Campbell Award Eligible Writers Anthology
20 March 2016
Up and Coming, the 2016 anthology of science fiction and fantasy writers eligible for this year’s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, is now available. This award is the only award given at the Hugo Award ceremonies that is voted on by the Hugo Award voters but is not itself a Hugo Award.
How to Nominate for the Campbell Award
In order to be a nominator for the Campbell Award, you had to be a member of one of the following by January 31 of this year:
- Last year’s Spokane Worldcon, Sasquan.
- This year’s Kansas City Worldcon, MidAmeriCon II.
- Next year’s Helsinki Worldcon.
The nomination link is here, and nominations close March 31, 2016.
Complete List of Authors in the Anthology
- Charlotte Ashley
- John Ayliff
- Lucas Bale
- Nicolette Barischoff
- Sofie Bird
- Derrick Boden
- Stefan Bolz
- David Bruns
- Martin Cahill
- Aaron Canton
- D.K. Cassidy
- Zach Chapman
- Curtis C. Chen
- ZZ Claybourne
- Liz Colter
- Nik Constantine
- Daniel J. Davis
- S.B. Divya
- Margaret Dunlap
- S.K. Dunstall
- Jonathan Edelstein
- Harlow C. Fallon
- Rafaela F. Ferraz
- Sam Fleming
- Annalee Flower Horne
- Ron S. Friedman
- David Jón Fuller
- Sarah Gailey
- Patricia Gilliam
- Jaymee Goh
- Elad Haber
- Auston Habershaw
- Philip Brian Hall
- John Gregory Hancock
- Nin Harris
- C.A. Hawksmoor
- Sean Patrick Hazlett
- Holly Heisey
- Michael Patrick Hicks
- SL Huang
- Kurt Hunt
- L.S. Johnson
- Cameron Johnston
- Rachel K. Jones
- Jason Kimble
- Paul B. Kohler
- Jeanne Kramer-Smyth
- Jamie Gilman Kress
- Jason LaPier
- Fonda Lee
- S Lynn
- Jack Hollis Marr
- Arkady Martine
- Kim May
- Alison McBain
- Rati Mehrotra
- Lia Swope Mitchell
- Allison Mulder
- Ian Muneshwar
- Brian Niemeier
- Wendy Nikel
- George Nikolopoulos
- Megan E. O’Keeve
- Malka Older
- Emma Osborne
- Chris Ovenden
- Steve Pantazis
- Carrie Patel
- Sunil Patel
- Laura Pearlman
- Samuel Peralta
- Andrea Phillips
- Mark Robert Philps
- Monica Enderle Pierce
- Ivan Popov
- Bill Powell
- Stephen S. Power
- Rhiannon Rasmussen
- Chris Reher
- Ethan Reid
- Kelly Robson
- Andy rogers
- Lauren M. Roy
- Steve Ruskin
- KB Rylander
- Hope Erica Schultz
- Effie Seiberg
- Tahmeed Shafiq
- Iona Sharma
- Anthea Sharp
- Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
- Daniel Arthur Smith
- Lesley Smith
- William Squirrell
- Dan Stout
- Naru Dames Sundar
- Will Swardstrom
- Jeremy Szal
- Lauren C. Teffeau
- Natalia Theodoridou
- Joseph Tomaras
- Vincent Trigili
- P.K. Tyler
- Tamara Vardomskaya
- Leo Vladimirsky
- Nancy SM Waldman
- Thomas M. Waldroon
- Jo Lindsay Walton
- Kim Wells
- Alison Wilgus
- Nicolas Wilson
- Alyssa Wong
- Eleanor R. Wood
- Frank Wu
- Jeff Xilon
- JY Yang
- Isabel Yap
- Jo Zebedee
- Jon F. Zeigler
- Anna Zumbro
…which is a lot of people, but there are actually more eligible authors than that. Check out this page on Writertopia for who’s eligible this year. This year’s Campbell eligibles are those who had a first professional sale published in 2014 or 2015.
Note, however, that final eligibility is determined by the Hugo Award administrator. Of note, I think Andy Weir (not in the anthology, but mentioned on the Writertopia page) could be ruled ineligible; while The Martian was initially released as a self-published title in 2011, it wasn’t really a professional sale until 2014 when it was re-published by Crown Books. However, the audio book version was published in 2013, and that may be a sticking point. Or not.
I Wasn’t a Member, But One of My Favorites Made the Ballot, Now What?
You can become a member of MidAmeriCon II. Voting will begin in early May. I don’t know when exactly voting will close, but typically it’s some time in July.
The Hugo ceremony will take place at the convention, Wed to Sun, August 17-21, 2016, in Kansas City, Missouri.