List of Gaylactic Spectrum Award winners and nominees for best short fiction
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the award ceremonies; the books were released in the preceding years.

List of Gaylactic Spectrum Award winners and nominees for best short fiction

Section Title: Winners and nominees
Table Section Text: In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the award ceremonies; the books were released in the preceding years.

Year	Author(s)	Title	Published in	Publisher	Result	Ref.

1999	No Award	—	—	—	NA

2000	Arnason, EleanorEleanor Arnason	"Dapple"	Asimov's SF 09/99	Bantam Dell	Won

2000	Friesner, EstherEsther Friesner	"Chanoyu"	Asimov's SF 03/99	Bantam Dell	Nom

2000	Constantine, StormStorm Constantine	"The Thorn Boy"	Novella	Eidolon	Nom

2001	No Award	—	—	—	NA

2001	Egan, GregGreg Egan	"Oracle"	Asimov's SF 07/00	Bantam Dell	Nom

2002	Latner, Alexis GlynnAlexis Glynn Latner	"Kindred"	Bending the Landscape: Horror	Overlook	Won

2002	Berman, SteveSteve Berman	"The Anthvoke"	Strange Horizons & Trysts	Lethe Press	Nom

2002	Phillips, IanIan Phillips	"The Devil and Mrs. Faust"	See Dick Deconstruct	Attagirl Press	Nom

2002	Bell, M. ShayneM. Shayne Bell	"If On A Moonlit Night"	Realms of Fantasy 12/01	Sovereign Media	Nom

2002	Richerson, CarrieCarrie Richerson	"Love On A Stick"	Bending the Landscape: Horror	Overlook	Nom

2002	Tiedemann, MarkMark Tiedemann	"Passing"	Bending the Landscape: Horror	Overlook	Nom

2002	Shawl, NisiNisi Shawl	"Shiomah's Land"	Asimov's SF 03/01	Bantam Dell	Nom

2002	Asaro, CatherineCatherine Asaro	"Soul of Light"	Sextopia	Circlet Press	Nom

2002	Klages, EllenEllen Klages	"Triangle"	Bending the Landscape: Horror	Overlook	Nom

2003	Monette, SarahSarah Monette	"Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland"	Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #11	Small Beer Press	Won

2003	Treleaven, ScottScott Treleaven	"Bugcrush"	Queer Fear 2	Arsenal Pulp Press	Nom

2003	Knippenberg, RobertRobert Knippenberg	"For the Mortals Among Us"	Mind & Body	Circlet Press	Nom

2003	Ford, Michael ThomasMichael Thomas Ford	"Night of the Werepuss"	Queer Fear 2	Arsenal Pulp	Nom

2003	Nickle, DavidDavid Nickle	"Polyphemus' Cave"	Queer Fear 2	Arsenal Pulp	Nom

2003	Dedman, StephenStephen Dedman	"Till Human Voices Wake Us"	Queer Fear 2	Arsenal Pulp	Nom

2003	Hogarth, MCAMCA Hogarth	"Unspeakable"	Strange Horizons	Strangehorizons.com	Nom

2004	Anderson, BarthBarth Anderson	"Lark Till Dawn, Princess"	Mojo: Conjure Stories	Warner Aspect	Won

2004	Pratt, TimTim Pratt	"Down With the Lizards and the Bees"	Realms of Fantasy 08/03	Sovereign Media	Nom

2004	Rochelle, WarrenWarren Rochelle	"The Golden Boy"	Silver Gryphon	Golden Gryphon	Nom

2004	Berman, SteveSteve Berman	"Kiss"	X-Factor 10/03	Magazine	Nom

2004	Pratt, TimTim Pratt	"Living With the Harpy"	Strange Horizons	Strangehorizons.com	Nom

2004	Bernobich, BethBeth Bernobich	"Poison"	Strange Horizons	Strangehorizons.com	Nom

2004	Dellamonica, A MA M Dellamonica	"The Riverboy"	Land/Space	Tesseract	Nom

2004	Shawl, NisiNisi Shawl	"The Tawny Bitch"	Mojo: Conjure Stories	Warner Aspect	Nom

2004	Moore, Nancy JaneNancy Jane Moore	"Walking Contradiction"	Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction	Pocket Books	Nom

