# World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction

The World Fantasy Awards are given each year by the World Fantasy Convention for the best fantasy fiction published in English during the previous calendar year. The awards have been described by book critics such as The Guardian as a "prestigious fantasy prize", and one of the three most prestigious speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards (which cover both fantasy and science fiction). The World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction is given each year for fantasy short stories published in English. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as short fiction if it is 10,000 words or less in length; awards are also given out for longer pieces in the Novel and Novella categories. The Short Fiction category has been awarded annually since 1975, though before 1982—when the category was instated—it was named "Best Short Fiction" and covered works of up to 40,000 words. It was then renamed "Best Short Story" until 2016, when it was renamed to the "Short Fiction" category.
World Fantasy Award nominees and winners are decided by attendees and judges at the annual World Fantasy Convention. A ballot is posted in June for attendees of the current and previous two conferences to determine two of the finalists, and a panel of five judges adds three or more nominees before voting on the overall winner. The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy authors and is chosen each year by the World Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties. The final results are presented at the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October. Winners were presented with a statue in the form of a bust of H. P. Lovecraft through the 2015 awards; more recent winners receive a statuette of a tree.
During the 50 nomination years, 184 authors have had works nominated; 51 of them have won, including ties and co-authors. Only five authors have won more than once: Ramsey Campbell and James Blaylock with two wins out of four nominations each, Stephen King won two out of three, and Tanith Lee and Fred Chappell won both times they were nominated. Of authors who have won at least once, Jeffrey Ford and Kelly Link have the most nominations at five, followed by Dennis Etchison and Avram Davidson, who along with Campbell and Blaylock received four nominations. Charles de Lint has the most nominations without winning at five; he is followed by Michael Swanwick, who has had four nominations without winning.

## 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 blue 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.
* Winners
Winners and nominees :
| Year | Author | Work | Publisher/publication |
| 1975 | Robert Aickman* | "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1975 | T. E. D. Klein | "The Events at Poroth Farm" | The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series II (DAW Books) |
| 1975 | Sterling E. Lanier | "A Father's Tale" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1975 | Karl Edward Wagner | "Sticks" | Whispers |
| 1976 | Fritz Leiber* | "Belsen Express" | The Second Book of Fritz Leiber (DAW Books) |
| 1976 | David Drake | "The Barrow Troll" | Whispers |
| 1976 | Brian Lumley | "Born of the Winds" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1976 | Manly Wade Wellman | "The Ghastly Priest Doth Reign" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1977 | Russell Kirk* | "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding" | Frights (St. Martin's Press) |
| 1977 | Ramsey Campbell | "The Companion" | Frights (St. Martin's Press) |
| 1977 | Fritz Leiber | "Dark Wings" | Superhorror (W. H. Allen) |
| 1977 | Dennis Etchison | "It Only Comes Out at Night" | Frights (St. Martin's Press) |
| 1977 | Karl Edward Wagner | "Two Suns Setting" | Fantastic |
| 1977 | Robert Sheckley | "What Is Life?" | Playboy |
| 1978 | Ramsey Campbell* | "The Chimney" | Whispers (Doubleday) |
| 1978 | Jack Vance | "The Bagful of Dreams" | Flashing Swords! 4: Barbarians and Black Magicians (Doubleday) |
| 1978 | Harlan Ellison | "Jeffty Is Five" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1978 | Ramsey Campbell | "Loveman's Comeback" | More Devil's Kisses (Corgi) |
