2016 Hugo Awards

Presented at: MidAmeriCon II, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, August 20, 2016

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Awards Administration: Dave McCarty, Will Frank, Tammy Coxen, Diane Lacey, and Joe Siclari

The 2016 Hugo Awards will be presented at a ceremony at MidAmeriCon II, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention. Administration of the 2016 Hugo Awards is exclusively the responsibility of MidAmeriCon II. The Hugo Awards are not administered by the Hugo Awards Web Site.

Members of the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Worldcons as of the end of January 2016 will be eligible to make up to five equally-weighted nominations in each category. Ballots will be issued by MidAmeriCon II, and we will announce on the Hugo Awards web site when nominating opens. You are not required to use all available nominating positions. You can nominate as little as one work or fill every slot in every category, at your discretion. Nominating the same work multiple times in the same category does not give that work multiple votes. Duplicate nominations in the same category on the same ballot will be disregarded. The order in which you list works within a category is irrelevant.

The works or individuals with the five highest nominating ballot counts will, if they accept their nominations, will go on to the short list of finalists. The final ballot will be issued later in 2016. Only members of MidAmeriCon II can vote on the final ballot.

The categories for the 2016 Hugo Awards are:

Best Novel
Best Novella
Best Novelette
Best Short Story
Best Related Work
Best Graphic Story
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Best Editor, Short Form
Best Editor, Long Form
Best Professional Artist
Best Semiprozine
Best Fanzine
Best Fancast
Best Fan Writer
Best Fan Artist

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2013 or 2014, sponsored by Dell Magazines. (Not a Hugo Award, but administered along with the Hugo Awards.)

See Hugo Award Categories for a more detailed discussion of the categories. The technical definitions of the categories are in the current version of the WSFS Constitution, and those technical definitions take priority in case of any ambiguity. Decisions regarding eligibility are made by the current year’s Hugo Administration Subcommittee, whose decisions are final in all cases.