Rhysling Award
Presented by: Members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA)
For: Science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem
| Winner | The Blackthorn | Mary Soon Lee |
| Runner-up | When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation | Kyle Tran Myrhe |
| Finalist | The Museum of Etymology | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Porphyria's Lover | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Draco Hesperidum | Eric Brown (I) |
| Nominee | Elemental Scales | Ruth Berman |
| Nominee | Giant Robot and His Person | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | The High Priestess Writes a Love Letter to the Magician | Ali Trotta |
| Nominee | In Graves Wood | Siân Thomas |
| Nominee | The Last Voyage: Island Relocation Program | Steve Wheat |
| Nominee | My Queen's Last Gift | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | The Price of Becoming a Villain Is to Quell One's Kin in a Charade of Pact with the Gods | Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan |
| Nominee | Shattered Souls at Heaven's Gate | Ayòdéjì Israel |
| Nominee | Star Stitcher | A. J. Van Belle |
| Nominee | We Makes It | J. H. Siegal |
| Nominee | What Beautiful Heavens These | Kaya Skovdatter |
| Nominee | Divide By Zero | Michael Bailey |
| Nominee | Change Your Mind | Gwendolyn Maia Hicks |
| Nominee | Body Revolt | Casey Aimer |
| Nominee | 9n lives | Mary A. Turzillo |
| Nominee | The Fabulous Underwater Panther | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Watching | Vonnie Winslow Crist |
| Nominee | Melissa | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | The Large Reckoning | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | The Keep | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | The Suns in Her Eyes | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Battle of the Bards | Frank Coffman |
| Nominee | Life's Goal | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | The Reptile Men (Lovecraftiana) | Jose Ángel Conde |
| Nominee | Second Coming | Nicholas Montemarano |
| Nominee | Second Life | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | The Baker at the Beggar's Wedding | Amelia Gorman |
| Nominee | Southern Graves | Allanah Benae |
| Nominee | Spawn Red Meat Arachnid | Chris Panatier |
| Nominee | The Third Seal | Jamal Hodge |
| Nominee | Three Acts of Mercy | Megan Diedericks |
| Nominee | A Tour of the Blue Palace | Bree Wernicke |
| Nominee | Veiling the Statues | Raven Jakubowski |
| Nominee | Weight | Ayana Walker |
| Nominee | What It Tastes Like | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | XOXO | Hannu Afere |
| Nominee | One Last Pie in the Face | Michael H. Payne |
| Nominee | Defiance by Cake | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Emily Austenson Brontëbot | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | fear of pipes and shallow water | William O. Balmer |
| Nominee | First Women | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | Five Nights in the Castle | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Comet, Cow(nota)girl, & A Cry for Cold | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | Gretel | Nico Martinez Nocito |
| Nominee | Hot Enough to Collapse | Eugen Bacon |
| Nominee | I've Seen the Ruby Slippers | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Nominee | A Bullock of Special Burden | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | Longfellow's Mars | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | Max Returns to His Home World | Miguel O. Mitchell |
| Nominee | Meat, Bone, and Soul | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | The Minotaur in His Maze (after a fragment of Helvius Cinna) | Eric Brown (I) |
| Nominee | The Place Between | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Becoming a Veteran | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | The House of Mulberry Leaves | Ryu Ando |
| Nominee | Medicine for the Ailing Mortal, As Told in Seven Stories | Silvatiicus Riddle |
| Nominee | The Final Trick | Angela Liu |
| Winner | Lost Ark | F. J. Bergmann |
| Runner-up | A Black Hole Is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole | Pedro Iniguez |
| Finalist | The Witch Recalls Her Craft | Angel Leal |
| Nominee | We Carry Our Ghosts to the Stars | Richard Leis |
| Nominee | Transhumanist Classroom | Pedro Iniguez |
| Nominee | A War of Words | Marie Brennan |
| Nominee | What Dragons Didn't Do | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | You Are a Monster | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | After they blasted your home planet to shrapnel | P. H. Low |
| Nominee | aftermath, in the city a diary | Peter Roberts (1952-) |
| Nominee | Battle of the Sexless | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | Bobblehead | Carol Gyzander |
| Nominee | The Last Woman | Anna Taborska |
| Nominee | Born Against Teeth | Tiffany Morris |
| Nominee | Brandy Old Fashioned | Amelia Gorman |
| Nominee | Chronoverse | Jeffery Allen Tobin |
| Nominee | Colony Xaxbara 4 | Kimberly Kuchar |
| Nominee | Dodging the Bullet | Lisa M. Bradley |
| Nominee | Fractal | Jack Cooper |
| Nominee | Gingerbread | Stephanie M. Wytovich |
| Nominee | Gravitation Is Only a Theory | Alan Katerinsky |
| Nominee | The High Priestess Falls in Love with Death | Ali Trotta |
| Nominee | In the Future, AI Will Make Ofrendas | Felicia Martinez |
| Nominee | Lesson's End | Brian Hugenbruch |
| Nominee | Let's Pretend It's a Bird | Roger Dutcher |
| Nominee | Make me a sandwich | Marisca Pichette |
| Nominee | New Homestead | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | Notes from a Centaur's Curator | Gwen Sayers |
| Nominee | The Oarfish Bride | Amelia Gorman |
| Nominee | Odysseus's Apology to Anticlea | Anastasios Mihalopoulos |
| Nominee | The Old Tradition | Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi |
| Nominee | One Bright Moment (International Research Station, Nili Fossae, Mars) | Kate Boyes |
| Nominee | One Large Deep Fried Thistle Burr | Jonathan Olfert |
| Nominee | Our Combusted Planet | Brian Garrison |
| Nominee | Pa(i)ncakes | Dex Drury |
| Nominee | Right to Shelter | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Rising Star | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Robin's Rest | Lisa Timpf |
| Nominee | Sea and Sky | Meagan Branning |
| Nominee | Song Through Wires | Jacqueline West |
| Nominee | Sonnet for the Unbeliever | Paul Chuks |
| Nominee | Space Psychiatry | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | the time travel body | Angel Leal |
| Nominee | traveling through breaths | Eva Papasoulioti |
| Nominee | Trinary | Amabilis O'Hara |
| Nominee | Trip Through the Robot | Carolyn Clink+David Clink |
| Nominee | Visions of Manhattan | Ian Li |
| Nominee | Abstain from Spinning, Beauty | Dyani Sabin |
| Nominee | Amateur Mycologists | Mariel Herbert |
| Nominee | Briar Tea Party | Gretchen Tessmer |
| Nominee | Bridge of Grass, Bridge of Suspension | Katherine Quevedo |
| Nominee | Dietary Advice | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | Dragon Flight | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | Dragonette | Wendy Van Camp |
| Nominee | Stargazing | Stewart C. Baker |
| Nominee | You can't just sit there crafting hopefully-viral insta posts and expect a dragon to show up (tl; dnr: how to catch a dragon c. 2024) | Melissa Ridley Elmes |
| Nominee | Dryad's Temple | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | Flyaway | Eva Papasoulioti |
| Nominee | from venus, to mars | Cailín Frankland |
| Nominee | The Future We Build Today | Jenny Thompson |
| Nominee | Ghost Land of Giants | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | A Golden Flame// The Beheading of a Ram | Nnadi Samuel |
| Nominee | Grendelsong: A Merewif's Lament | Carina Bissett |
| Nominee | Here's Flowers for You | Diana Webb |
| Nominee | #LANDBACK | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Liminal | Ayana Walker |
| Nominee | Menomin's Dragon | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | Mourning Person | Anuja Mitra |
| Nominee | Poor Unfortunate Souls | R. Thursday |
| Nominee | Questions Asked of the Scrying Sword During the Quest for the Princess | Elis Montgomery |
| Nominee | Ravens | Vonnie Winslow Crist |
| Nominee | SOS | Simon MacCulloch |
| Nominee | Speak of the Wolf | Silvatiicus Riddle |
| Nominee | Storm-Stolen | Elena Sunyoung Kang |
| Nominee | The Tentacular Crown | Bernardo Villela |
| Nominee | there are no taxis for the dead | Angela Liu |
| Nominee | Time Lord Thief | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | Totality | Mary A. Turzillo |
| Nominee | The Woodcutter | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father | Angel Leal |
| Nominee | Generation Ship | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | The Last Valkyrie | Pat Masson |
| Nominee | Things to Remember When Descending Through the Ocean | Sandra Kasturi |
| Winner | No One Now Remembers | Geoffrey Landis |
| Runner-up | Language As a Form of Breath | Angel Leal |
| Finalist | The Day We All Died, a Little | Lisa Timpf |
| Nominee | "Attn: Prime Real Estate Opportunity!" | Emily Ruth Verona |
| Nominee | The Beauty of Monsters | Angela Liu |
| Nominee | The Blight of Keziah | Patricia Gomes |
| Nominee | Deadweight | Jack Cooper |
| Nominee | Dear Mars | Susan L. Lin |
| Nominee | Dispatches from the Dragon's Den | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Dr. Jekyll | West Ambrose |
| Nominee | First Eclipse: Chang-O and the Jade Hare | Emily Jiang |
| Nominee | Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness | Ali Trotta |
| Nominee | Gods of the Garden | Steven Withrow |
| Nominee | The Goth Girls' Gun Gang | Marisca Pichette |
| Nominee | Guiding Star | Tim Jones |
| Nominee | Hallucinations Gifted to Me by Heatstroke | Morgan L. Ventura |
| Nominee | hemiplegic migraine as willing human sacrifice | Ennis Rook Bashe |
| Nominee | Hi! I am your Cortical Update! | Mahaila Smith |
| Nominee | How to Make the Animal Perfect? | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | I Dreamt They Cast a Trans Girl to Give Birth to the Demon | Jennessa Hester |
| Nominee | Invasive | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | Kan-Da-Ka | Nadaa Hussein |
| Nominee | The Lantern of September | Scott C. Couturier |
| Nominee | The Magician's Foundling | Angel Leal |
| Nominee | The Man with the Stone Flute | Joshua St. Claire |
| Nominee | Mom's Surprise | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | A Murder of Crows | Alicia Hilton |
| Nominee | orion conquers the sky | Maria Zoccula |
| Nominee | Pines in the Wind | Karen Greenbaum-Maya |
| Nominee | The Poet Responds to an Invitation from the AI on the Moon | T. D. Walker |
| Nominee | A Prayer for the Surviving | Marisca Pichette |
| Nominee | Pre-Nuptial | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | The Problem of Pain | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | The Return of the Sauceress | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Sea Change | David C. Kopaska-Merkel+Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Seed of Power | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | Sleeping Beauties | Carina Bissett |
| Nominee | Solar Punks | J. D. Harlock |
| Nominee | Song of the Last Hour | Samuel A. Betiku |
| Nominee | Sphinx | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Sunflower Astronaut | Charlie Espinosa |
| Nominee | Three Hearts As One | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Troy | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary | John Grey |
| Nominee | Under World | Jacqueline West |
| Nominee | Walking in the Starry World | John P. Johnson |
| Nominee | Whispers in Ink | Angela Yuriko Smith |
| Nominee | Alternating Current | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Apposite and Opposite | Michael Bailey |
| Nominee | As the Night Sky Burns | Eugen Bacon |
| Nominee | Bathsheba's Corsage | Elena Sichrovsky |
| Nominee | Beloved Death | Rebecca Marjesdatter |
| Nominee | Binary Star System | Lae Astra |
| Nominee | The Broken Blade | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | Chemical Rebalance for Young Cyborg Housewives | Mahaila Smith |
| Nominee | The Chittering Moon | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | Conspiracy Theories | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | The Dead Man | Robert Wooten |
| Nominee | Dracula Considers Writing a Memoir | LindaAnn LoSchiavo |
| Nominee | Dragon Sighting | Patricia Hemminger |
| Nominee | Einstein's Eyes | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | For the attention of my future self | Brian Hugenbruch |
| Nominee | A Good Soul, Really, When You Know Them | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | The Hatter Shakes | Christina M. Rau |
| Nominee | heart sings to changeling heart | Rasha Abdulhadi |
| Nominee | Hell Rising | Michael Pendragon |
| Nominee | Hora Somni | Tiffany Morris |
| Nominee | How Noah Saved the Dinosaurs--a Litany | David Clink |
| Nominee | How to Help Hubble | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | How to Plant an Olive Tree on the Moon When All Is Lost | Elena S. Kotsile |
| Nominee | In Your Dreams | Silvatiicus Riddle |
| Nominee | Janeway Was Absolutely Right to Kill Tuvix | Jordan Hirsch |
| Nominee | Look Into the Christmas Box | Amabilis O'Hara |
| Nominee | Made of Glass | Anna Madden |
| Nominee | Masters of the Future | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Me | Jamal Hodge |
| Nominee | Metal Lullaby | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Mother Hubble Tames the Unicorn Black Hole | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Much After the Fact | Zebulon Huset |
| Nominee | My Grotesque Treasure | Abi Marie Palmer |
| Nominee | My Mother Dreams of Endlessness | Angel Leal |
| Nominee | Patchwork Girl | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Poul Anderson's Lay | Frida Westford |
| Nominee | Rubik's Cube | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | Self-Internalized | Maxwell I. Gold |
| Nominee | Shipwrecker's Ball | Alannah Guevara |
| Nominee | The Singing Girl | Kim Salinas Silva |
| Nominee | Storm Watchers (a drabbun) | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | A Stranger There | Eugen Bacon |
| Nominee | Tea Leaf Reading | Juleigh Howard-Hobson |
| Nominee | To the Emperor's Nightingale | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg at the U.S. Embassy | Abu Bakr Sadiq |
| Nominee | We Are Orphans | Avra Margariti |
| Nominee | When We Could Finally See Our Ribcages | Angela Nicole Duggins |
| Nominee | Whole World | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | As Does the Crow | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Let Us Dream | Myna Chang |
| Nominee | Mass-Market Affair | Casey Aimer |
| Winner | Little Brown Changeling | Lauren Scharhag |
| Runner-up | The Witch Makes Her To-Do List | Theodora Goss |
| Finalist | An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis | Angela Liu |
| Nominee | As the Witch Burns | Marisca Pichette |
| Nominee | Brigid the Poet | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Coding a Demi-Griot (An Olivian Measure) | Armori 'Monihymn' Boone |
| Nominee | Dream Visions | Melissa Ridley Elmes |
| Nominee | Eight Dwarfs on Planet X | Avra Margariti |
| Nominee | The Giants of Kandahar | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | How to Haunt a Northern Lake | Lora Gray |
| Nominee | Impostor Syndrome | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | The Incessant Rain | Rhiannon Owens |
| Nominee | A Mere Million Miles from Earth | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | Protocol | Jamie Simpher |
| Nominee | St. Sebastian Goes to Confession | West Ambrose |
| Nominee | Sleep Dragon | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Slow Dreaming | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Value Measure | Joseph Halden+Rhonda Parrish |
| Nominee | A Weather of My Own Making | Nnadi Samuel |