| 1978 | Avram Davidson | "Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1978 | Charles L. Grant | "When All the Children Call My Name" | The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V (DAW Books) |
| 1979 | Avram Davidson* | "Naples" | Shadows (Doubleday) |
| 1979 | Avram Davidson | "A Good Night's Sleep" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1979 | Charles L. Grant | "Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1979 | Larry Niven | The Magic Goes Away | Ace Books |
| 1979 | Michael Bishop | "Within the Walls of Tyre" | Weirdbook |
| 1980 | Ramsey Campbell* | "Mackintosh Willy" | Shadows 2 (Doubleday) |
| 1980 | Elizabeth A. Lynn* | "The Woman Who Loved the Moon" | Amazons! (DAW Books) |
| 1980 | Fritz Leiber | "The Button Molder" | Whispers |
| 1980 | T. E. D. Klein | "Petey" | Shadows 2 (Doubleday) |
| 1980 | William F. Nolan | "Saturday's Shadow" | Shadows 2 (Doubleday) |
| 1981 | Howard Waldrop* | "The Ugly Chickens" | Universe 10 (Doubleday) |
| 1981 | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | "Cabin 33" | Shadows 3 (Doubleday) |
| 1981 | T. E. D. Klein | "Children of the Kingdom" | Dark Forces (Viking Press) |
| 1981 | Suzy McKee Charnas | "Unicorn Tapestry" | New Dimensions 11 (Pocket Books) |
| 1982 | Dennis Etchison* | "The Dark Country" | Fantasy Tales |
| 1982 | Stephen King* | "Do the Dead Sing?" | Yankee |
| 1982 | Charles L. Grant | "Coin of the Realm" | Tales from the Nightside (Arkham House) |
| 1982 | Jack Dann | "Fairy Tale" | The Berkley Showcase Vol. 4 (Berkley Books) |
| 1983 | Tanith Lee* | "The Gorgon" | Shadows 5 (Doubleday) |
| 1983 | Dennis Etchison | "Deathtracks" | Death (Playboy Paperbacks) |
| 1983 | Steve Rasnic Tem | "Firestorm" | Perpetual Light (Warner Books) |
| 1983 | Michael Swanwick | "The Man Who Met Picasso" | Omni |
| 1983 | Greg Bear | "Petra" | Omni |
| 1984 | Tanith Lee* | "Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)" | Whispers IV (Doubleday) |
| 1984 | David Morrell | The Hundred-Year Christmas | Donald M. Grant |
| 1984 | Karl Edward Wagner | "Into Whose Hands" | Whispers IV (Doubleday) |
| 1984 | Leigh Kennedy | "The Silent Cradle" | Shadows 6 (Doubleday) |
| 1984 | Lucius Shepard | "Solitario's Eyes" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1984 | William F. Wu | "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" | Amazing Stories |
| 1985 | Alan Ryan* | "The Bones Wizard" | Whispers |
| 1985 | Scott Baker* | "Still Life with Scorpion" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1985 | Jack Dann | "Bad Medicine" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1985 | Robert R. McCammon | "Nightcrawlers" | Masques (Maclay & Associates) |
| 1986 | James Blaylock* | "Paper Dragons" | Imaginary Lands (Ace Books) |
| 1986 | Lucius Shepard | "The Jaguar Hunter" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1986 | Sharon N. Farber | "Return of the Dust Vampires" | Whispers V (Doubleday) |
| 1986 | Avram Davidson | "The Slovo Stove" | Universe 15 (Doubleday) |
| 1987 | David Schow* | "Red Light" | The Twilight Zone Magazine |
| 1987 | Nancy Springer | "The Boy Who Plaited Manes" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1987 | Michael Blumlein | "The Brains of Rats" | Interzone |
| 1987 | Stephen King | "The End of the Whole Mess" | Omni |
| 1987 | Whitley Strieber | "Pain" | Cutting Edge (Doubleday) |
| 1987 | Amyas Naegele | "The Rise and Fall of Father Alex" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1987 | Les Daniels | "They're Coming for You" | Cutting Edge (Doubleday) |
| 1987 | Joe R. Lansdale | "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back" | Nukes: Four Horror Writers on the Ultimate Horror (Maclay & Associates) |
| 1988 | Jonathan Carroll* | "Friend's Best Man" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1988 | Pat Cadigan | "Angel" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1988 | Garry Kilworth | "Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands" | Other Edens (Allen & Unwin) |
| 1988 | Gene Wolfe | "In the House of Gingerbread" | The Architecture of Fear (Arbor House) |
| 1988 | David Schow | "Pamela's Get" | The Twilight Zone Magazine |
| 1988 | Douglas E. Winter | "Splatter: A Cautionary Tale" | Masques II (Maclay & Associates) |
| 1989 | John M. Ford* | "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" | Invitation to Camelot (Ace Books) |
