The Endeavour Award has named the finalists and judges for books published in 2022. A panel of judges will select the winner, to be presented at OryCon 43, November 10-12, held in Portland, Oregon at the Holiday Inn Portland – Columbia Riverfront.

The 2022 finalists are:

• Leech, by Hiron Ennes (Tor.com)
• Be The Serpent, by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• Spelunking Through Hell, by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• The Bone Orchard, by Sara Mueller (Tor)
• The Wild Hunt, by Emma Seckel (Tin House) 

The award intends to encourage the growth of literature in the field and recognize works of excellence. It is named for H.M. Bark Endeavour, the ship of Northwest explorer Capt. James Cook. It is accompanied by a grant of $1,000.

The 2022 award judges are Deborah Ross, Brenda Cooper, and Meg Elison.

Brenda Cooper writes science fiction, fantasy, and the occasional poem. She also works in technology and writes and talks about the future. She has won multiple regional writing awards and her stories have often appeared in Year’s Best anthologies. Brenda lives and works in the Pacific Northwest with her wife and multiple border collies, and can sometimes be found biking around Seattle. Brenda is a two-time winner of the Endeavour Award, for The Silver Ship and the Sea (2008, Tor) and Edge of Dark (2016, Pyr).

Meg Elison is a Brooklyn author and essayist. She writes science fiction and horror, as well as feminist essays and cultural criticism. She has been published in McSweeney’s, Slate, Fangoria, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Catapult, and many other places. Her debut novel, “The Book of the Unnamed Midwife” won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. Her novelette, “The Pill” won the 2021 Locus Award. She is a Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards finalist. She has been an Otherwise Award honoree twice. Her YA debut, “Find Layla” was published in fall 2020 by Skyscape. It was named one of Vanity Fair’s Best 15 Books of 2020. Her parasocial thriller, “Number One Fan” was published in August 2022 by Mira Books. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley.

Deborah Ross has been writing science fiction and fantasy professionally since 1982. She served as Secretary of Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers of America, chaired the 2017 jury for the Philip K. Dick Award, attended LaunchPad Astronomy Workshop, and has taught writing and led writer’s workshops. As Deborah Wheeler, she has written two science fiction novels, Jaydium and Northlight. Her novel Collaborators was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She has been nominated for numerous awards and has had several short stories awarded Honorable Mention in Year’s Best SF.

 The 2021 Award Winner was Erica L. Satifka, for her short story collection How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (Fairwood Press).

Submissions will soon open for the Endeavour Award for books published in 2023. To enter, contact Jim Kling at [email protected] for submission instructions. Submissions must be in an electronic format. There is no fee for entry. Welcome are all science fiction or fantasy works of 40,000 words or more, or single-author collections of short fiction. The author(s) must have legal or physical residence in the Pacific Northwest [Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, The Yukon, and British Columbia] when the publisher accepted the book and must affirm that they wrote the majority of the book while living in the Pacific Northwest.