Fri, Jun 19
|Brooke Lanier Fine Art
"Six People to Revise You" by J.R. Dawson
2025 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Short Story Hugo and Nebula award finalist for Best Short Story. If you're unhappy, there is a service you can get to revise you based on the input of six people who fulfill different pre-selected categories in your life. Scroll down for a link to the reading.
Time & Location
Jun 19, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Brooke Lanier Fine Art, 820 S 4th St, Philadelphia, PA 19147, USA
About the event
"Six People to Revise You" is a Hugo and Nebula award finalist for Best Short Story, originally published in Uncanny Magazine. There is an audiobook version both in that link and in the Uncanny Magazine Podcast, availalble on Spotify and lots of other places.
The nonbinary narrator of the story requests six people to fill out forms that will be used when a company revises them into a happier, more attractive version of themself.
"A parent or guardian
Someone who has known you since childhood
A mentor or teacher
An employer or coworker
A spouse, partner, or close intimate friend
Someone who does not consider themself a loved one."