2026 Hugo Award Nominations Open Through March 28, 2026

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Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards. See the LACon V Worldcon website for nomination information.

WSFS members of the 2026 Worldcon (LACon V) and 2025 Seattle Worldcon as of January 31, 2026 are eligible to make up to five equally weighted nominations in each category of the Hugo Awards, as well as the Lodestar Award for best Young Adult Book and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. You do not need to nominate in all categories, nor do you need to make the maximum number of nominations in any or all categories. Those works/people who receive sufficient nominations will be go on to the final ballot, where WSFS members of LACon V will vote among them. The winners will be announced at a ceremony at LACon V, the 2026 Worldcon.

All ballots must be received by Saturday, March 28, 2026, 09:00 (9:00 a.m.) Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7).

The 2026 Hugo Awards are administered by LACon V, not by the Hugo Awards web site. Address any questions about the 2026 Hugo Awards to the Hugo Awards Administrators of LAcon V at hugo-help@lacon.org.

2026 Worldcon to Present Hugo Award for Best Poem

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LAcon V, the 2026 Worldcon, announced on December 1, 2025 that they would use their authority under Section 3.3.20 of the WSFS Constitution to present a Hugo Award for Best Poem as part of the 2026 Hugo Awards.

The 2025 Worldcon in Seattle also presented a Best Poem category. There is a proposal to add Best Poem as a permanent category that will be up for ratification at the 2026 WSFS Business Meeting. As stated in LAcon V’s announcement:

“There was a lot of enthusiasm for the Best Poem category in Seattle,” Hugo Awards administrator Tammy Coxen said. “We felt that running the category for an additional year would help provide data about its long-term viability before the business meeting chooses whether or not to ratify the amendment and add Best Poem to The Hugo Awards as a permanent category.”

Best Poem will be on the nominating ballot for the 2026 Hugo Awards along with the permanent categories, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. All WSFS members of the 2025 and 2026 Worldcon as of the end of January 2026 will be eligible to nominate works for the 2026 Awards.

For more information, see the full announcement at the LAcon V website.

2025 Hugo Awards, Astounding Award and Lodestar Award Winners

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The winners of the 2025 Hugo Awards, Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced and the awards presented at a ceremony at Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, on August 16, 2025 at the Seattle Convention Center. The winners, the Hugo Award administrators’ report, and the breakdown of the first place voting on each category on the final ballot are available at the Seattle Worldcon 2025 website.

2025 Hugo Award, Lodestar Award, and Astounding Finalists Announced

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Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83nd World Science Fiction Convention, announced on April 6, 2025 the finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer. The full list of finalists is on the 2025 Hugo Awards page.

1,338 valid electronic nominating ballots were received by the deadline of March 14 at 11:59 p.m. PDT and counted from the members of the 2024 and 2025 World Science Fiction Conventions for the 2025 Hugo Awards. ​​Unfortunately, two mailed ballots were received 2.5 weeks later on April 3 after the deadline of receipt. (The initial publication of the finalists had an error of 1,738 ballots instead of the correct number of 1,338.)

Voting on the final ballot will open during April 2025.

Only Seattle Worldcon 2025 WSFS members will be able to vote on the final ballot and choose the winners for the 2025 Awards. The 2025 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award, and the Astounding Award will be presented on Saturday evening, August 16, 2025, at a formal ceremony at Seattle Worldcon 2025.

Questions about the Hugo Awards process should be directed to hugo-help@seattlein2025.org. Please do not submit questions to the Hugo Awards website, as we do not administer the Hugo Awards and can only pass your questions on to the award administrators.

2025 Hugo Award Nominations Open Through March 14, 2025

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Nominations are now open for the 2025 Hugo Awards. See the 2025 Seattle Worldcon website for nomination information.

WSFS members of the 2025 Seattle Worldcon and 2024 Glasgow Worldcon are eligible to make up to five equally weighted nominations in each category of the Hugo Awards, as well as the Lodestar Award for best Young Adult Book and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. You do not need to nominate in all categories, nor do you need to make the maximum number of nominations in any or all categories. Those works/people who receive sufficient nominations will be go on to the final ballot, where WSFS members of Seattle Worldcon 2025 will vote among them. The winners will be announced at a ceremony at Seattle Worldcon 2025.

All ballots must be received by March 14, 2025, 23:59 (11:59 p.m.) Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7).

The 2025 Hugo Awards are administered by Seattle Worldcon 2025, not by the Hugo Awards web site. Address any questions about the 2025 Hugo Awards to Seattle Worldcon 2025.

2024 Hugo Award Winners

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Glasgow 2024, a Worldcon for Our Futures (the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention) announced the winners of the 2024 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer. The announcement was made at a ceremony on August 11, 2024 at a formal ceremony at the convention a replay of which is available on YouTube.

The list of winners and finalists, as well as a link to the final ballot and nominating statistics and a supplementary Administrators’ Report, is on the 2024 Hugo Awards page.

3,813 final ballots (3,808 electronic and 5 paper) were received and counted from the members of Glasgow 2024. As the convention announced on July 22, 2024, they disqualified 377 of these which they ruled were not cast by natural persons. They did count the remaining 3,436 (3,431 electronic, 5 paper).

2024 Hugo Awards Voter Packet Available

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Glasgow 2024 has announced the availability of a Hugo Awards Voter Packet so that members of the 2024 Worldcon eligible to vote on the final ballot of the 2024 Hugo Awards can see the shortlisted works. As announced in their press release:

Members can access the Voter Packet via the convention website at https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/.

The Hugo Awards Voter Packet is a collection of material made available free of charge to Worldcon Members to assist them in deciding how to vote in the Final Ballot for the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

The reading material, artwork, and videos have been graciously provided by the finalists and their publishers and other copyright holders. We are incredibly grateful for their generosity.

The material is available to download for members’ personal use only from now until the end of the Hugo voting period. Members who wish to take advantage of the Voter Packet should therefore do so before voting closes on Saturday, 20th July 2024, 20:17 GMT.

(Glasgow 2024 has chosen to close voting at 20:17 GMT on 20th July because that will be 55 years *to the minute* since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first landed on the moon in 1969).

We wish all our members happy reading, viewing, playing and watching!

Any questions about the Voter Packet or about any aspect of the administration of the 2024 Hugo Awards should be directed to hugo-help@glasgow2024.org.

Direct any questions about the Hugo Voter Packet to Glasgow 2024 at the address above. The Hugo Awards website does not administer the Hugo Awards, nor do we manage the voter packet.