In June 2026, we were honored to celebrate our latest Nebula Awards finalists and winners at our Nebula Awards Conference weekend in Chicago from June 3 to 7, at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel & Conference Center. You can learn more about 61st Nebula Awards Conference here.
Official SFWA Photographer Kaitrin Acuna and Special Guest Photographer Kechi helped us to make our memories. Please enjoy them, and share only with proper credit to the photographer.
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Photography by Kaitrin Acuna
Michelle Knudsen (winner of the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction), Jennifer Hudak (winner of the inaugural Nebula Award for Poem), Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Award recipient Gay Haldeman, Toastmaster Tananarive Due, 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recipient N. K. Jemisin, Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (co-winner for the Nebula Award for Game Writing), Jessica Maison (winner of the Nebula Award for Comic)
Toastmaster Tananarive Due presents at the Nebula Awards Ceremony in Chicago, June 2026.
SFWA Executive Director Isis Asare presents for the Nebula Award for Novel.
Nebula Award winner Michelle Knudsen and EDE Bell, representing fellow finalist Jubilee Cho at the Nebula Awards Conference in Chicago, June 2026.
SFWA President Kate Ristau and SFWA Vice President Anthony Eichenlaub, presenting at the Nebula Awards Ceremony in Chicago, June 2026.
Effie Seiberg, Nebula Award winner for Short Story, delivers a virtual acceptance at the Nebula Awards Ceremony in Chicago, June 2026.
SFWA Executive Director Isis Asare and SFWA Board Director-at-Large Ryka Aoki at the Nebula Awards Ceremony in Chicago, June 2026.
SFWA Operations Director Russell Davis introduces Gay Haldeman, recipient of the Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award in Chicago, June 2026
Steven Barnes presents at the Nebula Awards Ceremony in Chicago, June 2026.
Inaugural Nebula for Comic winner Jessica Maison at the Nebula Awards Conference in Chicago, June 2026.
SFWA Director-at-Large Day Al-Mohamed at the Nebula Awards Conference in Chicago, June 2026
At the Nebula Awards Conference Banquet in Chicago, June 2026
27th Grand Master Joe Haldeman, Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA recipient Gay Haldeman, and 42nd Grand Master N. K. Jemisin
Authors and finalists celebrate at the reception, Chicago 2026.
Authors celebrate together at the finalist reception, Chicago 2026.
Showing off their reception finery at the Nebulas, Chicago 2026.
Nebula attendees at the finalist reception, Chicago 2026.
SFWA volunteer Katie Spina shows off some robot art at the finalist reception for the Chicago 2026 Nebulas.
Photography by Kechi
Executive director Isis Asare, volunteer Michael Solis, and volunteer Phoenix Alexander stop long enough for a photo.
Former SFWA President Mary Robinette Kowal, David D. Levine, Nebula Finalist Jordan Kurella (Novella), Operations Director Russell Davis, and Director-at-Large Curtis Chen perform table reads for short speculative plays.
Attentive attendees at the Nebula Conference, Chicago 2026.
A packed room for programming, Chicago 2026.
Registration becomes a con highlight with friendly faces like this!
SFWA Director-at-Large Christine Taylor-Butler and MG/YA Committee Co-Chair Michael Solis share a smile at the Nebula Awards Conference in Chicago, June 2026.
Nebula attendees experiencing joy and friendship, Chicago 2026.
Official SFWA Photographer Kaitrin Acuna, captured gloriously by Special Guest Photographer Kechi in Chicago, June 2026.
Steven H. Silver, radiantly smiling for his close-up at the Nebula Awards Conference in Chicago, June 2026.
Portrait of Nebula winner Jennifer Hudak (Poem).
Portrait of Priya Sridhar.
Portrait of Michelle Knudsen.
Horror, joy, and drama are all on offer from these Nebula authors!
Nebula attendees celebrate friendship and community, Chicago 2026.