| Nominee | Welcoming the New Girl | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | What You Find at the Center | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | The Year It Changed | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Below the Bible Belt | Lauren Scharhag |
| Nominee | Between Scylla and Charybdis | Carina Bissett |
| Nominee | Chantress | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | Consent for Facial Reconstruction with the Shelly Concepts Inc Custom Patient-Fitted Reconstruction Prosthesis | Katie R. Yen |
| Nominee | The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father | Brandon O'Brien |
| Nominee | Cupid Visits the Archery Club | Lisa Timpf |
| Nominee | Don't Make Me Come Back | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | Dragons Got Wings | Ruth Berman |
| Nominee | The Empress Chides the Hermit | Ali Trotta |
| Nominee | Glitterman | Richard Stevenson |
| Nominee | The Grey Witch's Haibun: Japan, 1870 - 1871 | Calie Voorhis |
| Nominee | Had She Lived | Lori R. Lopez |
| Nominee | Hades Baedeker | Ken Chen |
| Nominee | Hamelin in the Distance | Maria Schrater |
| Nominee | How a Xenomorph Knows | Annika Barranti Klein |
| Nominee | How to Make Love to a Saguaro Cactus | Spencer Nitkey |
| Nominee | hyphae hot pot | D. A. Xiaolin Spires |
| Nominee | I Was on My Way to Tell You There Is a Vast Machine Intelligence Plotting Our Downfall, Or, the Time Machine | David Clink |
| Nominee | Knight of Wands, Six of Swords | Ali Trotta |
| Nominee | The Lay of Géac Ettinfell | Adam Bolivar |
| Nominee | Lost Lines from Ariel's Song | Gretchen Tessmer |
| Nominee | Lying Flat | Lynne Sargent |
| Nominee | The mirror-backed cabinet in oak | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | Never an Oasis | Brian Hugenbruch |
| Nominee | The Nomad | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Robin Hood's Larder's Torn Roots | Kim Malinowski |
| Nominee | She Seeks a Home | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Skinner | Frank Coffman |
| Nominee | the thing that leaps | Elis Montgomery |
| Nominee | To the Far-Shooting God of Poetry, Healing, and Sunlight | Calliope Mertig |
| Nominee | Tomorrow I'll Be Five | Jamal Hodge |
| Nominee | Troop No. 80085 | Marisca Pichette |
| Nominee | The Truth Is As Intimate As the Teeth That Bit Off Your Legs First | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | The Two of Coins | Lauren Scharhag |
| Nominee | When the Honeymoon Is Over | Lauren Scharhag |
| Nominee | Would You, Empress | Tara Campbell |
| Nominee | Archivist of a Lost World | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | Cradling Fish | Laura Ma |
| Nominee | Pilot | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Winner | untitled | F. J. Bergmann |
| Winner | Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon | Jennifer Crow |
| Winner | In Stock Images of the Future, Everything Is White | Terese Mason Pierre |
| Runner-up | Bitch Moon | Sarah Grey |
| Finalist | First Contact | Lisa Timpf |
| Finalist | The Gargoyle Watches the Rains End | Amelia Gorman |
| Nominee | Biophilia | Sarah Grey |
| Nominee | Blå Jungfrun | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Black Pastoral: On Mars | Ariana Benson |
| Nominee | Cassandra As Climate Scientist | Jeannine Hall Gailey |
| Nominee | A Creation Myth | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | The Epidemic of Shrink-Ray-Gun Violence Plaguing Our Schools Must End | Pedro Iniguez |
| Nominee | Exulansis | S. Blackthorn Riddle |
| Nominee | Fracking-lution | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet | Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan |
| Nominee | If I Were Human | Marie Vibbert |
| Nominee | Intergalactic Baba Yaga | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Jingwei Tries to Fill Up the Sea | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Law of Exponents | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | Leda Goes to the Doctor | Pankaj Khemka |
| Nominee | Lines to a Martian | Alfonsina Storni |
| Nominee | The Long Night | Ryfkah |
| Nominee | Medea Leaves Behind a Letter | F. J. Doucet |
| Nominee | Mind Compression | Madhur Anand |
| Nominee | Monitors | Kendall Evans+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Necklace | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | New Planet | Kathy Bailey |
| Nominee | Old Soldier, New Love | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | On the Limitations of Photographic Evidence in Fairyland | Nicole J. LeBoeuf |
| Nominee | The Optics of Space Travel | Angela Acosta |
| Nominee | Petrichor | Eva Papasoulioti |
| Nominee | Pittsburg Temporal Transfer Station | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Nominee | Please Hold | Anna Remennik |
| Nominee | Raft of the Medusa | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Regarding the Memory of Earth | Angela Acosta |
| Nominee | Sabbatical Somewhere Warm | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | Shipwrecked | Gretchen Tessmer |
| Nominee | A Spell for Winning Your Personal Injury Lawsuit | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Status Transcript: | Lee Murray |
| Nominee | Strange Progeny | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Tamales on Mars | Angela Acosta |
| Nominee | Time Skip | Alyza Taguilaso |
| Nominee | The Watcher on the Wall | Rebecca Bratten Weiss |
| Nominee | We Don't Always Have to Toss Her in the Deep End | Jordan Hirsch |
| Nominee | Werewolves in Space | Ruth Berman |
| Nominee | What Electron Read | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | What the Old Woman Knows | Melissa Ridley Elmes |
| Nominee | What Wolves Read | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | After the Quest Is Over | Lisa Timpf |
| Nominee | Air Born | Brian U. Garrison |
| Nominee | Angels | Frances Skene |
| Nominee | Anima | Thomas Zimmerman |
| Nominee | Anodized Titanium | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Animal House Speech | Dave Chandler |
| Nominee | Aswang Shaman Communing with Diwata for the First Time | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | Australopithecus | Jessica Lucci |
| Nominee | Bathroom Chatter | Matteo L. Cerilli |
| Nominee | Beneath Everything the Future Still Exists | Maggie Chirdo |
| Nominee | The Best Ambassadors | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Big Brother, Little Brother, and the Sea | Geneve Flynn |
| Nominee | Blond Dude in a Laundromat | Mary Turzillo |
| Nominee | Bone November | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | The Closest Traitor | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | Cursed | Lee Murray |
| Nominee | Dark Neighborhood | Cindy O'Quinn |
| Nominee | Dead in Orange Red | Jamal Hodge |
| Nominee | Derelict Dreams | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Domestic Tranquility | Brian U. Garrison |
| Nominee | Doppelganger | James Arthur Anderson |
| Nominee | Draft | Lavina Blossom |
| Nominee | Equus Aloft | Sterling Warner |
| Nominee | Helianthus | Eva Papasoulioti |
| Nominee | Hip Gnomes | PS Cottier |
| Nominee | Hockey Night in Canis Major | Gretchen Tessmer |
| Nominee | Home from the Wizard Wars | Lyri Ahnam |
| Nominee | The Honorable Iris C. Thaumantos, Presiding | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | How to Build an Altar | Angela Acosta |
| Nominee | It's Not Utopian If There Are No Fat People | Jordan Hirsch |
| Nominee | A Lacing of Lavender | Carina Bissett |
| Nominee | Letting Flowers Go | Alexander Etheridge |
| Nominee | Medusa | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | Medusa Bringing Her Children Back Home | Salt |
| Nominee | MetaGender Machine | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | Mother Wicked | Dyani Sabin |
| Nominee | Od's Bodkin | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | Pluto Is Not a Planet | Jamal Hodge |
| Nominee | Pumpkin Ash and Cypress Knees | Katherine Quevedo |
| Nominee | Reasons Why You Can't Go Out to Play Alone | Victoria Nations |
| Nominee | Sector 431B | Jamal Hodge |
| Nominee | Skies Over Carson Sink | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | Starfall | Melissa Ridley Elmes |
| Nominee | Suburban Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia suburbiana | Jay Sturner |
| Nominee | Tasted Like Pork | Pankaj Khemka |
| Nominee | Terrible Truths | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | Transformation Sequence | Stewart C. Baker |
| Nominee | The Veil | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Villagers | Tim Jones |
| Nominee | Virgin Mary Meteorology | Patricia Gomes |
| Nominee | warming | Maria Zoccola |
| Nominee | While Traveling Through Deep Space Aboard a Generation Ship | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | Dinner Plans with Baba Yaga | Stephanie M. Wytovich |
| Nominee | Field Notes from the Anthropocene | Priya Chand |
| Nominee | Near the end, your mother tells you she's been seeing someone | Shannon Connor Winward |
| Winner | Machine (r)Evolution | Colleen Anderson |
| Runner-up | The Bone Tree | Rebecca Buchanan |
| Finalist | Igbo Landing II | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | Corvidae | Sarah Cannavo |
| Nominee | The Dead Palestinian Father | Rasha Abdulhadi |
| Nominee | Debris | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | EMDR | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | ex-lovers & other ghosts | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | field notes from an investigation into the self | Max Pasakorn |
| Nominee | From "Poem without Beginning or End" | Vivek Narayanan |
| Nominee | Georgia Clay Blood | Beatrice Winifred Iker |
| Nominee | How to Skin Your Wolf | G. E. Woods |
| Nominee | Interdimensional Border Town | Lauren Scharhag |
| Nominee | The Machines Had Accepted Me for So Long | Angel Leal |
| Nominee | Matches | Rebecca Buchanan |
| Nominee | Mouth of Mirrors | Maxwell I. Gold |
| Nominee | My Great-Grandmother's House | Madalena Daleziou |
| Nominee | Queen of Cups | Crystal Sidell |
| Nominee | The river god dreams of death by water | Ryu Ando |
| Nominee | The Second Funeral | Kurt Newton |
| Nominee | Spring, When I Met You (Spring, When I Woke) | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | Who Came from the Woods | Lev Mirov |
| Nominee | Virginia Dare Brooks | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | The Whippoorwill | Lori R. Lopez |
| Nominee | Wings | Jordan Hirsch |
| Nominee | Zombie Pirate Ghost | Michael H. Payne |
| Nominee | Ariadne Threads the Labyrinth | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Barn Cats | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Beautiful | L. Marie Wood |
| Nominee | The Birds Singing in the Rocks | Tristan Beiter |
| Nominee | CONELRAD 1960 / COVID 2020 | T. D. Walker |
| Nominee | Crossing Over | Frank Coffman |
| Nominee | Crow Daughter | Gabriela Avelino |
| Nominee | Dark Matter Resume | Lorraine Schein |
| Nominee | Darkness | David E. Cowen |
| Nominee | Drowning in This Sunken City | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Eidolon Tetratych | Frank Coffman |
| Nominee | The First 100 Days | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | A Fit Place to Live | David E. Cowen |
| Nominee | For You Were Strangers in Egypt | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | From the Ninth Brane | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | The Frosty Voyage | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Ghosting Our Steps | Luke Kernan |
| Nominee | Halloween Hearts | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | I Am the Dragon | Elizabeth Fletcher |
| Nominee | If Houses Could Talk | Lori R. Lopez |
| Nominee | In the Mirror's Grip | Jeff Young |
| Nominee | In water | Soonest Nathaniel |
| Nominee | Like Thunder in My Head | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | Lines of Non-Extension | Janis Anne Rader |
| Nominee | Locks | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | A Message from Her Feline Self, Unborn, to Her Cousin, Whose Ancestors Were Once Wolves | Jessica Cho |
| Nominee | My Avian Daughter Devours Meteors | Alicia Hilton |
| Nominee | On Meeting Kari Solmundarson of Burnt Njal on a Ghost Ship | Amelia Gorman |
| Nominee | One Last Perfect Night | Joshua St. Claire+Jill Trade |
| Nominee | Persephone in January: A Chant Royal | LindaAnn LoSchiavo |
| Nominee | Photographing Sirens | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | The Possession | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Questing Done Right: The Goblin Market | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | Resilience | Francesca Gabrielle Hurtado |
| Nominee | A Rounded Spell | Alessandro Manzetti |
| Nominee | Seasonal Meat | Jamal Hodge |
| Nominee | Team Enrollment | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Thirteen Ways to Know You Are a Witch | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | A Tribute to the Ferryman | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | tzedek: the wild hunt. | Elisheva Fox |
| Nominee | Uncle Louie's Farm | Skip Leeds |
| Nominee | Herbaceous Citadel | Avra Margariti |
| Nominee | Living in Rubble | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | The Thing About Stars | Avra Margariti |
| Winner | untitled | Mary Soon Lee |
| Winner | untitled | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Winner | Confessions of a Spaceport AI | Mary Soon Lee |
| Runner-up | Gravity | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Finalist | The Butterfly Affect | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | Hallucinations | Amirah Al Wassif |
| Nominee | Forbidden Haibun: Expand | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | The Forbidden Path to Forgetting | Daniel Ausema |
| Nominee | Tons of Liquid Oxygen Buckle Too Late Under Strain | Eugen Bacon |
| Nominee | The Other Crusoe | David Barber |
| Nominee | What The Time Travellers Stole | L. X. Beckett |
| Nominee | Radiance | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Even Surrounded by Light, She Disappears | Lisa Creech Bledsoe |
| Nominee | In the Library Annex | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | SustainaCrock™ | Rhian Bowley |
| Nominee | Alice | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Little Black Box | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Field Trip to See the Mermaid | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | How to Find Yourself Again | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Dragonslayer | Priya Chand |
| Nominee | Musée Dupuytren, Paris | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | Watchmaker | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | As We Were Saying Goodnight | Henry Crawford |
| Nominee | Psychopomp | M. J. Cunniff |
| Nominee | "The empires of old" | Robin Wyatt Dunn |
| Nominee | Witch Flesh | Stephanie Ellis |
| Nominee | Chernobyl Litany | Gemma Files |
| Nominee | Inheritance | Geneve Flynn |
| Nominee | Warrior Over Washington | Adam Ford |
| Nominee | Sylvan Succubus | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | No More Prying Eyes | Maxwell I. Gold |
| Nominee | In Memory Yet Green | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Nominee | Aswang Mango: Santiago's Fantasia | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | Blood Spells | Neile Graham |
| Nominee | Find Me | Féi Hernandez |
| Nominee | Unexpected Malfunction in the Xenobiology Monitoring System at Arcturus-IV | Jordan Hirsch |
| Nominee | Prologue: The Late Heavy Bombardment | Ada Hoffmann |
| Nominee | Stratospherics 2 | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | The Problem of Bottling Troublesome Spirits | Juleigh Howard-Hobson |
| Nominee | Home's Threnody | Olaitan Humble |
| Nominee | Fragment of an Elegy | Clay Franklin Johnson |
| Nominee | In the Future We Will Live In Broken Houses | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | Failed Space Colonists | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Little Red Loves Her Grandma | Pankaj Khemka |
| Nominee | Stress Level Test (Self-Assessment) | Pankaj Khemka |
