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.A small press is defined by the WSFA as (1) a book published in hard copy print or by a web publication house releasing from 3 to 25 titles in the year the story is published or (2) a periodical or web publication with a circulation/subscriber base of fewer than 10,000 in the year the story is published and which pays all authors in cash. WSFA Small Press Award Rules. Retrieved on August 3, 2008. 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.
The winning story is announced at Capclave, the WSFA convention held in the Washington, D.C. area each October.
Winners and finalists
* Winners
Year Author Work Publication 2007 * "El Regalo" "Ivy and Thorn" Grendelsong "Moon Does Run" Electric Velocipede Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard "Port Custodial Blues" Helix "Queen of Stars" Apex Magazine "Through the Cooking Glass" Raven Electrick "Tonino and the Incubus" Helix 2008 Paradox, #11 "Bufo Rex" Weird Tales, #347 "Harry the Crow" Aeon Speculative Fiction, #12 "Mask of the Ferret" Infinite Space, Infinite God "Orm the Beautiful" Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2007 Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2007 2009 * Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, December 2008 "Drinking Problem" Seeds of Change "Hard Rain at the Fortean Café" Aeon Speculative Fiction Magazine, #14 "His Last Arrow" Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes "Silent as Dust" Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, January 2008 "Spider the Artist" Seeds of Change Aberrant Dreams, April 2008 2010 * "Siren Beat" Twelfth Planet Press "each thing i show you is a piece of my death" Clockwork Phoenix 2 "Images of Anna" Fantasy, September 2009 "James and the Dark Grimoire" Cthulhu Unbound Beneath Ceaseless Skies, October 2009 "Race to the Moon" New Fables, Summer 2009 "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" Interzone, January 2009 DayBreak Magazine, October 2009 2011 * "Amaryllis" Lightspeed, June 2010 "After the Dragon" Fantasy, January 2010 Lightspeed, June 2010 Dark Faith "Enid and the Prince" Worlds Next Door "Lord Bai's Discovery" Dragon's Lure 2012 * Love and Romanpunk Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2011 "Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden" Hope "Lessons from a Clockwork Queen" Fantasy, September 2011 Clarkesworld Magazine, November 2011 "Sauerkraut Station" GigaNotoSaurus, November 2011 "What Ho, Automaton!" Shadow Conspiracy, Volume II "Yesterday's Taste" Transtories 2013 * "Good Hunting" Strange Horizons, October 2012 "Bottled Spirits" Buzzy Mag, June 2012 Lightspeed, August 2012 "Mornington Ride" Fablecroft "Coca Xocolati" ReDeus: Divine Tales Mermaids 13: Tales from the Sea "Astrophilia" Clarkesworld Magazine, July 2012 2014 * "Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma" Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, April 2013 "Trap-Weed" Clockwork Phoenix 4 Lightspeed, May 2013 "Bits" Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2013 "Set Your Face Towards the Darkness" Tales of Australia: Great Southern Land "Acts of Chivalry" Tales of Australia: Great Southern Land "Morning Star" One Small Step: An Anthology of Discoveries "Like a Bat Out of Hell" After Death 2015 * "Jackalope Wives" Apex Magazine, January 2014 Sword & Laser Clarkesworld Magazine, December 2014 "Vanilla" Kaleidoscope "Careful Magic" Kaleidoscope "All of Our Past Places" , June 2014 "Qasida" Secret Lives of Books "N is for Nanomachine" A is for Apocalypse "Cookie Cutter Superhero" Kaleidoscope 2016 * "Today I Am Paul" Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2015 Insert Title Here "Headspace" Cats in Space "Leashing the Muse" Space and Time, May 2015 "Cat Pictures Please" Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2015 "Burn Her" Dancing Through the Fire Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2015 "Leftovers" Cats in Space 2017 * Apex Magazine, January 2016 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2016 Hyperpowers "Radio Silence" Alien Artifacts "Foxfire, Foxfire" Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2016 "Vengeance Sewn With Fey Cord" , April 2016 Strange Horizons, October 2016 "Jupiter or Bust" Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show "Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left" Shimmer, September 2016 2018 * Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2017 "Probably Still the Chosen One" Lightspeed, February 2017 "Floaters Can't Float" Compelling Science Fiction, April 2017 All Hail Our Robot Conquerers "Oba Oyinbo" Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, October 2017 "Through Milkweed and Gloom" Submerged Tales of the Sunrise Lands 2019 * Luna Station Quarterly, May 2018 Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2018 "Familiar in Her Angles" Metaphorosis, September 2018 "Baggage" When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology Fire: Demons, Dragons, and Djinn Apex Magazine, February 2018 Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2018 Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers 2020 * Skull & Pestle: New Tales of Baba Yaga Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2019 DreamForge, June 2019 Footprints in the Stars "Give the Family My Love" Clarkesworld Magazine, February 2019 "Fairest of All" , August 2019 "Somewhere Else, Nowhere Else" Portals "Painter of Trees" Clarkesworld Magazine, June 2019 2021 * "Metal Like Blood in the Dark" Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2020 "Heritage Hill" Outback Horrors Down Under "Myself" DreamForge, December 2020 "Memories Taste Best When Marinated with Sadness" Hexagon, Fall 2020 "Foster-Child of Silence and Slow Time" My Battery Is Low and It Is Getting Dark Strange Horizons, April 2020 "Guest Athletes" "Reformed" Mysterion, March 2020 "Open House on Haunted Hill" Diabolical Plots, June 2020 2022 * "Eight Mile and the City" When Worlds Collide "Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias" Lightspeed, November 2021 "Standing Orders" Derelicts Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures "Laughter Among the Trees" , February 2021 "Dress of Ash" Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories Metaphorosis, April 2021 "From the Ashes Flew the Ladybug" , November 2021 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, April 2021 "Fisherman's Soup" Mermaids Monthly, May 2021 2023 * Clarkesworld Magazine, March 2022 "This Living Hand" Sunday Morning Transport, February 2022 "Simons, Far and Near" Cast of Wonders, February 2022 "Ashes of a Cinnamon Fire" Shattering The Glass Slipper "Possession" Reckoning, September 2022 "At the Lighthouse, Out by the Othersea" Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2022 "In the Belly of the Whale" Trenchcoats, Towers, and Trolls: Cyberpunk Fairy Tales "Not the Youngest, Nor the Prettiest, But Someone Else" Shattering The Glass Slipper 2024 * DreamForge Anvil, March 2023 "Six Meals at Fanelli's" Fusion Fragment, April 2023 "Baby Golem" Jewish Futures "Interstate Mohinis" Diabolical Plots, June 2023 "Better Living Through Algorithms" Clarkesworld Magazine, May 2023 "Machines" Game On! "Nothing But the Gods on Their Backs" Metaphorosis, June 2023 "By the Works of Her Hands" Never Too Old to Save the World 2025 Lightspeed, December 2024 "All We Ever Had" Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, August 2024 "Within the Seed Lives the Fruit" Reckoning, June 2024 "Bespoke" Embodies Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, July 2024 Strange Horizons, November 2024 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 2024 "Collaborators" Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, December 2024
References
External links WSFA Small Press Award Washington Science Fiction Association Capclave