The SFWA Board of Directors has approved the addition of Poetry and Comics categories to the Nebula Awards.
SFWA President Kate Ristau told members yesterday, “We are thrilled to honor and celebrate our genre creators in these new Nebula categories.”
Award eligibility will begin in January 2025, and awards will be given at the 2026 Nebula Awards Ceremony.
The specific rules will be announced in the coming months, including details such as what is eligible, word counts, etc.
COMICS. It appears there will be a single category. This would supersede the Nebula Rules change installed last December that allocated comics and graphic novels to one of the four fiction categories based on their pagecounts. (E.g., those with less than 48 pages went in the short story category). (With an exception made for nominees in the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction, which has no page count requirement.)
POETRY. Earlier this year Science Fiction Poetry Association President Colleen Anderson said she talked to a SFWA director about creating a Nebula award in the poetry category.
Anderson pointed out that the Horror Writers Association already presents a Stoker Award for superior achievement in a poetry collection.
Also, this summer the Seattle 2025 Worldcon announced plans to run a Special Hugo Award for Best Poem on next year’s Hugo ballot.
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I would have thought there were already more than sufficient awards available for both creative forms.
What? No award for best artwork by an elephant? For shame!
When I read comments like these I always wonder — when did you stop being fans? Every development is now material for a complaint.
“It’s a Loud and Ornery thing to be a Fan”
On a more serious note, though poetry isn’t my thing, I don’t see any reason why SF poetry shouldn’t get Nebula recognition (and likewise with comics)
@Mike: Familiarity breeds contempt, I guess.
Andrew Porter says What? No award for best artwork by an elephant? For shame!
Porter, I’ll take the elephants over you any day. They’re open according to those who study them to accepting new ideas, new ways of doing things. You, obviously not.
Cat Eldridge: Expletives not posted here.
Who’s complaining, Mike? I merely voiced an opinion.
“The wicked flee when no man pursueth.” Proverbs 28:1. I’m merely quoting a Bible verse.
There’s a lot of awards for novels out there too, so maybe SFWA should consider dropping that category and just keep the novella, novelette, and short-story awards. 😀
More seriously, I’m not a huge poetry fan or anything, but I am definitely intrigued by the concept of getting to read my first Nebula-winning poem!
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