Awards season has once again begun. We began by looking at all the works we collectively have in our sights for nominations in our Recommended Reading Lists (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4), and so now we must turn our gaze inward, to the team that makes up Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together.
Collectively of course, we are eligible for the Best Fanzine category of the Hugos, the Ignyte Critics Award, the Best Magazine category of the Locus, the Best Magazine or Periodical category in the British Fantasy Award and any other award that we may have missed that recognizes magazine, fanzine or broad critic work.
But we are a team of individuals, all of whom have put in the work throughout 2025 to make NoaF happen, and so we want to take a moment here to highlight the individual works each member (and we collectively, on their behalf) are proudest of, both here and in their various endeavors outside our fanzine. As part of NoaF, they are each eligible for the Fan Writer category of the Hugo Awards, and so if you are still looking for inspiration to fill up your ballot, feel free to peruse below what they all collectively have to offer, and possibly add them to your considerations.
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Fanzine
Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together, edited by Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer, Joe Sherry, The G, and Vance Kotrla
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Fan Writer
Here are some of the highlights from our active authors in 2025:
Ann Michelle Harris
Review: Gachiakuta
Review: Ironheart
Review: My Hero Academia - The Final Season
Review: Sinners
Review: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3
Review: Washington Black
Arturo Serrano (Editor)
Review: Arkhangelsk, by Elizabeth H. Bonesteel
Review: Before You Go Extinct
Review: Don't Die
Review: The King Tide
There is no "I" in Plur1bus
Wherein I struggle to express how I feel about Silo
Clara Cohen
Realm of the Elderlings Re-Read
Review: The Everlasting, by Alix E. Harrow
Review: Hymn to Dionysus, by Natasha Pulley
Review: If Stars Are Lit, by Sara K. Ellis
Review: Long Live Evil, by Sarah Rees Brennan
Review: The Tufa Novels, by Alex Bledsoe
Joe Sherry (Senior Editor)
Nanoreviews: The Martian Contingency, Tidal Creatures
The October Daye Re-Read: A Killing Frost
Review: When the Moon Hits Your Eye, by John Scalzi
Paul Weimer (Editor)
Interview With Emily Tesh
Interview With Natania Barron
Review: All that We See or Seem, by Ken Liu
Review: The Immeasurable Heaven, by Casper Geon
Review: The Raven Scholar, by Antonia Hodgson
Review: Queen Demon, by Martha Wells
Roseanna Pendlebury (Editor)
The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2025: A Shortlist Discussion
A Granite Silence - Nina Allan
Honeyeater, by Kathleen Jennings
A Path Through the Landscape: My Own Route Through Science Fiction
The People Are Us, the Time is Always: Review of Natalia Theodoridou's Sour Cherry
Review: Katabasis, by R.F. Kuang
Review: Notes from a Regicide, by Isaac Fellman
Review: Power Fantasy, Vol 2, by Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard, Clayton Cowles and Rian Hughes
Review: Remember You Will Die, by Eden Robins
Whose Science Fiction: Recognition and its Absence in a Reading of Colourfields by Paul Kincaid
Vance Kotrla (Founder)
Book Sale Finds: Mental Hygiene, by Ken Smith
Hollywood is Dead. Long Live Hollywood
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Fancast
Hugo History Podcast (Christine Baker)
The Skiffy and Fanty Show (Paul Weimer)
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Short Story
"Blink", by Ann Michelle Harris, published in Midnight & Indigo: 16 Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers
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Novel
North, by Ann Michelle Harris
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Please also consider our other members for their work with us throughout 2025:
Christine D. Baker
Joe DelFranco
The G (founder)
Chris Garcia
Stewart Hotston
Dean E.S. Richard
Phoebe Wagner
Alex Wallace
Haley Zapal
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Thank you, and happy nominating!
