The STARBURST MAGAZINE 1st Hero Award goes to Jenny Hill of Orbit Books Congratulations! #octocon

And the STARBURST MAGAZINE Brave New Words Award goes to Nisi Shawl for her editing of the New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color Congratulations! #octocon

Huge congratulations to Nisi Shawl, and to all the nominees for this year's #BraveNewWords Award, including of course our very own Tyler...Hayes?, who deservedly recognised for his brilliant debut novel, THE IMAGINARY CORPSE, out now! smarturl.it/imaginarycorpse

The inaugural Starburst Hero Award For Literature has gone to the amazing and incredibly hardworking Jenni Hill - find me at @jennihill.bsky.social. The shield was crafted by Jez old bones and tatters of skin Hunt.

The incredible anthology New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour has been presented to the brilliant editor Nisi Shawl. Thank you to Rebellion and our lovely judges.

Congratulations to Jenni Hill - find me at @jennihill.bsky.social!! 🎉

🎉 🎉 A huge congratulations to Nisi Shawl and all the contributing authors of NEW SUNS which has won STARBURST MAGAZINE’s #BraveNewWords award 🎉 🎉

HUGE congrats to... 🥁🥁🥁 New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color This year’s #BraveNewWords award winner!! 🎉🎉🎉

Eeeeeek all the congrats to Jenni Hill - find me at @jennihill.bsky.social who is the most kickass #HeroOfLiterature who ever heroed. This is so so deserved and SFF is incredibly lucky to have Jenni as an editor 🚀🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️👽

This is really cool! Congratulations, Nisi Shawl!

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It's Octocon weekend, which will now and forever remind us of that time The Dark Room ON TOUR! injured himself for us all in the name of SF literature. Wonderful. (Haven't we all)