2005	Hall, RichardRichard Hall	"Country People"	Shadows of the Night	Southern Tier	Won

2005	Lundoff, CatherineCatherine Lundoff	"At the Roots of the World Tree"	Kenoma	E-zine	Nom

2005	Anderson, ColleenColleen Anderson	"Hold Back The Night"	Open Space	Red Deer	Nom

2005	Lawrence, JayeJaye Lawrence	"Kissing Frogs"	Fantasy & Science Fiction 05/04	Spilogale Inc	Nom

2005	McConnell, DavidDavid McConnell	"The Mask"	Shadows of the Night	Southern Tier	Nom

2005	Szymanski, ThereseTherese Szymanski	"The Morning After"	Shadows of the Night	Southern Tier	Nom

2005	Finlay, Charles ColemanCharles Coleman Finlay	"Pervert"	Fantasy & Science Fiction 03/04	Spilogale Inc	Nom

2005	Rosenfeld, CarolCarol Rosenfeld	"Rabbit Rerun"	Shadows of the Night	Southern Tier	Nom

2005	Griffith, NicolaNicola Griffith	"Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese"	With her Body	Aqueduct	Nom

2006	No Award (nominees carried over to next year)	—	—	—	NA

2007	Gerrold, DavidDavid Gerrold	"In the Quake Zone"	Down These Dark Spaceways	SFBC	Won (joint)

2007	Parks, JoyJoy Parks	"Instinct"	The Future Is Queer	Arsenal Pulp	Won (joint)

2007	Barzak, ChristopherChristopher Barzak	"The Language of Moths"	Realms of Fantasy	Sovereign Media	Won (joint)

2007	Pollack, RachelRachel Pollack	"The Beatrix Gates"	The Future Is Queer	Arsenal Pulp	Nom

2007	Valente, Catherynne MCatherynne M Valente	"Bones Like Black Sugar"	Fantasy magazine	Prime	Nom

2007	Pelland, JenniferJennifer Pelland	"The Captive Girl"	Helix SF 08/06	Helix	Nom

2007	Berman, SteveSteve Berman	"Caught by Skin"	Sex in the System	Thunder's Mouth	Nom

2007	Potter, AlexanderAlexander Potter	"Facing Down Your Demons"	All Hell Breaking Loose	DAW	Nom

2007	Baker, L-JL-J Baker	"Fairy Tale Ending"	Tales from the Asylum	From the Asylum	Nom

2007	Duchamp, L TimmelL Timmel Duchamp	"Obscure Relations"	The Future Is Queer	Arsenal Pulp	Nom

2007	Bruce, CamillaCamilla Bruce	"Plums"	Shifting Again	Torquere	Nom

2007	Draven, AlexAlex Draven	"Sleeping Bears Lie"	Shifting Too	Torquere	Nom

2007	Wright, KristinaKristina Wright	"The Specter of Sin"	Call of the Dark	Bella Books	Nom

2007	Bowes, RichardRichard Bowes	"There's A Hole In The City"	SciFiction	SciFi.Com	Nom

2007	DeCina, KimberlyKimberly DeCina	"Voce"	Sleeping Beauty, Indeed	Torquere	Nom

2007	Watts, JuliaJulia Watts	"We Recruit"	Stake Through the Heart	Bella	Nom

2008	Lewis, JoshuaJoshua Lewis	"Ever So Much More Than Twenty"	So Fey	Lethe Press	Won

2008	Augustin, K.S.K.S. Augustin	"Prime Suspect"	eBook	Total-E-Bound	Nom

2008	Berman, SteveSteve Berman	"Bittersweet"	Journal of Mythic Arts	Endicott Studio	Nom

2008	Black, HollyHolly Black	"The Coat of Stars"	So Fey	Lethe Press	Nom

2008	Cassandra Clare & Ruby deBrazier	"Charming, A Tale of True Love"	So Fey	Lethe Press	Nom

2008	Decker, M.M. Decker	"Side Effects"	Alleys & Doorways	Torquere	Nom

2008	Ellwood, LeighLeigh Ellwood	"The Healing"	eBook	Phaze	Nom

