The finalists of the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for 2025, recognizing works from the 2024 year, are below.
Long list
The long list of nominees is on our Sir Julius Vogel Award Long List – 2025 page.
SJV Voter Packet
The Voter Packet is currently being compiled. You can find full information about how to access the packet on our SJV Voter Packet page.
Voting Form is now available
Voting will take place electronically. The voting form is available on this voting page, along with instructions on how to vote, and how to submit your votes.
Note that we are only doing online voting, taking place before Concatenation 2025. The deadline for voting will close 11:59pm April 17th, 2025.
In order for your vote to be valid, you must submit on time, and also be a member of SFFANZ, or Concatenation 2025 at the deadline.
| category | finalists | creator | source | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Professional Categories | #colspan# | #colspan# | #colspan# | |||
| Best Artwork | Cover of "Artificial Sweetener: Tales of AI: 100% Written by Humans" | Melissa Gunn | SpecFicNZ | |||
| Best Artwork | Cover of "How to Get the Girl (And Not Destroy the World)" | Laya Mutton-Rogers | Paper Road Press | |||
| Best Artwork | Cover of "Fox Spirit On Distant Cloud" | Kim Lowe | Cuba Press | |||
| Best Artwork | Cover of "The Dream Factory" | Zak Atea | Huia | |||
| Best Artwork | Cover of "The Earth Remembers" | Tabatha Wood | Midnight Echo 19, AHWA | |||
| Best Novel | A New God | Menilik Henry Dyer | Podium | |||
| Best Novel | Echoes of Earthshine | Mel Harding-Shaw | Coruscate Press | |||
| Best Novel | Sun God | Andy Southall | Amapur Press | |||
| Best Novel | The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door | H.G. Parry | Hachette | |||
| Best Novel | The Sunforge | Sascha Stronach | Simon & Schuster | |||
| Best Youth Novel | Migration | Steph Matuku | Huia Publishers | |||
| Best Youth Novel | The Grimmelings | Rachael King | Allen & Unwin | |||
| Best Youth Novel | The Moonlight Bridge | Mike Gwyther | Qualia House | |||
| Best Youth Novel | The Paradise Generation | Sanna Thompson | umop apisdn press | |||
| Best Youth Novel | The Rarkyn's Fall | Nikky Lee | Caelestis Books | |||
| Best Novella or Novelette | Daisy and Maisie, External Hull Maintanence Experts | Sean Monaghan | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March April 2024 | |||
| Best Novella or Novelette | Hearth and Holiday | Anna Klein | Bonnetpunk Press | |||
| Best Novella or Novelette | Heartless | H.G. Parry | Subterranean Press | |||
| Best Novella or Novelette | How to Get the Girl ( And Not Destroy the World) | Marie Cardno | Paper Road Press | |||
| Best Novella or Novelette | Scritch Scratch, The Legend of Teketeke | E.L Julian | Self-published | |||
| Best Novella or Novelette | We Who Remain | Nikky Lee | Deadset Press | |||
| Best Novella or Novelette | Wildest Skies | Sean Monaghan | Asimov's Nov/Dec 2024 | |||
| Best Short Story | Lost Girl | B.T. Keaton | Ironclad Creative | |||
| Best Short Story | N-spired Learning | B.T. Keaton | SpecFicNZ | |||
| Best Short Story | The Next End | Stevi Sargas | F(r)iction | |||
| Best Short Story | The Sand Witch's Sandwhich | G.B. Ralph | S. C. Gowland | |||
| Best Short Story | Trauma Box | Tabatha Wood | Tabatha Wood | |||
| Best Collected Work | A Night So Dark And Full Of Stars | Nikky Lee | Deadset Press | |||
| Best Collected Work | Artificial Sweetener: Tales of AI: 100% Written by Humans | SpecFicNZ | SpecFicNZ | |||
| Best Collected Work | Clocks Locks Corpses!: And Other Epic Horror Poems | S. Jayne Bradley | Rookery Publishing | |||
| Best Collected Work | Fox Spirit On Distant Cloud | Lee Murray | Cuba Press | |||
| Best Dramatic Presentation | The Bostrom Scenario | Ricky Townsend | Ricky Townsend | |||
| Best Production/Publication | Fact, Fiction, and Feeling: Ecological Grief in a Changing World | Octavia Cade | Clarkesworld - Octiber 2024 | |||
| Best Production/Publication | The Cyborg Manifucksto | Alexandra ‘Sascha’ Stronach | ||||
| Best Production/Publication | The Rider (orignal song end credits) | Phoebe Gittins & David Long | Wingnut Films (one of many) | |||
Fan Categories | #colspan# | #colspan# | #colspan# | |||
| Best Fan Artwork | Martyn Buyck | Martyn Buyck | Oamaru Steampunk Festival | |||
| Best Fan Production/Publication | Continuity 2024 ConCom | Continuity 2024 committee: Barry Norris et al | ||||
| Best Fan Production/Publication | Phoenixine | John and Jo Toon | Phoenix Science Fiction Society | |||
| Best Fan Writing | Horror, Healing and PTSD | Tabatha Wood | Self-published | |||
| Best Fan Writing | Massive Organisms Approaching | John Toon | Blogspot (https://giganticmonstermovies.blogspot.com) | |||
| Best Fan Writing | SITREP | Alex Lindsay | Phoenixine | |||
| Best Fan Writing | Submissions to Phoenixine including "On Safari" and GUFF Report | Simon Litten | ||||
| Best Fan Writing | Unpaid Green | Octavia Cade | Journey Planet Issue 84 | |||
| Best Fan Writing | Your Guide to New Zealand Fantasy Romance Novels Coming in 2024 | Melanie Harding-Shaw | The Spinoff | |||