Awards-Eligible Works Published in 2026

Short stories

“The Language of Machines” – Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, print May/June issue. An inverted first contact story that involves new Humans and baobabs.

“If You Must Leave The City” – Sunday Morning Transport (note trial code that permits reading this story and others for a limited time sans subscription is linked here )

Poetry

“Bakotsu says his skin is our skin” – Strange Horizons

Related works

“Fight for the Soul” – Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Stories Untold (print, ebook and audiobook anthology of short stories related to Critical Role’s Campaign 2).

Interview with Marie Brennan (about the first Poetry HUGO!)