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OTHERWISE AWARD WINNER, 2025 Each year, the Otherwise Award (formerly Tiptree) celebrates speculative fiction that expands and explores our notions of gender. The winner of the 2025 Award: Luminous by Silvia Park [published by Simon & Schuster (UK) & Magpie (UK)] [book cover: mosaic tiger above a green plinth] The jury unanimously agreed: this gripping science fiction novel is a diverse and immersive read that is exceptionally well-crafted. With deep and complex worldbuilding, this work intelligently and realistically explores a range of identities and themes across gender expression, AI, robotics, trans identity, embodiment, dysphoria, disability, and relationships among humans, as well as humanity’s relationship with ‘the other’. The novel casts a crucial gaze at layered societal expectations around masculinity and femininity, and beautifully examines the quest for community and connection. 2025 HONOR LIST What a Fish Looks Like, by Syr Hayati Beker (Stelliform Press) A Song for You and I, by K. O’Neill (Random House Graphic) The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science, by Jessy Randall, illustrated by Kristin DiVona (Gold SF) Notes from a Regicide, by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books) Algarabía, by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Graywolf Press) Learn more about the 2025 winner, Honor List, and Long List, and plans to celebrate them at WisCon (online) in late May 2026: otherwiseaward.org/news Please also recommend works for the 2026 Award, donate to help fund the Award, and read more about past honorees: otherwiseaward.org [Otherwise Award logo; QR code]

Our announcement post otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno... now links to a PDF poster. Share with educators, librarians, bookstores, & other groups to celebrate the winner & Honor List that the Otherwise Award jury selected!

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the cover of Silvia Park's "Luminous: A Novel": a multicolored mosaic tiger atop a tall green plinth

NEWS: The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Award: the novel "Luminous" by Silvia Park @silviapark.bsky.social

Read about the winner, the Honor List and Long List at otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno...

OTHERWISE AWARD WINNER, 2025 Each year, the Otherwise Award (formerly Tiptree) celebrates speculative fiction that expands and explores our notions of gender. The winner of the 2025 Award: Luminous by Silvia Park [published by Simon & Schuster (UK) & Magpie (UK)] [book cover: mosaic tiger above a green plinth] The jury unanimously agreed: this gripping science fiction novel is a diverse and immersive read that is exceptionally well-crafted. With deep and complex worldbuilding, this work intelligently and realistically explores a range of identities and themes across gender expression, AI, robotics, trans identity, embodiment, dysphoria, disability, and relationships among humans, as well as humanity’s relationship with ‘the other’. The novel casts a crucial gaze at layered societal expectations around masculinity and femininity, and beautifully examines the quest for community and connection. 2025 HONOR LIST What a Fish Looks Like, by Syr Hayati Beker (Stelliform Press) A Song for You and I, by K. O’Neill (Random House Graphic) The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science, by Jessy Randall, illustrated by Kristin DiVona (Gold SF) Notes from a Regicide, by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books) Algarabía, by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Graywolf Press) Learn more about the 2025 winner, Honor List, and Long List, and plans to celebrate them at WisCon (online) in late May 2026: otherwiseaward.org/news Please also recommend works for the 2026 Award, donate to help fund the Award, and read more about past honorees: otherwiseaward.org [Otherwise Award logo; QR code]

Our announcement post otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno... now links to a PDF poster. Share with educators, librarians, bookstores, & other groups to celebrate the winner & Honor List that the Otherwise Award jury selected!

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Eligible for nomination: 2025 books, stories, & more by past Otherwise winners and fellows « Otherwise Award Books, short stories, essays, poems, and other works published in 2025 by creators whose works have previously won the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) Award or Fellowships, eligible for awards nomination...

In 2025, past Otherwise Award winners & fellows released many books, comics, short stories, poems, & more:

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Consider them as you read, and nominate & vote for awards.

#sff #genre #scifi #sciencefiction #horror #fantasy #literaryawards #genrefiction #books

Thank you, Eugen, Andrew, Cheryl, K., and Rebecca for your thoughtful work as this year’s jury of the Otherwise Award. I hope many will discover all the honored and longlisted books, each one exploring the complexities of gender in our world and the possibilities for something better

the cover of Silvia Park's "Luminous: A Novel": a multicolored mosaic tiger atop a tall green plinth

NEWS: The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Award: the novel "Luminous" by Silvia Park @silviapark.bsky.social

Read about the winner, the Honor List and Long List at otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno...

