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. Entries with a lavender background have won the relevant award; those with a white background are the finalist nominees. Superscript letters after the result indicate simultaneous nominations in other categories.
Winners and joint winners Finalists/Short-listed nominees No award given| 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 | "Thorn Boy, The !"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 | "Anthvoke, The !"The Anthvoke" | Strange Horizons & Trysts | Lethe Press | Nom | |
| 2002 |
Phillips, IanIan Phillips | "Devil and Mrs. Faust, The !"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 | "Golden Boy, The !"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 | "Riverboy, The !"The Riverboy" | Land/Space | Tesseract | Nom | |
| 2004 |
Shawl, NisiNisi Shawl | "Tawny Bitch, The !"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 | "Mask, The !"The Mask" | Shadows of the Night | Southern Tier | Nom | |
| 2005 |
Szymanski, ThereseTherese Szymanski | "Morning After, The !"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" | Future Is Queer, The !The Future Is Queer | Arsenal Pulp | Won (joint) | |
| 2007 |
Barzak, ChristopherChristopher Barzak | "Language of Moths, The !"The Language of Moths" | Realms of Fantasy | Sovereign Media | Won (joint) | |
| 2007 |
Pollack, RachelRachel Pollack | "Beatrix Gates, The !"The Beatrix Gates" | Future Is Queer, The !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 | "Captive Girl, The !"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" | Future Is Queer, The !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 | "Specter of Sin, The !"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 | "Coat of Stars, The !"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 | "Healing, The !"The Healing" | eBook | Phaze | Nom | |
| 2008 |
Gidney, CraigCraig Gidney | "Bird of Ice, A !"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 | "Steel Anniversary, The !"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 | "Reflection of Love, The !"The Reflection of Love" | Alleys & Doorways | Torquere | Nom | |
| 2008 |
Vanderhooft, JoSelleJoSelle Vanderhooft | "Were" | Alleys & Doorways | Torquere | Nom |
A Short fiction was part of other works this year.
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