| WSFA Small Press Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | English-language speculative fiction works that are under 20,000 words and published by a small press |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Washington Science Fiction Association |
| First award | 2007 |
| Website | wsfasmallpressaward |
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. 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.[how?]
The winning story is announced at Capclave, the WSFA convention held in the Washington, D.C. area each October.
* Winners
| Year | Author | Work | Publication | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Peter S. Beagle* | "El Regalo" | The Line Between | |
| Stephanie Burgis | "Ivy and Thorn" | Grendelsong | ||
| Edd Vick | "Moon Does Run" | Electric Velocipede | ||
| Rick Klaw | "A Penny a Word" | Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard | ||
| Paul Miles | ||||
| Vera Nazarian | "Port Custodial Blues" | Helix | ||
| Bryn Sparks | "Queen of Stars" | Apex Magazine | ||
| Vylar Kaftan | "Through the Cooking Glass" | Raven Electrick | ||
| Peg Robinson | "Tonino and the Incubus" | Helix | ||
| 2008 | Tom Doyle | "The Wizard of Macatawa" | Paradox, #11 | |
| Erik Amundsen | "Bufo Rex" | Weird Tales, #347 | ||
| John Kratman | "Harry the Crow" | Aeon Speculative Fiction, #12 | ||
| Ken Pick | "Mask of the Ferret" | Infinite Space, Infinite God | ||
| Alan Loewen | ||||
| Elizabeth Bear | "Orm the Beautiful" | Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2007 | ||
| Jeff VanderMeer | "The Third Bear" | Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2007 | ||
| 2009 | Greg Siewert* | "The Absence of Stars: Part One" | Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, December 2008 | |
| K. D. Wentworth | "Drinking Problem" | Seeds of Change | ||
| Lavie Tidhar | "Hard Rain at the Fortean Café" | Aeon Speculative Fiction Magazine, #14 | ||
| Christopher Sequeira | "His Last Arrow" | Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes | ||
| James Maxey | "Silent as Dust" | Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, January 2008 | ||
| Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu | "Spider the Artist" | Seeds of Change | ||
| Luisa Maria Garcia Velasco | "The Toy Car" | Aberrant Dreams, April 2008 | ||
| 2010 | Tansy Rayner Roberts* | "Siren Beat" | Twelfth Planet Press | |
| Gemma Files | "each thing i show you is a piece of my death" | Clockwork Phoenix 2 | ||
| Stephen J. Barringer | ||||
| Nancy Kress | "Images of Anna" | Fantasy, September 2009 | ||
| Kevin Lauderdale | "James and the Dark Grimoire" | Cthulhu Unbound | ||
| Yoon Ha Lee | "The Pirate Captain's Daughter" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies, October 2009 | ||
| Kyell Gold | "Race to the Moon" | New Fables, Summer 2009 | ||
| Eugie Foster | "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" | Interzone, January 2009 | ||
| Jeff Soesbe | "The Very Difficult Diwali of Sub-Inspector Gurushankar Rajaram" | DayBreak Magazine, October 2009 | ||
| 2011 | Carrie Vaughn* | "Amaryllis" | Lightspeed, June 2010 | |
| Sarah Monette | "After the Dragon" | Fantasy, January 2010 | ||
| Jack McDevitt | "The Cassandra Project" | Lightspeed, June 2010 | ||
| Catherynne M. Valente | "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" | Dark Faith | ||
| R. J. Astruc | "Enid and the Prince" | Worlds Next Door | ||
| Jean Marie Ward | "Lord Bai's Discovery" | Dragon's Lure | ||
| 2012 | Tansy Rayner Roberts* | "The Patrician" | Love and Romanpunk | |
| E. Lily Yu | "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" | Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2011 | ||
| Joanne Anderton | "Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden" | Hope | ||
| Megan Arkenberg | "Lessons from a Clockwork Queen" | Fantasy, September 2011 | ||
| David Klecha | "A Militant Peace" | Clarkesworld Magazine, November 2011 | ||
| Tobias S. Buckell | ||||
| Ferrett Steinmetz | "Sauerkraut Station" | GigaNotoSaurus, November 2011 | ||
| Chris Dolley | "What Ho, Automaton!" | Shadow Conspiracy, Volume II | ||
| Lawrence M. Schoen | "Yesterday's Taste" | Transtories | ||
| 2013 | Ken Liu* | "Good Hunting" | Strange Horizons, October 2012 | |
| Pamela K. Kinney | "Bottled Spirits" | Buzzy Mag, June 2012 | ||
| Ken Liu | "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" | Lightspeed, August 2012 | ||
| Jason Nahrung | "Mornington Ride" | Fablecroft | ||
| Lawrence M. Schoen | "Coca Xocolati" | ReDeus: Divine Tales | ||