| Nominee | Lights Over the Midnight Desert | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Swipples | Craig Kurtz |
| Nominee | Daedalus's Daughter | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Sea Gods | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Home Gravity Physics | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | What the Weed Whip Wanted | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | Ode | P. H. Low |
| Nominee | "shedding photons" | Rich Magahiz |
| Nominee | Extrasolar Faeryland | Avra Margariti |
| Nominee | When the Martian Wind Blows | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | Thanks to Stanislav Petrov for Fairytales about Birds | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | Under a Pale Moon | Mark Meyer |
| Nominee | Ways of the Multiverse | Vincent Miskell |
| Nominee | In Corfu | Irina Moga |
| Nominee | Crossroads | Tiffany Morris |
| Nominee | There can only be one Soul Princess | Michelle Muenzler |
| Nominee | Orchid Moon | Lee Murray |
| Nominee | Dystopia | Aminath Neena |
| Nominee | A Martian Contemplates Earthrise | K. B. Nelson |
| Nominee | Dracula Among the Ruins | Mari Ness |
| Nominee | How Date Nights Bring You Ever Closer | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | Our Stitching and Unstitching | Hester J. Rook |
| Nominee | One of Us | Louis Rosenberg |
| Nominee | Post Massacre Psyche Evaluation | Abu Bakr Sadiq |
| Nominee | The Galaxies Have Reversed Their Course and Are Hurtling Towards One Another | Andrea Schlecht |
| Nominee | Cherry Blossoms (on Mourning a Distant Mother) | E. F. Schraeder |
| Nominee | A Banquet of Sugar & Tea | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Graffiti Goddess | Noel Sloboda |
| Nominee | The Frozen North | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | Cosmic Cooking | Gretchen Tessmer |
| Nominee | Princess Cat Robot Space Pirate | Marie Vibbert |
| Nominee | The Reality of Ghosts | Yilin Wang |
| Nominee | Reasons to Leave the Path | Jacqueline West |
| Nominee | "deep space Elvis" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | The Tiny Goblin | Ann Wuehler |
| Nominee | Adam-ondi-Ahman | Audrey Zheng |
| Nominee | The Conqueror Worm(hole) | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | Curiosity Kills | Alison Bainbridge |
| Nominee | Sepulcher of Saints | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Anthony of Egypt, Professional Recluse and Patron Saint of Boneyards | LindaAnn LoSchiavo |
| Nominee | The Conglomerant | David Davies |
| Nominee | Dragonrider | Marie Vibbert |
| Nominee | Extremophile | Lauren Scharhag |
| Nominee | Flying Horses | Debasish Mishra |
| Nominee | Futuristic Funerals | Dante Novario |
| Nominee | Gris-Gris | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Heart Tree | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | Ingenuity | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | Interrupted Journey | Tim Jones |
| Nominee | Michelangelo Carves David Into Medusa | Ellie Howard |
| Nominee | A Monstrous Life Well Lived | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | Pa and the Devil | Susan E. Wagner |
| Nominee | Snails | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | Sonnet of the South American Sphinx | Katherine Quevedo |
| Nominee | Sport on Mars | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | Wardrobe Malfunction | Kyla Lee Ward |
| Nominee | Our Translucent Bodies | Devin Miller |
| Nominee | Exquisite | Lee Murray |
| Nominee | Dry Land | Maria Zoccola |
| Winner | The Bookstore | Beth Cato |
| Runner-up | Reservation Fairy Tales 101—Final Exam | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Finalist | Alexander's Babylon | Marge Simon+Mary Turzillo |
| Nominee | Astynome, After | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Cinnabar | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | Topsy Turvy | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | They came to New Mexico | Arachelle |
| Nominee | Spell 17 | Tristan Beiter |
| Nominee | The Bog Witch's Brew | R. Jean Bell |
| Nominee | The Catfish Sisters | Lisa M. Bradley |
| Nominee | The Mariner and the Sacred Foal | Catherine Brogdon |
| Nominee | The Revenge of Henrietta Lacks | Cecilia Caballero |
| Nominee | Dinner at Wolf's | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Follow the Meandering Path | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Echidna | Donyae Coles |
| Nominee | Galaxy's Heir to Forgotten Dreams | Christopher Collingwood |
| Nominee | Year's Walk | Scott J. Couturier |
| Nominee | Liminality in the Seafoam | Koji A. Dae |
| Nominee | Among the Scythians | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Feeding the Dead | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Selachimorphosis | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Totems | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | When the Girls Began to Fall | Geneve Flynn |
| Nominee | Mermaid As Lover: A Definition | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | Laughter Out of the Sea | Maxwell I. Gold |
| Nominee | Babaylan | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | Obsidian Blade | Scott E. Green+Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Nine Lives | Brittany Hause |
| Nominee | Loving Venus | Jamal Hodge |
| Nominee | Dream Logic | Ada Hoffmann |
| Nominee | Epilogue: Memento Mori | Ada Hoffmann |
| Nominee | The Queen of the Night | Clay F. Johnson |
| Nominee | Space Traveler | John Philip Johnson |
| Nominee | Scone Dragon | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | The Last Dragon | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Dark Phoenix | Luke Kernan |
| Nominee | In the Male Utopia | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | The Corvid-Human Alliance | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | Tributes | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | What of Me, Goose Girl? (or, Hard Questions from the Horse Still on the Wall) | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | The House of Ill Waters | R. B. Lemberg |
| Nominee | Wendigo | Trevor Livingston |
| Nominee | Biting Sarcasm | Lori R. Lopez |
| Nominee | Amphitrite Finds a Confidante | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | Field Notes, Found Later | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | How the Rose Princes Came to Life | Elizabeth McClellan |
| Nominee | The Wild Bunch | Kate Meyer-Currey |
| Nominee | Becoming | Miguel O. Mitchell |
| Nominee | A Descendant's Gift | Miguel O. Mitchell |
| Nominee | Nyankopoxyican Breath of Fresh Air | Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss |
| Nominee | Interview with a Goddess | Lee Murray |
| Nominee | Deep Diving | Kurt Newton |
| Nominee | Tiny House | Kurt Newton |
| Nominee | Hastur Asks for Donald Glover's Autograph | Brandon O'Brien |
| Nominee | Hoop Dance | Bryant O'Hara |
| Nominee | Haddonfield, New Jersey, 1980 | Cindy O'Quinn |
| Nominee | The Wreck of the Vigilance | Michael H. Payne |
| Nominee | Inescapable Personality Disorders of Supernatural Creatures | P. Aaron Potter |
| Nominee | Erasing Myself from the Narrative | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | The Third Law | Justin T. O'Conor Sloane |
| Nominee | Whales | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Pepie of Lake Pepin | Richard Stevenson |
| Nominee | Woman in Black, Girl in Pink | Richard Stevenson |
| Nominee | Death Opus | Romie Stott |
| Nominee | Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls | Morgan L. Ventura |
| Nominee | Toward Solstice Station | Frank Coffman+Steven Withrow |
| Nominee | Child Price | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | Dispelling the Arcana | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Inseparable | Hamant Singh |
| Nominee | Priestess | Lauren Scharhag |
| Nominee | The Retirement of Mechagirl | Cathrynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | Searching for the Cottingley Fairies | Kim Malinowski |
| Nominee | Snow Child | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Specializing in the Prehistory of Whales | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | The Time Travel Tourism Bureau | Chris Marchello |
| Nominee | Medusa Gets a Haircut | Theodora Goss |
| Nominee | The Captain Flies | Avi Silver |
| Winner | Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London | Jenny Blackford |
| Runner-up | A Song From Bedlam | Nike Sulway |
| Finalist | Devilish Incarnations | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Daughters Saving Mothers | Holly Lyn Walrath |
| Nominee | A Dish Best Served | Lisa Timpf |
| Nominee | Hansel and Gretel | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Dark Forest | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | All That I Have Lost | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Such Monstrous Births | Emily Smith |
| Nominee | Our Lady of the Acherontia | Allan Rozinski |
| Nominee | Caged | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Next! | Michael H. Payne |
| Nominee | Mise-en-Scène | Suphil Lee Park |
| Nominee | Lagahoo Culture (Part I) | Brandon O'Brien |
| Nominee | Ther Must Be Blood | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | Nephele, On Friday | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | The Believers | Meep Matsushima |
| Nominee | The Cage | Alessandro Manzetti |
| Nominee | Alice | Alessandro Manzetti |
| Nominee | Budapest | S. Qiouyi Lu |
| Nominee | The Son-in-Law from Hell | LindaAnn LoSchiavo |
| Nominee | The Whistle Stop | Lori R. Lopez |
| Nominee | Social Graces | Lori R. Lopez |
| Nominee | Invisible Ink | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | Two Weeks | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Jumble | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Ford | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Robo sapiens Thinks He Thinks | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | Dictionary of the Lost | Luke Kernan |
| Nominee | The Unicorn Insane | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | The First Dragon | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | An Offering | Michael Janairo |
| Nominee | The Finger | Abi Hynes |
| Nominee | Igbo Landing | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | Fermi's Spaceship | Jamal Hodge |
| Nominee | Cellars, Caskets, and Closets | Maxwell I. Gold |
| Nominee | Seven Steps to Reach Your Father Across the Great Divide | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | The Mad Scientist to the Muse of Her Dreams | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Penelope, the Truth | Clarabelle Fields |
| Nominee | Twisted Sayings | Ashley Dioses |
| Nominee | The King of Eyes | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | The Imp and the Bottle | Sharon Cote |
| Nominee | The Wheel of the Year | Frank Coffman |
| Nominee | La Bête: The Beast of Gévaudan | Frank Coffman |
| Nominee | Municipal Ghosts | May Chong |
| Nominee | Cursebody | May Chong |
| Nominee | My Cat, He | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Mrs. Housekeeper | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Learning the Way | Sarah Cannavo |
| Nominee | Wishes | Jennifer Bushroe |
| Nominee | Parabiont | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | The Third Sister | Andrea Blythe |
| Nominee | The Priestess Daughter | Jenny Blackford |
| Nominee | The Riches of the Cloud Country | Ruth Berman |
| Nominee | Regarding | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Time Traveller's Memory | Davian Aw |
| Nominee | Snow White's Apples | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | The Looking Glass | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | And It Was Bad | Anne Carly Abad |
| Nominee | The Secret Ingredient is Always the Same | Sarah Grey |
| Nominee | Love Song of the Swamp Witch Scorned | Alena Sullivan |
| Nominee | After the Decipherment | F. J. Doucet |
| Nominee | Odysseus Grins at Fate and the Gods | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | First Turn | Juleigh Howard-Hobson |
| Nominee | The Emerald Witch Stone | Clay F. Johnson |
| Winner | Summer Time(lessness) | Linda D. Addison |
| Runner-up | Why Did White People Conquer the World for Spices and Then Never Use Them? | R. Thursday |
| Finalist | Darning | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | hand-me-down | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | The Paper Effigies Shop | Deborah Wong |
| Nominee | Acacia | Holly Lyn Walrath |
| Nominee | Unlooping | Marie Vibbert |
| Nominee | Athena Holds Up a Mirror to Strength | Ali Trotta |
| Nominee | King Pest | Richard L. Tierney |
| Nominee | A Tempest | Sheree Renée Thomas |
| Nominee | Andromeda's Lament | Gretchen Tessmer |
| Nominee | The Selkie Wife | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | Dream Weaver | Blaize Kelly Strothers |
| Nominee | Journey's End | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Old Playfellow | Noel Sloboda |
| Nominee | People Dropping Dead in the Mall Parking Lot | Alan Ray Simmons |
| Nominee | Of fairy tales-- | David F. Shultz |
| Nominee | invocation of my guardian angel in six sects | Camille Rosas |
| Nominee | Bar Scene | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | Fin | Terese Mason Pierre |
| Nominee | On the Edge of Forever | Josh Pearce |
| Nominee | Cento for Lagahoos | Brandon O'Brien |
| Nominee | Black Water, Black Bones | Michelle Muenzler |
| Nominee | Kings and Queens of Narnia | Meep Matsushima |
| Nominee | Lovely Ludwig Van | Alessandro Manzetti |
| Nominee | Grass Whisperer | Lynne M. MacLean |
| Nominee | What Phoenixes Read | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Cavall | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | The Forest, in the Full of the Moon | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | Witching | Erin Kirsh |
| Nominee | Star Trip(tych) | Maria Kelly |
| Nominee | Posle Nas | Rosalie Morales Kerns |
| Nominee | Cave Painting | Bran Keane |
| Nominee | Family Historian | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Form Factor | Tim Jones |
| Nominee | "Flee"--The Last Dispatch from the Jemison Station | Maya C. James |
| Nominee | That is not what I meant at all | Brian Hugenbruch |
| Nominee | Ignorance, my prophylactic | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | Hungry Ghost | Millie Ho |
| Nominee | Lucky and His Dad | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Nominee | Tree Limbs Block the Road | Patricia Gomes |
| Nominee | The Mollusk God | Maxwell Ian Gold |
| Nominee | Last Contact | Jean-Paul L. Garnier |
| Nominee | Dragons Guard Our Family Fortune | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Beneath the Fullest Moon | Ashley Dioses |
| Nominee | The Witch's Cat | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | A Touch of Lightning in the Soul | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | A Hand Against My Window | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | The Old God Dies | Jennifer Crow |
| Nominee | The Memory of Summer | Jennifer Crow |
| Nominee | Mouthing Off | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | an alien axiom | Gerald L. Coleman |
| Nominee | "The dead couple of Blenheim" | William Clunie |
| Nominee | Back Story | David Clink |
| Nominee | Zodiac Girl | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | The Luck Eaters | Beth Cato+Rhonda Parrish |
| Nominee | Three Triolets | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | He Sold What He Had Left | Diane Callahan |
| Nominee | The Edge of the Galaxy NGC 4013 | Warren Brown |
| Nominee | The Monster Maker | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Chronovisor Wanted | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Chrono-Man | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | A Siren Whispered in My Ear One Night | Ashley Bao |
| Nominee | Sealskin Reclaimed | Alison Bainbridge |
| Nominee | They Made My Face | Sara Backer |
