We bring to your attention books, short stories, essays, poems, and other works published in 2025 by creators whose works have previously won the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) Award, and our past Fellows. As nomination and voting deadlines get closer for awards for 2025 work (March 28th is the nomination deadline for the Hugos!), consider adding these to your reading list:

• Eleanor Arnason, whose A Woman of the Iron People won the 1991 Award, edited The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers
• Nicola Griffith, whose Ammonite won the 1993 Award, wrote the essay “Introduction: To Belong, or Not”
• Candas Jane Dorsey, whose Black Wine won the 1997 Award, wrote two poems: “Losing It” and “Morning in the Garden of Fear”
• Cameron Reed, whose “Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation” won the 1998 Award, wrote the novelette “The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For”
• John Kessel, whose “Stories for Men” won the 2002 award, wrote the novella “The Ghost”
• Geoff Ryman, 2005 winner for Air: Or, Have Not Have, wrote the novel Animals
• Catherynne M. Valente, 2006 winner for The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden, wrote the story “Came The Last Night of Sadness” and the novelette “When He Calls Your Name”
• Sarah Hall, 2007 winner for The Carhullan Army, wrote the novel Helm
• Nisi Shawl, whose Filter House won the 2008 Award, wrote the novel Making Amends
• Patrick Ness, whose The Knife of Never Letting Go won the 2008 Award, wrote the novel Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody
• K. Ibura, 2012 winner for Ancient, Ancient, wrote the novel Tempest
• Caitlin R. Kiernan, whose The Drowning Girl won the 2012 Award, released the short fiction collection Bright Dead Star
• Akwaeke Emezi, 2019 winner for Freshwater, wrote the novels Son of the Morning and Somadina
• H. Pueyo, 2017 Fellow, wrote the novella But Not Too Bold
• Vida Cruz-Borja, 2018 Fellow, wrote the novella Mirror Marked
• Ana Hurtado, 2018 Fellow, wrote the short stories “En el obscurito,” “Pezcara,” and “Anémona”
• Mars Lauderbaugh, 2024 Fellow, wrote the comic “Old Ones, New Ones”
• Eugen Bacon, 2024 Fellow, wrote the short stories “The Shadow Eater of Órino-Rin,” “AI Chronicles: Properties of a Human Curse,” “Ne’za’s Yearning,” and “Kinje’kitile and the Jintu,” co-wrote the poem “Momentum Vitae,” wrote the novellas The Nga’phandileh Whisperer and Novic, co-edited the anthology Fission #5, and wrote several essays and a review
• Ayida Shonibar, 2025 Fellow, wrote the poem “All Relative” and the short stories “Am I a Woman, Am I a Bird of Prey” and “An Unholy Terroir”

Happy reading and nominating!

And thanks to Brackett Robertson for researching this list.