The Viable Paradise community is proud to celebrate the tremendous success of its alumni and instructors, among the nominees for this year’s Hugo, Nebula and Norton awards. In a truly excellent field this year, Viable Paradise alumni were a strong showing:
Hugo Award Nominees
- Scott Andrews
best semiprozine, editor-in-chief and publisher, Beneath Ceaseless Skies - N.K. Jemisin
best novel, The Stone Sky (Orbit) - Benjamin C. Kinney
best semiprozine, assistant editor, Escape Pod - Mur Lafferty
best novel, Six Wakes (Orbit)
best semiprozine, one of the editors, Escape Pod
best fancast, one of the presenters, Ditch Diggers - Yoon Ha Lee
best novel, Raven Strategem (Solaris)
best novelette, “Extracurricular Activities” (Tor.com) - Heather McDougal
best semiprozine, one of the editors, Strange Horizons - Suzanne Palmer
best novelette, “The Secret Life of Bots” (Clarkesworld) - Julia Rios
best semiprozine, one of the editors, Fireside Magazine
best semiprozine, one of the editors, Uncanny - Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
best semiprozine, managing editor, Fireside Magazine - K.M. Szpara
best novelette, “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time” (Uncanny) - Fran Wilde
best short story, “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” (Uncanny)
And, of course, former VP Instructor, John Scalzi, nominated for best novel with The Collapsing Empire (Tor).
Nebula Award Nominees
- N.K. Jemisin
best novel, The Stone Sky (Orbit) - Mur Lafferty
best novel, Six Wakes (Orbit) - Fonda Lee
best novel, Jade City (Orbit) - K.M. Szpara
best novelette, “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time” (Uncanny) - Fran Wilde
best short story, “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” (Uncanny)
As well as current VP Instructor, Daryl Gregory, nominated for best novel with Spoonbenders (Knopf).
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Fonda Lee
best novel, Exo (Scholastic Press)
The breadth, strength, talent, and enthusiasm of the VP community are a huge part of the ongoing success of the Viable Paradise workshop, which offers its twenty-second session this year!
We’ll be cheering on our own, as well as our amazingly talented friends and colleagues among the other nominees, when the Nebula/Norton Awards are presented in Pittsburgh at the SFWA Nebula Conference on May 19th and the Hugo Awards are presented in San Jose at Worldcon 76 on August 18th.
If you’d like to attend Viable Paradise and join us in our never ending quest to produce the best SFF writers, editors and podcasters in the world, the application deadline for VP 22 is June 1st.