| Nominee | The Tree Of Eyes | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | The Void Blends in Your Hands | Carmen Lucía Alvarado |
| Nominee | Timegeddon | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | we are all energy | M. Darusha Wehm |
| Nominee | The Man with the Corpse on His Shoulders | James Cushing |
| Nominee | We Sell Skin on Sale | Rachel Lachmansingh |
| Nominee | Teddy Bear Diner | Michael H. Hanson |
| Nominee | Requiem | Clay F. Johnson |
| Nominee | Life Goes On | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Extinction No. 6 | Morgan L. Ventura |
| Nominee | The Cat's Epilogue | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | The Deer | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Persephone's Sneakers | Amanda Trout |
| Nominee | End Credits | Gretchen Tessmer |
| Nominee | Riding the Exhale | Angela Yuriko Smith |
| Nominee | It Feels Like Drowning | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | Arrival Mind | Louis B. Rosenberg |
| Nominee | "fear of police, but as sci-fi, because /that/ you can understand -or, less passive aggressively- get these fucking phasers out of my face" | J. C. Rodriguez |
| Nominee | The Krakeness | K. A. Opperman |
| Nominee | You Were with Me | Cindy O'Quinn |
| Nominee | Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | Mountain | Cindy O'Quinn |
| Nominee | Libations | Soonest Nathaniel |
| Nominee | Lesser Eternity | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Isotopical | d'Ores+Deja |
| Nominee | When Change Comes | Karen Bovenmyer |
| Nominee | Post-Obit Cautionary Tale | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | The Crib | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | A Soldier Writes His Wife | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | First Contact | Robin Rose Graves |
| Nominee | Dolly Waits | Juleigh Howard-Hobson |
| Nominee | Rapunzel at Seventy | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | Like Clockwork | Christina M. Rau |
| Winner | Taking, Keeping | Jessica Jo Horowitz |
| Finalist | Creation: Dark Matter Dating App | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Finalist | The Day the Animals Turned to Sand | Tyler Hagemann |
| Nominee | Witch | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Blood Moon | Sara Backer |
| Nominee | The Certainty of Seeing | Michelle Muenzler |
| Nominee | The Journey | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | The Sacrifices | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Prayer on a Friday Morning | L. R. Harvey |
| Nominee | Fallen Star | Clay F. Johnson |
| Nominee | Huitzilopochtli | Lorraine Schein |
| Nominee | Drag Strip Drag | Francine P. Lewis |
| Nominee | Ten-Card Tarot, Pentacles Wild | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Haiku | Juan M. Perez |
| Nominee | The Snow Globe | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | The Book of Fly | John Philip Johnson |
| Nominee | Don't Open the Box! | Kyla Lee Ward |
| Nominee | Disassembly at Auction | Robin Wyatt Dunn |
| Nominee | Eldritch Horror | Katie Manning |
| Nominee | Mothsong | John Philip Johnson |
| Nominee | Reparation | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Revisiting the Origins of Language | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | Collie Dogs In Space | Debby Feo |
| Nominee | No Fairy Tale World | Lisa Timpf |
| Nominee | Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) | Jesse Randall |
| Nominee | A Purring Cat is a Time Machine | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Regarding Me | Michael H. Hanson |
| Nominee | Abeona, Goddess of Outward Journeys, Pilots the Interstellar Ark | Nisa Malli |
| Nominee | "Aliens declutter" | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | All-Father | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | Area 51 Custodian Gets Coffee | Juleigh Howard-Hobson |
| Nominee | Continuum | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | The Ghosts of Those | Ron Riekki |
| Nominee | The Girl Who Loved Birds | Clara Blackwood |
| Nominee | How to Colonize Ganymede | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | The Mother Searches For Her Own Story | Mary McMyne |
| Nominee | Lady Macbeth's Green Gown | Jacqueline West |
| Nominee | My Ghost Will Know the Way | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | The Night the Unicorn Leapt from the Tapestry | Kate Pentecost |
| Nominee | The Nonpareils | Kathleen A. Lawrence |
| Nominee | Objects of Desire | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | Ójí Íjè (Kola Journey) | Uche Ogbuji |
| Nominee | The Planets? Sweet... | Harris Coverley |
| Nominee | Robert Goddard at Roswell | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Nominee | A Rose Waits | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | The Ruined Library | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | The Solace of the Farther Moon | Allan Rozinski |
| Nominee | Sphere | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | Steampunk Christmas | David Clink |
| Nominee | Styx | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Three of Swords, King of Cups | Ali Trotta |
| Nominee | To Skeptics | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | What You Hear When Your Best Friend Falls for a Supervillain | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Where Have the Space Heroes Gone? | Darrell Schweitzer |
| Nominee | The Wishing Clock of Gassytown | Deborah Wong |
| Nominee | Alternate Galatea | Amelia Gorman |
| Nominee | Fallen But Not Down | Sarah Cannavo |
| Nominee | Haldstead IV | Jeff Crandall |
| Nominee | Crimson Faces | Maxwell I. Gold |
| Nominee | "when my father reprograms my mother {" | Caroline Mao |
| Nominee | How to Care for Your Yesterday's Camel | Christina Olson |
| Nominee | Wake Up, Little Stevie | Christina Olson |
| Nominee | Phobos and Deimos | W. C. Roberts |
| Nominee | New Stars | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Goddamn These Minotaurs | Persephone Erin Hudson |
| Nominee | Encore | Tim Jones |
| Nominee | Seven Reasons to Have Hope for a Better Future. Number Five Will Really Get You! | Catherine Kyle |
| Nominee | Singing Ghost | Catherine Kyle |
| Nominee | How To Dance with Dark Matter | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | If All the Seas Were Blood | D. L. Myers |
| Nominee | Samsara | Jason O'Toole |
| Nominee | The Wolfman and Space Girl | Neil Sloboda |
| Nominee | Mary Poppins, 2100 | Cathy Tenzo |
| Nominee | The Root King's Winter | Jessica P. Wick |
| Nominee | The Unseen | Fran Wilde |
| Nominee | Shoals of Miami | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | From "Moon Sonnet" | Lily Zhou |
| Winner | Heliobacterium daphnephilum | Rebecca Buchanan |
| Runner-up | The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly | Theodora Goss |
| Finalist | Ode to the Artistic Temperament | Michael H. Payne |
| Finalist | The Macabre Modern | Kyla Lee Ward |
| Nominee | Bright Record | John W. Sexton |
| Nominee | Children of the Trees | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Envoy | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Stormbound | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | My Stories are Hungry | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | The Storm Witch | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | Tetrahedral Edificies of Sticky Rice Realm | D. A. Xiaolin Spires |
| Nominee | Borrower | Cislyn Smith |
| Nominee | The City That Changed Hands | Maya Chhabra |
| Nominee | The Daily Freak Show | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Why Not? | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | Eight Simulations For the Missing | T. D. Walker |
| Nominee | Fune-RL | Emma J. Gibbon |
| Nominee | For My Daughter, Who Will Ask For a Seismograph Implant on Her Sixteenth Birthday | T. D. Walker |
| Nominee | Inside My Belly | Alessandro Manzetti |
| Nominee | Obsidian | Fungisayi Sasa |
| Nominee | The Wolf Isn't The Only One Who Hides In Human Clothes | Natalie Wang |
| Nominee | Afterlife | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Childhood Memory from the Old Victorian House on Warner | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Consumption | Emma J. Gibbon |
| Nominee | Crop Circles | Lori R. Lopez |
| Nominee | Driven | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | Green Sky | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | If Love Is Real, So Are Fairies | Cynthia So |
| Nominee | In the End, Only the Gods | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Keep My Course True | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | Lines Written by Moonlight at Whitby Abbey | Clay F. Johnson |
| Nominee | Maculation | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Nocturnal Embers | Lori R. Lopez |
| Nominee | Reincarnation | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | The Scarecrow's Lover | Alexandria Baisden |
| Nominee | Scylla and Charybdis | Wade German |
| Nominee | Sea Witch from the Deep | Ellen Huang |
| Nominee | Sycophantam astrum | Rebecca Buchanan |
| Nominee | Treason | Shana Ross |
| Nominee | The Scroll of Thoth | Frank Coffman |
| Nominee | The Mining Town | Holly Lyn Walrath |
| Nominee | Tarot Times | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Witches We | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | The Woman Who Talks to Her Dog at the Beach | Geoff Inverarity |
| Nominee | A Ride Through Faerie | Clay F. Johnson |
| Nominee | The Making of Dragons | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | The Undrowned | Catherine Kyle |
| Nominee | Nan-e | Leon Mackenzie |
| Nominee | Cannibal Rex | Allan Rozinski |
| Winner | untitled | Linda D. Addison |
| Winner | After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls | Beth Cato |
| Runner-up | What Loves You | Jeff Crandall |
| Finalist | 3D-Printed Brother | Millie Ho |
| Finalist | A City Built on Bones | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Acceptable Documentation | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Alien Interview Questions | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Beseeching the Kitchen Gods | Mark C. Childs |
| Nominee | Cardiad | Virginia M. Mohlere |
| Nominee | Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting | August Huerta |
| Nominee | Consumption | Jennifer Ruth Jackson |
| Nominee | Curse of Waccasassa Lagoon | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | Data Value | Patricia Gomes |
| Nominee | Dead-Eye Girl | Holly Lyn Walrath |
| Nominee | Dear Creator | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Down in Windy Hollow | Jenny Blackford |
| Nominee | Echoes of Light from Orbit | Megan R. Engelhardt |
| Nominee | drop some amens | Brandon O'Brien |
| Nominee | Engineered | Bruce McAllister |
| Nominee | Entanglement | Kendall Evans+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Esprit d'escalier | May Chong |
| Nominee | Excalibur's Lament | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | Flat Dyson | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | Fortune Favors the Cold | Katherine Inskip |
| Nominee | Galahad Returns from the Holy Wars | David E. Cowen |
| Nominee | Generation Ship | David Barber |
| Nominee | The Girl and Her Wolf Dog | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Heart's Desire | Lynn White |
| Nominee | Hey Man, Nice Shot | Gretchen Tessmer |
| Nominee | Intruders | Cindy O'Quinn |
| Nominee | Laika | Holly Day |
| Nominee | Lament of the Four Moons | Kendall Evans+John Philip Johnson |
| Nominee | Lost Memories | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | The Maenad to Her Artist Friend | Amal El-Mohtar |
| Nominee | Mars Must Remember | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | Mining Time | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | Monster, Creature, Human | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | My Little Vampire | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | The Mysterious Hermit | Krystal Volney |
| Nominee | Neuraweb | Logan Thrasher Collins |
| Nominee | The Nightmare Thing | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | O Siren | Ashley Dioses |
| Nominee | Okuri Inu, or the Sending-Off Dog Demon | Betsy Aoki |
| Nominee | Our Lady of the Winter Squash | Jenny Blackford |
| Nominee | Pan's Descent | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Past Is Present | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | The Patron Saint of Alien Abductees | Noel Sloboda |
| Nominee | Pinocchio Plays the Cotton Club | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Nominee | Planck Length | David F. Shultz |
| Nominee | Planetary Lensing | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Planktivorous Fish and the Structure of Pelagic Plankton | David Clink |
| Nominee | Pouring the Pennyroyal | Andrea Blythe+Laura Madeline Wiseman |
| Nominee | Relic | Kari Flickinger |
| Nominee | The Sea Horse Isles | Michael H. Hanson |
| Nominee | Spatial Arrangement | David F. Shultz |
| Nominee | Stand and Wait | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Station Rain | Erik Burdett |
| Nominee | Stephen Hawking | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | This Sacred Earth | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Trips to Impossible Cities | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | Try the Veal | Robert Beveridge |
| Nominee | Universal Immigrants | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Unstole It | Jim Davies |
| Nominee | Venusian Arachnoids | David F. Shultz |
| Nominee | Waterworld | Terry Persun |
| Nominee | What Is Dead | Kristin Garth |
| Nominee | Wraiths | Wade German |
| Nominee | An Alien Visits an Earth Psychiatrist | John Grey |
| Nominee | The Dissolution of Icarus, or Julia Child's Favorite Roast Chicken Recipe | Michelle Muenzler |
| Nominee | The Ladies of Lancashire | Clay F. Johnson |
| Nominee | The Crimson Witch | K. A. Opperman |
| Nominee | Golgothan (Shit Demon's Sonnet) | David F. Shultz |
| Nominee | Seraphima | Hal Y. Zhang |
| Nominee | "as if ..." | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | That's one small step for (a) man ... | Russell Jones |
| Nominee | The Southern Lady | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Forest Mother | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Son of Aswang | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | Colorless Reflection | Cindy O'Quinn |
| Nominee | From Her Tower, the Lady of Shalott Sees the Ice Age Come | R. Mac Jones |
| Nominee | Divinatory | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | Ode to the Gorgon | K. A. Opperman |
| Nominee | The Sea Never Says It Loves You | Fran Wilde |
| Nominee | Thunderstorm in Glasgow, July 25, 2013 | Amal El-Mohtar |
| Nominee | Things That Go Bump & Smile In The Night | Kathleen A. Lawrence |
| Nominee | Quetzalcoatlus roboti Heads Home | Vince Gotera |
| Winner | Ursula Le Guin in the Underworld | Sarah Tolmie |
| Runner-up | The Fairies in the Crawlspace | Beth Cato |
| Finalist | 3-Minute Future | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | After the Wolf | Jeff Crandall |
| Nominee | Alima Among the Trees | T. D. Walker |
| Nominee | Atomic Numbers | D. A. Xiaolin Spires |
| Nominee | Cassini's Mini-Packets Home | Jessy Randall |
| Nominee | Cataclysm Days: Arizona Conservatives Revert to Old Forms of Worship | Chuck Von Nordheim |
| Nominee | The Cat's Daughters | Nitoo Das |
| Nominee | Cinderella's Pumpkin | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | The Collaborator | Cassandra Rose Clarke |
| Nominee | Commemoration of the Divine Passion | William Cook |
| Nominee | Conditions of the Curse | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Drug Wars | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Finding Hecate | Clay F. Johnson |
| Nominee | Five Sigils | David F. Shultz |
| Nominee | Getting to Mars | Roger Dutcher |
| Nominee | If You Would Seek a Seeress | Rebecca Buchanan |
| Nominee | In the Vaults | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | It Took Some Time | David C. Kopaska-Merkel+Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | The Kind Thing to Do | Kurt Newton |
