Eligibility List for 2025

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Eligibility of authors with a green box have been vetted by moderators of this website. Eligibility of authors with a purple box were vetted by moderators of the Rocket Stack Rank new writers page. Note that vetting is preliminary and this year's eligibility is determined by the Hugo Administrators of this year's Worldcon.

Second Year of Eligibility

Qualifying work first published 2023

Ahia, K.C.

Alden, Lorraine

Andelsmith, Leah

Anstett, Nic

Antoniou, Alexia

Arend, Flossie

Asari, H.B.

Aspey, K.J.

Audeguy-Pegon, Coda

Ayala, V.M.

Baiyu, Cao

Bales, Thomas

Banerjee, Bidisha

Benford, J.W.

Blackgoose, Moniquill

Blair, N.A.

Brannon, Brooke

Cameron, Jess

Castles, James

Cayetano, Ferdison

Chaka, Nkone

Channell, C.B.

Chu, Albert

Chung, Samantha E.

Crews, Christopher

Crowley, Andrew

Cruz, Alex V.

Daleziou, Madelena

Day, Naomi

Diamant, Luc

Dima, Diana

Eriksen, Devon

Essien, Edidiong Uzoma

Fikry, Athar

Firehammer, Max

Frazier, Taryn

Greene, A.V.

Hall, Louis Inglis

Hamilton, W.A.

Hao, An

Harbridge, Kim

Hennessy, Íde

Hogate, Meighan

Holmes, Jayde

Hope, Marilyn

Howell, Ash

Huang, Ash

Hunke, Ryan

Irons, C.H.

Jacobs, Bethany

Jacobs, Zohar

Jacobsen, Mark D.

Jeffrey, David

Johnson, Erik M.

Jones, Wiliam Paul

Jordan, Margaret

Kaner, Hannah

Kawitzky, Felix Rose

Kiefer, Jenny

Kilgore, Davida

King, Natasha

Kuttler, Dane

Kwa, Lois Mei-en

Lamar, A.G.

Lanham, A Humphrey

Lee, Hana

Lhamon, Ashlee

Linardos, Akis

Liu, Angela

Liu, Em X.

Lomuscio, A.M.

Macario, Maricar

Maloney, Jennifer

Manners, Arthur H.

March, K.R.

Markov, Anya

Marten, C.S.

Mattson, Colin F.

McMillan, Jill

McNee, Scott

Merino, Faith

Mitchell, Miguel O.

Mugaa, Dennis

Munsamy, Kim. M.

Nakaba, Rebecca

Navarra, Victoria

Olson, Zachary

Omenga, Joshua Uchenna

Peravali, Pooja

Peterson, Daniel

Pike, Tom R.

Pillai, Renee

Prihandita, A.W.

Qiang, Fu

Ragosta, Sachiko

Randle, Michael

Ring, Elisabeth

Rivera, Michael Echeverri

Rivière, Parlei

Robinson, Mike

Roch, Michael

Rodriguez, Ezra Pilar

Rose, Lisa Lanser

Salman, Naomi

Silver, Avi

Sullivan, Rabbit

Tashiro, Tia

Teixeira, Fernanda Coutinho

Terasaki, Kimberly

Tunning, Katherine

Turnage, Winston

Tzeng, Ten

Valenti, Charlie

Ventura, Morgan L.

Ward, Theodora

Watkins, Melissa A.

Wentz, AJ

West, Mona

Wise, T. Takeda

Woods, Kell

Xi, He

Yang, Wen Yu

Yang, Tessa

Yee, Sagan

Zohai

First Year of Eligibility

Qualifying work first published 2024

Abdu, Jumaana

Alvi, Raahem

Archer, Steven

Baaske, Ian

Bisker, Alex

Bongo, Nadia

Bridges, J.

Burnham, Sophie

Buxton, Joel W.D.

Cameron, Rob

Chao, Kathy

Choe, F.E.

Chung, Yoon

Collier, Grant

Corral-Vázquez, Celia

Cruz, Raul Caner

Dacheng, Shen

Dimova, Genoveva

Engel, Elle

Evans, Michael

Ewell, Katherine

Fromboluti, Matthew O.

Gang, Tan

Garcia, Paula Dias

Gelatt, Philip

Gelian

Ginsberg, Joshua

Groom, Shoshana

Heitor, Danilo

Householder, Ali

Hung, Caroline

Jansen, Anne Mai Yee

Jeong, Sunwoo

Jia-Wen, Claire

Jones, Fiona

Klein, Avram

Kong, Xinwei

Lemos, Cirilo

Loyer, Conrad

Mani, Inderjeet

Marcken, Anne de

Marino, David

Marsollier, Cam

Martinez, Layla

Masri, Tamara

McMahan, Cat

Molumby, Alan

Neri, Damián

O'Neill, Parker M.

Onley, K.W.

Pak, H.H.

Panetta, Michael

Pavlova, Elena

Perry, LeeAnn

Perveen, Amayah

Radovich, Nadia

Rain, Miranda

Ran, Qi

Rhoden, Clare E.

Richmond, Liana

Roballo, Jamie

Robinson, M.R.

Roe, Cressida Blake

Sandground, Alex

Severino, Rachael

Shelle, Modupeoluwa

Stifel, Oliver

Velasquez-Witosky, Charles

Vijayakumar, Anita

Wernicke, Bree

Wesley, R.H.

White, Juniper

White, N. Romaine

Wilt, H.A.B.

Wong, Adeline

Xue, Tiffany

Yee, Abby Nicole

Yixuan, Zhu

Zhao, Carolyn

Zhou, Audrey