I’ve just found out that I’m on the BSFA longlist!

My essay “When People Giggle at Your Name, Or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident” is in the Best Short Nonfiction category.

For those of you not in the know, BSFA stands for the British Science Fiction Association. BSFA members will have until February 19th to vote, and the next round will be the finalists.

.I just did some quick math, and my category has 28 nominees, which include Chuck Wendig (!) and Cory Doctorow (!!). I have no expectations that I’ll make it onto the shortlist, but it’s a tremendous honour to have made it on the longlist at all.

Upward and onward, y’all. Upward and onward.