The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American (SFWA) has announced the winners of the 61st annual Nebula Awards, one of SFF’s most prestigious honors, “given to the writers of the most outstanding speculative fiction works released in 2025.” This year marks the first-ever Nebula given for poetry, a welcome sign of the increasing breadth of talent in the speculative space.

Here are this year’s winners:

BEST NOVEL

Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

BEST NOVELLA

Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots

BEST NOVELETTE

Thomas Ha, “Uncertain Sons”

BEST SHORT STORY

Effie Seiberg, “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”

THE ANDRE NORTON NEBULA AWARD FOR MIDDLE GRADE AND YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Michelle Knudsen, Into the Wild Magic

BEST COMIC

Jessica Maison, Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: The Killing Stone

BEST POEM

Jennifer Hudak, “The World to Come”

THE RAY BRADBURY NEBULA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DRAMATIC PRESENTATION

Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, Murderbot: Season One

NEBULA AWARD FOR GAME WRITING

Guillaume Broche, & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

DAMON KNIGHT GRAND MASTER AWARD

N.K. Jemisin

INFINITY AWARD

Roger Zelazny

A hearty congratulations to all of the nominees this year and a round of applause to the winners! See the full list of winners here.

Drew Broussard

Drew Broussard

Drew Broussard is the bookstores editor-at-large for Literary Hub and the host of The Lit Hub Podcast. His writing has appeared around the internet and in friends' mailboxes. After a decade working at The Public Theater, he decamped to the woods of upstate New York, where he now lives. He is the manager of Rough Draft Bar & Books in Kingston, NY.