It is nomination season for speculative fiction awards.

My stories are eligible for a bunch of awards.  The Hugo Awards, the Ditmar Awards and the Chronos Awards are all open for nominations.

My eligible stories from last year include:

Hokkaido Green, Strange Horizons

Salary Ninja, Port Iris

Stone Flowers, Fantasy

Mr. Nine & the Gentleman Ghost, Weird Tales

Inksucker, Worlds Next Door

If I had to choose one story to recommend, then it would be Hokkaido Green.

Chronos Awards (for residents of Victoria)

Nomination form: http://continuum.org.au/chronos-awards/

There is a list of eligible works at http://confound.wikispot.org/2011_Chronos_Award_Eligibles

To my surprise, someone nominated for Best Fan Writer and my WorldCon report for best fan writing.

Ditmar Awards (for Australian citizens & residents)

Nomination form: http://ditmars.sf.org.au/2011/nominations.html

A long list of eligible works is at http://wiki.sf.org.au/2011_Ditmar_eligibility_list

I particularly enjoyed:

Novellas / Novelettes

• A Glimpse of the Marvellous Structure (and the threat it entails), Sean Williams, in Godlike Machines

Short Stories

• “All the Love in the World”, Cat Sparks, in Sprawl
• “The Duke of Vertumn’s Fingerling“, Elizabeth Carroll, in Strange Horizons

Collected Works

• Worlds Next Door
• Godlike Machines

Hugo Awards (only members of last year’s and this year’s World Con are able to nominate works).

Particular favorites include (in addition to works mentioned above):

Novelettes:

• The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window by Rachel Swirsky

Short Stories:

A Sweet Calling by Tony Pi

The Gold Silkworm by Tony Pi

Standard Loneliness Package by Charles Yu

Related Works:

• Packing For Mars by Mary Roach

Just reminding people that my short story Reading By Numbers is eligible to be nominated for a Hugo.

Sean Wallace, the co-editor of Fantasy includes the story in his nominations.

My story didn’t make the Nebula shortlist, but SF Signal asked the finalists if their own work hadn’t made it onto the shortlist what other stories they thought should have made the shortlist.

Rachel Swirsky mentioned my story.

“I was also really taken by another debut story from Fantasy Magazine, Aidan Doyle’s “Reading by Numbers,” a formally experimental piece of fiction that plays with the intersections between mathematics and storytelling to create a story that’s both surprising and moving.”