# Eugie Award

The Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction is an annual juried award presented to the author of a piece of short speculative fiction (20,000 words or fewer) published during the previous calendar year. It seeks to recognize fiction that is "irreplacable" and that "will become essential to speculative fiction readers." The award is named in honour of Eugie Foster, a prolific speculative writer and editor. It was first presented in 2016 at the awards banquet at Dragon Con, and has continued to be presented at the same venue in years since.

## Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the work was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a light yellow background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist. Shortlists are listed alphabetically by last name.
* Winners
| Year | Author | Work | Publisher or publication |
| 2016 | Catherynne M. Valente* | "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild" | Clarkesworld |
| 2016 | Aliette de Bodard | "Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight" | Clarkesworld |
| 2016 | Tamsyn Muir | "The Deepwater Bride" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2016 | Ursula Vernon | "Pocosin" | Apex Magazine |
| 2016 | Alyssa Wong | "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers"$^{[externallink]}$ | Nightmare Magazine |
| 2017 | N. K. Jemisin* | "The City Born Great" | Tor.com |
| 2017 | Amal El-Mohtar | "Seasons of Glass and Iron"$^{[externallink]}$ | The Starlit Wood |
| 2017 | Suzanne Palmer | "Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man" | Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine |
| 2017 | Catherynne M. Valente | "The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies |
| 2017 | Alyssa Wong | "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2018 | Fran Wilde* | "Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2018 | Violet Allen | "Infinite Love Engine" | Lightspeed |
| 2018 | Tobias S. Buckell | "Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance" | Cosmic Powers |
| 2018 | Matthew Kressel | "The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)" | Tor.com |
| 2018 | Sarah Pinsker | "And Then There Were (N-One)" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2019 | Simone Heller* | "When We Were Starless" | Clarkesworld |
| 2019 | Siobhan Carroll | "The War of Light and Shadow, in Five Dishes" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies |
| 2019 | Alix E. Harrow | "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" | Apex |
| 2019 | Cae Hawksmoor | "Barleycorn" | Abyss & Apex |
| 2019 | Kathleen Jennings | "The Heart of Owl Abbas" | Tor.com |
| 2020 | Siobhan Carroll* | "For He Can Creep" | Tor.com |
| 2020 | L Chan | "The House Wins in the End" | The Dark |
| 2020 | Andy Dudak | "Love in the Time of Immuno-Sharing" | Analog |
| 2020 | Thoraiya Dyer | "A Civilization Dreams of Absolutely Nothing" | Analog |
| 2020 | Jerome Stueart | "Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2021 | Elaine Cuyegkeng* | "The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter" | Black Cranes |
| 2021 | KT Bryski | "The Bone-Stag Walks" | Lightspeed |
| 2021 | Alix E. Harrow | "The Sycamore and the Sybil" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2021 | Usman T. Malik | "City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat" | Tor.com |
| 2021 | Lavie Tidhar | "Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law" | Tor.com |
| 2022 | Sarah Pinsker* | "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2022 | Adam-Troy Castro | "A Tableau of Things That Are" | Lightspeed Magazine |
| 2022 | Catherynne M. Valente | "L'Espirit de L'Escalier" | Tor.com |
| 2022 | Aimee Ogden | "A Flower Cannot Love the Hand" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies |
| 2022 | Caroline M. Yoachim | "Colors of the Immortal Palette" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2023 | Rich Larson | "Quandary Aminu vs the Butterfly Man" | Tor.com |
| 2023 | Michelle Denham | "A Chestnut, a Persimmon, a Cunning Lie" | PodCastle |
| 2023 | Meg Elison | "The Little God of the Staircase" | The Dark Magazine |
| 2023 | Su-Yee Lin | "The Pigeon-Keeper’s Daughter" | Strange Horizons |
| 2023 | Spencer Nitkey | "Nine Theories of Time" | Apex Magazine |