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In 2025, past Otherwise Award winners & fellows released many books, comics, short stories, poems, & more:
https://otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/eligible-2025-works-by-past-winners-fellows
Consider them as you read, and nominate and vote for awards.
#sff #genre #SpeculativeFiction #scifi #sciencefiction #horror #fantasy #LiteraryAwards #GenreFiction #books
Register for @WisConSF3@wandering.shop so you can join us for the live Otherwise Auction!
https://otherwiseaward.org/2026/05/join-us-at-our-auction-at-wiscon-online
Evening of Saturday, May 23rd (US Central Time): laugh (bidding is optional) as we auction off collectibles, wacky experiences, and more. Any donation gets you a virtual gift bag!
Otherwise supports the very sort of fiction that we need today more than ever: visions of possibilities through the fog of the present. Please donate to our year-end fundraising campaign:
https://otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help-sustain-the-otherwise-award
As you read, play, watch, listen, and otherwise enjoy new #SpeculativeFiction this year, please recommend works for the Otherwise Award to consider!
https://otherwiseaward.org/award/2026-otherwise-awards/2026-otherwise-awards-recommendations
Help our 2026 jury consider works that explore or expand our notions of gender.
We are delighted to announce the selection of two new Otherwise Fellows: illustrator and animator Aude Abou Nasr and author Ayida Shonibar @ayidashonibar@wandering.shop .
https://otherwiseaward.org/2026/02/announcing-2025-otherwise-fellows
#SFF #illustration #fantasy #ChildrensLiterature #sciencefiction #horror
RE: @OtherwiseAward@wandering.shop
6 more days to apply for an Otherwise Fellowship!
Past fellows were glad it "gave me motivation to keep trying again and again" and "provided a validation both for my own work, and also for the idea that this type of writing is both valued and needed".
RE: @OtherwiseAward@wandering.shop
4 days left to nominate books, stories, poems, music, video, fanfic, social media posts, or any other form of #SpeculativeFiction for this year's Otherwise Award jury.
Anyone can make a recommendation, and it's fine to nominate your own work.
Donate to the Otherwise Award to support scifi/fantasy that explores and expands our ideas of gender! Our year-end fundraising campaign:
https://otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help-sustain-the-otherwise-award
https://otherwiseaward.org/2025/10/apply-for-otherwise-fellowships-by-december-15
We're now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows, to support and recognize creators of speculative work that is changing our view of gender today! Apply by Dec. 15th for USD $500 to support a new or ongoing project.
#Fellowships #grants #funding #SpeculativeFiction #sff #GenreFiction #fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi
