2025 Cóyotl Awards Reading List
The 2025 Cóyotl Awards reading list is now open for submissions! The reading list serves as a way to inform readers what works are eligible this awards season. This is not a nomination or a vote for a work, but rather a place to link to where folks may find it. Anyone may submit their own works or those they have enjoyed to this list.
This year, the reading list will be accomplished using a Google form. Below you will find the existing reading list and a form to submit new entries. Before submitting something to the reading list, please be sure to look if it already exists below, and ensure that the work is eligible per the award rules.
Novels
- Raynarde – "A Portrait For Tomorrow"
- J.F.R. Coates – "Dragon's Soul"
- Joaquín Baldwin – "Feral Flame"
- Ty Fox – "Gravitational Pull"
- David Hardie – "Heat Without Light"
- Alex Frey – "Lesser Gods: Reckoning"
- Royce Day – "Meeting Dominique"
- Koda Copeland – "My Remise"
- Rob MacWolf – "Of Late Belonging"
- NightEyes DaySpring – "The Blood of Life"
- Renard Avec-Histoire – "The Bones Behind the Glass"
- Erdbok (Jako Malan) – "The Rewilding: A story of Mammalæ origins"
- Arilin Thorferra – "The Turning"
- Roscoe G. Beetle – "Thorns"
- Lauren Rivers – "Winterfall"
Novellas
- Andrew Beaman – "Dusk on the Horizon"
- Michael Miele – "The Unionization of Kobolds"
- Rob MacWolf – "At First Belonging"
Short stories
- Reggie Kwok – "Ding Meets Blink in Madam, Don't Forget Your Sword: Tales of the Companions, Sidekicks, and Minions"
- Reggie Kwok – "Pala"
- Ty Fox – "The Artisan"
- Ty Fox – "Unbreakable Bonds"
- Frances Pauli – "A Below Ground Sort of Animal"
- J.F.R. Coates – "A Matching Reflection"
- Utunu – "Amongst the Upright Ones"
- Rob MacWolf – "And Still He Runs"
- Michael Miele – "At Sunset, She Flew"
- Packwolf Lupestripe – "Back to the Molly House"
- Rob MacWolf – "Brewed Out of Blood"
- Michael Miele – "Letters From Nathaniel Hedgeworthy Addressed with Great Longing and Adoration to Symon the Dragon"
- Frances Pauli – "Manuel and Otis"
- Michael Miele – "My Greatest Treasure"
- Frances Pauli – "Pure Dragon Puehr"
- Shiloh Skye – "Rapture"
- Roscoe G. Beetle – "Salisbury"
- Pascal Farful – "Shame and Desperation Will Kill You Someday"
- J.F.R. Coates – "The Duchess of Buccaneer's Bay"
- Michael Miele – "The Guardian of the Grove"
- Rob MacWolf – "Though Ocean Waves May Sever"
- Francine DeCarey – "True Colors"
- Pascal Farful – "Victor Tremblay in: Mystery at Moon Lake"
- Packwolf Lupestripe – "Would?"
Anthologies
- Utunu – Echoes
- Arian Mabe (Amethyst Mare) – Mythical Desire
- Various – Tales from the Guild: Blood and Water
- Michael Miele – Tales of Scales
- Various – The Wideness of the World
- Arian Mabe (Amethyst Mare) – Twisting Tentacles
- Ana Spinet – Wild Hearts
Other works
- Tempe O'Kun – "Every Nine Lives Or So"
- Matthew S. Coates – "Just Animals Issue 2: The Chimera Conspiracy "
- Tempe O'Kun – "Puplift: A Dog's Guide to Space 🐕 🚀 The Go Somewhere Else Button 🔴 "
- Tempe O'Kun – "Toad @ Toad Hall"
- Packwolf Lupestripe – "Votive"
The form for submitting new entries to the reading list is closed.
As before, if the embed is difficult to work with you can view the form on its own here.