There’s a dedicated band of fans at Eastercon working to promote Worldcon bids!

New episode! As usual, a silly one for April: Battleship! hugogirl.libsyn.com/episode-91-b...

The LA Worldcon Community Fund (LAWCF) is a special fund to help defray the expenses of attending LAcon V for fans or program participants from marginalized racial and ethnic groups, LGBTQIA+ fans or program participants, and Los Angeles and Anaheim area fans of limited means.

The time is upon us! Don't forget to nominate for the Hugo awards!

I have also included Robert (and @quinnthegm.bsky.social, who comes up next in this thread) in my round up of YouTube folks worthy of nomination in Best Related Work, Best Fancast, or Best Fan Writer. They're some of my favourite people on the platform! Full post here: darthj.uno/2026/01/06/i...

The Hugo Awards nominating period closes tomorrow, and as you complete your ballot, I hope you'll consider Eating the Fantastic in the category of Best Fancast. To refresh your memory, here's where you can sample all 28 of the podcast's 2025 episodes. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

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Okay fine: blew the dust off my personal blog to post some Hugo nomination suggestions. Or just reading/listening suggestions!

As you're filling out your Hugo nomination ballots, we urge you to consider a best fan writer nomination for @annmichelleharris.bsky.social! This insightful review of Bugonia is from 2026, but is exemplary of her work. Check it out! www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/film...

Don't forget to nominate and to show the fan categories some love!

Want to help people in Minnesota? The best place to start is: www.standwithminnesota.com You can donate money to people who need it, donate airline miles, send supportive messages, & read about other things to do to help or prepare your own community: www.standwithminnesota.com/actions-to-t...

hugogirl.libsyn.com/episode-90-g... This one took a little extra time. Here's Green Mars!

Hotel reservations for LAcon V are now live! Make your reservations here: www.lacon.org/hotel All room party inquiries should be directed to [email protected]. 🎉

Looking for stuff to read and watch for Hugo nominations? Looking for creators to nominate? We at NOAF have you covered: www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/2026... (links in this one to more categories at the bottom)

We also have our own eligibility and the eligibility for awards by our own contributors, here: www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/nerd...

Thank you to @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social for including me on a longlist of fan writers to consider nominating for awards, and thanks to several people who've said they plan to nominate me! Spurred on by this, I've finally written a Hugo Awards eligibility post about the reviews I wrote last year.

Just saying, a donation gets you into our raffle!

We got another donation from @edmorland.bsky.social - thank you! Chip in and you might get to pick a movie for us to review. Heck, you can pick Zardoz if you want!

Follow @picturemecoding.bsky.social and get an extra dose of Amy's opinions!

I have loved this book (and the cover art) for almost 30 years! 🥹

• Grow up and become a podcaster!

Just saying, a donation to this fund would could toward our raffle!

Here's a roundup of many great fan writers to consider for your Hugo nominations! We're especially excited to see @annmichelleharris.bsky.social, who is eligible for fan writer, short story, and novel! www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/nerd...

Bump! Make a donation and you might get to pick a movie for us to discuss!

Please EMAIL your donation receipt to us at hugogirlpodcast @ gmail dot com to be entered into the raffle. Big thanks to Andrew for being our first donor! @andrewlovejr.bsky.social

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

New episode! She was a little late because she had to navigate the Drake Passage in an open whaleboat. Hope you enjoy Endurance! hugogirl.libsyn.com/episode-89-e...

What a nice thing to say! 🥰

Intergalactic Mixtape is live and full of criticism recs, review recs, and book recs! It’s recs all the way down. 📚🪐💙

it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds

The deadline to become a WSFS member and nominate for the Hugo Awards is imminent! We have recs to consider and we have guides to help get you started if you're new to the process. 🪐📚💙 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Hey folks! A friend on the ground in the Twin Cities has shared another wishlist with me! These supplies will also go to support folks who are walking patrols & protecting communities! There are many ways to join the professional pop-up leftist supply depot bankrollers! 💓

Tomorrow morning is a great time to call your reps and tell them to abolish ICE. I wrote a script you can use. And no, this is not a joke, it really is that simple. Find Your Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen... Find Your Representatives: www.house.gov/representati...

There's a whole lot of options at www.standwithminnesota.com fyi, you can take your pick of many options.

We emerge blinking into the sunlight of 2026 and we have a full mail bag! We discuss the @montreal2027.bsky.social org chart and René Walling’s role at Montreal, as well as recent Hugo how-to guides from @renay.bsky.social and @mollytempleton.com. Listen here! octothorpe.podbean.com/e/151-only-d...

Review: Stranger Things Season 5 Volume II & Finale The Duffer brothers stick the landing, bringing a close to nine years of epic storytelling @cestlahaley.bsky.social of @hugogirlpodcast.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog: www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/revi...

Spoke to Manjula Narayan of the Hindustan Times’ Books and Authors podcast about the new age of Indian speculative fiction. Watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=u3IU...

Our first episode of the year is here! hugogirl.libsyn.com/episode-88-t...

The 2025 Jonathan and Martha Kent Fictional Parent of the Year Award It’s the last day of the year, so we present to you, live from the Multiversal Nexus Ballroom, the winner of the 2025 Jonathan and Martha Kent Fictional Parent of the Year Award. While I have been awarding the Darth Vader…

It's awards eligibility season and we at ConCurrent are definitely eligible for one award: the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. However, if you think we're a good fit for other awards, please do consider us! Short fact thread incoming. 1/

A Meal of Thorns #39: @chloroformtea.bsky.social is back on the show, exploring class, style, and the roots of dark academia in Donna Tartt's THE SECRET HISTORY!

This book is good and weird and I liked it!

after six years of reading so many Hugo Award-winning novels, there are so many small wonderful things to love. This poem is a love letter to the unsung heroes of speculative fiction. The ones that help keep humanity thrumming along. haleyzapal.com/2025/12/02/p...

Stranger Things Season 5: Part One Hawkins residents assemble! @cestlahaley.bsky.social of @hugogirlpodcast.bsky.social has a rich and spoilery review at the NOAF blog today: www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/stra...

It's awards eligibility time of the year! I don't have any fiction to offer for 2025, but here is some involvement with non-fiction for consideration. 1. "The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction," in various non-fiction and related work categories: altermag.com/articles/the... [TBC below.]

A little bit early, here's episode 87! Forever Peace: Telepathic Niceness. hugogirl.libsyn.com/episode-87-f...

In Anaheim did Worldcon a special Hugo Award decree where sci-fi verse with rhymes diverse were celebrated as best poetry (With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Yes, there will be a Hugo for Best Poem in 2026. The press release is out. The LAcon V will be updated later today.