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Utopia Award

Presented by: Online vote adminstered by Android Press

For: Science fiction, fantasy, climate fiction works that exemplify hopeful, utopian fiction

Winner The World We Make N. K. Jemisin
Nominee Beating the Apocalypse Joyce Reynolds-Ward
Nominee Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution R. F. Kuang
Nominee A Half-Built Garden Ruthanna Emrys
Nominee When Women Were Dragons Kelly Barnhill

Winner Under Pressure Fábio Fernandes
Nominee A Prayer for the Crown-Shy Becky Chambers
Nominee The House of Drought Dennis Mombauer
Nominee Uncommon Charm Emily Bergslien+Kat Weaver
Nominee Weird Fishes Rae Mariz
Nominee Arboreality Rebecca Campbell

Nominee The Language of Insects H. Pueyo
Nominee We Built This City Marie Vibbert
Nominee Rainbow Boy Amanda Ilozumba Otitochukwu

Winner Neyllo Naomi Eselojor
Nominee She Dreams of Moons and Moons Marisca Pichette
Nominee Like Stars Daring to Shine Somto Ihezue
Nominee The Sea Goddess' Bloom Uchechukwu Nwaka
Nominee Worker's Song H. Pueyo
Nominee Look to the Sky, My Love Renan Bernardo

Winner Omenana - 2022 Iquo DianaAbasi+Mazi Nwonwu
Nominee Mafaverna: Democracia Jana Bianchi+Diogo Ramos
Nominee Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds Katrina Archer
Nominee Buffalo Is the New Buffalo Chelsea Vowel
Nominee Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki+Zelda Knight+Sheree Renée Thomas

Winner I do not wish to carry so much burden Chukwuma-Eke Pacella
Nominee Manifesto of Pulled Bells Vanessa Jae
Nominee Nature's Chosen Pronouns Miriam Navarro Prieto

Winner Neyllo Jema Byamugisha
Nominee I do not wish to carry so much burden Maria Carvalho
Nominee Solarpunk Magazine, January-February 2022 Brianna Castagnozzi
Nominee Reckoning 6 Zuzanna Kwiecien
Nominee Hexagon, Summer 2022 Will Tempest

Winner Horror and Hope in Climate Fiction Sarena Ulibarri
Nominee Homegoings and Repasts DW McKinney
Nominee Solarpunk Is a Hothouse Tomato Michael J. DeLuca
Nominee Wildfire, Hellfire: the Case for Siberian Globeflowers Sofia Ezdina+Daria Kholyavka
Nominee The Ethics of Extractivism in Science Fiction Emma Johanna Puranen

Winner A Psalm for the Wild-Built Becky Chambers
Nominee The Necessity of Stars E. Catherine Tobler
Nominee The Impossible Resurrection of Grief Octavia Cade
Nominee After the Dragons Cynthia Zhang

Winner A Song Born Remi Skytterstad
Nominee #buttonsinweirdplaces Simon Kewin
Nominee The Future Library Peng Shepherd

Winner All We Have Left Is Ourselves Oyedotun Damilola Muees
Nominee Epicenter Jennifer Lee Rossman
Nominee Superbloom Lynne Peskoe-Yang
Nominee Blood Ties Jade Wilburn
Nominee Dandelion Brew Ana Sun

Winner Reckoning 5 Leah Bobet+Cécile Cristofari
Nominee Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology Sarah Rafael Garcia+Matthew David Goodwin+Alex Hernandez
Nominee Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures Rajat Chaudhuri+Deborah Cleland+Christoph Rupprecht+Norie Tamura+Sarena Ulibarri

Winner Mythic Book Emporium Mary Soon Lee
Nominee The Terraformer of Bigotry Dawn Vogel
Nominee If Bruce McAllister

Nominee Too Hot to Handle Tracy Whiteside
Nominee Hexagon, Winter 2021 Dante Luiz

Nominee You've Got the Future Wrong - We All Do. Scot Noel
Nominee On Solarpunk Eric Hunting

Winner Reckoning 5 Leah Bobet+Cécile Cristofari
Nominee Hexagon - 2021 JW Stebner