Saturday delivered a great win for diversity in entertainment as women swept every category at the 2015 Nebula Awards. The annual event celebrates the year’s best literary contributions to science fiction and fantasy.
Five of the show’s six winners were women:
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Naomi Novik won in “Best Novel” for Uprooted
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Nnedi Okorafor won in “Best Novella” for Binti
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Sarah Pinsker won in “Best Novelette” for “Our Lady of the Open Road,” featured in the June 2015 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction
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Alyssa Wong won in “Best Short Story” for “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” featured in the Oct. 2015 issue of Nightmare Magazine
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Fran Wilde won the “Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy” for her novel, Updraft Read more…
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