2023 Ursa Major Awards

The 2023 Ursa Major Awards winners were announced at Golden State Fur Con on April 7, 2024. The category for Best Anthropomorphic Music was removed for the 2023 awards due to "infighting" and a "refusal to allow impartial and unbiased management of the nominations and voting"

List of Winners, and nominees by category

See also: List of Ursa Major Awards winners#2023

Best Website

• Winner: FurAffinity
• Runners-Up:
  • e621
  • Wikifur
  • Wolfery
  • Kemono Café

Best Game

• Winner: Laika: Aged Through Blood
• Runners-Up:
  • Super Mario Bros Wonder
  • Friends vs Friends
  • Pseudoregalia

Best Visual Art

• Winner: Squiddy, The Record Store
• Runners-Up:
  • ARVEN92, Our Furry City - Anthrocon 2023
  • Squiddy, Market Haul
  • Glopossum, Pines
  • Bubblewolf, Winterrock Oasis

Best Magazine

• Winner: Dogpatch Press, by Patch Packrat
• Runners-Up:
  • Flayrah, edited by GreenReaper
  • InFurNation, edited by Rod O'Riley
  • Dhole Moments, edited by Soatok
  • Zooscape, edited by Mary E. Lowd

Best Comic Strip

• Winner: Foxes in Love, by Toivo Kaartinen.
• Runners-Up:
  • Carry On, by Kathy Garrison Kellogg.
  • Lauren Ipsum, by Charles Brubaker.
  • Freefall, by Mark Stanley.
  • The Whiteboard, by Doc Nickel.

Best Graphic Story

• Winner: Tamberlane, by Caytlin Vilbrandt and Ari Noble.
• Runners-Up:
  • TwoKinds, by Thomas Fischbach.
  • Slightly Damned, by Chu.
  • Silverwing: The Graphic Novel, written by Kenneth Opel, Illustrated by Christopher Steininge.
  • Would Have Bit You, by Inanimorphs.

Best Non-Fiction Work

• Winner: Furscience, by Dr. Courtney N. Plante.
• Runners-Up:
  • Furry Planet, by Joe Strike.
  • On Furries and the Media, by Soatok.
  • A Guide to Drawing Manga Fantasy Furries: and Other Anthropomorphic Creatures, by Ryo Sumiyoshi.
  • TFTuesday Podcast - A Measured Response: Saberspark's TF Video Essay, by Zilepo and K-Libra.

Best General Literary Work

• Winner: Gnoll Tales, by NightEyes DaySpring.
• Runners-Up:
  • Lauren Ipsum, by Charles Brubaker.
  • Zooscape, Volume 1, edited by Mary E. Lowd.
  • Some Words Burn Brightly: An Illuminated Collection of Poetry, by Mary E. Lowd.
  • Commander Annie and Others Adventures, by Mary E. Lowd.

Best Short Fiction

• Winner: On the Difference Between AI Cats and Actual Cats: A Love Story, by Daniel Lowd and Mary E. Lowd.
• Runners-Up:
  • Rhapsody of Stolen Feathers, by Frank Alvarez.
  • How Pepper Learned Magic, by Renee Carter Hall.
  • Of Heart and Stone, by Solomon Harries.
  • Aged Plant Fibers and Ink, by James L. Steele.

Best Novel

• Winner: Wolf of Withervale by Joaquín Baldwin.
• Runners-Up:
  • Rafts (ebook), by Utunu.
  • Otters In Space 4: First Moustronaut, by Mary E. Lowd.
  • Family Matters, by Mitch Marmel, Walter D. Reimer, and E.O. Costello.
  • You're Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station, by Mary E. Lowd.

Best Dramatic Series

• Winner: Helluva Boss (Created by Vivienne "VivziePop" Medrano - Season 2 Episode 3 to Midseason Special)
• Runners-Up:
  • The Owl House (Created by Dana Terrace; "For the Future" & "Watching and Dreaming")
  • Bluey (Created by Joe Brumm - Season 3)
  • Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (Developed by Adam Muto - August 31 to September 28)
  • Sonic Prime (Created by Man of Action - Season 2)

Best Dramatic Short Work

• Winner: Lackadaisy (Pilot) (Directed by Fable Siegel)
• Runners-Up:
  • Tamberlane (Directed by Ashley Nichols and Caytlin Vilbrandt)
  • A Fox in Space - Episode Two: Fixing a Hole (Directed by Matthew Gafford)
  • Once Upon a Studio (Directed by Dan Abraham and Trent Correy)
  • The Meeps - Love Louder (Official music video. Created in partnership with XIX Entertainment and T&B Media Global)

Best Anthropomorphic Motion Picture

• Winner: Nimona (Directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane)
• Runners-Up:
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Directed by James Gunn)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Directed by Jeff Rowe and Kyler Spears)
  • Leo (Directed by Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel and David Wachtenheim)
  • Migration (Directed by Benjamin Renner and Guylo Homsy)