| Nominee | The Last Transport | Frank Coffman |
| Nominee | Lorelei | Ali Trotta |
| Nominee | Lost Girls | Rachel Verkade |
| Nominee | Misstep | David C. Kopaska-Merkel+Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Mother | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Mother Giant | Peri Fae Blomquist |
| Nominee | nakajiru | D. A. Xiaolin Spires |
| Nominee | The Nightmares | Wade German |
| Nominee | Nixon's Planet | Peter Ullian |
| Nominee | On Economics | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | Our Minds Are Jewels of Uncertainty | Kendall Evans+Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | Past Far Gone | Toby MacNutt |
| Nominee | The Poisoning | Jessica Drake-Thomas |
| Nominee | The Prophet's Vision | Willis Couvillier |
| Nominee | The Protest: Ant Work Ethic | Michael H. Payne |
| Nominee | Ragnarök—A Prism | Alexandra Seidel |
| Nominee | Rapunzel | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Rex Arthurs | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | The Sea-Wolf of Brittany | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | The Search | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Skathi's Spite | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Seven Witches | Alexandra Seidel |
| Nominee | Snow: White; White: Snow | Erin Robinson |
| Nominee | The Space of One Paragraph | Mark A. McCutcheon |
| Nominee | The Stars Are Not Eternal | Kendall Evans+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Third Floor Bookstore | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Monster | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Two Dozen Restaurant Concepts for a Gentrified Mixed-Use Vacancy | James Ebersole |
| Nominee | Verdant | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | The Visionary | Ian Futter |
| Nominee | White Siege | Alessandro Manzetti+Marge Simon |
| Nominee | The Witch's House | Jeana Jorgensen |
| Nominee | Dragon Mountain | Mary Soon Lee |
| Winner | The Mushroom Hunters | Neil Gaiman |
| Runner-up | For Preserves | Cassandra Rose Clarke |
| Finalist | Alternate Genders | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Atop the Crystal Moon | Ashley Dioses |
| Nominee | The Android Who Gave Herself Away | Rohinton Daruwala |
| Nominee | Apocalyptic Mass | Alessandro Manzetti |
| Nominee | The Ballad of the de la Poers | Adam Bolivar |
| Nominee | Castaway | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | Chrysopoeia & Isagoge | Saba Syed Razvi |
| Nominee | A Cleaner Times Square | Vanessa Kittle |
| Nominee | Commentary Track | Troy Jollimore |
| Nominee | DAB3 (MOUNT HERMON, 1998) | Sara Saab |
| Nominee | Daunted | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Don't Forget the Tinderbox | Jennifer Lynn Krohn |
| Nominee | A Dream of Milk and Blood | Alessandro Manzetti |
| Nominee | The Drum Star (Orion's Ghost) | Ryu Ando |
| Nominee | The First Battle of the Puffer War | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Four Moons | John Philip Johnson |
| Nominee | Frida's Monsters | Alessandro Manzetti |
| Nominee | Ghosts of 1816 | Clay F. Johnson |
| Nominee | The Hawthorn Muses | Shannon Connor Winward |
| Nominee | Hot | Cislyn Smith |
| Nominee | The Huntsman | Lora Gray |
| Nominee | In the Labyrinth | Allan Rozinski |
| Nominee | Instructions for Astronauts | Michael Janairo |
| Nominee | Just Rosie | Kathleen A. Lawrence |
| Nominee | Kindred Spirit | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Let Me In | Tonya Liburd |
| Nominee | Little Red | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Little Red: Morning | Sally Rosen Kindred |
| Nominee | Looking Back to the Stars | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | Lotus Moon | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Maintenance Call | Ken Poyner |
| Nominee | Masques and Mayhem | Jennifer Crow |
| Nominee | Moonlight in the Playground | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | O Ippos | Mari Ness |
| Nominee | On a Dreamland's Moon | Ashley Dioses |
| Nominee | Opposition Night | Christina M. Rau |
| Nominee | The Patron Saint of Lost Causes | Chris Castro-Rappl |
| Nominee | Pre-Raphaelite Girls | Delbert R. Gardner+Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Protestations Against the Idea of Anglicization | Cassandra Khaw |
| Nominee | Quietly, on the way to Mars | Bronwyn Lovell |
| Nominee | The Rain That Falls in the Mutant Rain Forest | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Rapunzel and Medusa | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | The Raven's Hallow'een | Shannon Connor Winward |
| Nominee | Romance of Possible Contrasts | Alison Rumfitt |
| Nominee | The Seal Wife | Signe Pike |
| Nominee | The Secret Life of a Toaster | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Shards of a Fractured Soul | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | She Dreams of Tigers, or Remembers | Jen Giacalone |
| Nominee | The Simple Poem | Abhishek Sengupta |
| Nominee | Signs That the World Might Be Ending, or Making Pink Lemonade | E. E. King |
| Nominee | Size 15W Should Do It | Tyree Campbell |
| Nominee | Sons of Fire and Clay | Jesse Parent |
| Nominee | Starskin, Sealskin | Shveta Thakrar+Sara Cleto |
| Nominee | The Story of Shen Dho, A Pirate in the Red Flag Fleet, Who Serves Ching Shih Devotedly for Many Years | Kendall Evans |
| Nominee | Tha May Ask Thee Sen | Paul Brookes |
| Nominee | The Trajectory of Culture | Kendall Evans+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | The Tree Builder | Christina Loraine |
| Nominee | Waking | Sara Cleto+Brittany Warman |
| Nominee | What Neighbors Do | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Whispers & Lies | Deborah Elizabeth Whaley |
| Nominee | The Woman in the Feathered Mask | K. A. Opperman |
| Winner | untitled | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | untitled | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | untitled | David Lunde |
| Winner | Advice to a Six-Year-Old | Mary Soon Lee |
| Runner-up | How to Grieve: A Primer for Witches | Sara Cleto |
| Finalist | Gramarye | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Circe's Guests | Amelia Gorman |
| Nominee | After Midnight | David Clink |
| Nominee | The Alchemy of Arsenic | Neile Graham |
| Nominee | All-Purpose Spell for Banishment | Lesley Wheeler |
| Nominee | An Announcement | Brittany Warman+Sara Cleto |
| Nominee | Apologies from the Moon | Lynne Sargent |
| Nominee | Astro-Archaeologist's Log | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | The Astronaut Nightmare | Michael H. Hanson |
| Nominee | Astronomers | Ace G. Pilkington |
| Nominee | Baalberith | Robert Beveridge |
| Nominee | Baba Yaga: Her Almost Origin Story | Minadora Macheret |
| Nominee | Beware | Juleigh Howard-Hobson |
| Nominee | Birth, Place | Brandon O'Brien |
| Nominee | Black Star | Adam Bolivar |
| Nominee | Cosmovore Searches the Animal Shelter | Kristi Carter |
| Nominee | Dark Solstice Cold and Deathly | Richard L. Tierney |
| Nominee | The Dead Boy Teaches Me About Godzilla | Lana Hechtman Ayers |
| Nominee | Dead Bride Philosophy | Sara Tantlinger |
| Nominee | The Dead Languages of the Wind | David Clink |
| Nominee | Dear Shotgun City | Holly Walrath |
| Nominee | The Devil in Boston | A. J. Odasso |
| Nominee | early years of transdimensional travel | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | Egress | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | The Empty House | A. J. Locke |
| Nominee | End-Times Tables | Margarita Tenser |
| Nominee | Endeavour | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Enthusiasts of Ruin | Margaret Wack |
| Nominee | First Date | David F. Shultz |
| Nominee | Flowers for Asimov | William Shaw |
| Nominee | Giger's Children | Saba Razvi |
| Nominee | Goodnight | David F. Shultz |
| Nominee | Grand Guignol | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Guttersnipe | WC Roberts |
| Nominee | Hubble's Constant | Marian Moore |
| Nominee | In the business of things that don't earn you much | Ziad Gadou |
| Nominee | "late to work" | Julie Bloss Kelsey |
| Nominee | The Lovers and the Labyrinth | Sara Cleto |
| Nominee | Lycium Barbarum | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | March Madness | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | Medusa in Her Mirror | Hillary Lyon |
| Nominee | Messiaen Among The Dinosaurs | Tim Jones |
| Nominee | Midwest Wonder Expo | Amelia Gorman |
| Nominee | The Mushroom Siren | K. A. Opperman |
| Nominee | The Mutant Rat | Krystal Volney |
| Nominee | My Little Green Secret | Clay F. Johnson |
| Nominee | My Response to Your Mayday Call | David Clink+Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | A Net to Snare a Unicorn | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | O Terrible Bird | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | One More Attempt at Disaster Preparedness | Jeannine Hall Gailey |
| Nominee | Other People's Tragedies | Jennifer Crow |
| Nominee | Pine Song, Robin Song, Star Song | Holly Lyn Walrath |
| Nominee | Pleiades | Jenny Blackford |
| Nominee | Poisoned Apple | Ann Thornfield-Long |
| Nominee | Quantum Socks | R. Gene Turchin |
| Nominee | Radiant Things | A. J. Odasso |
| Nominee | "reanimated" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | Save Our Souls | Karen Bovenmyer |
| Nominee | "scent of blackened" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | The Scratch Inside Your Chest | Layla Al-Bedawi |
| Nominee | Scorpio | Jo Walton |
| Nominee | Sea Legs | Milo Gallagher |
| Nominee | secret identities | Davian Aw |
| Nominee | Shadowfolk | John Philip Johnson |
| Nominee | She traveled back in time | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | Small Town Witches | Kate Pentecost |
| Nominee | Some Things Never Change | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Nominee | Song of a Changeling | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Starlight | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | A Streetcar Named Happily Ever After | B. J. Lee |
| Nominee | Supper with the Sphinx | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | Surreal Bucket List #3 | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Afterword: Sycorax's Daughters Unveiled | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | Syncing Minefields | Karen Bovenmyer |
| Nominee | Table of Contents from a Lost Book of Divination | Dean Kostos |
| Nominee | The Talking River | John W. Sexton |
| Nominee | Titan's Magic Islands: Transient Features in the Hydrocarbon Seas | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | Vaginoplasticine | Alison Rumfitt |
| Nominee | Vampirette | Kathleen A. Lawrence |
| Nominee | Villain L | Azriel Johnson |
| Nominee | Vul Ravin | D. L. Myers |
| Nominee | Wayfaring King | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | When the Aliens Come to Tea | Mary A. Turzillo |
| Nominee | The Witch Woman | Alexandra Seidel |
| Nominee | Yellow Spiders | John C. Mannone |
| Winner | George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts | Marge Simon |
| Runner-up | Build a Rocketship Contest: Alternative Class A. Instructions and Suggestions | Wendy Rathbone |
| Finalist | The Box of Dust and Monsters | Beth Cato |
| Finalist | Godzilla vs. King Kong | James S. Dorr |
| Finalist | Richard Feynman's Commute | Jon Wesick |
| Nominee | The Doppelgänger and the Ghost | Lev Mirov Romance |
| Nominee | Dorothy Delivered | Kathleen A. Lawrence |
| Nominee | Exotic Heads Trimmed Neatly | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | Falling (A Part ) | Alexandra Erin |
| Nominee | The Fantasy of Hans Christian Andersen | KH van Berkum |
| Nominee | Feles Alieni Vere Sunt | Neile Graham |
| Nominee | *For Quick Sale* | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | Foreign Policy | David Barber |
| Nominee | The Frog | K. Cassandra O'Malley |
| Nominee | The Genius | Sara Backer |
| Nominee | The Giantess's Dream | Ada Hoffmann |
| Nominee | History Teacher | Gary Every |
| Nominee | How Far Does Night Have to Fall? | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | I Left My Heart in San Francisco. I Left Yours Somewhere in Colorado ... | Matt Betts |
| Nominee | Ink | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | Invocation of Diana | K. A. Opperman |
| Nominee | The Last Woman on Earth | Mary Stone |
| Nominee | Learning the History of War | J. J. Steinfield |
| Nominee | Less Than Human | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | The Long Run | Neil Gaiman |
| Nominee | Loose String | E. Kristin Anderson |
| Nominee | Love in the Time of Apocalypse | Ann Thornfield-Long |
| Nominee | Marginalia on Eiruvin 45b | Bogi Takács |
| Nominee | Martian Garden | John Philip Johnson |
| Nominee | Memorial (for Jonathan Franzen) | Tim Jones |
| Nominee | The Memory Machines | Jane Williams |
| Nominee | My Corpse, My Groom | Ashley Dioses |
| Nominee | My Pet Alien | Dennis Caswell |
| Nominee | A Natural History of Snow | David Clink |
| Nominee | Nothing Goes Away | A. J. Odasso |
| Nominee | Of My Wounds, There Are Many | Stephanie M. Wytovich |
| Nominee | "The Old Ones gather" | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | Orpheus | Ace G. Pilkington |
| Nominee | Past Imperfect | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | The Persecution of Witches | Ali Trotta |
| Nominee | The Phosphorescent Fungi | D. L. Myers |
| Nominee | Propagation | Layla Al-Bedawi |
| Nominee | Quack | Neal Wilgus |
| Nominee | Quasar | Triin Paja |
| Nominee | Returning | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Riding the Dark | B. J. Lee |
| Nominee | Robot Testimonial Z | Margaret Rhee |
| Nominee | Rusalka | Jane Yolen |
| Nominee | Sappho and the Woman of Starlight | John W. Sexton |
| Nominee | Selkie | E. Kristin Anderson |
| Nominee | Skin | Alice Fanchiang |
| Nominee | Song of the Encantado | Jeremy Paden |
| Nominee | Space Opera | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | The Sparrows in Her Hair | Hester J. Rook |
| Nominee | The Spook Tree | Cindy O'Quinn |
| Nominee | Star Dust | Josh Brown |
| Nominee | Stellar Quake | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | Supercomputer Spends the Night | Danielle Zaccagnino |
| Nominee | Sutekh from the Throne | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | Terran Mythology | Shannon Connor Winward |
| Nominee | This Rat | Anne Carly Abad |
| Nominee | To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse | Burlee Vang |
| Nominee | To the Girl Who Ran Through Crop Circles | Karen J. Weyant |
| Nominee | Until Dawn | Michael H. Hanson |
| Nominee | La Villa de Sirenia | Jack Ralls |
| Nominee | Well, Water, Stars | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek | Timons Esaias |
| Nominee | Widening Gyre | A. J. Odasso |
| Nominee | Witch Lord of the Hunt | Ashley Dioses |
| Nominee | The woman on the bus encounters time dilation | Daniel R. Jones |
| Nominee | World's Tiniest Human | Muriel Leung |
| Nominee | Portrait of the Captain with Small Waiting Objects | T. D. Walker |
| Nominee | Salome's New King | Terry Miller |
| Nominee | Spoiler Alert | Matt Betts |
| Nominee | What Wants Us | Karolina Fedyk |
| Nominee | "3D printer" | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | Adolescence | Ken Poyner |
| Nominee | After | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Always the Black and White Keys | Corrine De Winter |
| Nominee | Annie&Diana/One Canoe | Shari Caplan |
| Nominee | Antagonist | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "appendage sale" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | The Architect of Bonfires | Tonya Liburd |
| Nominee | The Ash Manifesto | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | At the Robot National Convention | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Nominee | The Bird Prince | John W. Sexton |
| Nominee | The birds forget to sing | Carl Mayfield |
| Nominee | Black Bull of Norroway | Jane Yolen |
