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Honors
Award Winners and Nominees
Hugo Awards
- 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)
Nebula Awards
- 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)
World Fantasy Awards
- 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)
Bram Stoker Awards
- Finalist for Outstanding Achievement in Short Fiction: “So Sings the Siren” by Annie Neugebauer (issue 101)
Aurealis Awards
- Nominee for Best Horror Short Story: “Heirloom Pieces” by Lisa L. Hannett (issue 69)
- Nominee for Best Young Adult Short Story: “Falling Leaves” by Liz Argall (issue 60)
This Is Horror Awards
- Fiction Magazine of the Year Runner-up (2017)
- Fiction Magazine of the Year nominee (2016)
- Fiction Magazine of the Year Winner (2015)
Prix Aurora Awards
- Best Poem/Song: “Turning the Leaves” by Amal El-Mohtar (issue 54)
Ignyte Awards
- Finalist for Best Short Story: “Dune Song” by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (issue 120)
Locus Awards
- 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
Rhysling Award (Poetry)
- 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)
Sturgeon Awards
- 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)
Shirley Jackson Awards
- Short Fiction Finalist:“A Beautiful Memory” by Shannon Peavy (issue 70)
- Short Fiction Finalist: “Candy Girl” by Chikodili Emelumadu (issue 66)
Shadows Awards
- Finalist for Best Short Story: “Uncontainable” by Helen Stubbs (issue 91)
Darrell Awards
- Finalist for Best Short Fiction: “Luminaria” by John Hornor Jacobs (issue 94)
WSFA Awards
- 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)
Eugie Awards
- 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)
Million Writers Award
- Finalist for Best Short Story: “The Green Book” by Amal El-Mohtar (issue 18)
Cóyotl Award
- Winner for Best Short Story: “Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon (issue 56)
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