Honors

Award Winners and Nominees

Finalist for Best Short Story: “Mr. Death” by Alix E. Harrow (issue 121)
Winner for Best Short Story: “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E. Harrow (issue 105)
Winner for Best Short Story: “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” by Rebecca Roanhorse (issue 99)
Winner for Best Novelette: “The Tomato Thief” by Ursula Vernon (issue 80)
Finalist for Best Short Story: “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky (issue 46)
Finalist for Best Semiprozine: Apex Magazine (2012, 2013, 2014)

Finalist for Best Short Story: “Mr. Death” by Alix E. Harrow (issue 121)
Finalist for Best Short Story: “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E. Harrow (issue 105)
Winner for Best Short Story: “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” by Rebecca Roanhorse (issue 99)
Winner for Best Short Story: “Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon (issue 56)
Winner for Best Short Story: “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky (issue 46)
Nominee for Best Short Story: “The Green Book” by Amal El-Mohtar (issue 18)

Short Fiction Finalist: “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” by Rebecca Roanhorse (issue 99)
Short Fiction Finalist: “Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon (issue 56)
Short Fiction Finalist: “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky (issue 43)

Finalist for Superior Achievement in Short Non-fiction: “Words Wielded by Women” by Carina Bissett (issue 138)
Finalist for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction:“So Sings the Siren”by Annie Neugebauer (issue 101)
Finalist for Superior Achievement in Short Nonfiction: “Words Wielded by Women” by Carina Bissett (issue 138)

Finalist for Best Horror Novella: “Hole World” by J.S. Breukelaar (issue 141)
Finalist for Best Fantasy Novella: “Hole World” by J.S. Breukelaar (issue 141)
Finalist for Best Horror Short Story: “Heirloom Pieces” by Lisa L. Hannett (issue 69)
Finalist for Best Young Adult Short Story: “Falling Leaves” by Liz Argall (issue 60

2nd Place, Best Short Story: “Mr. Death” by Alix E. Harrow (issue 121)
Finalist, Best Short Story: “Dune Song” by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (issue 120)
27th Place, Best Short Story: “Field Biology of the Wee Fairies” by Naomi Kritzer (issue 112)
6th Place, Best Short Story: “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alex E. Harrow (issue 105)
12th Place, Best Short Story: “Pocosin” by Ursula Vernon (issue 68)
9th Place, Best Short Story: “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky (issue 46)
17th Place, Best Short Story: “Ilse, Who Saw Clearly” by E. Lily Yu (issue 48)
4th Place, Best Short Story: “The Bread We Eat in Dreams” by Catherynne M. Valente (issue 30)
11th Place, Best Short Story: “The Green Book” by Amal El-Mohtar (issue 18)
32nd Place, Best Short Story: “Fair Ladies” by Theodora Goss

3rd Place, Short Form Poem: “Not Like This” by Mary Soon Lee (issue 87)
Nominee, Short Form Poem: “Song of the Encantado” by Jeremy Paden (issue 83)
Nominee, Long Form Poem: “Conservation of Energy” by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (issue 63)
Winner, Short Poem Form: “Turning the Leaves” by Amal El-Mohtar (issue 54)
Nominee, Long Form Poem: “A Great Clerk of Necromancy” by Catherynne M. Valente (issue 50)
Nominee, Short Form Poem: “No Poisoned Comb” by Amal El-Mohtar (issue 35)
Nominee, Short Form Poem: “Lion Heart” by Tim Pratt (issue 30)
Nominee, Short Form Poem: “Down Cycles” by Elizabeth McClellan (issue 27)
Nominee, Long Form Poem: “The Walking Man Goes Looking for the Sons of John: Six Cantos” by Elizabeth McClellan (issue 24)
Nominee, Long Form Poem: “The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves” by Mike Allen, Sonya Taaffe, and Nicole Kornher-Stace (issue 22)
Nominee, Short Form Poem: “The Witch’s Heart” by Nicole Kornher-Stace (issue 21)
Nominee, Long Form Poem: “Anything So Utterly Destroyed” by Elizabeth McClellan (issue 17)
3rd Place, Short Form Poem: “Dogstar Men” by C.S.E. Cooney (issue 15)

Short Fiction Finalist: “The State Street Robot Factory” by Claire Humphrey (issue
Short Fiction Finalist: “On the Day You Spend Forever With Your Dog” by Adam R. Shannon (issue 115)
Short Fiction Finalist: “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” by Rebecca Roanhorse (issue 99)

Finalist for Best Short Story:“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E. Harrow (issue 105)
- Winner for Best Short Story: “The Tomato Thief” by Ursula Vernon (issue 80)
- Winner for Best Short Story: “Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon (issue 56)
Finalist for Best Short Story: “The Days of Flaming Motorcycles” by Catherynne M. Valente (issue 12)

Finalist for Best Short Story: “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E. Harrow (issue 105)
Finalist for Best Short Story: “Pocosin” by Ursula Vernon (issue 68)

Finalist Superior Achievement in Short Nonfiction:“Words Wielded by Women”by Carina Bissett (issue 138)
Apex Magazine – Winner for Best Periodical (2023)