Category: Award Nominees

Call for Papers: Short Takes on the 2025 Nebula and Hugo Award Nominees

⮌ SFRA Review, vol. 55 no. 2

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Short Takes on the 2025 Nebula and Hugo Award Nominees

The Editorial Collective

It’s award season, and few of us have the time to read all the nominated works. Yet most of us will read at least one of the works, and all of us can benefit from your insight on a particular text. The SFRA Review invites readers to submit short (1000-2000 word) analyses on any one or two of the novels, novellas, novelettes, short stories, dramatic presentations, kids/YA, or game writing nominated for the 2025 Nebula and Hugo awards, to be published in our 01 August issue.

The Nebula nominees can be found here, and the Hugo nominees here.

We’d love to read diverse perspectives on these works in order to understand what makes the works noteworthy. The SFRA Review invites scholars, fans or casual readers to submit a short take Each submission should include the following:

  • a very brief introduction to the author
  • a very brief plot summary and description of the formal qualities of the text: narration, presentation, prose style, etc.
  • what in your opinion makes the text stand out as worthy of nomination for a Nebula Award, or why it is not worthy of a nomination
  • a close reading/watching of a section of the text you feel demonstrates what makes the text (un)worthy
  • (optional) a comparison between two nominated works, or between a nominated work and another work you feel is salient

Submissions

Please note that this CFP is on a three-month timeline rather than our usual six-month timeline in order that the pieces be published during awards season.

Submissions should be in .docx format, between 1000 and 2000 words long. Citations should be in MLA format. Please avoid discursive footnotes/endnotes; such notes as are included within the text should not be linked: just use a superscript number and then put the notes at the end of the document. Please include a brief bio of yourself.

Please submit a brief abstract to icampbell@gsu.edu by 30 May and a completed submission by 30 June. Please be prepared to complete edits by 15 July. Submissions will be published in the 01 August issue. We look forward to hearing from you.