We need your recommendations of works for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider. If you’ve read a recently published work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our understanding of gender, please tell us about it by filling out the recommendation form below. If you have more than one, fill out the form again for each recommendation.

(Works can be books, stories, poems, music, video, fanfic, social media posts, or any other form of speculative fiction.)

Please only recommend works that were published in 2025 or 2026. (For works published in 2025, check to make sure they weren’t on the 2025 recommendations list.)

In the form below, anything that you enter in the Author, Title, Publisher, Link, and Additional Comments fields will be publicly visible. If you want to add non-public comments about the work that you’re recommending, email recommendations@otherwiseaward.org.

The Additional Comments field is optional, but we strongly recommend saying something in that field about the ways in which the work explores or expands gender—doing so helps the jury as well as anyone who’s using this page as a reading list.

Because anyone can recommend a work, a work’s presence on this list doesn’t indicate recognition by the Otherwise Awards, so please don’t use a work’s presence on this list to promote the work. (If a work wins an Award or appears on an Honor List, you can use that to promote the work.)

Recommendations for this year’s Awards close in late 2026. (Recommendations after that will go to the 2027 award.) The 2026 awards will be given in 2027, location to be determined.

To let us know something related to recommendations that doesn’t fit in the form, email recommendations@otherwiseaward.org.