2024 Hugo Award eligibility post

Update: I wrote this eligibility post before beginning work with Chris M. Barkley on our report about censorship during last year’s Hugo Awards, which was released on February 14, 2024. So where before I said it was weird to ask to be considered for a Hugo nomination, it’s now super weird. But that said, I still believe everything I wrote below. The Hugos remain an important part of the SF/F genre and I believe they will be fixed so all this never happens again. Thanks for any consideration.

The recent revelations about last year’s Hugo Awards are disturbing to say the least. So it is definitely weird to ask to be considered for nomination for the 2024 Hugos. However, I still believe the awards are an important part of the science fiction and fantasy genre. I’m also optimistic that the genre community will fix the issues that happened last year so they never happen again.

As such, this is my Hugo Award eligibility post. I’m eligible for nomination in the following categories:

Below are samples of my fan writings from 2023. Thank you to everyone for your support of my writing and reporting about the SF/F genre.

Essays and Coverage about Machine Learning

Note: My writings about machine learning, plus addition essays and coverage, have been collected in the book Genre Grapevine’s 2023 AI Coverage: Creativity in the Age of Machine Learning.

Other Special Reports

Sample of Genre Grapevine columns

Chicon Schedule

I'm attending Chicon, the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, later this week. I’m doing the following in-person events, so please come check them out. I’ll also be attending the Hugo Awards ceremony, where I’m a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.

I look forward to seeing everyone there!

  • Autographing Session
    Thursday, September 1
    1:00 PM CDT, 2:00 PM EDT

  • Table Talk (advance registration required, details here)
    Friday, September 2
    10:00 AM CDT , 11:00 AM EDT

  • Neurodivergent Fan Meetup
    Saturday, September 3
    4:00 PM CDT, 5:00 PM EDT

Gen Con Writer's Symposium schedule

I’m a panelist at the Gen Con Writer's Symposium, which starts tomorrow and runs through Sunday. R. A. Salvatore is the Author Guest of Honor and a ton of other great authors will also be attending, including Maurice Broaddus, C.S.E. Cooney, Mary Fan, Jaym Gates, LaShawn Wanak, Carlos Hernandez and many more.

The Writer’s Symposium is a tiny part of the larger Gen Con but it’s a great way to interact with authors and also get advice on writing and publishing your own works. Definitely check it out!

Here’s my schedule:

Thursday, August 4

The Full-time Myth: Does every writer really want to do this full-time?
11:00 am in Atlanta
Jennifer Brozek, Erik de Bie, Jason Sanford, C. S. E. Cooney, Jerry Gordon

Writing Tools: Tools to help organize your writing
1 pm in Austin/Boston
Katherine Monasterio, Marie Bilodeau, Jason Sanford, Howard Andrew Jones, LaShawn Wanak (M)

Finding Novels a Home
3 pm in Atlanta
Jason Sanford

Friday, August 5

Finding Short Stories a Home
4 pm in Atlanta
LaShawn Wanak, Jason Sanford

Saturday, August 6

Submitting Your Work: Bye-bye, SASE! Modern methods of submitting work, the good and the bad
1 pm in Austin/Boston
Howard Andrew Jones, Jason Sanford, Carlos Hernandez, Steve Diamond

NFTs and the future of fiction. Can writers benefit from trying to introduce NFTs into their fiction writing?
3 pm in Atlanta
Gini Koch, Lucien Soulban, Jason Sanford, Chris Bell (M)

Imagining Alternate Futures: How to extrapolate a future for your setting
4 pm in Atlanta
Gini Koch, Donald J. Bingle, Paul Weimer, Jason Sanford

Defining Traits: How to distinguish one character from another without overdoing it
5 pm in Austin/Boston
Jennifer Brozek, Erin M. Evans, Jason Sanford, David Mack

Finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

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For the second year in a row I’m a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Many thanks to everyone who supported my reporting and essays about the science fiction and fantasy genre, with most of these works published in my Genre Grapevine column on Patreon.

Worldcon is currently providing a Hugo Awards packet that includes a sampler of my 2021 fan writings. Here’s the sampler if you’d like to download it directly:

In addition, the contents of the sample can also be accessed online with the links below.

Essays, reviews, and special reports

Samples of Genre Grapevine Columns

Blood Grains sequence of stories

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My new novella "Blood Grains Scream in Memories" is out in the current science-fantasy issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. This novella is set in my Blood Grains universe, a far future Earth where nano-technology keeps humanity from damaging the environment. 

This novella is the final installment of my larger Blood Grains story arc, which functions as a mosaic novel told across four different stories. Each story focuses on a different main character as they deal with their place within the larger world that controls their lives. With this new novella, the complete story comes in at just under 80,000 words.

Many thanks to Scott H. Andrews, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, for his encouragement and support in creating my Blood Grains saga. These stories wouldn't exist without him.