| 1989 | Lucius Shepard | "Life of Buddha" | Omni |
| 1989 | Dan Simmons | "Metastasis" | Night Visions 5 (Orion Publishing Group) |
| 1989 | Joe R. Lansdale | "Night They Missed the Horror Show" | Silver Scream (Dark Harvest) |
| 1990 | Steven Millhauser* | "The Illusionist" | Esquire |
| 1990 | Michael Swanwick | "The Edge of the World" | Full Spectrum 2 (Doubleday) |
| 1990 | Jonathan Carroll | "Mr. Fiddlehead" | Omni |
| 1990 | Edward Bryant | "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" | Book of the Dead (Bantam Books) |
| 1990 | Scott Baker | "Varicose Worms" | Blood Is Not Enough (William Morrow and Company) |
| 1990 | Chet Williamson | "Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purty...He Said." | Razored Saddles (Dark Harvest) |
| 1991 | Neil Gaiman* | "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | The Sandman #19 (DC Comics) |
| 1991 | Charles Vess* | "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | The Sandman #19 (DC Comics) |
| 1991 | Terry Bisson | "Bears Discover Fire" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1991 | Thomas Ligotti | "The Last Feast of Harlequin" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1991 | Elizabeth Massie | "Stephen" | Borderlands (Maclay & Associates) |
| 1992 | Fred Chappell* | "The Somewhere Doors" | More Shapes Than One (St. Martin's Press) |
| 1992 | James Blaylock | "The Better Boy" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1992 | Tim Powers | "The Better Boy" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1992 | Charles de Lint | "The Conjure Man" | After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien (Tor Books) |
| 1992 | Charles de Lint | "Pity the Monsters" | The Ultimate Frankenstein (Dell Publishing) |
| 1993 | Joe Haldeman* | "Graves" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1993 | Dan Simmons* | "This Year's Class Picture" | Still Dead (Mark V. Ziesing) |
| 1993 | Lisa Goldstein | "Alfred" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1993 | Martha Soukup | "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1993 | Charles de Lint | "Bridges" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1993 | Poppy Z. Brite | "Calcutta, Lord of Nerves" | Still Dead (Mark V. Ziesing) |
| 1993 | Nicholas A. DiChario | "The Winterberry" | Alternate Kennedys (Tor Books) |
| 1994 | Fred Chappell* | The Lodger | Necronomicon Press |
| 1994 | Dan Simmons | "Death in Bangkok" | Playboy |
| 1994 | Terry Bisson | "England Underway" | Omni |
| 1994 | Les Daniels | "The Little Green Ones" | After the Darkness (Maclay & Associates) |
| 1994 | Charles de Lint | "The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep" | Snow White, Blood Red (William Morrow and Company) |
| 1994 | Ian McDonald | "Some Strange Desire" | Omni Best Science Fiction Three (Omni Books) |
| 1994 | Terry Lamsley | "Something Worse" | Under the Crust (Wendigo) |
| 1994 | Neil Gaiman | "Troll Bridge" | Snow White, Blood Red (William Morrow and Company) |
| 1995 | Stephen King* | "The Man in the Black Suit" | The New Yorker |
| 1995 | Michael Swanwick | "The Changeling's Tale" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1995 | Nicholas Royle | "The Homecoming" | Shadows Over Innsmouth (Fedogan & Bremer) |
| 1995 | Steven Millhauser | "The Sisterhood of Night" | Harper's Magazine |
| 1995 | Michael Marshall Smith | "To Receive Is Better" | The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (Carroll & Graf Publishers) |
| 1996 | Gwyneth Jones* | "The Grass Princess" | Seven Tales and a Fable (Edgewood Press) |
| 1996 | Petrina Smith | "Angel Thing" | She's Fantastical (Sybylla Feminist Press) |
| 1996 | S. P. Somtow | "Dragon's Fin Soup" | The Ultimate Dragon (Dell Publishing) |
| 1996 | Douglas E. Winter | "Loop" | Dark Love (Roc Books) |
| 1996 | Robert Charles Wilson | "The Perseids" | Northern Frights 3 (Mosaic Press) |
| 1996 | Kit Reed | "The Singing Marine" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1997 | James Blaylock* | "Thirteen Phantasms" | Omni Online |
| 1997 | Dennis Etchison | "The Dead Cop" | Dark Terrors 2 (Victor Gollancz Ltd) |
| 1997 | Graham Masterton | "Underbed" | Dark Terrors 2 (Victor Gollancz Ltd) |
| 1998 | P. D. Cacek* | "Dust Motes" | Gothic Ghosts (Tor Books) |
| 1998 | Jack Womack | "Audience" | The Horns of Elfland (Roc Books) |
