Hello, lovely denizens of the subreddit. This is an informational post announcing that r/Fantasy’s 2024 Bingo Reading Challenge is eligible for the Hugo Award in the category Best Related Work.

Eligibility

The Best Related Work Award is for “The best work related to the field of science fiction, fantasy, or fandom, published in the prior calendar year and which is either non-fiction or noteworthy primarily for aspects other than the fictional text.” Historically, this award has primarily gone to non-fiction books and documentaries but websites, speeches, video essays, blog posts, virtual events, and even other conventions have also been recognized as nominees and winners.

Bingo meets all eligibility requirements for this award. As a reading challenge, Bingo encourages book lovers to read more adventurously within the greater speculative fiction scene and so is intrinsically related to science fiction, fantasy, and fandom. The 2024 Bingo Reading Challenge was launched on April 1^st, 2024 and the challenge is about reading fiction but is not itself fictional. Lastly, but most importantly, Bingo is noteworthy for being the largest speculative fiction reading challenge and for its role in diversifying the reading habits of participating SF fans.

Now, through this announcement, we turn the final and most important question over to you and the wider SF fandom at large. Do you feel this work merits a nomination?

Nomination

Nominations can only be made by two types of individuals:

• Current World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) members whose membership was purchased prior to January 31^st, 2025 
• Prior WSFS members whose membership was active at the time of Worldcon 2024

If either of the above applies to you, we would appreciate you considering Bingo’s eligibility if and when you make your nominations. Only nominate us if you personally feel Bingo is worthy and regardless of which way you decide, we respect you making the decision you feel is best.

Formatting

In the interest of minimizing potential cleanup for the Hugo Award team as they maintain the nomination sheet, if you choose to nominate us please use the following format:

• Work title: “r/Fantasy’s 2024 Bingo Reading Challenge”
• Author name: “r/Fantasy Bingo team”

If the 2024 Bingo Reading Challenge makes it on the official ballot, the Bingo team will reach out to members of the community we feel have gone above and beyond in helping to make supplemental materials for Bingo to ask if they wish to be included as a member of the Bingo team.

Contact

Further questions can be asked in this thread here or sent to our email at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Regardless of where this nomination goes, much of the mod team will be present at Worldcon 2025 and we look forward to meeting any and all of you that plan on attending. Thank you for taking the time to read this announcement and we hope you’re all excited for Bingo 2025 to release in just a couple of months!