Announcing the 2025 Otherwise Fellows! « Otherwise Award The Otherwise Motherboard is delighted to announce the selection of two new Otherwise Fellows: illustrator and animator Aude Abou Nasr and author Ayida Shonibar. Aude Abou Nasr is a French-Lebanese…

We are delighted to announce the selection of two new Otherwise Fellows: illustrator and animator Aude Abou Nasr @ahlanmydarlings.bsky.social and author Ayida Shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social .

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(This is Sumana writing.)

My understanding is that "Le Chat de Sara" is forthcoming, and I believe there isn't a link yet. Sorry!

Announcing the 2025 Otherwise Fellows! « Otherwise Award The Otherwise Motherboard is delighted to announce the selection of two new Otherwise Fellows: illustrator and animator Aude Abou Nasr and author Ayida Shonibar. Aude Abou Nasr is a French-Lebanese…

We are delighted to announce the selection of two new Otherwise Fellows: illustrator and animator Aude Abou Nasr @ahlanmydarlings.bsky.social and author Ayida Shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social .

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#SFF #illustration #fantasy #childrenslit #sciencefiction #horror

2026 Otherwise Awards Recommendations « Otherwise Award Recommend works here for the Otherwise Awards jurors to consider!

As you read, play, watch, listen, and otherwise enjoy new #SpeculativeFiction this year, please recommend works for the Otherwise Award to consider!

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#sff #awards

Help our 2026 jury consider works that explore or expand our notions of gender.

#sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror #genre

2026 Otherwise Awards Recommendations « Otherwise Award Recommend works here for the Otherwise Awards jurors to consider!

As you read, play, watch, listen, and otherwise enjoy new #SpeculativeFiction this year, please recommend works for the Otherwise Award to consider!

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#sff #awards

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Help Sustain the Otherwise Award! « Otherwise Award Please donate to help us raise $9,000 for the next year of operations.

Donate to the Otherwise Award to support scifi/fantasy that explores and expands our ideas of gender! Our year-end fundraising campaign:

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#speclit

Help Sustain the Otherwise Award! « Otherwise Award Please donate to help us raise $9,000 for the next year of operations.

Donate to the Otherwise Award to support scifi/fantasy that explores and expands our ideas of gender! Our year-end fundraising campaign:

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#speclit

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".

#sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror

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".

#sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror

Help Sustain the Otherwise Award! « Otherwise Award Please donate to help us raise $9,000 for the next year of operations.

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 otherwiseaward.org/support-us/d... to our year-end fundraising campaign:

otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help...

Help Sustain the Otherwise Award! « Otherwise Award Please donate to help us raise $9,000 for the next year of operations.

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 otherwiseaward.org/support-us/d... to our year-end fundraising campaign:

otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help...

(Small correction to the below: Deadline is Nov. 15th, not 14th.)

Correction: The last day to nominate is Nov. 15th, not the 14th.

Correction: The last day to nominate is Nov. 15th, and there are 4 days left to recommend works for this year's award.

3 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.

#fantasy #horror #sciencefiction #awards

Self-nominations are totally fine! You are welcome to submit your own work to the recommendation form.

2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award Recommend works here for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider!

Reminder:

Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:

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Apply for Otherwise Fellowships by December 15! « Otherwise Award The Otherwise Motherboard is now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows! Each Fellow receives USD $500 in support of a new or ongoing project. Please apply by December 15.

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Now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows, to support & recognize creators of speculative work that is changing our view of gender today! Apply by Dec. 15 for USD $500 to support a new or ongoing project.

#Fellowships #grants #sff #fantasy #scifi

Apply for Otherwise Fellowships by December 15! « Otherwise Award The Otherwise Motherboard is now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows! Each Fellow receives USD $500 in support of a new or ongoing project. Please apply by December 15.

otherwiseaward.org/2025/10/appl...

Now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows, to support & recognize creators of speculative work that is changing our view of gender today! Apply by Dec. 15 for USD $500 to support a new or ongoing project.

#Fellowships #grants #sff #fantasy #scifi

otherwiseaward.org/2025/10/cele...

Thanks to @emnorth.bsky.social , Rebecca J. Holden, Eleyna Haroun, & @bogiperson.bsky.social for this set of recommendations for gender-expanding-and-exploring genre work published 2022-2023. This concludes our informal recommendation series; enjoy!

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