| Nominee | Bones Knock in the House | Mary McMyne |
| Nominee | Bottle Cast Upon a Dry Sea | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | A Bug in the System | Anton Cancre |
| Nominee | "Christmas on Mars" | Carolyn M. Hinderliter |
| Nominee | Classification of Folktales | Margaret Wack |
| Nominee | The Dark Between Stars | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Death Rides USAir At Night | Jane Yolen |
| Nominee | Descent of the Composer | Airea D. Matthews |
| Nominee | One Canoe | Shari Caplan |
| Nominee | Glastonbury, 1994 | P. S. Cottier |
| Winner | Rose Child | Theodora Goss |
| Runner-up | The Rime of the Eldritch Mariner | Adam Bolivar |
| Finalist | Not Like This | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Absentation | Lesley Wheeler |
| Nominee | Adam's Rendezvous with Dante | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | Alice-Ecila | Steph Post |
| Nominee | At Issue, The Miramo | Ken Poyner |
| Nominee | Best Of | Sarah Ann Winn |
| Nominee | The Blind Elephants of Io | Karen Bovenmyer |
| Nominee | The Butterflies of Traxl IV | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | The Chinese Pirate Ching Shih Plays Go with a Hooded Opponent | Kendall Evans |
| Nominee | Cobblestone Dragon | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Dame Evergreen | Rebecca Buchanan |
| Nominee | The Dark Lord's Diary | Lee S. Hawke |
| Nominee | Data Mine | Alexandra Erin |
| Nominee | The Death of the Horse | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Defender Prime | A. C. Spahn |
| Nominee | Elegy for Iain Banks | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | Exploratory Colony 454—15th May, 2052 | Lore Bernier |
| Nominee | First Lesson | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | For Lonnie | Holly Walrath |
| Nominee | Further | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Getting Winterized: A Guide to Rural Living | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | god-date | Brandon O'Brien |
| Nominee | The Great Unknown | Bruce Boston+Alessandro Manzetti |
| Nominee | Houses of the Living, Houses of the Dead | Jenny Blackford |
| Nominee | I Will Be Your Grave | Tlotlo Tsamaase |
| Nominee | Im Wald | Sandi Leibowitz |
| Nominee | In Defence of Science | David Clink |
| Nominee | The Inconceivable Shape | Simon Smith |
| Nominee | Interview with a 22nd-Century Sex Worker | Darren Lipman |
| Nominee | The Journeymaker to Keddar (II) | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | Legend of the Albino Pythons and the Bloody Child | Bruce Boston+Alessandro Manzetti |
| Nominee | The Leviathans of Europa | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | The Lies You Learned | S. Qiouyi Lu |
| Nominee | little stomach | Charlotte Geater |
| Nominee | Luminous Decay | Robert Frazier |
| Nominee | Morning During Migration Season | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527 | Lisa M. Bradley |
| Nominee | phoenix fire, tabula rasa | Kim Eun-byeol |
| Nominee | The Poem Gardens of the Ascari | Rohinton Daruwala |
| Nominee | Revolution (1764-1783) | Holly Lyn Walrath |
| Nominee | The Robot by the Fireplace | Ken Poyner |
| Nominee | Sargasso Sea | A. J. Odasso |
| Nominee | The Starlet Who Married A Monster | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Storm Miners | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | Surviving a Canadian Poem | David Clink |
| Nominee | Talk to the Machines | Johan Jönsson |
| Nominee | Thirteen Ways to See a Ghost | Shannon Connor Winward |
| Nominee | To the weaver, from the woman who slew Bakunawa | M. Sereno |
| Nominee | Väinämöinen Sings | Jennifer Lawrence |
| Nominee | We Shall Meet in the Star-Spackled Ruins | Wendy Rathbone |
| Nominee | WERE- | Naru Dames Sundar |
| Nominee | Werewolf | K. A. Opperman |
| Nominee | When Coyote Called Down the Stars | Aaron Vlek |
| Nominee | When the Gunman Comes | Edith Hope Bishop |
| Winner | untitled | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Winner | Time Travel Vocabulary Problems | Ruth Berman |
| Runner-up | Tech Support for the Apocalypse | F. J. Bergmann |
| Finalist | An Introduction to Alternate Universes: Theory and Practice | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | Portrait | David Clink |
| Nominee | Hard Being A God | David Barber |
| Nominee | The Astronaut's Heart | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Abandonarium | Stacey Balkun |
| Nominee | Forever Tracking | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Aboard the Transport Tesoro | Lisa M. Bradley |
| Nominee | The Scifaikiu ("hell-bent...") | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | Fried Okra | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Elegy for WLC | David Clink |
| Nominee | The Sun Never Rises | Michael Coolen |
| Nominee | Secondary Ghosts | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | Pleistocene Park ... | Mark Danowsky |
| Nominee | Worlds in Collision | Bryan D. Dietrich |
| Nominee | Ligeia | Ashley Dioses |
| Nominee | On The Other Hand | James Dorr |
| Nominee | Why Have We Not Been Visited? | Martin Elster |
| Nominee | Institutional Memory | Alexandra Erin |
| Nominee | The Argument Box | J. D. Fox |
| Nominee | The Boats | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | The More It Changes... | Delbert R. Gardner |
| Nominee | Couples Therapy | Howie Good |
| Nominee | Robot Agonistes | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Nominee | How Eternal Night Was Created | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | Gaunt | Charles Allen Gramlich |
| Nominee | Selenites | John Philip Johnson |
| Nominee | Mummies | Richard Hedderman |
| Nominee | Glinda's Dilemma | Gloria Heffernan |
| Nominee | Kraken | Tim Jones |
| Nominee | Venice Letting Go | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | Moth and Memory | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | Hard Copy | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | luddite's dream | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | The Changeling's Gambit | Sasha Kim |
| Nominee | re-entry heat | Deborah Kolodji |
| Nominee | The Only Time Machine | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Rip van Winkle on Mars | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Post-Apocalyptic Toothbrush | Betsy Ladyzhets |
| Nominee | He Promised Me the Moon | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | An Unrequited Love Process Loops | Marie Vibbert |
| Nominee | Ode to Dorothy Gale | Jenna Lê |
| Nominee | Flora and Fauna | James Frederick Leach |
| Nominee | The Dreaded Dreadnoughts | B. J. Lee |
| Nominee | The Washerwoman's Daughter | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Postlude | Nolan Liebert |
| Nominee | B'resheet | Julia Burns Liberman |
| Nominee | Under the Cancer Tree | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Four Chambers | Shira Lipkin |
| Nominee | Challenger | Bronwyn Lovell |
| Nominee | "hell-bent" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | Reversed Polarities | Nin Harris |
| Nominee | It Came to Pass | Mark Mansfield |
| Nominee | Bone-House | A. J. Odasso |
| Nominee | In Fits of Wildest Dreaming | K. A. Opperman |
| Nominee | The Palace of Phantasies | K. A. Opperman |
| Nominee | Requiem | Matt Quinn |
| Nominee | Lola | Gabby Reed |
| Nominee | Lot's Wife | Michelle Scalise |
| Nominee | Serving the Blind Girl | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Before I Kill You (an Arch-Villainelle) | David Sklar |
| Nominee | Untitled ("buried pet turtles...") | David Lee Summers |
| Nominee | Origami Crane / Light-Defying Spaceship | Naru Dames Sundar |
| Nominee | Philomela in Seven Movements | Natalia Theodoridou |
| Nominee | The Sun Ships | Steven Withrow |
| Nominee | Crater Conundrum Pizza | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | Passenger Seat | Stephanie M. Wytovich |
| Nominee | The Subtle Arts of Chemistry | Elizabeth McClellen |
| Nominee | The Woman Sings Her Marriage Into Being | Lev Mirov |
| Nominee | Transition Metal | A. J. Odasso |
| Nominee | The Case of Trying Too Hard | Steve Sneyd |
| Nominee | raven speaks | Michael Spring |
| Nominee | Attack of The Saurus | John Reinhart |
| Winner | It Begins with a Haunting | Krysada Panusith Phounsiri |
| Winner | Keziah | Ann K. Schwader |
| Runner-up | Chronopatetic | F. J. Bergmann |
| Finalist | from "Sunspots" | Simon Barraclough |
| Finalist | The White Planet | Albert Goldbarth |
| Nominee | Letter to Zelazny from Olympus Mons | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | And then the stars... | Mack W. Mani |
| Nominee | Toujours Il Coûte Trop Cher | Mike Allen+C. S. E. Cooney |
| Nominee | I Dreamed a World | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | Season of the Ginzakura | Ryu Ando |
| Nominee | Seasons in a Moon Ocean | Daniel Ausema |
| Nominee | Resonance Redux | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Black Momma-Faces | Angela Brown |
| Nominee | Dali's Apostles | David E. Cowen |
| Nominee | The Comet Elm | Martin Elster |
| Nominee | Observations from the Black Ball Line Between Deimos and Callisto | Alexandra Erin |
| Nominee | A Brief History of Human Evolution | Gary Every |
| Nominee | Actaeon | Alice Fanchiang |
| Nominee | Illusions of Man | Deborah Guzzi |
| Nominee | Drowned City | Ruth Jenkins |
| Nominee | Typhon & Echidna: A Love Story | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | Dragonslayer | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Training: Stances | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | archival testimony fragments / minersong | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | Long Shadow | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | Interiora II | Alessandro Manzetti |
| Nominee | Changeling | Lynette Mejía |
| Nominee | An Unexpected Guest | Lev Mirov |
| Nominee | Halloween | K. A. Opperman |
| Nominee | The Coming Dark | Wendy Rathbone |
| Nominee | Ugly Bags of Mostly Water | Yann Rousselot |
| Nominee | Adarna | M. Sereno |
| Nominee | Twenty Years | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | A Love in Twelve Feathers | Shveta Thakrar |
| Nominee | The Woman in the Coffee Shop | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Deliverance | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Artist Signature | Susan Gray |
| Nominee | Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbeard | Ed Higgins |
| Nominee | Et je ne pleurais jamais les larmes cicatrisantes magiques; c'est seulement un mensonge joli: Aarne-Thompson Index No. 310 | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | Poetry Set: Red Wire, Monsters, Slipknot | A. J. Odasso |
| Nominee | O Dervish of the Restless Heart | Saba Syed Razvi |
| Nominee | The Noble Torturer | Sofia Samatar |
| Nominee | The Iterative Nature of the Magical Discovery Process | Bogi Takács |
| Nominee | A Butterfly in Carcosa | D. J. Tyrer |
| Winner | Shutdown | Marge Simon |
| Runner-up | Science Fiction (with apologies to Marianne Moore's "Poetry") | Ruth Berman |
| Finalist | I Imagine My Mother's Death | Bryan D. Dietrich |
| Finalist | The Peal Divers | Francesca Forrest |
| Finalist | Extinction | Joshua Gage |
| Finalist | After the Changeling Incantation | John Philip Johnson |
| Nominee | Worlds Apart | Mary Alexandra Agner |
| Nominee | Main Sequence | Saira Ali |
| Nominee | The Delusions of Trees | David Barber |
| Nominee | Pauli Neutrino Telescope, Antartica, July 14th, 2033 | David Barber |
| Nominee | Lost | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Maybe Waldo Had Syphilis | Matt Betts |
| Nominee | The Cuckoo's Bride | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Septuagenarian Flashback | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | there are signs of Faerie everywhere | G. Sutton Breiding |
| Nominee | Stalking a Wizard | Michael Canfield |
| Nominee | Dragon to Centauri | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | A Work in Progress | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Short Forms | David Livingstone Clink |
| Nominee | After hours in the op shop | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | Codex Yokai | Cardinal Cox |
| Nominee | Neuroanatomy Practical | Tim Craven |
| Nominee | Stephen Hawking | Bryan D. Dietrich |
| Nominee | Beware of the Dog | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | A Universe | Timons Esaias |
| Nominee | Elephants in the Alley | Terry A. Garey |
| Nominee | It's a Universal Picture | Gwynne Garfinkle |
| Nominee | Field Notes | Lola Haskins |
| Nominee | Before You Were a Vampire | irving |
| Nominee | After "Dark Matter" | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | After "Signs You're in Trouble" | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Heere ther be Gods | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Attic Dust | Sandi Leibowitz |
| Nominee | Dualities | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | Landwork | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | Cinderella Breast | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | "daydreaming" | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | Common Language | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | The Time of Last Scattering | Lynette Mejía |
| Nominee | Marvel Word Problems | P. Andrew Miller |
| Nominee | Odyssey | Kim L. Neidigh |
| Nominee | Queen of Cups | Adrienne J. Odasso |
| Nominee | Morning Sickness | Aimee Ogden |
| Nominee | At the Dark Matter Zoo | Simon Petrie |
| Nominee | The Devil Riding Your Back | Gabby Reed |
| Nominee | Dark Energized | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Leap | Grace Seybold |
| Nominee | The Rat Queen | Noel Sloboda |
| Nominee | Revelation | Robin Spriggs |
| Nominee | Intimate Universes | Jason Sturner |
| Nominee | A Bulgakov Headache | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | You Are Here | Bogi Takács |
| Nominee | Sonnet 65,000,000 BC | Mary A. Turzillo |
| Nominee | Dark Matter, Dark Mind | Peter C. Venable |
| Nominee | The Old Time Traveler's Song | William John Watkins |
| Nominee | "Cthulhu partners" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | Dare I Keep the Body | Stephanie M. Wytovich |
| Nominee | Eventually, You Become Immune | Stephanie M. Wytovich |
| Nominee | Remembering Jean Paul Sartre | Jeffrey Zable |
| Winner | 100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien | F. J. Bergmann |
| Runner-up | Six Things the Owl Said | Megan Arkenberg |
| Finalist | The Perfect Library | David Clink |
| Nominee | Nothing Writes to Disk | Kythryne Aisling |
| Nominee | Dearly Beloved | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Sea Monster Objects to Term 'kaiju' | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Death of a Crossing Guard | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Una Canción de Keys | Lisa M. Bradley |
| Nominee | Rule 44 | R. Payne Cabeen |
| Nominee | And I'll Dance with You Yet, My Darling | C. S. E. Cooney |
| Nominee | Drawn to Marvel | Bryan D. Dietrich |
| Nominee | Spelling "For Worse" | Peg Duthie |
| Nominee | Star Song | Kendall Evans |
| Nominee | House of Jaguar | Serena Fusek |
| Nominee | Row Your Boat Ashore | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Hollow Beats the Night | Delbert R. Gardner |
| Nominee | The Alchemy | Neile Graham |
| Nominee | Roman Shade | April Grant |
| Nominee | Mining Planet | John Grey |
| Nominee | Saline to Atlantis | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Words Not Red | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Said Rapunzel to the Wolf | Sally Rosen Kindred |
| Nominee | Encounter While Waiting for Transport | David C. Kopaska-Merkel+W. Gregory Stewart |
| Nominee | Numbers | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | The Matter of the Horses | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | The Virgin and the Unicorn | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | Braiding | Sandi Leibowitz |
| Nominee | The Santa Claus Triptych | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | Butterfly Effect | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | The Man Who Saw the World | Alessandro Manzetti |
