- Organizer
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA)
- Why it counts
- Awarded annually since 1966 by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), which runs the nomination and final voting under its published Nebula Rules and presents the awards at its Nebula Conference
- Held
- annual, late May or early June, at the SFWA Nebula Conference awards ceremony
Reigning winners
Nebula Award for Best Novel · 2025
- John Wiswell — Someone You Can Build a Nest In source 1 · source 2
Nebula Award for Best Novella · 2024
| Year | Nebula Award for Best Novel | Nebula Award for Best Novella |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | John Wiswell — Someone You Can Build a Nest In | |
| 2024 | Vajra Chandrasekera — The Saint of Bright Doors | Ai Jiang — Linghun |
| 2023 | R.F. Kuang — Babel | C. L. Polk — Even Though I Knew the End |
| 2022 | P. Djèlí Clark — A Master of Djinn | Premee Mohamed — And What Can We Offer You Tonight |
| 2021 | Martha Wells — Network Effect | P. Djèlí Clark — Ring Shout; or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times |
| 2020 | Sarah Pinsker — A Song for a New Day | Amal El-Mohtar — This Is How You Lose the Time War Max Gladstone — This Is How You Lose the Time War |
| 2019 | Mary Robinette Kowal — The Calculating Stars | Aliette de Bodard — The Tea Master and the Detective |
| 2018 | N. K. Jemisin — The Stone Sky | Martha Wells — All Systems Red |
| 2017 | Charlie Jane Anders — All the Birds in the Sky | Seanan McGuire — Every Heart a Doorway |
| 2016 | Naomi Novik — Uprooted | Nnedi Okorafor — Binti |
| 2015 | Jeff VanderMeer — Annihilation | Nancy Kress — Yesterday's Kin |