| Hildy Silverman | "The Six Million Dollar Mermaid" | Mermaids 13: Tales from the Sea | ||
| Carrie Vaughn | "Astrophilia" | Clarkesworld Magazine, July 2012 | ||
| 2014 | Alex Shvartsman* | "Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma" | Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, April 2013 | |
| Gemma Files | "Trap-Weed" | Clockwork Phoenix 4 | ||
| Maria Dahvana Headley | "The Traditional" | Lightspeed, May 2013 | ||
| Naomi Kritzer | "Bits" | Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2013 | ||
| David McDonald | "Set Your Face Towards the Darkness" | Tales of Australia: Great Southern Land | ||
| Sean McMullen | "Acts of Chivalry" | Tales of Australia: Great Southern Land | ||
| DK Mok | "Morning Star" | One Small Step: An Anthology of Discoveries | ||
| Jonathan Shipley | "Like a Bat Out of Hell" | After Death | ||
| 2015 | Ursula Vernon* | "Jackalope Wives" | Apex Magazine, January 2014 | |
| Day Al-Mohamed | "The Lesser Evil" | Sword & Laser | ||
| Tom Crosshill | "The Magician and Laplace's Demon" | Clarkesworld Magazine, December 2014 | ||
| Dirk Flinthart | "Vanilla" | Kaleidoscope | ||
| Karen Healey | "Careful Magic" | Kaleidoscope | ||
| Kat Howard | "All of Our Past Places" | The Journal of Unlikely Cartography, June 2014 | ||
| Rosaleen Love | "Qasida" | Secret Lives of Books | ||
| C. S. MacCath | "N is for Nanomachine" | A is for Apocalypse | ||
| Tansy Rayner Roberts | "Cookie Cutter Superhero" | Kaleidoscope | ||
| 2016 | Martin L. Shoemaker* | "Today I Am Paul" | Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2015 | |
| Stephanie Burgis | "The Art of Deception" | Insert Title Here | ||
| Beth Cato | "Headspace" | Cats in Space | ||
| Larry Hodges | "Leashing the Muse" | Space and Time, May 2015 | ||
| Naomi Kritzer | "Cat Pictures Please" | Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2015 | ||
| Tanith Lee | "Burn Her" | Dancing Through the Fire | ||
| Hannu Rajaniemi | "The Haunting of Apollo A7LB" | Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction | ||
| Robert Reed | "The Empress in Her Glory" | Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2015 | ||
| Leona Wisoker | "Leftovers" | Cats in Space | ||
| 2017 | Ursula Vernon* | "The Tomato Thief" | Apex Magazine, January 2016 | |
| Aliette de Bodard | "A Salvaging of Ghosts" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2016 | ||
| Neil James Hudson | "The Mytilenian Delay" | Hyperpowers | ||
| Walter H. Hunt | "Radio Silence" | Alien Artifacts | ||
| Yoon Ha Lee | "Foxfire, Foxfire" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2016 | ||
| Christine Lucas | "Vengeance Sewn With Fey Cord" | The Future Fire , April 2016 | ||
| Margaret Ronald | "The Witch's Knives" | Strange Horizons, October 2016 | ||
| Brad R. Torgersen | "Jupiter or Bust" | Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show | ||
| Fran Wilde | "Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left" | Shimmer, September 2016 | ||
| 2018 | Suzanne Palmer* | "The Secret Life of Bots" | Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2017 | |
| Kelly Barnhill | "Probably Still the Chosen One" | Lightspeed, February 2017 | ||
| Pip Coen | "Floaters Can't Float" | Compelling Science Fiction, April 2017 | ||
| Brandon Daubs | "A Vague Inclination to Please" | All Hail Our Robot Conquerers | ||
| Jonathan Edelstein | "Oba Oyinbo" | Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, October 2017 | ||
| Wendy Nikel | "Through Milkweed and Gloom" | Submerged | ||
| Richard Parks | "The Cat of Five Virtues" | Tales of the Sunrise Lands | ||
| Karina Sumner-Smith | "The Oracle and the Warlord" | The Sum of Us | ||
| 2019 | Virginia M. Mohlere* | "The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change" | Luna Station Quarterly, May 2018 | |
| Brooke Bolander | "The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat" | Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2018 | ||
| E. A. Brenner | "Familiar in Her Angles" | Metaphorosis, September 2018 | ||
| Leslie Burton-Lopez | "Baggage" | When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology | ||
| Hal J. Friesen | "The Djinni and the Accountant" | Fire: Demons, Dragons, and Djinn | ||
| Alix E. Harrow | "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" | Apex Magazine, February 2018 | ||
| Arkady Martine | "The Hydraulic Emperor" | Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2018 | ||
| DK Mok | "The Spider and the Stars" | Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers | ||
