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WSFA Small Press Award 
Summary
The WSFA Small Press Award was inaugurated by the Washington Science Fiction Association in 2007. The award is open to works of imaginative literature (e.g. science fiction, fantasy, horror) published in English for the first time in the previous calendar year. Furthermore, the Small Press Award is limited to short fiction—works under 20,000 words in length—that was published by a small press.[1] The nominees are narrowed down by a panel elected by the WSFA membership, and these finalists are then judged by the entire WSFA membership to select a winner. Throughout the process, the author and publisher of each story are kept anonymous.
The winning story is announced at Capclave, the WSFA convention held in the Washington, D.C. area each October.
Winners edit
- 2007 Award: "El Regalo" by Peter S. Beagle (published in The Line Between, Tachyon Publications)
- 2008 Award: "The Wizard of Macatawa" by Tom Doyle (published in Paradox, Issue 11)
- 2009 Award: "The Absence of Stars: Part One" by Greg Siewert (published in Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, December 2008)
- 2010 Award: "Siren Beat" by Tansy Rayner Roberts (published by Twelfth Planet Press, October 2009)
- 2011 Award: "Amaryllis" by Carrie Vaughn (published in Lightspeed, June 2010)
- 2012 Award: "The Patrician" by Tansy Rayner Roberts (published in Love and Romanpunk, Twelfth Planet Press, May 2011)
- 2013 Award: "Good Hunting" by Ken Liu (published in Strange Horizons, October 2012)
- 2014 Award: "Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma" by Alex Shvartsman (published in Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, April 2013)
- 2015 Award: "Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon (published in Apex Magazine January 2014)[2]
- 2016 Award: "Today I Am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker (published in Clarkesworld Magazine August 2015)[3]
- 2017 Award: "The Tomato Thief" by Ursula Vernon (published in Apex Magazine January 2016)[4]
- 2018 Award: "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer (published in Clarkesworld Magazine September 2017)[5]
- 2019 Award: "The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change" by Virginia M. Mohlere (published in Luna Station Quarterly May 2018)[6]
- 2020 Award: "The Partisan and the Witch" by Charlotte Honigman (published in Skull & Pestle: New Tales of Baba Yaga, edited by Kate Wolford (World Weaver Press, 2019)[7]
- 2021 Award: "Metal Like Blood in the Dark" by T. Kingfisher (published in Uncanny Magazine, (September/October 2020) edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas)[8]
- 2022 Award: "Eight Mile and the City" by Steven Harper (published in When Worlds Collide, edited by S. C. Butler and Joshua Palmatier (Zombies Need Brains, July 2021)[9]
- 2023 Award: "The Dragon Project" by Naomi Kritzer (published in Clarkesworld Magazine March 2022) [10]
References edit
- ^ A small press is defined by the WSFA as (1) a book published in hard copy print or by a web publication house releasing from 3 to 25 titles in the year the story is published or (2) a periodical or web publication with a circulation/subscriber base of fewer than 10,000 in the year the story is published and which pays all authors in cash. WSFA Small Press Award Rules. Retrieved on August 3, 2008.
- ^ "Locus Online News » WSFA Small Press Award Winner". www.locusmag.com. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
- ^ Publications, Locus (10 October 2016). "Locus Online News » Shoemaker Wins WSFA Small Press Award". www.locusmag.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
- ^ "sfadb: WSFA Small Press Award 2017". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
- ^ "sfadb: WSFA Small Press Award 2018". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
- ^ "sfadb: WSFA Small Press Award 2019". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
- ^ "sfadb : WSFA Small Press Award". sfadb.com. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ "sfadb : WSFA Small Press Award". sfadb.com. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ "Title: Eight Mile and the City". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ "sfadb : WSFA Small Press Award". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
External links edit
- WSFA Small Press Award
- Washington Science Fiction Association
- Capclave