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May 19, 2026

Submissions Re-Opening on June 15 at 9am CST

Hello friends, I’ve finally reached the point where I only have a few stories left in my personal slush pile…which means GigaNotoSaurus will be opening up to submissions again! Our plan is to reopen on Monday, June 15 at 9am CST (Central time) and stay open until we reach 100 stories. Once we hit that, […]

March 13, 2026

2025 Award Eligibility Post

by LaShawn M. Wanak, Editor

Last year was an unusual year for GigaNotoSaurus. As such, we have a fewer number of stories award-eligible for 2025. Here are the ones we did publish along with the categories they fall under. We are using the Nebula Award categorization rules: short stories are less than 7500 words. Novelettes are 7500 to 17500 words, […]

July 14, 2025

GigaNotoSaurus on Pause for August and September

by LaShawn M. Wanak, Editor

Hello friends, GigaNotoSaurus will be pausing its publications for August and September. We will resume our publishing schedule in October. While we wish we didn’t have to interrupt our schedule, we believe that the well-being of our team and their families is the most important during personal unforeseen circumstances. Thank you for your patience and […]

December 20, 2024

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2024 Award Eligibility Post

by LaShawn M. Wanak, Editor

It’s a snowy day here in Wisconsin. I got my tea, I got my blankets. And as promised, here are all the stories we published in 2024 for your award consideration. This year, we’re also indicating each story’s eligible award category. We are going by the Nebula Award categorization rules: short stories are less than […]

December 13, 2024

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2024 Wrap-up and Submissions Re-opening in January 2025

by LaShawn M. Wanak, Editor

What a year it has been for GigaNotoSaurus! My head is still spinning from all the good things that happened this year. We were nominated for the Hugo Award in the Semiprozine category, and while we didn’t win, it was still an honor to be at the Glasgow Worldcon to cheer on all the winners. […]

April 4, 2024

GigaNotoSaurus Nominated for Best Semiprozine in the 2024 Hugo Awards

by LaShawn M. Wanak, Editor

We are delighted to announce that GigaNotoSaurus has been nominated for a 2024 Hugo Award in the Semiprozine category! This is the second time our magazine has been nominated in this category; the first time was in 2017 under editor Rashida J. Smith. We are also on the same ballot as our founder, Ann Leckie, […]

February 26, 2024

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2023 Award Eligibility Post & Submissions on Hold (for now)

Hello friends, This post is a bit late. I had a lot on my plate over the past few months which I will talk about in a bit. First here are the stories we published that are eligible for awards in 2023: GigaNotoSaurus is also eligible for awards under the semi-prozine category, and yours truly is […]

September 5, 2023

September 2023 Editorial – The “We Need Your Help” Post

by LaShawn M. Wanak, Editor

Hello friends of GigaNotoSaurus, You probably knew this was coming when I made the announcement that I was now the owner of GNS. Let me not sugarcoat this, then. In order for us to continue running, we need your help. When I came on as acquiring editor in 2019, Ann Leckie, the current owner of […]

January 27, 2023

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2022 Award Eligibility Post

by LaShawn M. Wanak, Editor

2022 had GigaNotoSaurus hitting our stride with our first Nebula-nominated story under my editorship: Just Enough Rain by P. H. Lee, published in May 2021. We had 745 stories submitted to us last year. Here are the stories we published that are eligible for awards in 2022: GigaNotoSaurus is also eligible for awards under the […]

December 16, 2022

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Special Announcement from the Editor

by LaShawn M. Wanak, Editor

Hello Friends, I have some special news to share with you all. I’ll share the stories that are eligible for awards in 2023 along with our 2022 stats for this year in a follow-up post. GigaNotoSaurus was initially founded by Ann Leckie in November 2011. Her run of the magazine included wonderful stories such […]