The 2019 Hugo Awards have been announced at Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon, the 77th World Science Fiction Convention. They were announced at a ceremony on the evening of Sunday, August 18, 2019.

Here are the winners.

Best Novel

  • The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)

Best Novella

  • Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Novelette

  • If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again, by Zen Cho (B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, 29 November 2018)

Best Short Story

  • A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies, by Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine, February 2018)

Best Series

  • Wayfarers, by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager)

Best Related Work

  • Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Best Graphic Story

  • Monstress, Volume 3: Haven, written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Image Comics)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman, directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman (Sony)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

  • The Good Place:Janet(s),” written by Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan, directed by Morgan Sackett (NBC)

Best Editor, Short Form

  • Gardner Dozois

Best Editor, Long Form

  • Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist

  • Charles Vess

Best Semiprozine

  • Uncanny Magazine, publishers/editors-in-chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, managing editor Michi Trota, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue editors-in-chief Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien

Best Fanzine

  • Lady Business, editors Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay & Susan

Best Fancast

  • Our Opinions Are Correct, hosted by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders

Best Fan Writer

  • Foz Meadows

Best Fan Artist

  • Likhain (Mia Sereno)

Best Art Book

(A one-off category created as per WSFS rules by Dublin 2019)

  • The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, illustrated by Charles Vess, written by Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga Press /Gollancz)


The following awards which are administered by WSFS and voted on alongside the Hugo Awards were also included in the ceremony.

Lodestar Ward for Best Young Adult Book

  • Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt / Macmillan Children’s Books)

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

  • Jeannette Ng (2nd year of eligibility)

Detailed results, finalist placements, and nominations breakdowns are available here (PDF).

The Retro Hugos

Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon, the 77th World Science Fiction Convention, announced the winners of the 1944 Retrospective Hugo Awards at a ceremony on the evening of Thursday, August 15, 2019.

The World Science Fiction Society Constitution allows, but does not require, a Worldcon held 50, 75, or 100 years after a Worldcon at which no Hugo Awards were presented to present Retrospective Hugo Awards for works that would have been eligible for that year’s Hugo Awards if they had been held. (Once Retro Hugos have been presented for a given year, no future Worldcon may present Retro Hugos for that year.) The 1941 Worldcon did not present Hugo Awards. MidAmeriCon II elected to present Retro Hugo Awards for works first published in 1940 that would have been eligible for the 1941 Hugo Awards, had there been Awards presented in 1941.

Best Novel

Conjure Wife, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. (Unknown Worlds, April 1943)

Best Novella

The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Reynal & Hitchcock)

Best Novelette

Mimsy Were the Borogoves, by Lewis Padgett (C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943)

Best Short Story

King of the Gray Spaces (R is for Rocket), by Ray Bradbury (Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December 1943)

Best Graphic Story

Wonder Woman : Battle for Womanhood, written by William Moulton Marsden, art by Harry G. Peter (DC Comics)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

Heaven Can Wait, written by Samson Raphaelson, directed by Ernst Lubitsch (20th Century Fox)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, written by Curt Siodmak, directed by Roy William Neill (Universal Pictures)

Best Editor, Short Form

John W. Campbell

Best Professional Artist

Virgil Finlay

Best Fanzine

Le Zombie, edited by Arthur Wilson “Bob” Tucker

Best Fan Writer

Forrest J Ackerman

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