They're so adorable 🥰

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You're welcome! Thank you again for coming

Third Place: "The Second Life of Snow" by E. J. Kildare of Silver Spring.
A young woman wakes up in a coffin, with no memory of how she got there, and a mysterious stranger helps her unlock the secret of her new life.

Second Place: "Inhuman" by Ariana Solomon of Gaithersburg.
In the wake of humanity's self-inflicted climate apocalypse, a young octopus uncovers a forbidden truth that forces her to confront her morality.

 “Collaborators” by Michael Payne, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores (December 2024) ed.
Fran Eisenmann
 “Within the Seed Lives the Fruit” by Leah Andelsmith, Reckoning 8 (June 2024), ed. By
Knar Gavin and Waverly SM.

Horizons (November 2024), ed. Gautam Bhatia
 “All We Ever Had” by M. A. Akins, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores (August 2024) ed. Fran
Eisenmann
 “Bespoke” by Elly Bangs, Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures ed. by
Ann LeBlanc, Neon Hemlock (2024)

 “A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places” by Marissa Lingen, Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue
406 (May 2024) ed. Scott H. Andrews
 “A Slightly Different Sunrise From Mercury, Nevada” by Íde Hennessy, Strange
Horizons (November 2024), ed. Gautam Bhatia

WSFA Small Press Award Nominees
Presented September 20, 2025 Capclave, Rockville, MD
 “A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts” by Pat Murphy, Lightspeed
Magazine (December 2024) ed. John Joseph Adams
 “A Hero’s Tale” by E. Florian Gludovacz, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch
Shores (July 2024) ed. Fran Eisenmann