2018 Award Eligibility
Hello everyone, award season is right around the corner. If you are nominating and/or voting for various genre fiction awards this year, please consider our original publications listed below.

Cast of Wonders is eligible for the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award. Our 2018 staff include editor Marguerite Kenner, assistant editors Alexis Goble and Katherine Inskip, and audio producer Jeremy Carter along with our team of associate editors.
Marguerite Kenner is eligible for the Best Editor (Short Form) Hugo Award, as are Dani Daly, Alexis Goble and Katherine Inskip as our Artemis Rising 4 guest editors (please nominate together).
The Escape Artists family had a very strong 2018. Escape Pod was a finalist for the Hugo Award, PodCastle was a finalist for a World Fantasy Award, and PseudoPod was thrilled to lose a British Fantasy Award to Neil Gaiman in their inaugural Audio award category. PseudoPod won the THIS IS HORROR Award for Best Fiction Podcast for a second year running (and has recused themselves from consideration for 2018). PodCastle and Cast of Wonders were both on the Hugo long list this past year, as well as Parsec finalists. We’d be honored for any one of our shows and the fiction they publish to receive your vote.
Thank you for an amazing year of support!
— Marguerite Kenner, Editor
2018 Original Publications
- 291: “If Only Kissing Made it So” by Jason Kimble (3000 words)
- 292: “Smokedancing” by Natalia Theodoridou (2600 words)
- 292: “Silver Things” by Dagny Paul (1900 words)
- 293: “The Final Strand” by Mackenzi Newman (4700 words)
- 294: “Earn Your Breath” by Jamie O. Mayer (4500 words; Artemis Rising 4)
- 295: “An American Refugee” by Tiah Maria Beautement (5200 words; Artemis Rising 4)
- 296: “Canary’s Refuge” by Wendy Nikel (4100 words; Artemis Rising 4)
- 297: “Where You Get Your Ideas” by Megan Lee Beals (2200 words; Artemis Rising 4)
- 300: “The Death Knight, the Dragon and the Damsel” by Melion Traverse (5400 words)
- 301: “Ana’s Asteroid” by Megan Hutchins (5600 words)
- 304: “The Temple of the Whale” by K. B. Sluss (3800 words)
- 310: “Cradle of Vines” by Jennifer Mace (1700 words)
- 310: “I Miss Bread” by Giada Zavarise (1900 words)
- 311: “And Flights of Skuhwiggle” by Charles McDaniel (4700 words)
- 313: “Desert Dogs” by Lian Rose and Drea Silvertooth (3100 words)
- 322: “Your Words, There for the World to See” by Aimee Ogden (1300 words; Banned Books Week)
- 324: “The Sound of her Voice” by Jennifer Hykes (3300 words)
- 325: “The Librarian” by Maria Haskins (2900 words)
- 328: “Ava Paints the Horses” by Ville Meriläinen (3000 words)
- 329: “Widow Bones Makes Her Rounds” by Gretchen Tessmer (2300 words)
- 331: “Radio Free Heartland” by Corey Mallonee (5000 words)
- 332: “The Good, the Bad and the Utahraptor” by Jennifer Lee Rossman (2000 words; Dinovember)
- 334: “Secrets and Things We Don’t Say Out Loud” by José Pablo Iriarte (4300 words)
- 335: “Skinned” by Amanda Helms (4400 words)
- 337: “Silkstrand, a Minute of” by Anton Stark (2900 words)
Reprints First Published in 2018
- 323: “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E. Harrow (4900 words; Banned Books Week). Originally published in Apex Magazine on February 6, 2018
Reprints (first published in 2017 or earlier)
- 290: “Everything You Have Seen” by Alisa Alering (5700 words)
- 298: “Pocosin” by Ursula Vernon (5000 words)
- 299: “All Them Pretty Babies” by Alex C. Renwick (4000 words)
- 302: “Restoring the Magic” by Ian Creasey (4700 words)
- 303: “What You’re Missing” by Allison Mulder (2800 words)
- 305: “All Systems Go” by Gerri Leen (1900 words)
- 306: “The Poet and the Spider” by Cynthia So (5000 words)
- 307: “Sidekicks Wanted” by Laura Johnson (2100 words)
- 308: “Every Drop of Light” by Rachel Delaney Craft (2200 words)
- 309: “The Moon, the Sun and the Truth” by Victoria Flynn (1600 words)
- 312: “Ten Things Sunil and I Forgot to Prepare For, When Preparing for the Apocalypse” by Shane Halbach (3300 words)
- 314-320: PRESUMED DEAD by Rick Kennett (42,000 words; Summer Serial)
- 321: “The Penelope Qingdom” by Aidan Moher (5800 words)
- 326: “Forgiveness” by Leah Cypess (3700 words)
- 327: “Memories of Mirrored Worlds” by Barbara A. Barnett (2500 words)
- 330: “The Raptor Snatchers” by Rachael K. Jones (4400 words; Dinovember)
- 333: “Tunguska, 1987” by Maria Haskins (5200 words)
- 336: “The Night Before Never” by Gerri Leen (1000 words)
- 336: “A Little Something for Christmas” by Kat Day (1400 words)
