Announcing the finalists for the 2026 Manly Wade Wellman Award

Announcing the finalists for the 2026 Manly Wade Wellman Award

Posted on 2026-06-29 at 10:00 by admin

Monday, June 29, 2026, Durham, NC: The North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation is proud to announce this list of 10 finalists for the 2026 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy, presented in alphabetical order by author last name:

• The Unseen by Ania Ahlborn (Simon and Schuster/Gallery Books)
• Last Chance Live! by Helena Haywoode Henry (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Young Reader Group)
• Infinite Archive by Mur Lafferty (ACE/Berkeley/Random House)
• Transmentation: Transience by Darkly Lem (Blackstone Publishing)
• The Coming Dark by D.J. Molles
• Labyrinth by A.G. Riddle (Head of Zeus/Ad Astra)
• Shadows Upon Time by Christopher Ruocchio (DAW)
• Children of Solitude by Michael G. Williams (Gold Dust Publishing)
• Closing Time at the Sunny-Side-Up by David Niall Wilson (Shotgun Honey Books)
• Fallen City by Adrienne Young (Saturday Books)

The winner(s) will be announced at ConGregate 12 on Friday, July 17, 2026 in Greensboro, 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 2026 award covers novels published in 2025. The award is named for long-time North Carolina author Manly Wade Wellman with the permission of his estate.

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