Nominations for this year’s Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer closed on April 30, 2023.  The finalists should be announced some time later in May.  The winners will be presented at the Chengdu Worldcon, currently scheduled for October 18-22, 2023.

This year I actually got my nominations in a whole week ahead of time.  Partly thanks to nominations closing later then usual.  But mainly because I had a family vacation starting in the last week of April and I wanted to have my ballot completed before I left.  Here is what I submitted:

BEST NOVEL

• Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
• Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor)
• The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD)
• The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
• The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)

BEST NOVELLA

• All the Horses of Iceland, Sarah Tolmie (Tordotcom)
• Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
• High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)
• Servant Mage, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
• Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)

BEST NOVELETTE

• “Forte”, Samuel Chapman, Beneath Ceaseless Skies 358 (16 Jun 2022)
• “Merry in Time”, Kathleen Jennings, Beneath Ceaseless Skies 352 (24 Mar 2022)
• “The Prince of Salt and the Ocean’s Bargain”, Natalia Theodoridou, Uncanny 48 (Sep/Oct 2022)
• “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold”, S.B. Divya, Uncanny 46 (May/Jun 2022)
• “Your Eyes, My Beacon: Being an Account of Several Misadventures and How I Found My Way Home”, C.L. Clark, Uncanny 46 (May/Jun 2022)

BEST SHORT STORY

• “Lily, the Immortal”, Kylie Lee Baker, Uncanny 44 (Jan/Feb 2022)
• “Plausible Realities, Improbable Dreams”, Isabel J. Kim, Lightspeed 141 (Feb 2022)
• “Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills, Uncanny 49 (Nov/Dec 2022)
• “The First Promise We Break”, Risa Wolf, Apex 130 (Mar 2022)
• “The Honest Fox, or, A Truth Shared is Not a Truth Lost”, P H Lee, Lightspeed 141 (Feb 2022)

BEST SERIES

• Incryptid, Seanan McGuire, Spelunking Through Hell (DAW)
• October Daye, Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent (DAW)
• The Locked Tomb, Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (Tordotcom)
• The Mistborn Saga, Brandon Sanderson, The Lost Metal (Tor)
• The Scholomance, Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (Del Rey)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY

• Eat the Rich, Sarah Gailey and Pius Bak (BOOM!)
• Step by Bloody Step, Si Spurrier and Mathías Bergara (Image)
• The Keeper, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and Marco Finnegan (Abrams)
• The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Ram V and Filipe Andrade (BOOM!)
• The Night Eaters, Book 1: She Eats the Night, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Abrams)

BEST RELATED WORK

• Bridging Worlds, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola)
• Cosplay: A History, Andrew Liptak (Saga Press)
• Fantasy: How It Works, Brian Attebery (Oxford University Press)
• Story Matrices, Gillian Polack (Luna Press Publishing)
• Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM

• Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix)
• Nope (Universal Pictures)
• Prey (20th Century Studios)
• The Northman (Focus Features)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM

• Andor: “One Way Out” (Lucasfilm)
• House of the Dragon: “The Lord of the Tides” (HBO)
• Westworld: “Que Será, Será” (HBO)
• The Peripheral: “The Doodad” (Amazon)
• His Dark Materials: “The Botanic Garden” (BBC/HBO)

BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM

• Jason Sizemore and Lesley Conner
• John Joseph Adams
• Neil Clarke
• Scott H. Andrews
• Sheree Renée Thomas

BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM

• Claire Eddy
• David Pomerico
• Lindsey Hall
• Sarah Peed
• Sean McDonald

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

• Dan dos Santos
• Greg Ruth
• Magali Villenueve
• Micah Epstein
• Tommy Arnold

BEST SEMIPROZINE

• Strange Horizons
• Uncanny Magazine

BEST FANZINE

• Camestros Felapton
• Fantasy Book Critic
• Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together
• The Wertzone
• Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog

BEST FANCAST

• Kalanadi
• Kitty G
• SFF180
• The Coode Street Podcast

BEST FAN WRITER

• Adam Whitehead
• Arturo Serrano
• Bonnie McDaniel
• Camestros Felapton
• Lis Carey

BEST FAN ARTIST

• Alison Scott
• Laya Rose
• Marceline2174
• Phoenix Data Art
• Rosiethorns88

LODESTAR AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• A Magic Steeped in Poison, Judy I. Lin (Feiwel & Friends)
• Ballad & Dagger, Daniel José Older (Hyperion)
• Rust in the Root, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
• The Luminaries, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen)
• Together We Burn, Isabel Ibañez (Wednesday)

ASTOUNDING AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER

• Everina Maxwell
• Isabel J. Kim
• Judy I. Lin
• Kylie Lee Baker
• Xiran Jay Zhao

What were your favorites from 2022?