Community Awards Eligibility Roundup - 2025

Awards Nomination Season is here!

Every year, I ask folks to share their recent awards-eligible work so I can share it in an annual round-up. Well, here we are! 2025 has ended, and I’ve rounded up all the eligibility information people chose to share.

You can find my awards eligibility information here, as well as below. Notably, Stone Soup and Love Letters: Reasons to Be Alive are eligible in fanzine and community categories, and I am eligible as fan editor of this publication. Spread Me is eligible in novella and horror categories.

Community Eligibility

• Names have links to either overall eligibility posts or eligible works.
• Please email stone.soup@sarahgailey.com with corrections. 

A.L. Goldfuss, Short Story 
Abhijeet Sathe, Short Story
AK Faulkner, Novel, Series 
Alby C. Williams, Middle Grade Novel, Debut Novel
Alexandra Pierce, Non-fiction short works 
Andrew Kozma, Short Fiction
Andrew Liptak, Semi-pro Zine and Fan Writer 
Angela Hsieh, Graphic Story or Comic, Middle Grade Fiction
Angela Liu, Short Story, Poetry
Atthis Arts, Collection, Novel, Artbook
Beth Cato, Novel
Brent Baldwin, Short Story
C. J. Lavigne, Best Novella
Cassandra Federman, Graphic Novel/Comic, Middle Grade Fiction, Illustrator
Catherine Tavares, Short Story
Chris Bissette, Short Fiction, Tabletop Games/Games
Courtney Floyd, Novel, Poetry
D. M. Beucler, Novel 
David Anaxagoras, Middle Grade Novel, Short Story
David D. Levine, Short Story
Devan Barlow, Multiple Categories
Divya Kernan, Short Story
E.D.E. Bell, Essay
Eleanor Glewwe, Novelette, Short Story
Ellen Saunders, Novel
Ellis Nye, Short Story
Esther Alter, Short Fiction 
Fran Wilde, Novel, Collection/Related Work, Semipro Magazine, Short Fiction Editor 
Freya Marske, Best Novella
Ian Li, Short Story, Poetry
James Bennett, Short Story 
Jared Pechacek, Best Fancast, other podcasting categories
Jeané D. Ridges, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Story
Jenna Hanchey, Poetry, Best Fancast, Best Related Work, Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
Jim C. Hines, Best Novel
John P Murphy, Short Story
Kate Elliott, Novel and Novelette
Katherine Crighton, Short Story
Kevin A. Patterson, Novel
Lee Mandelo, Editor: Short Form, Anthology Categories
Louise Hughes, Short Story
Lynne Sargent, Short Fiction, Poetry, Related Work/Fan Writing
Makana Yamamoto, Novel, First Novel, Debut Author
Martha Wells, Novel, Short Story 
Nisi Shawl, Novel, Short Story
Olivia Waite, Novella
P. H. Low, Novelette, Non-Fiction
Premee Mohamed, Novella, Short Story, Novelette
Rem Wigmore, Short Story
Ren Hutchings, Novella
RJ Taylor, Novelette
Roxy Chambers, Novel
Ruth Joffre, Short Story, Novelette
Ryan James Black, Middle Grade/Historical/Horror
Samantha Mills, Short Story
Sara Shacter, Middle-grade Novel
Sarah J. Mendonca, Middle Grade Fantasy
Sarah Pinsker, Novelette
Shana Targosz, Middle Grade Novel
Shona Kinsella, Novel
Sylvie Althoff, Short Story, Flash
Toby MacNutt, Short Fiction, Poetry
V.M. Ayala, Short Story

My utmost and constant thanks as always to Production Assistant Josh Storey, who keeps Stone Soup consistent and legible and who does a huge amount of heavy lifting on this roundup. Josh, you are invaluable. Thanks also to Copyeditor Lydia and Production Consultant Jen for their hard work on this and all things Stone Soup.

If you appreciate this annual roundup, I hope you’ll consider joining the Stone Soup Supper Club! Subscribers keep this and most other Stone Soup content free for everyone to read, forever. In 2026, we’re starting a Supper Club Discord, which will be a lovely oasis of private community just for members of the Supper Club. I’d love to have you there.

In the meantime, do what you can. Care for yourself and the people around you. Believe that the world can be better than it is now. Never give up.

—Gailey