Otherwise Award
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25+ years supporting speculative fiction that explores & expands gender roles & concepts. Formerly known as Tiptree. https://otherwiseaward.org/
Otherwise Award will run a fundraising auction at @laworldcon.bsky.social next month! Register now www.lacon.org/register/ so you can watch and laugh on Sat., August 30th, 6-7pm PDT (in UTC: Mon. 31 August, 01:00-0:200). Details: otherwiseaward.org/2026/07/join... #Worldcon #WorldCon2026 #LAConV
![Where to find us at Worldcon: Otherwise Award Virtual Charity Auction
Sunday, August 30th, 6-7pm PDT (or, in UTC: Monday, August 31st, 01:00)
Online (look for “Virtual 2” in the schedule)
[Logo elements: LACon V, Space babe firing a raygun, Otherwise Award logo, QR code to lacon.org ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bdu3fizsdrn22ux3wyske3v3/bafkreia6ebj4e25klp3hqtbfgv7hubd4t4xd5jbssccybftq2dkarr67ve)
Their BackerKit site is here and if you're able maybe you'll consider throwing a few pennies their way for 2027: /10
Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser
The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!
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In a few minutes: We speak about "The Last Year in Gender-Exploring SpecFic" in a panel at #WisCon2026 -- two jurors who served on the 2025 jury discuss the Award-winning and Honor List works, and trends and patterns they've noticed overall. Join us! program.wiscon.net/PublicSchedu...
WisCon 48 – Public Schedule
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otherwiseaward.org/2026/05/othe... Our #WisCon2026 schedule: The Last Year in Gender-Exploring SpecFic panel: award jurors discuss 2025 Otherwise Fundraising Auction (silly) Guest of Honor Speeches & Otherwise Presentation: including a speech by @silviapark.bsky.social + a filk! #WisCon #WisCon48
Otherwise plans at WisCon 2026 « Otherwise Award
This weekend, May 21-25, we’re participating in the annual feminist sf convention WisCon. This year, the convention is online—come join us!
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8 days from now, you can bid on vintage collectibles, wry art, and wacky experiences! (Sumana has promised us that there will be at least one wacky experience.)
Otherwise Award@otherwiseaward.org · 3mo agoRegister for @wiscon.bsky.social so you can join us for the live Otherwise Auction! otherwiseaward.org/2026/05/join... Evening of Saturday, May 23rd (US Central Time): laugh (bidding is optional) as we auction off collectibles, wacky experiences, and more. Any donation gets you a virtual gift bag!
8 days from now, you can bid on vintage collectibles, wry art, and wacky experiences! (Sumana has promised us that there will be at least one wacky experience.)
Otherwise Award@otherwiseaward.org · 3mo agoRegister for @wiscon.bsky.social so you can join us for the live Otherwise Auction! otherwiseaward.org/2026/05/join... Evening of Saturday, May 23rd (US Central Time): laugh (bidding is optional) as we auction off collectibles, wacky experiences, and more. Any donation gets you a virtual gift bag!
Register for @wiscon.bsky.social so you can join us for the live Otherwise Auction! otherwiseaward.org/2026/05/join... Evening of Saturday, May 23rd (US Central Time): laugh (bidding is optional) as we auction off collectibles, wacky experiences, and more. Any donation gets you a virtual gift bag!
Join us at our auction at WisCon online! « Otherwise Award
We’re having an Otherwise Award auction at WisCon online this year—come join us!
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Register for @wiscon.bsky.social so you can join us for the live Otherwise Auction! otherwiseaward.org/2026/05/join... Evening of Saturday, May 23rd (US Central Time): laugh (bidding is optional) as we auction off collectibles, wacky experiences, and more. Any donation gets you a virtual gift bag!
Join us at our auction at WisCon online! « Otherwise Award
We’re having an Otherwise Award auction at WisCon online this year—come join us!
otherwiseaward.org
Seeking participants! Speculative Insight will host a roundtable discussion of Cameron Reed’s What We Are Seeking. Have you read it, or intend to? Do you have Thoughts, or expect that you will? Apply (forms.gle/YYgJAU1vByws...) by Mon, 11 May. Remuneration of AUD150 to be paid when discussion wraps.
