Longlist for the 2025 Manly Wade Wellman Award

The North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation was proud to announce this list of 25 semi-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
• Queen of Fury by Natania Barron
• Netherford Hall by Natania Barron
• The Mirror of Eternity by Garrett Boatman
• Where Dark Things Grow by Andrew K. Clark
• Prophet’s Death by Robert Creekmore
• Stone Cold Witch by Patrick Dugan
• The Wayward Mage Bounty by Patrick Dugan
• Trinity by A.J. Hartley (and Tom DeLonge)
• Lost by John G. Hartness
• The Seven: Unforgiven by John G. Hartness
• The Canopy Keepers by Veronica Henry
• Pioneers of the Pathway by Stuart Jaffe
• Shadow of the Night by Darin Kennedy
• What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• Reckoning by Gail Z. Martin
• The Breath That Breaks the Stone by D.J. Molles
• A Whisper in the Walls by Scott Reintgen
• Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis
• Antarctica Station by A.G. Riddle
• Disquiet Gods by Christopher Ruocchio
• The Spores of Wrath by William C. Tracy
• When You Leave I Disappear by David Niall Wilson
• That Which Dwells Below: A Greater Evil by Allen Wold

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.