| Nominee | A Summoning of Monsters | Jack Hollis Marr |
| Nominee | Concerning the Curious Burial Customs of the Witches of Megaira | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | Demands | Mari Ness |
| Nominee | The Memory-Thief | Adrienne J. Odasso+Dominik Parisien |
| Nominee | Ode to Yon Glizan Orbs, or No? | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | The Swooning | Mark Rich |
| Nominee | Principles of Entropy | Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg |
| Nominee | Eolian Conscienta | Marge Simon+Mary Turzillo |
| Nominee | Let the Fire Decide | Sarah Wright |
| Nominee | Conservation of Energy | Alvaro Zinos-Amaro |
| Winner | untitled | Margaret Balliff Simon |
| Winner | untitled | Steve Sneyd |
| Winner | Turning the Leaves | Amal El-Mohtar |
| Runner-up | Rivers | Geoffrey Landis |
| Finalist | Music of the Stars | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | The Captain Speaks | Leslie J. Anderson |
| Nominee | Nephology | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | How Many | Ruth Berman |
| Nominee | Liar, Liar | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Singing the Plains | Rachael Bundock |
| Nominee | The Narrow Hours | Gwendolyn Clare |
| Nominee | Climbing Up the Sky | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | A City of Buried Rivers | David Clink |
| Nominee | Why I Sold My Soul to the Storyteller | Jennifer Crow |
| Nominee | Triptych | Jane Crowley |
| Nominee | The Specialist | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | Untitled ("imagining") | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | Wheels | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | After the Moons | Russell Jones |
| Nominee | Sleeping Beauty Makes Dinner | Sally Rosen Kindred |
| Nominee | Pinocchio in the Toothpick Factory | Andrew Kozma |
| Nominee | Doppelganger | John Light |
| Nominee | Leaving Papa | Darrell Lindsey |
| Nominee | Bluebeard's Wife | Helen Marshall |
| Nominee | Ivy | Adrienne J. Odasso |
| Nominee | While on the Evacuation Shuttle | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | Rhythm of Hoof and Cry | S. Brackett Robertson |
| Nominee | Apache Chief | Sofia Samatar |
| Nominee | Faerystruck Down | Jason Sturner |
| Nominee | From the Soil | Anna Sykora |
| Nominee | Blackmare | Natalia Theodoridou |
| Nominee | Indefensible Disclosures | William John Watkins |
| Nominee | Even Cowgirls Spread the News | Laurel Winter |
| Nominee | Black Bird | Stephanie M. Wytovich |
| Nominee | Re-Obsolete | Alvaro Zinos-Amaro |
| Nominee | What She Dreams Of | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | View from the Oort Cloud | Shelly Bryant |
| Nominee | untitled tanka | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | The Bed I Haven't Made Yet | Peg Duthie |
| Nominee | A Virtuous Woman | Nancy Hightower |
| Nominee | The Waiting | Dennis M. Lane |
| Nominee | Don't Call Me a Fairy | B. J. Lee |
| Nominee | Topic of Cancer | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Irène Joliot-Curie | Mary McMyne |
| Nominee | Rigel | Adrienne J. Odasso |
| Nominee | The Bone Cutter's Lament | James Frederick William Rowe |
| Nominee | Orbit | Diane Severson |
| Nominee | Alien Interrogation | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | My Translation Wouldn't Be the Same As Yours | Lesley Wheeler |
| Winner | Interregnum | Mary Soon Lee |
| Runner-up | Hungry Constellations | Mike Allen |
| Finalist | I will show you a single treasure from the treasures of Shah Niyaz | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | Ponies and Rocketships | Leslie Anderson |
| Nominee | Songs at a Crossroads | Megan Arkenberg |
| Nominee | Hungry As Living Sorrow | Jenny Blackford |
| Nominee | The Last Dream | Leigh Blackmore |
| Nominee | Living on the Leys | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Riveted | Lisa Bradley |
| Nominee | Into the Deep | Kendall Evans |
| Nominee | The Bagel Shop Across the Street | Kendall Evans+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | The Girl Who Tipped Through Time... | Robert Frazier |
| Nominee | Your Clone & You | Robert Frazier |
| Nominee | Diana's Justice | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | The Siren of Mayberry Crescent | Ada Hoffmann |
| Nominee | Backwater | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Across the Dark, the Pioneers | Geoffrey Landis |
| Nominee | The Collected Postcards of Billy the Kid | Helen Marshall |
| Nominee | Special Delivery from the Unnamed Quadrant | Jason Matthews |
| Nominee | Sand Bags | Dominik Parisien |
| Nominee | Ophelia | Qyn |
| Nominee | Allegra | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | A Great Clerk of Necromancy | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | Five Flavors | Bryan Thao Worra |
| Nominee | The Robo Sutra | Bryan Thao Worra |
| Nominee | Crazy | Stephanie M. Wytovich |
| Nominee | Interim Problem Report 119V-0880 | Jennifer Clark |
| Nominee | Gingerbread House: The Apron's Lot | Sally Rosen Kindred |
| Nominee | Timeline Tapestry | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Heaven & Earth | Adrienne J. Odasso |
| Nominee | Mary Shelley's Notebook | Marge Simon |
| Winner | Into Flight | Andrew Robert Sutton |
| Runner-up | String Theory | John Philip Johnson |
| Finalist | The Necromantic Wine | Wade German |
| Finalist | The Time Traveler's Weekend | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | Rockabye | Lyn C. A. Gardner |
| Nominee | The Still Point of the Turning World | Adrienne J. Odasso |
| Nominee | Asteres Planetai | Amal El-Mohtar |
| Nominee | Thirteen Ways of Looking at and Through Hashish | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | The Last Crone on the Moon | C. S. E. Cooney |
| Nominee | Mouse Koan | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | What the Dragon Said: A Love Story | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | Tit Tot | Catt Kingsgrave |
| Nominee | Grandfather | Dennis M. Lane |
| Nominee | Memphis Street Railway Co. v. Stratton: 1915 | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | Six Random Facts About Halley's Comet | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | Objectifying Faerie | Jane Yolen |
| Nominee | The Last Wife | Jennifer Crow |
| Nominee | Their Cold Eyes Pierced My Skin | Jenny Blackford |
| Nominee | A Midsummer Night's Dream | K. C. O'Malley |
| Nominee | Sweet Mercy, Her Body an Ark of Wild Beasts | Kelly Rose Pflug-Back |
| Nominee | Lucubration | Kyla Ward |
| Nominee | The Horror at Fox Hollow | Lesley Wheeler |
| Nominee | we come together we fall apart | Lisa M. Bradley |
| Nominee | La Llorona | Margaret Randall |
| Nominee | Galatea | Mary A. Turzillo |
| Nominee | Tohoku Tsunami | Mary Turzillo |
| Nominee | Carrington's Ferry | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Capgras | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | In the Beginning Was the Dish | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Between the Mountain and the Moon | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | Quince | Samantha Henderson |
| Nominee | Augury | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | Snow by Gaslight | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | Casting the Future | Serena Fusek |
| Nominee | Mushroom Barley Soup: An Invocation | Shira Lipkin |
| Nominee | The Clock House | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Sci Fi Memory | Glen Pape |
| Nominee | Tell Them | Lauren Banka |
| Nominee | Enter Persephone | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Came the Rogue | Sally Rosen Kindred |
| Winner | The Cat Star | Terry A. Garey |
| Runner-up | Futurity's Shoelaces | Marge Simon |
| Finalist | Sister Philomela Heard the Voices of Angels | Megan Arkenberg |
| Nominee | Parallax | Adrienne J. Odasso |
| Nominee | Give Me Pluto | Alexandra Seidel |
| Nominee | No Poisoned Comb | Amal El-Mohtar |
| Nominee | The Moon Tripped | Angel Favazza |
| Nominee | The Day That the Screens All Died | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Dream Train | B. J. Lee |
| Nominee | The Mermaid's Winter Song | Brittany Warman |
| Nominee | The Music of a Dead World | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Vigor Mortis | C. W. Johnson |
| Nominee | "dark figure" | Carolyn M. Hinderliter |
| Nominee | "we play the lithophones" | Dan Smith (poet) |
| Nominee | A sea monster tells his story | David Livingstone Clink |
| Nominee | Prince of Autumn | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Blind Obedience | Dennis M. Lane |
| Nominee | In His Eighty-Second Year | Dominik Parisien |
| Nominee | LOL_ALIENS | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Nominee | Claws | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Pavane | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Trumpet Vine Love Song | Francesca Forrest |
| Nominee | 2001 | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Redcap | Gemma Files |
| Nominee | bell, book, candle | Gwynne Garfinkle |
| Nominee | Hair | Hel Gurney |
| Nominee | The Ghosts of Birds | Helen Marshall |
| Nominee | 10 Things to Know About Staple Removers | Ian Hunter |
| Nominee | Conservatory of Shadows | Jacie Ragan |
| Nominee | Burning Down Woods on a Snowy Evening | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | Regrets Only | Jeannie Tomasko |
| Nominee | Elemental | Jeannine Hall Gailey |
| Nominee | Future History | Joe Haldeman |
| Nominee | First Context | John Garrison |
| Nominee | Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town | John Philip Johnson |
| Nominee | I Am Chupacabra | Juan Manuel Perez |
| Nominee | A Chorus of Severed Pipes | Kelly Rose Pflug-Back |
| Nominee | Cognizance: A Triptych | Kurt MacPhearson |
| Nominee | "a rabid bat" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | Not a Metaphor but a Lifestyle | Lesley Wheeler |
| Nominee | Nocturne | Linda D. Addison+Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | Absent Fiends | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | Beachhead | Michael Fosburg+Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Profane Inspiration | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Going Viral | Mary Turzillo |
| Nominee | Something Super | Mary Alexandra Agner |
| Nominee | Zipcar in Heaven | Merav Hoffman |
| Nominee | The Dark | Michael Fantina |
| Nominee | The Woman Who Caught a Storm in Her Hair | Ruby Sara |
| Nominee | Victory Garden | Samantha Henderson |
| Nominee | Roc | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | Burnt Lyric | Sofia Samatar |
| Nominee | The Year of Disasters | Sofia Samatar |
| Nominee | The Year of Disasters | Sofia Samatar |
| Nominee | Blueshift | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Perversity | Stephen D. Rogers |
| Nominee | Strangers in This P;ace | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | What Would You Think | Theodora Goss |
| Nominee | Jörmungandr | Vajra Chandrasekera |
| Nominee | Red Riding Hood Remembers | Andrea Blythe |
| Nominee | She Walks in Light and Darkness | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Nominee | Bliss | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Rossum's Universal Robot Rebuts | Neil Ellman |
| Nominee | Self-Portrait As a Raccoon | Noel Sloboda |
| Nominee | Dear Fairy-Tale Mother | Sally Rosen Kindred |
| Nominee | Tiger Lily Speaks | Sally Rosen Kindred |
| Nominee | Moon | Sandra Kasturi |
| Winner | The Library, After | Shira Lipkin |
| Runner-up | The Lend | Erik Amundsen |
| Finalist | In Translation | Lyn C. A. Gardner |
| Nominee | Zombie Poet | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | Venus to Her Terraformers | Mary Alexandra Agner |
| Nominee | Young Miss Frankenstein Regrets | Camille Alexa |
| Nominee | The Shipwright's Song | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Nominee | Abel | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | The Music of Robots | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Response to Botticelli | Rich Boucher |
| Nominee | Peter and Alice | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Fingernails | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | World's End | Becca De La Rosa |
| Nominee | Monkey See | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | Folding Money | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | My Unicorn | Martin Elster |
| Nominee | Dark Matter | Timons Esaias |
| Nominee | Dragon | Kendall Evans |
| Nominee | Clothes of Yesterday | Angel Favazza |
| Nominee | Yayoi Kusama goes to Iceland | Janis Freegard |
| Nominee | Bridges | T. M. Göttl |
| Nominee | The Bean-Sidhe Calls in Owl-Light | Neile Graham |
| Nominee | The Ones Outside Your Door | Neile Graham |
| Nominee | Mr. and Mrs. Goodnight | John Grey |
| Nominee | Ode to the Mongolian Death Worm | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | Fembot | Roz Kaveney |
| Nominee | First Loves for the First Time | Keith Kennedy |
| Nominee | The Witch's Heart | Nicole Kornher-Stace |
| Nominee | The Tortoise's Encounter | B. J. Lee |
| Nominee | Love in the Quantum Era | Greg Leunig |
| Nominee | When I Arrived, This Is What She Said. | C. S. MacCath |
| Nominee | Down Cycles | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | Thank God for Proust | Dawn McDuffie |
| Nominee | Love in the Time of Alien Invasion | Joanne Merriam |
| Nominee | Nuclear Stockpile Janitor | Kurt Newton |
| Nominee | Response to Poe's "Sonnet – To Science" | Scott Nickel |
| Nominee | Vanity | Juan M. Perez |
| Nominee | Lion Heart | Tim Pratt |
| Nominee | The Magic Walnut | Sofía Rhei |
| Nominee | Ravel: An Etymology | Matthew Richards |
| Nominee | The Physics Major Agrees to Take the English Major Stargazing | Andrew Rihn |
| Nominee | The Seas of Time | Ty Russell |
| Nominee | Luna Satyricon | Tisha Garcia+R. Paul Sardanas |
| Nominee | the more space | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Past Human | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Lanterns | Alexandra Seidel |
| Nominee | slit sea cucumber | John W. Sexton |
| Nominee | The Human Guest | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Visitors | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | The Elusive Language of Purple Birds | Robin Spriggs |
| Nominee | Grendel's Mother | Heidy Steidlmayer |
| Nominee | idiointerventionist | W. Gregory Stewart |
| Nominee | Dead Hotels | Anna Sykora |
| Nominee | Taking the Auspices | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Red Grown | James E. Tolan |
| Nominee | Graffiti Tree | Mary A. Turzillo |
| Nominee | Moving to Enceladus | Mary A. Turzillo |
| Nominee | To the ancients, the sea was a dangerous place | Anna Waite |
| Nominee | The Kite | Kyla Lee Ward |
| Nominee | A Greater Moon | Gerald Warfield |
| Nominee | Escaping the Dawn | Jacqueline West |
| Nominee | A Modest Suggestion | Neal Wilgus |
| Nominee | Angel's Den | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | Christogenesis | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | Closure | Greer Woodward |
| Winner | The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages | Megan Arkenberg |
| Runner-up | The 25 Cent Rocket: Quarter of the Way to the Stars | Kendall Evans+G. O. Clark |
| Finalist | The Legend of the Emperor's Space Suit (A Tale of Consensus Reality) | Mary Turzillo |
| Nominee | The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves | Mike Allen+Nicole Kornher-Stace+Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Desfixion | Erik Amundsen |
| Nominee | The Cathedral of the Michaelangelines | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Nominee | Welcomed Cast Outs | Dana Bell |
| Nominee | Gavage | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Surreal Fortune | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Letter from the Golden Age | G. Sutton Breiding |
| Nominee | Terraforming Mars | Benjamin Cartwright |
| Nominee | Postcards from Mars | C. S. E. Cooney |
| Nominee | The Chant of the Black Cats | Lyn C. A. Gardner |
