Eugene Fischer

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Tiptree Award Announcement: Virginia Bergin Wins!

It can finally be revealed: after a year of intense reading and copious discussion, the jury has selected Who Runs the World?  by Virginia Bergin as the winner of the 2017 James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award. In addition to the winner, we selected 7 items for placement on the Honor List, and 26 items for the Long List. Please give them all a look: official announcement of the 2017 Tiptree Award, Honor List, and Long List.

I’m sure I’ll have more to say about many of these works in the future (and how nice it will be to be able to talk publicly about my reading once again!), but for now I have to run off and catch my plane to Orlando for ICFA. But click through to the announcement to read what we found remarkable about so many of these works. And huge congratulations to Virginia Bergin!

Judging the Tiptree Award

This was made public a little while ago, at the same time the new winner and honorees for work published last year were announced (congratulations to them all, especially Anna-Marie McLemore!), but I’ve been remiss in mentioning here that I’m on the panel of judges for the 2017 James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award. The panel often includes a past winner of the award, and I’m thrilled to fill that role this year. Serving with me are Cheryl Morgan, Julia Starkey, Kazue Harada, and our chair Alexis Lothian.

As a consequence, I won’t be tracking my fiction reading online at all this year, since it will mostly be for award consideration. Also, if you follow me on social media, you will see me posting about the award with some regularity. That’s because the judges need people’s help making sure we see all the excellent work that gets published this year. The Tiptree Award has an open recommendations system, so any new (i.e. published in 2017) science fiction or fantasy that you think explores or expands notions of gender is eligible, and can be nominated just by typing the details into a simple web form. You submit it, we’ll see it.

Nominate works for the 2017 Tiptree Award here.