Being a finalist for a prestigious award is pretty incredible. Having it happen more than once is downright humbling and amazing.

Escape Pod has again made the finalist roster for Best Semiprozine at the Hugo Awards. It is, as always, an incredible list of publications to be on, and it only scratches the surface of the robust, diverse scope of short fiction available today.

We already made an official post about it, so I won’t belabor the point, but I would like to reiterate, with every part of my heart from the bottom to the top, that we wouldn’t be here without our amazing team. This includes not only the writers who create the stories and the narrators who bring them to life, but our hosts and audio producers and assistant editors and associate editors and admins, without whom the ship simply would not fly.

If you’re a voter, or maybe if you just want to see or hear what we’re about, you can check out our Voter Packet for a sampling of stories that represent the kind of work we publish. And if you like those, go ahead and read or listen to the rest!

Thanks to everyone who voted for us, everyone who has supported us throughout the years, and highest of fives to my partner in crime, Mur.

Special shout-out to my husband, Eric, whose uncredited audio work on my host spots and narrations deserves to be credited somewhere. Go vote for him and PodCastle next time, too!