This year’s slate of nominees for the Hugo Award were announced yesterday, and there are a lot of past and present connections to Norwescon!
This year’s NWC Writer Guest of Honor, Mary Robinette Kowal, is nominated for Best Novel for The Calculating Stars.
This year’s Honored Professional, Neil Clarke, is nominated for Best Professional Editor, Short Form.
This year’s Spotlight Publisher, Subterranean Press, has published two of this year’s nominations: Aliette de Bodard for Best Novella for The Tea Master and the Detective, and Aliette de Bodard for Best Series for The Universe of Xuya.
NWC31 Special Guest of Honor Naomi Novik is nominated for Best Novel for Spinning Silver.
NWC37 Special Guest of Honor Seanan McGuire is nominated for Best Novella for Beneath the Sugar Sky, and for Best Series for the October Daye series.
NWC35 Artist Guest of Honor John Picacio is nominated for Best Related Work for The Mexicanx Initiative Experience at Worldcon 76, and for Best Professional Artist.
NWC36 Special Guest of Honor Gardner Dozois is nominated for Best Professional Editor, Short Form.
NWC29, 35, and 39 Spotlight Publisher DAW Books Representative Shiela Gilbert is nominated for Best Professional Editor, Long Form.
NWC24 and 38 Spotlight Publisher Representative (for Bantam Dell and Random House, respectively) Anne Lesley Groell is nominated for Best Professional Editor, Long Form.
NWC41 Artist Guest of Honor Galen Dara is nominated for Best Professional Artist.
NWC38 Artist Guest of Honor Julie Dillon is nominated for Best Art Book for Daydreamer’s Journey: The Art of Julie Dillon.
NWC20 Guest of Honor A.E. van Vogt is nominated for 1944 Retro Hugo Best Novel for The Weapon Makers.
Some of our past pros and panelists are nominated as well:
Tina Connolly for Best Novelette for The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections.
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry for Best Semiprozine — twice! — for Fireside Magazine and Uncanny Magazine’s Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, and for Best Fan Writer.
Tanya DePass for Best Semiprozine for Fireside Magazine.
And longtime dealer Spring Schoenhuth is nominated for Best Fan Artist.
I think that covers everyone NWC-related, but if I missed anyone, let me know! Congratulations to all the nominees, and good luck!