The 2023 Hugo Award finalists have been announced and we’re honored to have picked up two nominations as both Escape Pod and PodCastle return as finalists for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine!

Congratulations to both teams:

Escape Pod editors Mur Lafferty and Valerie Valdes; assistant editors Benjamin C. Kinney and Premee Mohamed; host Tina Connolly; producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht; and associate editors Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe, Phoebe Barton, Jen Coster, Langley Hyde, Sidd Krishnan, Sarah Kumari, Ewen Ma, J.B. Manipal, Ethan Mills, Matt Olivas, Wil Ralston, Bria Strothers, Alan Mark Tong, Marcus Tsong, Kevin Wabaunsee, and Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko.

PodCastle editors Shingai Njeri Kagunda and Eleanor Wood; assistant editor Sofía Barker; host Matt Dovey; producers Peter Adrian Behravesh, Devin Martin and Eric Valdes; and associate editors Tierney Bailey, Ryan Cole, Aidan Doyle, Emmalia Harrington, Andrew K. Hoe, Kai Hudson, Craig Jackson, Sara S. Messenger, Tarver Nova, Julia Patt, Hamilton Perez, Srikripa Krishna Prasad, Kiran Kaur Saini,  Ziv Wities, and Kaitlyn Zivanovich.

The complete list of finalists is available at the Chengdu Worldcon  website – congratulations to them all! Voting for the Hugo Awards is scheduled to open starting on July 10, and will continue through September 30.