Read, Listen, Watch, Look: 2025 Across Media

It’s that time of year where everyone in SFF is posting their eligible pieces for awards. I love seeing people celebrated, but I must admit that the comprehensive lists of everything everyone has ever done this year are a little overwhelming to me! In case there are others out there like me who need more direction, I’ve curated a small list of some of my pieces, each focusing on a different medium and mode of engagement, so that you can choose the type of experience that speaks to you. Enjoy!

~BUT FIRST, SHOUT-OUT TO A FRIEND~

** READ: ESSAY **
“Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence” by Tanvir Ahmed

“We might say that the correlation is straightforward, that acceptance of fantasy violence against not-Muslims prepares our souls to accept real violence against Muslims. I might have made the argument, once. But the genocide in Gaza has forced me toward another possibility—that I would be wrong to presume the separation between fantasy violence and historical violence, and the separation between not-Muslims and Muslims.”

This essay is eligible for the Hugo award for Best Related Work, the British Science Fiction Association award for Best Short Nonfiction, and the British Fantasy Award for Best Nonfiction.

~ON TO THINGS JENNA HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN~

** LISTEN: PODCAST **
Just Keep Writing, cohosted by Marshall Carr, Wil Ralston, Nicholas Bright, Brent C. Lambert, LP Kindred, Gabriel F. Salmerón, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Sameem Siddiqui, and Jenna Hanchey

Nothing holds as much meaning for me this year as joining the exceptional community at JKW. If you’re looking for an encouraging writerly podcast (or Discord server!), this is the place.

My first episode with them was on “Writing through Executive Dysfunction,” and helped me cope in a time when the words just weren’t coming.

The podcast as a whole is eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Fancast, and individual episodes are eligible for the British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work.

** LISTEN: NARRATION **
“Coming Through in Waves” by Samantha Murray, narrated by Jenna Hanchey

I loved the experience of reading this beautiful story of the grief of losing someone who’s still present with you. I hope the narration moves you as much as the story moved me.

The narration is eligible for the British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work, the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form, and the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

** WATCH: 1/2 ESSAY & 1/2 STORY **
“Resistance in Speculative Fiction and Beyond” presented by Jenna Hanchey and Tanvir Ahmed, facilitated by Matt Bell

The ASU Worldbuilding Initiative, led by Matt Bell, invited Tanvir and I to present on resistance — and it was fire. I gave a talk on liquid resistance in African SFF from my forthcoming book manuscript, and Tanvir read the gorgeous story “Wilayat in Seven Saints,” before the three of us sat down to talk more about intimacies and structures together.

This presentation is eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work.

** LOOK: VISUAL POEM **

“After,” originally published in the April 2025 double issue of Worlds of Possibility

I’m so grateful to Julia Rios for not only seeing potential in my artwork, but recognizing it as poetry as well.

Here is the artist statement I published with the work:

“‘After’ is inspired by those in my life who have the bravery to be soft and vulnerable in a world that makes that dangerous and scary, and the deep and beloved connections we’ve formed together across differences, dreaming of collective change that can enable worlds where such softness and vulnerability don’t have to be so risky–emergent worlds of reciprocity and care.”

This poem is eligible for the special Hugo Award for Best Poem and the Nebula Award for Poetry.

Please feel free to link your proudest publications of the year below!