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2017 Award-Eligible Work Blog Posts & Roundups for F&SF

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Hello! I’m posting my yearly round-up of eligibility posts. If you’ve got one, let me know by commenting here, e-mailing me, or messaging on social media. I’ll update daily.

An eligibility post is a blog or social media post listing what you published in 2017 that is eligible for awards such as the Compton Crook, Dragon, Endeavour, Hugo, Lambda, Nebula, World Fantasy Award, and WSFA awards, and sometimes including information such as which pieces you like the best or think are the strongest, word length, and genre. You can click through for many examples.

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  6. I haven’t checked my eligibility for all the awards you’ve mentioned, but I’m pretty sure my trilogy qualifies for the Hugo ‘series’. The first book was published Sept/2016 and the other two in 2017.

    The Bobiverse series:
    We are Legion (We are Bob)
    For We are Many
    All These Worlds

    I’m not submitting links because that often sends a comment post into the spam folder, but can provide them on request. Available on Amazon and Audible.

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  7. http://www.ursulapflug.ca/2017-award-eligibility-list/

    In 2017 I published Mountain, a near-future YA novella. It was endorsed by Candas Jane Dorsey and Governor General’s Award winning artist and writer Heather Spears. It’s available from Overdrive, as an Ebook and as a paperback from the publisher and online retailers. It’s received nice notices in Canada and the US. In my Awards Post I also talk about indigenous Canadian writers of speculative fiction Eden Robinson and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Both were published as mainstream and shortlisted for major Canadian awards.

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  10. I have ONE! Short story!

    “The Queens’ Confederate Space Marines,” appearing in Dogs of War Vol. 1 (Jan 2017). Editor: Fred Patten. Publisher: Furplanet. (ISBN: 978-1-61450-346-0)

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  22. I think a story of mine is eligible? It’s called “The Fourth Hill” and appeared in Asimov’s September issue last year. I realize I’m right at the end of the nominating season but I’ve been a little busy with school and work the past few months and didn’t really look into any of this. 🙂

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