The WisCon 48 Panel Interest Survey is open, and it closes April 19th. Log into your WisCon account at the top left corner of wiscon.net and click on Interest Survey. We have topics from A.I. to Resistance in Spec fic to Fandom Today, which are you interested in? Tell us today!
Registration for WisCon Online 2026 is Open! Welcome to the oldest feminist inclusive convention. Online, Memorial Day Weekend, May 21-25, 2026. reg.wiscon.net Sign up for the newsletter here, if you haven't already! wiscon.net/news/e-newsl... #WisCon #WomeninSFF #Feminist #Onlineconvention
Our announcement post otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno... now links to a PDF poster. Share with educators, librarians, bookstores, & other groups to celebrate the winner & Honor List that the Otherwise Award jury selected! #SpeculativeFiction #GenreFiction #ScienceFiction #fantasy #books #awards
![OTHERWISE AWARD WINNER, 2025
Each year, the Otherwise Award (formerly Tiptree) celebrates speculative fiction that expands and explores our notions of gender.
The winner of the 2025 Award: Luminous by Silvia Park [published by Simon & Schuster (UK) & Magpie (UK)]
[book cover: mosaic tiger above a green plinth]
The jury unanimously agreed: this gripping science fiction novel is a diverse and immersive read that is exceptionally well-crafted. With deep and complex worldbuilding, this work intelligently and realistically
explores a range of identities and themes across gender expression, AI, robotics, trans identity, embodiment, dysphoria, disability, and relationships among humans, as well as humanity’s relationship with ‘the other’. The novel casts a crucial gaze at layered societal expectations around masculinity and femininity, and beautifully examines the quest for community and connection.
2025 HONOR LIST
What a Fish Looks Like, by Syr Hayati Beker (Stelliform Press)
A Song for You and I, by K. O’Neill (Random House Graphic)
The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science, by Jessy Randall, illustrated by Kristin DiVona (Gold SF)
Notes from a Regicide, by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
Algarabía, by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Graywolf Press)
Learn more about the 2025 winner, Honor List, and Long List,
and plans to celebrate them at WisCon (online) in late May 2026:
otherwiseaward.org/news
Please also recommend works for the 2026 Award, donate to help
fund the Award, and read more about past honorees:
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[Otherwise Award logo; QR code]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bdu3fizsdrn22ux3wyske3v3/bafkreifwm7pap3hz3kw5zdbkx755xoigfj6hvgzmwycdlr6o4ce74taooy)
NEWS: The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Award: the novel "Luminous" by Silvia Park @silviapark.bsky.social Read about the winner, the Honor List and Long List at otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno...
In 2025, past Otherwise Award winners & fellows released many books, comics, short stories, poems, & more: otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/elig... Consider them as you read, and nominate & vote for awards. #sff #genre #scifi #sciencefiction #horror #fantasy #literaryawards #genrefiction #books
Eligible for nomination: 2025 books, stories, & more by past Otherwise winners and fellows « Otherwise Award
Books, short stories, essays, poems, and other works published in 2025 by creators whose works have previously won the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) Award or Fellowships, eligible for awards nomination...
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Thank you, Eugen, Andrew, Cheryl, K., and Rebecca for your thoughtful work as this year’s jury of the Otherwise Award. I hope many will discover all the honored and longlisted books, each one exploring the complexities of gender in our world and the possibilities for something better
Otherwise Award@otherwiseaward.org · 4mo agoNEWS: The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Award: the novel "Luminous" by Silvia Park @silviapark.bsky.social Read about the winner, the Honor List and Long List at otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno...
NEWS: The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Award: the novel "Luminous" by Silvia Park @silviapark.bsky.social Read about the winner, the Honor List and Long List at otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno...
