Winners of 2026 Nebula Awards, sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, were named at the 61st annual Nebula Awards Ceremony in Chicago, Ill. This year’s categories include the first Nebulas for Best Poem and Best Comic. In future years, the comic award will be called Best Comics Writing. The Nebula winners were:
Novel: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
Novella: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom)
Novelette: "Uncertain Sons" by Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Undertow)
Short Story: "Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything" by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots, 5/25)
Middle Grade & Young Adult Fiction: Into the Wild Magic by Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick)
Game Writing: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by Guillaume Broche & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Kepler Interactive; developer: Sandfall Interactive, Sandfall S.A.S.)
Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: Murderbot: Season One by Chris Weitz (Apple TV+)
Comic: Mary Shelley's School for Monsters: The Killing Stone by Jessica Maison (Wicked Tree)
Poem: "The World to Come" by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons, 12/22/25)