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Congratulations to frequent program participant Alan Smale on 2 of his stories being finalists for the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History!

The Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2025 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction:

• “A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts” by Pat Murphy, Lightspeed Magazine (December 2024) ed. John Joseph Adams
• “A Hero’s Tale” by E. Florian Gludovacz, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores (July 2024) ed. Fran Eisenmann
• “A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places” by Marissa Lingen, Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue 406 (May 2024) ed. Scott H. Andrews
• “A Slightly Different Sunrise From Mercury, Nevada” by Íde Hennessy, Strange Horizons (November 2024), ed. Gautam Bhatia
• “All We Ever Had” by M. A. Akins, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores (August 2024) ed. Fran Eisenmann
• “Bespoke” by Elly Bangs, Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures ed. by Ann LeBlanc, Neon Hemlock (2024)
• “Collaborators” by Michael Payne, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores (December 2024) ed. Fran Eisenmann
• “Within the Seed Lives the Fruit” by Leah Andelsmith, Reckoning 8 (June 2024), ed. By Knar Gavin and Waverly SM.

The award honors the efforts of small press publishers in providing a critical venue for short fiction in the area of speculative fiction. The award showcases the best original short fiction published by small presses in the previous year (2016).

An unusual feature of the selection process is that all voting is done with the identity of the author (and publisher) hidden so that the final choice is based solely on the quality of the story.

The winner is chosen by the members of the Washington Science Fiction Association (www.wsfa.org) and will be presented at Capclave (www.capclave.org), held this year on September 19-21, 2025 in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

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The Washington (DC) Science Fiction Association (WSFA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2023 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction:

“Ashes of a Cinnamon Fire” by R. Z. Held, Shattering The Glass Slipper, ed. by Crystal Sarakas and Rhondi Salsitz, Zombies Need Brains, LLC (June 2022); and

“At the Lighthouse, Out by the Othersea” by Juliet Kemp, Uncanny Magazine, Issue 47 (July/August 2022) ed. by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; and

“The Dragon Project” by Naomi Kritzer, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 186 (March 2022) ed. by Neil Clarke; and

“Not the Youngest, Nor the Prettiest, But Someone Else” by Alyse Winters, Shattering The Glass Slipper, ed. by Crystal Sarakas and Rhondi Salsitz, Zombies Need Brains, LLC (June 2022); and

“Possession” by Taylor Jones, Reckoning, #6 (September 25, 2022), ed. by Aicha Martine Thiam and Gabriela Santiago; and

“Simons, Far and Near” by Ana Gardner, Cast of Wonders, episode 485 (February 6, 2022) ed. by Katherine Inskip; and

“This Living Hand” by Marie Brennan, Sunday Morning Transport, (February 13, 2022) ed. by Julian Yap and Fran Wilde; and

“In the Belly of the Whale” by Angus McIntyre, Trenchcoats, Towers, and Trolls: Cyberpunk Fairy Tales, ed. by Rhonda Parrish, World Weaver Press (January 2022).

The award honors the efforts of small press publishers in providing a critical venue for short fiction in the area of speculative fiction. It showcases the best original short fiction published by small presses in the previous year (2022). An unusual feature of the selection process is that the voting is done with the identity of the author and publisher hidden so that the final choice is based solely on the quality of the story.

The winner is chosen by members of the Washington Science Fiction Association (www.wsfa.org), and the award will be presented at their annual convention, Capclave (www.capclave.org), held this year on September 29 – October 1, 2023 at the Rockville Hilton & Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD.

Congratulations to 2011 GOH Catherynne M. Valente on “The Difference Between Love and Time” being a finalist for the Best Novelette Hugo Award.

Congratulations to frequent Capclave program participant Scott H. Andrews on being a finalist for the Best Editor, Short Form Hugo Award.

Congratulations to 2024 GOH Sheree Renée Thomas on being a finalist for the Best Editor, Short Form Hugo Award.

Congratulations to 2011 GOH Catherynne M. Valente on Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods being a finalist for the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book.

Congratulations to 2023 GOH Charlie Jane Anders on Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak being a finalist for the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book.

Congratulations to frequent Capclave program participant Lawrence M. Schoen on Buffalito World Outreach Project being a finalist for the Best Related Work Hugo Award.

Congratulations to 2017 GOH Neil Clarke on being a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor, Short Form.

Congratulations to 2012 GoH John Scalzi on The Kaiju Preservation Society being a finalist for the Best Novel Hugo Award.

Congratulations to 2022 GOH Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher on Nettle & Bone being a finalist for the Best Novel Hugo Award and What Moves the Dead being a finalist for the Best Novella Hugo Award.

Congratulations to 2024 GOH Sheree Renée Thomas on Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction being a finalist for the British Fantasy Award in the Best Anthology category.

Congratulations to 2007 GOH Ellen Datlow on Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous being a World Fantasy Award Best Anthology finalist.

Congratulations to 2024 GOH Sheree Renée Thomas on Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction AND Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue being World Fantasy Award Best Anthology finalists!

Congratulations to 2022 GOH Irene Gallo on being a finalist for the World Fantasy Award for Special Award – Professional for her work at Tor.com.

Congratulations to 2022 GOH T. Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon on winning the Manley Wade Wellman Award.