The 2025 Stackies
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Hugo Award
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As a literary award created by a community/publication, The Stackies follows in the tradition of fan-driven awards like the Hugo. Understanding how the Hugo Award works—with its nomination and voting process by convention members—provides context for how community literary awards function and gain prestige.
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National Book Award
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Understanding how established literary awards like the National Book Award operate—with their nomination processes, judging panels, and categories—helps readers appreciate how The Stackies positions itself as an alternative, community-driven recognition system in the literary world.
The 2025 Stackies
The Stacks has it’s very own literary awards, The Stackies, and they’re the best. This is not up for debate. What is up for debate? Who the winners will be for 2025. In fact, nominations are now open for this year’s Stackies.
How does it work?
If you’re a paid subscriber on Substack or a member of The Stacks Pack you get to nominate books for the prize starting today, and then vote on the winners in January.
Let the bookish rumpus begin!
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