| 2020 | Charlotte Honigman* | "The Partisan and the Witch" | Skull & Pestle: New Tales of Baba Yaga | |
| Beth Cato | "The Blighted Godling of Company Town H" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2019 | ||
| L. Deni Colter | "The Weight of Mountains" | DreamForge, June 2019 | ||
| Judi Fleming | "The Sound of Distant Stars" | Footprints in the Stars | ||
| A. T. Greenblatt | "Give the Family My Love" | Clarkesworld Magazine, February 2019 | ||
| Ada Hoffman | "Fairest of All" | The Future Fire , August 2019 | ||
| Juliet Kemp | "Somewhere Else, Nowhere Else" | Portals | ||
| Suzanne Palmer | "Painter of Trees" | Clarkesworld Magazine, June 2019 | ||
| 2021 | T. Kingfisher* | "Metal Like Blood in the Dark" | Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2020 | |
| Matthew R. Davis | "Heritage Hill" | Outback Horrors Down Under | ||
| Rebecca Enzor | "Myself" | DreamForge, December 2020 | ||
| Feng Gooi | "Memories Taste Best When Marinated with Sadness" | Hexagon, Fall 2020 | ||
| Brian Hugenbruch | "Foster-Child of Silence and Slow Time" | My Battery Is Low and It Is Getting Dark | ||
| Jo Miles | "The Longest Season in the Garden of the Tea Fish" | Strange Horizons, April 2020 | ||
| Jennifer R. Povey | "Guest Athletes" | The Phantom Games: Dimensions Unknown Vol. III | ||
| Caias Ward | "Reformed" | Mysterion, March 2020 | ||
| John Wiswell | "Open House on Haunted Hill" | Diabolical Plots, June 2020 | ||
| 2022 | Steven Harper* | "Eight Mile and the City" | When Worlds Collide | |
| Elly Bangs | "Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias" | Lightspeed, November 2021 | ||
| Sharon Lee | "Standing Orders" | Derelicts | ||
| Steve Miller | ||||
| DK Mok | "The Birdsong Fossil" | Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures | ||
| Suzan Palumbo | "Laughter Among the Trees" | The Dark, February 2021 | ||
| Y. M. Pang | "Dress of Ash" | Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories | ||
| Ryan Priest | "A Universe All to Himself" | Metaphorosis, April 2021 | ||
| Alexandra Seidel | "From the Ashes Flew the Ladybug" | The Deadlands, November 2021 | ||
| Adam R. Shannon | "A Stranger Goes Ashore" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies, April 2021 | ||
| Kristina Ten | "Fisherman's Soup" | Mermaids Monthly, May 2021 | ||
| 2023 | Naomi Kritzer* | "The Dragon Project" | Clarkesworld Magazine, March 2022 | |
| Marie Brennan | "This Living Hand" | Sunday Morning Transport, February 2022 | ||
| Ana Gardner | "Simons, Far and Near" | Cast of Wonders, February 2022 | ||
| R. Z. Held | "Ashes of a Cinnamon Fire" | Shattering The Glass Slipper | ||
| Taylor Jones | "Possession" | Reckoning, September 2022 | ||
| Juliet Kemp | "At the Lighthouse, Out by the Othersea" | Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2022 | ||
| Angus McIntyre | "In the Belly of the Whale" | Trenchcoats, Towers, and Trolls: Cyberpunk Fairy Tales | ||
| Alyse Winters | "Not the Youngest, Nor the Prettiest, But Someone Else" | Shattering The Glass Slipper | ||
| 2024 | Kai Holmwood* | "A Bowl of Soup on the 87th Floor" | DreamForge Anvil, March 2023 | |
| Annika Barranti Klein | "Six Meals at Fanelli's" | Fusion Fragment, April 2023 | ||
| Barbara Krasnoff | "Baby Golem" | Jewish Futures | ||
| M. L. Krishnan | "Interstate Mohinis" | Diabolical Plots, June 2023 | ||
| Naomi Kritzer | "Better Living Through Algorithms" | Clarkesworld Magazine, May 2023 | ||
| Jennifer R. Povey | "Machines" | Game On! | ||
| Alex T. Singer | "Nothing But the Gods on Their Backs" | Metaphorosis, June 2023 | ||
| LaShawn M. Wanak | "By the Works of Her Hands" | Never Too Old to Save the World | ||
| 2025 | Pat Murphy | "A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts" | Lightspeed, December 2024 | |
| M. A. Akins | "All We Ever Had" | Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, August 2024 | ||
| Leah Andelsmith | "Within the Seed Lives the Fruit" | Reckoning, June 2024 | ||
| Elly Bangs | "Bespoke" | Embodies Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures | ||
| E. Florian Gludovacz | "A Hero’s Tale" | Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, July 2024 | ||
| Íde Hennessy | "A Slightly Different Sunrise from Mercury, Nevada" | Strange Horizons, November 2024 | ||
| Marissa Lingen | "A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 2024 | ||
| Michael H. Payne | "Collaborators" | Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, December 2024 |