| 1998 | Lisa Goldstein | "Fortune and Misfortune" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1998 | Paul Park | "Get a Grip" | Omni Online |
| 1998 | Robert Charles Wilson | "The Inner Inner City" | Northern Frights 4 (Mosaic Press) |
| 1999 | Kelly Link* | "The Specialist's Hat" | Event Horizon |
| 1999 | Ellen Kushner | "The Death of the Duke" | Starlight 2 (Tor Books) |
| 1999 | John Kessel | "Every Angel is Terrifying" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1999 | Neil Gaiman | "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" | Smoke and Mirrors (Avon Publications) |
| 1999 | Kelly Link | "Travels with the Snow Queen" | Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet |
| 2000 | Ian R. MacLeod* | "The Chop Girl" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Kim Newman | "Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue" | 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense (Avon Books) |
| 2000 | Howard Waldrop | "The Dynasters Vol. 1: On the Downs" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Eleanor Arnason | "The Grammarian's Five Daughters" | Realms of Fantasy |
| 2000 | Robert Reed | "Human Bay" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Paul J. McAuley | "Naming the Dead" | Interzone |
| 2000 | Delia Sherman | "The Parwat Ruby" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2001 | Andy Duncan* | "The Pottawatomie Giant" | Sci Fiction |
| 2001 | Tia V. Travis | "Down Here in the Garden" | Horror Garage |
| 2001 | Kim Newman | "Is There Anybody There?" | The New English Library Book of Internet Stories (New English Library) |
| 2001 | Andy Duncan | "Lincoln in Frogmore" | Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press) |
| 2001 | Michael Swanwick | "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O" | Tales of Old Earth (North Atlantic Books) |
| 2001 | Terry Dowling | "The Saltimbanques" | Blackwater Days (Eidolon Publications) |
| 2001 | Kelly Link | "Shoe and Marriage" | 4 Stories (Small Beer Press) |
| 2002 | Albert E. Cowdrey* | "Queen for a Day" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2002 | James Blaylock | "His Own Back Yard" | Sci Fiction |
| 2002 | Jeffrey Ford | "The Honeyed Knot" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2002 | Jack O'Connell | "Legerdemain" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2002 | Nalo Hopkinson | "Something to Hitch Meat To" | Skin Folk (Warner Aspect) |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Ford* | "Creation" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2003 | William Browning Spencer | "The Essayist in the Wilderness" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2003 | Stephen Gallagher | "Little Dead Girl Singing" | Weird Tales |
| 2003 | Neil Gaiman | "October in the Chair" | Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists (Bard College) |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Ford | "The Weight of Words" | Leviathan 3 (The Ministry of Whimsy Press) |
| 2004 | Bruce Holland Rogers* | "Don Ysidro" | Polyphony: Volume 3 (Wheatland Press) |
| 2004 | Maureen F. McHugh | "Ancestor Money" | Sci Fiction |
| 2004 | Charles de Lint | Circle of Cats | Viking Press |
| 2004 | Alexander C. Irvine | "Gus Dreams of Biting the Mailman" | Trampoline (Small Beer Press) |
| 2004 | Chris Roberson | "O One" | Live Without a Net (Roc Books) |
| 2005 | Margo Lanagan* | "Singing My Sister Down" | Black Juice (Allen & Unwin) |
| 2005 | Kelly Link | "The Faery Handbag" | The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (Viking Press) |
| 2005 | Barbara Roden | "Northwest Passage" | Acquainted with the Night (Ash-Tree Press) |
| 2005 | China Miéville | "Reports of Certain Events in London" | McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (Vintage Books) |
| 2005 | Theodora Goss | "The Wings of Meister Wilhelm" | Polyphony: Volume 4 (Wheatland Press) |
| 2006 | George Saunders* | "CommComm" | The New Yorker |
| 2006 | Joe Hill | "Best New Horror" | Postscripts |
| 2006 | Holly Phillips | "The Other Grace" | In the Palace of Repose (Prime Books) |
| 2006 | Caitlín R. Kiernan | "La Peau Verte" | To Charles Fort, with Love (Subterranean Press) |