2008	Gidney, CraigCraig Gidney	"A Bird of Ice"	So Fey	Lethe Press	Nom

2008	Kelly, James PatrickJames Patrick Kelly	"Dividing the Sustain"	New Space Opera	Eos	Nom

2008	Kelly, KiernanKiernan Kelly	"Dancing on the Head of a Pin"	eBook	Torquere	Nom

2008	Lewis, Valerie Z.Valerie Z. Lewis	"The Steel Anniversary"	Alleys & Doorways	Torquere	Nom

2008	Lundoff, CatherineCatherine Lundoff	"Medusa's Touch"	Crave: Tales of Lust, Love, and Longing	Lethe Press	Nom

2008	Talbot, JuliaJulia Talbot	"The Reflection of Love"	Alleys & Doorways	Torquere	Nom

2008	Vanderhooft, JoSelleJoSelle Vanderhooft	"Were"	Alleys & Doorways	Torquere	Nom

2009	No Award (nominees carried over to next year)	—	—	—	NA

2010	Duncan, HalHal Duncan	"The Behold of the Eye"	Lone Star Stories/Wilde Stories 2009'	Lethe Press	Won (joint)

2010	Scott, MelissaMelissa Scott	"The Rocky Side of the Sky"	Periphery	Lethe Press	Won (joint)

2010	Gilman, Carolyn IvesCarolyn Ives Gilman	"Angels Alone"	Periphery	Lethe Press	Nom

2010	Lane, JoelJoel Lane	"Behind the Curtain"	Dark Horizons Issue 52/Wilde Stories 2009	Lethe Press	Nom

2010	Currier, JamesonJameson Currier	"The Bloomsbury Nudes"	Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet	Dark Scribe Press	Nom

2010	Walsh, KaiteKaite Walsh	"City of the Dead"	Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades	Lethe Press	Nom

2010	Jeffers, AlexAlex Jeffers	"Firooz and His Brother"	Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 2008/Wilde Stories	Lethe Press	Nom

2010	Dawn, AmberAmber Dawn	"Here Lies the Last Lesbian Rental in East Vancouver"	Fist of the Spider Woman	Arsenal Pulp Press	Nom

2010	Scalise, MichelleMichelle Scalise	"I Am the Shadow That Walks There"	Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet	Dark Scribe Press	Nom

2010	Thomas, LeeLee Thomas	"I'm Your Violence"	Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet	Dark Scribe Press	Nom

2010	Evans, Aurelia T.Aurelia T. Evans	"In Circles"	Fist of the Spider Woman	Arsenal Pulp Press	Nom

2010	Brenchley, ChazChaz Brenchley	"In the Night Street Baths"	Lace and Blade - Norilana Books/Wilde Stories 2009	Lethe Press	Nom

2010	Scott, MelissaMelissa Scott	"One Horse Town"	Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades	Lethe Press	Nom

2010	Cobalt, KalKal Cobalt	"Parts"	Wired Hard 4	Circlet Press	Nom

2010	Amara, AstridAstrid Amara	"Remember"	Tangle	Blind Eye Books	Nom

2010	Jernigan, ZacharyZachary Jernigan	"The Succession of Knoorikios Khnum"	Wired Hard 4	Circlet Press	Nom

2010	McConchie, LynLyn McConchie	"Waiting Tables and Time"	Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades	Lethe Press	Nom

2011 -	No Award	—	—	—	NA

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Captive Girl was shortlisted for the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards.

final_sentence: Captive Girl was shortlisted for the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards.