"Hex Supply Customer Support Log" wins the 2026 Best Poem Hugo Award!

Elis Montgomery

Excerpt from Hex Supply Customer Support Log: "oh shit you're not a witch at all / you're just a freaking bot / a chat AI from hex? the gall / yeah that explains a lot"

"Hex Supply Customer Support Log" wins the 2026 Best Poem Hugo Award!

Also a finalist for the 2026 Rhysling Award (Long Poem)

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“Elis Montgomery - Best Poem” by Worldcon Photos, CC BY-NC 4.0.

Image of a watercolour illustration by Raffaele Mainella for Nos Invisibles (1907). A dark figure stands over an open, flower-strewn casket with their hands raised to a lighter sky of dancing, white-clad figures. A dead man lies inside the casket beside a tall candle, its smoke trailing into the distance. Over the sky is added text from “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery: “Neither he nor the rider had prepared for death; it had come for them suddenly, as certain as wildfire.”

"Hollows After Bones"

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