| 2006 | Peter S. Beagle | "Two Hearts" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2007 | M. Rickert* | "Journey Into the Kingdom" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2007 | Christopher Rowe | "Another Word for Map is Faith" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2007 | Geoff Ryman | "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2007 | Benjamin Rosenbaum | "A Siege of Cranes" | Twenty Epics (All-Star Stories) |
| 2007 | Jeffrey Ford | "The Way He Does It" | Electric Velocipede |
| 2008 | Theodora Goss* | "Singing of Mount Abora" | Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories (Bantam Books) |
| 2008 | Daniel Abraham | "The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics" | Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories (Bantam Books) |
| 2008 | Simon Kurt Unsworth | "The Church on the Island" | At Ease with the Dead (Ash-Tree Press) |
| 2008 | Robert Shearman | "Damned If You Don't" | Tiny Deaths (Comma Press) |
| 2008 | Kij Johnson | "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" | The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Viking Press) |
| 2009 | Kij Johnson* | "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2009 | Catherynne M. Valente | "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
| 2009 | Kage Baker | "Caverns of Mystery" | Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy (Subterranean Press) |
| 2009 | Sarah Pinborough | "Our Man in the Sudan" | The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories (Humdrumming) |
| 2009 | John Kessel | "Pride and Prometheus" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2010 | Karen Joy Fowler* | "The Pelican Bar" | Eclipse Three (Night Shade Books) |
| 2010 | R. B. Russell | "In Hiding" | Putting the Pieces in Place (Ex Occidente Press) |
| 2010 | Helen Keeble | "A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc, or, A Lullaby" | Strange Horizons |
| 2010 | Genevieve Valentine | "Light on the Water" | Fantasy Magazine |
| 2010 | Paul Park | "The Persistence of Memory, or This Space for Sale" | Postscripts |
| 2010 | Ellen Klages | "Singing on a Star" | Firebirds Soaring (Firebird Books) |
| 2011 | Joyce Carol Oates* | "Fossil-Figures" | Stories: All-New Tales (William Morrow and Company) |
| 2011 | Christopher Fowler | "Beautiful Men" | Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts (Ulysses Press) |
| 2011 | Karen Joy Fowler | "Booth's Ghost" | What I Didn't See and Other Stories (Small Beer Press) |
| 2011 | Kij Johnson | "Ponies" | Tor.com |
| 2011 | Mercurio D. Rivera | "Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us" | Black Static |
| 2012 | Ken Liu* | "The Paper Menagerie" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2012 | Steve Duffy | "X for Demetrious" | Blood and Other Cravings (Tor Books) |
| 2012 | Karen Joy Fowler | "Younger Women" | Subterranean Magazine |
| 2012 | Tim Powers | "A Journey of Only Two Paces" | The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (Tachyon Publications) |
| 2012 | E. Lily Yu | "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
| 2013 | Gregory Norman Bossert* | "The Telling" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies |
| 2013 | Jeffrey Ford | "A Natural History of Autumn" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2013 | Emily Gilman | "The Castle That Jack Built" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies |
| 2013 | Kat Howard | "Breaking the Frame" | Lightspeed |
| 2013 | Meghan McCarron | "Swift, Brutal Retaliation" | Tor.com |
| 2014 | Caitlín R. Kiernan* | "The Prayer of Ninety Cats" | Subterranean Magazine |
| 2014 | Thomas Olde Heuvelt | "The Ink Readers of Doi Saket" | Tor.com |
| 2014 | Yoon Ha Lee | "Effigy Nights" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
| 2014 | Sofia Samatar | "Selkie Stories Are for Losers" | Strange Horizons |
| 2014 | Rachel Swirsky | "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" | Apex Magazine |
| 2015 | Scott Nicolay* | Do You Like to Look at Monsters? | Fedogan & Bremer |
| 2015 | Kaaron Warren | "Death's Door Café" | Shadows & Tall Trees (Undertow Publications) |
| 2015 | Alyssa Wong | "The Fisher Queen" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2015 | Kelly Link | "I Can See Right Through You" | Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern |
| 2015 | Ursula Vernon | "Jackalope Wives" | Apex Magazine |
