2025 Hugo Award Winners Announced

Posted on August 18, 2025

The 2025 Hugo Award Winners were announced at Seattle Worldcon 2025. The awards are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention. The awards have been awarded every year since 1955.

Some of the big winners include The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (pictured below) won for Best Novel and Dune: Part Two for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. Caves of Qud won the best game award.

• Astounding Award (Best New Writer): Moniquill Blackgoose
• Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book: Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger
• Best Poem: "A War of Words" by Marie Brennan
• Best Fan Artist: Sara Felix
• Best Fan Writer: Abigail Nussbaum
• Best Fancast: Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones
• Best Fanzine: Black Nerd Problems, editors William Evans and Omar Holmon
• Best Semiprozine: Uncanny Magazine
• Best Professional Artist: Alyssa Winans
• Best Editor, Long Form: Diana M. Pho
• Best Editor, Short Form: Neil Clarke
• Best Game or Interactive Work: Caves of Qud, by Freehold Games
• Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Star Trek: Lower Decks: The New Next Generation, created and written by Mike McMahan, directed by Megan Lloyd
• Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Dune: Part Two, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts; directed by Denis Villeneuve
• Best Related Work: Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll
• Best Graphic Story or Comic: Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way, written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio
• Best Series: Between Earth and Sky by Rebecca Roanhorse
• Best Short Story: "Stitched to Skin Like Family Is" by Nghi Vo
• Best Novelette: The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea by Naomi Kritzer
• Best Novella: The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
• Best Novel: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

Here is the two hour and twenty minute video of the winners being announced at Worldcon 2025 Seattle.

Past Hugo Award winners can be found on the official website at thehugoawards.org.