Hugo Awards 2026
Winners and nominees of the 2026 Hugo Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆The Everlasting — Alix E. Harrow(winner)
- ✦The Incandescent — Emily Tesh(nominee)
- ✦A Drop of Corruption — Robert Jackson Bennett (nominee)
- ✦The Raven Scholar — Antonia Hodgson (nominee)
- ✦Death of the Author — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦Shroud — Adrian Tchaikovsky(nominee)
Best Fanzine
- 🏆 Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together (winner)
Best Graphic Story
- ✦ A Girl and Her Fed (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Never Eaten Vegetables(winner)
- ✦Kaiju Agonistes — Scott Lynch(nominee)
- ✦The Millay Illusion(nominee)
- ✦Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy — Martha Wells(nominee)
- ✦The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For(nominee)
- ✦When He Calls Your Name — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The River Has Roots — Amal El-Mohtar(winner)
- ✦Murder by Memory(nominee)
- ✦The Summer War — Naomi Novik(nominee)
- ✦Automatic Noodle — Annalee Newitz(nominee)
- ✦What Stalks the Deep — Ursula Vernon(nominee)
- ✦Cinder House — Freya Marske(nominee)
Best Related Work
- 🏆Inventing the Renaissance — Ada Palmer (winner)
Best Semiprozine
- 🏆 Uncanny Magazine (winner)
- ✦ The Deadlands (nominee)
- ✦ Escape Pod (nominee)
- ✦ On Spec (nominee)
- ✦ Strange Horizons (nominee)
Best Series
- 🏆Old Man's War — John Scalzi(winner)
- ✦White Space — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Emily Wilde series — Heather Fawcett (nominee)
- ✦The Craft Wars — Max Gladstone(nominee)
- ✦October Daye — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
- ✦The Chronicles of Osreth — Sarah Monette(nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆In My Country(winner)
- ✦Wire Mother — Isabel J. Kim (nominee)
- ✦10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days — Samantha Mills (nominee)
- ✦Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything — Effie Seiberg (nominee)
- ✦Missing Helen(nominee)
- ✦Six People to Revise You — J. R. Dawson (nominee)
Source: Wikidata. Spotted a missing nominee? Let us know.