We are delighted to announce the selection of two new Otherwise Fellows: illustrator and animator Aude Abou Nasr @ahlanmydarlings.bsky.social and author Ayida Shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social . otherwiseaward.org/2026/02/anno... #SFF #illustration #fantasy #childrenslit #sciencefiction #horror
Announcing the 2025 Otherwise Fellows! « Otherwise Award
The Otherwise Motherboard is delighted to announce the selection of two new Otherwise Fellows: illustrator and animator Aude Abou Nasr and author Ayida Shonibar. Aude Abou Nasr is a French-Lebanese…
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We are delighted to announce the selection of two new Otherwise Fellows: illustrator and animator Aude Abou Nasr @ahlanmydarlings.bsky.social and author Ayida Shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social . otherwiseaward.org/2026/02/anno... #SFF #illustration #fantasy #childrenslit #sciencefiction #horror
Announcing the 2025 Otherwise Fellows! « Otherwise Award
The Otherwise Motherboard is delighted to announce the selection of two new Otherwise Fellows: illustrator and animator Aude Abou Nasr and author Ayida Shonibar. Aude Abou Nasr is a French-Lebanese…
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As you read, play, watch, listen, and otherwise enjoy new #SpeculativeFiction this year, please recommend works for the Otherwise Award to consider! otherwiseaward.org/award/2026-o... #sff #awards
2026 Otherwise Awards Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Awards jurors to consider!
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As you read, play, watch, listen, and otherwise enjoy new #SpeculativeFiction this year, please recommend works for the Otherwise Award to consider! otherwiseaward.org/award/2026-o... #sff #awards
2026 Otherwise Awards Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Awards jurors to consider!
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WisCon Artist Call for Work! DEADLINE 01/15/2026! Earn $200 for your current art that represents WisCon, a feminist inclusive science fiction and fantasy convention. If you want your work displayed visit wiscon.net! #WisCon #WomeninSFF #feministconvention #art #submission #artist
Donate to the Otherwise Award to support scifi/fantasy that explores and expands our ideas of gender! Our year-end fundraising campaign: otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help... #speclit
Help Sustain the Otherwise Award! « Otherwise Award
Please donate to help us raise $9,000 for the next year of operations.
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Donate to the Otherwise Award to support scifi/fantasy that explores and expands our ideas of gender! Our year-end fundraising campaign: otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help... #speclit
Help Sustain the Otherwise Award! « Otherwise Award
Please donate to help us raise $9,000 for the next year of operations.
otherwiseaward.org
6 more days to apply for an Otherwise Fellowship! Past fellows were glad it "gave me motivation to keep trying again and again" and "provided a validation both for my own work, and also for the idea that this type of writing is both valued and needed". #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror
Otherwise Award@otherwiseaward.org · 10mo agootherwiseaward.org/2025/10/appl... Now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows, to support & recognize creators of speculative work that is changing our view of gender today! Apply by Dec. 15 for USD $500 to support a new or ongoing project. #Fellowships #grants #sff #fantasy #scifi
6 more days to apply for an Otherwise Fellowship! Past fellows were glad it "gave me motivation to keep trying again and again" and "provided a validation both for my own work, and also for the idea that this type of writing is both valued and needed". #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror
Otherwise Award@otherwiseaward.org · 10mo agootherwiseaward.org/2025/10/appl... Now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows, to support & recognize creators of speculative work that is changing our view of gender today! Apply by Dec. 15 for USD $500 to support a new or ongoing project. #Fellowships #grants #sff #fantasy #scifi
Otherwise supports the very sort of fiction that we need today more than ever: visions of possibilities through the fog of the present. Please donate otherwiseaward.org/support-us/d... to our year-end fundraising campaign: otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help...
Help Sustain the Otherwise Award! « Otherwise Award
Please donate to help us raise $9,000 for the next year of operations.
otherwiseaward.org
Otherwise supports the very sort of fiction that we need today more than ever: visions of possibilities through the fog of the present. Please donate otherwiseaward.org/support-us/d... to our year-end fundraising campaign: otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help...
Help Sustain the Otherwise Award! « Otherwise Award
Please donate to help us raise $9,000 for the next year of operations.
otherwiseaward.org
(Small correction to the below: Deadline is Nov. 15th, not 14th.)
Otherwise Award@otherwiseaward.org · 9mo agoReminder: Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender: otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...