Vote for your favorite finalists in categories for utopian literature and art published in 2021. One ballot per person. Voting is open from August 1 through 10:00 p.m. PST on August 21, 2022.
You can find links to each work here. Winners will be announced at the award ceremony on October 1, 2022.
Works were nominated based on the following criteria:
Works nominated for a Utopia Award must have been published during 2021.
Nominated works must have been published by traditional publishers, small independent publishers, or by semi-pro or professional climate fiction, science fiction, and fantasy magazines, as defined by the SFWA. At this time, we do not have the capacity to consider self-published work.
In addition, nominated works will tend to have some if not all of the following focuses:
Hopeful: uplifting, leaves the reader with a sense of inspiration, aspiration, and optimism
Utopian: Climate fiction (fiction with a focus on climate change themes, setting, and plot elements), science fiction, or fantasy content and themes that don't end in apocalypse or dystopia, but rather envision worlds in which humanity, technology, and nature coexist in harmony rather than in conflict; and/or depict future communities that are actively struggling to build a just and equitable utopian world, even if they haven't yet fully reached that goal.
Solutions: works with a focus in particular on solutions to climate change and the effects of climate change on the planet, ecosystems, and communities. But also works that focus on providing solutions to other global social problems and envision futures with new, democratic, participatory, and collaborative political and economic systems.
(**Anyone discovered casting multiple ballots from different accounts will have their ballots removed and will be banned from voting on the awards in the future.)