Hugo Awards 2023 and Nominations List, When Hugo Awards 2023 will be Announced? – The 2023 Hugo Awards finalists have been declared at the 81st World Science Fiction Convention held in Chengdu, China. The prestigious awards are presented to honor outstanding achievements in science fiction and fantasy literature. With 1,847 valid nominating ballots obtained from members of the 2022 and 2023 World Science Fiction Conventions.
The final voting process will be kept limited to members of the Chengdu Worldcon and winners named will be announced on October 21, 2023, during a formal ceremony at the convention.
2023 Hugo Awards Nominations
The 2023 Hugo Awards nominations marks talent in the science fiction and fantasy genres and have been announced during the 81st World Science Fiction Convention in Chengdu, China.
Notable nominations include Tamsyn Muir’s “Nona the Ninth” and John Scalzi’s “Kaiju Preservation Society” for Best Novel, Kyle Buchanan’s “Blood, Sweat & Chrome” detailing the creation of “Mad Max: Fury Road” stands out in the Best Related Work category.
In the long and short-form Dramatic Presentation categories, a wide variety of works including “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” and “Nope” are contenders.
2023 Hugo Awards Nominations List
Here is the list of the Hugo Award 2023 nomination list below in a table:
| Category | Nominees |
| Best Novel | The Daughter of Doctor Moreau The Kaiju Preservation Society Legends & Lattes Nona the Ninth Nettle & Bone The Spare Man |
| Best Novella | Even Though I Knew the End Into the Riverlands Ogres What Moves the Dead Where the Drowned Girls Go A Mirror Mended |
| Best Novelette | The Difference Between Love and Time Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness The Space-Time Painter We Built This City A Dream of Electric Mothers If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You |
| Best Short Story | D.I.Y. Zhurong on Mars Rabbit Test On the Razor’s Edge Resurrection The White Cliff |
| Best Series | Children of Time Series October Daye Rivers of London The Scholomance The Founders Trilogy The Locked Tomb |
| Best Graphic Story or Comic | Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams Monstress vol. 7: Devourer Once & Future Vol 4: Monarchies in the UK Saga, Vol. 10 DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow |
| Best Related Work | Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes Buffalito World Outreach Project Chinese Science Fiction, An Oral History, Volume 1 “The Ghost of Workshops Past” |
| Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form | Avatar: The Way of Water Nope Severance (Season 1) Turning Red Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form | Andor: “One Way Out” She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: “Whose Show is This?” For All Mankind: “Stranger in a Strange Land” Stranger Things: “Chapter Four: Dear Billy” Andor: “Rix Road” The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes” |
| Best Editor, Short Form | Scott H. Andrews Sheree Renée Thomas Xu Wang Feng Yang Neil Clarke Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki |
| Best Editor, Long Form | Ruoxi Chen Lindsey Hall Sarah Peed Huan Yan Haijun Yao Lee Harris |
| Best Professional Artist | Sija Hong Alyssa Winans Jian Zhang Enzhe Zhao Kuri Huang Paul Lewin |
| Best Semiprozine | Escape Pod Strange Horizons Uncanny Magazine Ohaegbu FIYAH khōréō PodCastle |
| Best Fanzine | Chinese Academic SF Express Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog Zero Gravity Newspaper Galactic Journey Journey Planet Nerds of the Feather |
| Best Fancast | Coode Street Podcast Octothorpe Worldbuilding for Masochists Hugo, Girl! Hugos There Kalanadi |
| Best Fan Writer | Chris M. Barkley RiverFlow Jason Sanford Örjan Westin Bitter Karella Arthur Liu |
| Best Fan Artist | Iain Clark España Sheriff Orion Smith Richard Man Laya Rose Alison Scott |
| Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book | Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts) In the Serpents Wake Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods Bloodmarked Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak The Golden Enclaves |
| Astounding Award for Best New Writer | Travis Baldree Maijia Liu Everina Maxwell Weimu Xin Naseem Jamnia Isabel J Kim |
When Hugo Awards 2023 will be Announced?
The 2023 Hugo Awards will be declared at the Hugo Awards Ceremony, which will be held on the evening of Saturday, October 21, 2023. This prestigious event will be conducted in Chengdu, China, as part of the 81st World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon).