The nominees presented in random order are:

Best Novel

• Love Match (Book 3) by Kyell Gold
• Ritual of the Ancients (Changing Bodies: Book 1) by Ian Madison Keller
• Disbanded (Serpentia Book 1) by Frances Pauli
• A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

Best Novella

• Rightful Salvage by Frances Pauli
• What Makes a Witch by Linnea Capps
• Dude, Where's My Pack? by Kyell Gold
• Soup of the Moment: A Tale of Barsk by Lawrence M. Schoen

Best Short Story

• "The Battler" by Cedric G! Bacon in Even Furries Hate Nazis
• "Water" by Utunu in The Voice of Dog (Audio part 1, part 2, PDF)
• "Summer Strawberries" by Mary E. Lowd in The Voice of Dog (Audio)
• "Nazis Should Never Be Normal" by Nathan Hopp in Even Furries Hate Nazis

Best Anthology

• Difursity: Stories by Furries of Color edited by Weasel
• Selections of Anthropomorphic Regalements Vol. 1 edited by K. C. Alpinus
• Boldly Going Forward edited by Sean Gerace
• Even Furries Hate Nazis edited by Kate Watts

Best Other Work

• The Voice of Dog (podcast) hosted by Khaki
• Fox Spirit: A Two-Tailed Adventure (interactive novel) by Amy Clare Fontaine

(see note)

Voting will begin on March 20th! Voting is open to all members and associate members of the Furry Writers' Guild, and will take place here on this site, so keep an eye out for when that goes up. You can follow the FWG on twitter at @FurWritersGuild and the chair at @makyo_writes for further announcements.

Congratulations to all of the nominees, and thank you to all who voted!

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Note: Per the rules 5.a.iii: "In the event of a tie for the last place on the ballot in a given category, the size of the ballot may be expanded to include the tied works." The chair has decided that the "may" implies an optional step, as to expand the ballot for the tie for last place would make the ballot for this category 13 items long, which does not fit the spirit of the construction of the ballot in 5.a.