Longlist for the 2022 Manly Wade Wellman Award

The North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation was proud to release this longlist of 18 titles for the 2022 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy, presented in alphabetical order by author last name:

• The Actual Star by Monica Byrne
• The Serpent by David Drake
• A Song with Teeth (Los Nefilim, #3) by T. Frohock
• Mother of All (Women's War, #3) by Jenna Glass
• Sounding Dark (The Calpurnian Wars, #1) by Jo Graham
• Comes A Reckoning (Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter, #8) by John G. Hartness
• Blind Tiger (The Pride, #1) by Jordan L. Hawk
• Bacchanal by Veronica Henry
• The Water Blade (The Ridnight Mysteries, #1) by Stuart Jaffe
• Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2) by T. Kingfisher
• Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3) by T. Kingfisher
• Legacy (Deadly Curiosities, #5) by Gail Z. Martin
• Every Star a Song (The Ascendance Series, #2) by Jay Posey
• Blood and Feathers by Beth Revis
• The Extinction Trials by A.G. Riddle
• Water Horse by Melissa Scott
• The Blackwing War (Deep Witches, #1) by K.B. Spangler
• No Gods, No Monsters (The Convergence Saga, #1) by Cadwell Turnbull

The winner(s) will be announced at ConGregate 8 on Friday, July 22, 2022 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 2022 award covers novels published in 2021.

The award is named for long-time North Carolina author Manly Wade Wellman with the permission of his estate.