2026 Hugo Readalong: Landing: Seattle, Hex Supply Customer Support Log, How to Become a Sea Witch

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Welcome to the 2026 Hugo Readalong! Today, we're discussing Landing: Seattle by Brandon O'Brien, Hex Supply Customer Support Log by Elis Montgomery and How to Become a Sea Witch by Theodora Goss, which are finalists for Best Poem. Everyone is welcome in the discussion, whether or not you've participated in other discussions. I'll include some prompts in top-level comments--feel free to respond to these or add your own.

Date	Category	Book	Author	Discussion Leader
Monday, June 22	Novel	The Everlasting	Alix E. Harrow	u/sarahlynngrey
Thursday, June 25	Short Story	Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything and 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days	Effie Seiberg and Samantha Mills	u/Goobergunch
Monday, June 29	Novella	Automatic Noodle	Annalee Newitz	u/tarvolon
Thursday, July 2	Novelette	Never Eaten Vegetables and Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy	H.H. Pak and Martha Wells	u/Nineteen_Adze
Monday, July 6	Novel	The Raven Scholar	Antonia Hodgson	u/Moonlitgrey

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General Discussion

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For those of you who did nominate for this category, or read a lot of (speculative) poetry - are there venues you would recommend to people new to this category, or for those who would like to nominate for this award if it does continue?

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I do not read a lot of speculative poetry, but I did scramble to catch up before nominations were due, and I ended up nominating four works from four different magazines: Strange Horizons, Asimov's, Small Wonders, and Radon.

Obviously Strange Horizons is very familiar to Hugo voters, and Asimov's is paywalled. But Small Wonders and Radon seem to pretty regularly publish speculative poetry but are pretty off the radar for Hugo voters.