Announcing the shortlist for the 2025 Manly Wade Wellman Award

Announcing the shortlist for the 2025 Manly Wade Wellman Award

Posted on 2025-06-27 at 10:00 by admin

Friday, June 27, 2025, Durham, NC: The North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation is proud to announce this list of 12 finalists for the 2025 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy, presented in alphabetical order by author last name:

• Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud (Tor Nightfire)
• Where Dark Things Grow by Andrew K. Clark (Cowboy Jamboree Press)
• The Borgia Dove by Jo Graham (Candlemark and Gleam)
• Trinity by A.J. Hartley and Tom DeLonge (To The Stars)
• The Seven: Unforgiven by John G. Hartness (Falstaff Books)
• The Canopy Keepers by Veronica Henry (47North)
• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher (Tor)
• Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis (DAW)
• Antarctica Station by A.G. Riddle (Legion Books)
• Disquiet Gods by Christopher Ruocchio (DAW)
• When You Leave I Disappear by David Niall Wilson (Shortwave Media)
• That Which Dwells Below: A Greater Evil by Allen Wold (Ogden House)

The winner(s) will be announced at ConGregate 11 on Friday, July 11, 2025 in Winston-Salem, NC as part of the convention’s opening ceremonies.

The Manly Wade Wellman Award was founded in 2013 to recognize outstanding achievement in science fiction and fantasy novels written by North Carolina authors. The 2025 award covers novels published in 2024. The award is named for long-time North Carolina author Manly Wade Wellman with the permission of his estate.

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