| 2016 | Alyssa Wong* | "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" | Nightmare |
| 2016 | Tamsyn Muir | "The Deepwater Bride" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2016 | Sam J. Miller | "The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2016 | Selena Chambers | "The Neurastheniac" | Cassilda's Song (Chaosium) |
| 2016 | Amal El-Mohtar | "Pockets" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2017 | G. V. Anderson* | "Das Steingeschöpf" | Strange Horizons |
| 2017 | Rachael K. Jones | "The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me" | Clockwork Phoenix 5 (Mythic Delirium) |
| 2017 | Maria Dahvana Headley | "Little Widow" | Nightmare |
| 2017 | Brooke Bolander | "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2017 | Amal El-Mohtar | "Seasons of Glass and Iron" | The Starlit Wood (Saga Press) |
| 2018 | Natalia Theodoridou* | "The Birding: A Fairy Tale" | Strange Horizons |
| 2018 | Fonda Lee | "Old Souls" | Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Laksa Media Groups) |
| 2018 | Rebecca Roanhorse | "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" | Apex Magazine |
| 2018 | Fran Wilde | "Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2018 | Caroline M. Yoachim | "Carnival Nine" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies |
| 2019 | Emma Törzs* | "Like a River Loves the Sky" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2019 | Mel Kassel* | "Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake" | Lightspeed |
| 2019 | Sarah Pinsker | "The Court Magician" | Lightspeed |
| 2019 | Adam-Troy Castro | "The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation" | Nightmare |
| 2019 | Alix E. Harrow | "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasties" | Apex Magazine |
| 2020 | Maria Dahvana Headley* | "Read After Burning" | A People's Future of the United States (One World) |
| 2020 | Rivers Solomon | "Blood Is Another Word for Hunger" | Tor.com |
| 2020 | Sarah Pinsker | "The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2020 | Genevieve Valentine | "Everyone Knows That They're Dead. Do You?" | The Outcast Hours (Solaris Books) |
| 2020 | Siobhan Carroll | "For He Can Creep" | Tor.com |
| 2020 | Jerome Stueart | "Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2021 | Celeste Rita Baker* | "Glass Bottle Dancer" | Lightspeed |
| 2021 | Eugenia Triantafyllou | "My Country Is a Ghost" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2021 | Jordan Taylor | "The Nine Scents of Sorrow" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2021 | John Wiswell | "Open House on Haunted Hill" | Diabolical Plots |
| 2021 | Kay Chronister | "The Women Who Sing for Sklep" | Thin Places (Undertow Publications) |
| 2022 | Lauren Ring* | "(emet)" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2022 | Usman T. Malik | "#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi" | Tor.com |
| 2022 | Varsha Dinesh | "The Demon Sage's Daughter" | Strange Horizons |
| 2022 | Eugen Bacon | "The Failing Name" | Fantasy Magazine |
| 2022 | Seb Doubinsky | "The Failing Name" | Fantasy Magazine |
| 2022 | P. Djèlí Clark | "If the Martians Have Magic" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2022 | Sarah Pinsker | "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2023 | Tananarive Due* | "Incident at Bear Creek Lodge" | Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology (William Morrow Paperbacks) |
| 2023 | Eugen Bacon | "The Devil Don't Come with Horns" | Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology (William Morrow Paperbacks) |
| 2023 | Suzan Palumbo | "Douen" | The Dark |
| 2023 | Kate Heartfield | "The Morning House" | PodCastle |
| 2023 | Kat Howard | "Telling the Bees" | Sunday Morning Transport |
| 2024 | Nghi Vo* | "Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood" | New Suns 2 (Solaris Books) |
| 2024 | P. Djèlí Clark | "How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2024 | Amal El-Mohtar | "John Hollowback and the Witch" | The Book of Witches (Harper Voyager) |
| 2024 | P. A. Cornell | "Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont" | Fantasy Magazine |
| 2024 | Rachael K. Jones | "The Sound of Children Screaming" | Nightmare |
| 2024 | A. T. Greenblatt | "Waystation City" | Uncanny Magazine |