The nominating period for the 2018 Hugo Awards and 1943 Retrospective Hugo Awards is now open, according to an announcement from Worldcon 76 San José. The convention also announced that John Picacio will host the 2018 Hugo Awards ceremony at Worldcon 76.
Instructions for accessing the online nominating form will be sent via e-mail, according to Dave McCarty, Hugo Administrator for Worldcon 76. Check your junk e-mail/spam/promotions folders in your e-mail client for this e-mail if you did not receive it. Despite the convention’s efforts, voter information notification messages may be flagged as spam.
The Worldcon 76 Hugo Awards web page has the links to the online nominating ballots for the 2018 and 1943 Hugo Awards, as well as to the page where you can request an online voting PIN if you have not received it.
Paper ballots will be mailed to those members of Worldcon 76 who requested paper publications along with the convention’s Progress Report 2, currently in production. PDFs of the paper ballots are also available from Worldcon 76’s Hugo Awards page.
Nominations will close at 23:59 Pacific Daylight Time on Friday, March 16 (06:59 UTC on Saturday, March 17), 2018. Online nominations will be closed at that time. Paper nominating ballots must be received (postmark dates do not count) by the Hugo Administrator by that time.
Worldcon 76 San José will be presenting the 2018 Hugo Awards (generally for works first published or appearing in 2017) as well as the 1943 Retrospective Hugo Awards (generally for works first published or appearing in 1942). Any person who was a voting member of at least one of the 2017, 2018, or 2019 World Science Fiction Conventions as of December 31, 2017 may cast nominating ballots for the 2018 and 1943 Awards.
Direct any questions about the administration of the 2018 and 1943 Hugo Awards to the Worldcon 76 Hugo Award Administrators, not to the Hugo Awards web site. The Hugo Awards web site team does not administer the elections for the Hugo Awards, nor do we make eligibility rulings. The 2018/1943 Hugo Awards are administered by the Hugo Awards Administration Subcommittee of Worldcon 76 San José, and all decisions regarding the eligibility of works and the administration of nominations are exclusively the committee’s responsibility.
I would like to nominate [Name of work redacted by moderator]
Miguel:
If you were a member of at least one of the 2017/2018/2019 Worldcons as of the end of December 2017, you should have by now received an e-mail with instructions for how to nominate online. (Check your spam/promotions/junk e-mail folders; despite the Worldcon’s efforts, large-scale mailings may be flagged by our e-mail system as spam.) If you have not received your e-mail, use the Hugo PIN Lookup Form to request that a PIN be sent to you. If you have difficult obtaining your PIN, email hugopin@worldcon76.org for assistance. The Hugo Awards Web Site does not administer the election. We do not have the membership data including PINs. The election is managed by Worldcon 76, and you must contact them with any questions about the process.