most tabs.
Oh nooooo, she shrieks from her hermitage, having spent the past year doing roughly nothing at all and thus has no nominations to offer. (Yet. Hopefully that will change.)
Oops.