- The Farewell by Elana Gomel (The Dark)
- Shape-Shifter by Frances Ogamba (The Dark)
- Their Eyes the Shape of Orchids by Eleanna Castroianni (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- Tusker Blue by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja (Strange Horizons)
- Tender, Tether, Shell by M.J. Pettit (Clarkesworld Magazine)
- Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper by Derrick Boden (Clarkesworld Magazine)
- Bramblewilde by Jordan Taylor (Uncanny Magazine)
