My 2022 work is eligible for awards in 2023 in the following categories:

Fiction

Best Novel:

  • Just Like Home (Tor) - a dark gothic thriller about family, violence, and houses that love you back.

Best Short Fiction:

  • The Daily Commute (The Sunday Morning Transport) - a short story about magic, public transportation, and the way our fears make us unkind to each other.

The bus is slowing down and the apiarist doesn’t seem to care at all. This is a problem for us. We have to get to work and to school and to our appointments. But the apiarist doesn’t care about that. They don’t care about anything but the bees and the bus. It’s infuriating. We are infuriated.

  • When the Tide Rises (Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene anthology) - a short story about disability, climate change, and living in a company town at the bottom of the sea.

There is a goby in my cupped hands. I don’t have to work very hard to keep it there, even though it probably wants to be back with its school. I just lifted up my hands around it in a bowl of latex-covered fingers and it committed itself to its new home, swimming in steady, unpanicked ellipses, lipping at the heels of my palms. It is bright red and bright orange and vivid electric blue, the same colors as the Octarius Industries logo that repeats over and over across the entire surface of my wetsuit. The company is the only thing that stands between me and the ocean and these colors are the symbol of that protection. Maybe, I think, the goby feels safe in my cupped hands because it can see those colors. Maybe it thinks I’m part of the school. Maybe it sees that logo and says to itself here is the place where my friends and I stand together against things with mouths.

Best Comic:

  • The Vampire Slayer (BOOM! Studios) - after Buffy loses her powers, it's up to a new Slayer to take up the mantle. This series is focused on relationships and the ways in which we sometimes hurt each other most by trying to help.

  • Know Your Station (BOOM! Studios) - an original comic miniseries in collaboration with Liana Kangas, focusing on the ultra-wealthy residents of a luxury space station, the staff who make their lives possible, and the murderer who is taking them out one by one.

Nonfiction

Best Related Work:

It is the easiest thing in the world to love a monster. It’s easy to love a monster because love isn’t a decision. It’s no one’s fault that love happens. Emotions, urges, and impulses are themselves beyond our ability to control. Love in its many forms wells up out of the human spirit irrepressibly. Like anger or sadness or the desire to kill, it arrives without invitation or intention. Action might spring from emotion—love might lead to an expression of affection, anger might lead to violence, a powerful impulse might lead to a monstrous act. But on its own, love is no different from any other feeling. To love a monster is easy, when the monster seems loveable.

We are reaching for each other. There is so much space between us, and yet still we are always reaching for each other, even if we’ll never quite manage to bridge the gap between our fingertips. We are reaching, although we are very tired. We are reaching as best we can.

Do you have a moment?

Best Fanzine:

  • Stone Soup is a free-to-read newsletter archive featuring essays, short fiction, and community. This year, it has featured multiple ongoing series recommending books, newsletters, short fiction, art, and more, as well as hosting a wide array of guest essays by new and established voices, including Max Gladstone, Charlie Jane Anders, and Meg Elison.

Best Fan Writer:

  • Sarah Gailey. That’s me!