| Nominee | The Witch Girl | Lyn C. A. Gardner |
| Nominee | Summary: Kinetic vs. Potential | Albert Goldbarth |
| Nominee | Wallpaper | April Grant |
| Nominee | Wendy Darling Has Bad Dreams | Sally Rosen Kindred |
| Nominee | In the Third Cycle | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | The Changeling's Lament | Shira Lipkin |
| Nominee | The Last Dragon Slayer | Elissa Malcohn |
| Nominee | Beautiful Monster | Helen Marshall |
| Nominee | Skeleton Leaves: A Collection | Helen Marshall |
| Nominee | The Walking Man Goes Looking for the Sons of John: Six Cantos | Elizabeth R. McClellan |
| Nominee | Tender Aliens | Joanne Merriam |
| Nominee | Snowmelt | Mari Ness |
| Nominee | Ragnarok | Paul Park |
| Nominee | Girl Hours | Sofia Samatar |
| Nominee | A Masquerade in Four Voices | Alexandra Seidel |
| Nominee | Guan Yin in the Garden | Nancy Sheng |
| Nominee | Ahura Mazda | Michael Shorb |
| Nominee | Speaking to the Hangman Is Not Permitted | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | The Melancholy of Mechagirl | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | The Secret of Being a Cowboy | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | Blood, Snow, Birch and Underworld | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Nominee | Initiation | Caitlin Meredith Walsh |
| Nominee | The Soldier's Return | Kyla Lee Ward |
| Nominee | All Souls' Day | Shannon Connor Winward |
| Nominee | Ribbons of the Sun | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | Mood of Mind (I)—Tu Bi Hi Xa | Xanadu (Ofnguyenfame) |
| Winner | The Sea King's Second Bride | C. S. E. Cooney |
| Runner-up | Dark Rains Here and There | Bruce Boston |
| Finalist | Wreck Diving the Starship | Robert Frazier |
| Nominee | Tertiary | Mary Alexandra Agner |
| Nominee | Star Reservation | Tara Barnett |
| Nominee | Occidental | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | The Pantheon | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Bubba | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | The Haunted Girl | Lisa Bradley |
| Nominee | Ere One Can Say It Lightens | C. S. E. Cooney |
| Nominee | My Wings Are Still Forming | Oscar L. Crawford |
| Nominee | On the Platform | Malcolm Deeley |
| Nominee | The Winter Tree | Amal El-Mohtar |
| Nominee | Courting Song for Selkies | Amal El-Mohtar+Jessica P. Wick |
| Nominee | Rats | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | Ravens | Theodora Goss |
| Nominee | The Gabriel Hound | Samantha Henderson |
| Nominee | Until the Light Fades | irving |
| Nominee | String Stories | Deborah P. Kolodji+W. Gregory Stewart |
| Nominee | 13 Ways of Looking at a Balrog | Rich Magahiz |
| Nominee | Anything So Utterly Destroyed | Elizabeth McClellan |
| Nominee | A poem for no one at all | Jamie Lee Moyer |
| Nominee | Rain Face | Jaime Lee Moyer |
| Nominee | The Cemetery | Kurt Newton |
| Nominee | The Five Known Sutras of Mechanical Man | Steven L. Peck |
| Nominee | Stargazers | W. C. Roberts |
| Nominee | Blatta Infernalis | Robin Spriggs |
| Nominee | Seasons of the Worm | David C. Kopaska-Merkel+W. Gregory Stewart |
| Nominee | Autumn Chill | Richard L. Tierney |
| Nominee | Red Engines | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | Barren: A Chronicle in Futility | Steve Vernon |
| Nominee | Eight Top Vampire Hobbies | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | Beyond Our Control | Hugh Fox+Eric Greinke |
| Nominee | Homecoming | Lyn C. A. Gardner |
| Nominee | Crossroads | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | A More Significant Sun | Phoebe Wilcox |
| Winner | Peach-Creamed Honey | Amal El-Mohtar |
| Runner-up | Binary Creation Myth | Karen A. Romanko |
| Finalist | Dogstar Men | C. S. E. Cooney |
| Nominee | Cultural Climate | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Lizards and Wind | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Minotaur Noir | Rachel Manija Brown |
| Nominee | Putting Off the Past | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Hoarding Light | Jennifer Crow |
| Nominee | An Incomplete Map of Death | Jennifer Crow |
| Nominee | We Took Our Gods | Jennifer Crow |
| Nominee | Call of the Wired | Angel Favazza |
| Nominee | Midnight Posture | Lyn C. A. Gardner |
| Nominee | A few stops on the journey | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Rondel for Apollo 11: Here Men from the Planet Earth | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | Twin-Born | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | A Path Without Bones | C. S. MacCath |
| Nominee | Cave-Smell | Shweta Narayan |
| Nominee | What Mighty Force? | Ruth Naylor |
| Nominee | Tinkerbell | Stephanie Parent |
| Nominee | Human Fighting Is Illegal | Juan Manuel Perez |
| Nominee | My Bones' Cracked Abacus | Kelly Rose Pflug-Back |
| Nominee | Of Ithaca & Ice | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Quiet in Her Mind | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Scrapyard Outpost | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | The Witch In Your Mirror | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Sightings | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Red Magic | Robin Spriggs |
| Nominee | In the Earth in Those Days | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Anakatabasis | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Domovoi, I Came Back! | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Yuletide | Richard L. Tierney |
| Nominee | A Holiday in Necropolis | Brian Trent |
| Nominee | Imagined World | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | I, Cannibal | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | The Conjuror | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | The Gospel of the Rope | Jane Yolen |
| Nominee | Chronomancy | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Compelling Outward Flight | Shelly Bryant |
| Nominee | Here We Are/Implied in the Shadows/Cast Upon Saturn's Atmosphere | Kendall Evans |
| Nominee | My Own Ending | Michael Fosburg |
| Nominee | Volcanoes on Io | Melissa Frederick |
| Nominee | The Shoemaker's Daughters | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | Tonight the Character of Death Will Be Played by Brad Pit | Jaimee Hills |
| Nominee | The Legend of the Flying Dutchman | B. J. Lee |
| Nominee | Planet Anhedonia | Sarah Lindsay |
| Nominee | The Chain to Her Leg | W. S. Merwin |
| Nominee | The Ghosts of Moody St. | Adrienne J. Odasso |
| Nominee | The Black Lotus | R. Paul Sardanas |
| Nominee | The Darkness Whispers | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | By the Dog | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Genetic Memory Comes to Me | Nancy Ellis Taylor |
| Nominee | Images in the Dark | Patrice M. Wilson |
| Nominee | On Keeping Pluto a Planet | Greg Beatty |
| Winner | To Theia | Ann K. Schwader |
| Runner-up | The Changeling Always Wins | Nicole Kornher-Stace |
| Finalist | Nine Views of the Oracle | Rachel Manija Brown |
| Nominee | God's Cat | Lyn C. A. Gardner |
| Nominee | From Tindalos | Wade German |
| Nominee | At Death's Door | Larry Hammer |
| Nominee | Fungi from Yuggoth | Michael Kriesel |
| Nominee | Earthrise, Viewed from Meridiani, sol 687 | Geoff Landis |
| Nominee | Finding the God Particle | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | Layers of Man | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | Conrad, in the Autopsy Room | Kristine Ong Muslim |
| Nominee | Apsara | Shweta Narayan |
| Nominee | The Bears Are Working | Shweta Narayan |
| Nominee | It Snowed | Mark Rich |
| Nominee | Nonrenewable Resources | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Two Kinds of Time | Meliors Simms |
| Nominee | For a Few Coins, I Draw You a Picture | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Cabaret | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | City of Bridges | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | On Its Own | Suzanne Sykora |
| Nominee | The Chymical Marriage | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Owner's Manual | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | Wishes for Godmothers | Mary Alexandra Agner |
| Nominee | Clotho Visits the Local Yarn Store | Paula Berman |
| Nominee | Scent & Sensibility | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Rapunzel Considers the Desert | Jeannine Hall Gailey |
| Nominee | "parental pride" | Carolyn M. Hinderliter |
| Nominee | Online Edition hillbilly invasion | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Alexander von Humboldt Visits the Moon | Sharon Mock |
| Nominee | Triangulation | George Moore (I) |
| Nominee | The Tree of Forgiveness | Kristine Ong Muslim |
| Nominee | Particles and Planets | James B. Nicola |
| Nominee | Of Amaranth and Honey | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Laments of the Lucid Dreamer | Charles Saplak |
| Nominee | A Tale of Three Worlds | David Lee Summers |
| Nominee | The Bookseller's Tale | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | The Men All Pause (A Poem on Global Warming) | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | Self-Portrait As Dryad, No. 7 | Marly Youmans |
| Nominee | Outfoxed | Duane Ackerson |
| Nominee | The Bermuda Triangle | Duane Ackerson |
| Nominee | Ascending | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Fallen Gardens | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Nominee | The Dreamgod | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Nominee | The Mummy Child | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Nominee | Eventual, I | Greg Beatty |
| Nominee | Endings | Elizabeth Bennefeld |
| Nominee | Exobiology II | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Godzilla's Better Half | Matt Betts |
| Nominee | The Time Traveler Takes His Nth Lover at a Point of Departure | Bruce Boston+Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Millennial Mass | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | The Airships Take Us, Even As We Blow Out the Last Candle | David Clink |
| Nominee | Outward, Through the Inner Worlds | Malcolm Deeley |
| Nominee | Edgar Allan Poe | Bryan D. Dietrich |
| Nominee | Apple Jack Tangles the Maidy Lac with a Red, Red Ribbon | Amal El-Mohtar+Jessica Paige Wick |
| Nominee | Joy Ride | Angel Favazza |
| Nominee | The Qin Golem | Francesca Forrest |
| Nominee | Cities in Fog | Robert Frazier+Andrew Joron |
| Nominee | Conjunctions | Neil Gaiman |
| Winner | untitled | Jane Yolen |
| Winner | In the Astronaut Asylum | Kendall Evans+Samantha Henderson |
| Runner-up | Rattlebox III | Mike Allen+Kendall Evans+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Finalist | The First Story | Lana Hechtman Ayers |
| Nominee | Rampage | John Amen |
| Nominee | Sweet Tooth | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Vulture | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Postcards from Mars | G. Sutton Breiding |
| Nominee | Custody | Rosalind Casey |
| Nominee | Corrected Maps of Your City | Kendall Evans+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | The Drowned Town | Gemma Files |
| Nominee | Snow, Blood, Night | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | The Meek Shall Inherit ... | Delbert Gardner |
| Nominee | Godfather Death | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | When Her Eyes Open | Shira Lipkin |
| Nominee | Beautifully Mutilated, Instantly Antiquated | Alex Dally MacFarlane |
| Nominee | Joanie the Jammer | Kurt MacPhearson+Rick Yennik |
| Nominee | Nightfall | Jaime Lee Moyer |
| Nominee | Lifestory | J. C. Runolfson |
| Nominee | O. D. | J. C. Runolfson |
| Nominee | Family Jaunt | Lucien E. G. Spelman |
| Nominee | My Grandfather's Watch Fob | W. Gregory Stewart |
| Nominee | Daylight Savings | Neal Wilgus |
| Nominee | The Glass Ship | Mary Alexandra Agner |
| Nominee | How the Aztecs Conquered Cortés | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Nominee | The Magician's Assistant | Penny-Anne Beaudoin |
| Nominee | The Witch's Burning | Emma Bolden |
| Nominee | Manipulation | Shelly Bryant |
| Nominee | Other Difficulties | C. S. E. Cooney+Nicole Kornher-Stace |
| Nominee | Prince | Bryan D. Dietrich |
| Nominee | The Little Sea Maid | Kendall Evans+Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | Creation Myth | Robert K. Gardner |
| Nominee | Medea of Melbourne | Olga Pavlinova Olenich |
| Winner | Search | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Runner-up | Hungry: Some Ghost Stories | Samantha Henderson |
| Finalist | Damascus Divides the Lovers by Zero or The City Is Never Finished | Amal El-Mohtar+Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | Mondrian's War | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Zombie Bombs | Mike Allen+Ian Watson |
| Nominee | Sedna | C. S. E. Cooney |
| Nominee | Wild Over Tombs Does Grow | C. S. E. Cooney |
| Nominee | Tentacle 1 | Camilla Decarnin |
| Nominee | Death and Life on Enceladus | Kendall Evans+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Mrs. Margery Lovett, Her Book | Gemma Files |
| Nominee | Isotope Ballerina | Cornelius Fortune |
| Nominee | The White Doe of Nara | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | Man'yoshu at Galactic Edge: Poems from the Courtesan | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | The Night Market | Beth Langford |
| Nominee | 3 Poems Called Cosmic | J. M. McDermott |
| Nominee | Disciples of Paradox | David Memmott |
| Nominee | Another Fairy Tale Ending | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Transformation | J. C. Runolfson |
| Nominee | The Love Song of A. Alhazred Azathoth | William Browning Spencer |
| Nominee | On Waking | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | Lessons in Thermodynamics | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | The Ballad of All the Things I Might Have Written | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | The Girl with Two Skins | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | The Sea Wife | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Nominee | How Wizards Duel | Jessica P. Wick |
| Nominee | To the River | Jessica Paige Wick |
| Nominee | Through the Looking-Glass, Darkly | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | Oracle | Malcolm Deeley |
| Nominee | The Leviathan | Malcolm Deeley |
| Nominee | Orpheus and Eurydice | Malcolm Deeley |
| Nominee | The Dispossessed | Lyn C. A. Gardner |
| Nominee | Reveal | Linda Hogan |
| Nominee | Living on Burrowed Time | Patrick Lawler |
| Winner | Song for an Ancient City | Amal El-Mohtar |
| Runner-up | Spell | Samantha Henderson |
| Finalist | The Future | Billy Collins |
| Nominee | So Many Lullabies | Mary Alexandra Agner |
| Nominee | The Deceptive Truth | Brian W. Aldiss |
| Nominee | Don't Get Too Close to the Baby | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | Midnight Rendezvous, Philly | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Return of Zombie Teen Angst | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Von Neumann's Poem | Aaron Benson |
| Nominee | Dystopian Dusk | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | The Gnome's Spectacles | Chris Burdett |
| Nominee | Four Haiku Poems on Artificial Intelligence | Christopher M. Cevasco |
| Nominee | World's Oldest Profession 2.0 | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | A Taxi Driver on Mars | Bryn Fortey |
| Nominee | A Mother Speaks | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | Awaré for the Woman Who Disappears in Silence | Jeannine Hall Gailey |
| Nominee | Tammuz to Ishtar | Delbert R. Gardner |
| Nominee | Collage | Todd Hanks |
| Nominee | The Seasons' Dying | Samantha Henderson |
| Nominee | Animal Rescue | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | Camera Obscura | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | In the Slipstream of the Levee's Overflow | Kendall Evans+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Odysseus on the war train | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | The A. I.'s Table Prayer | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | The Midwife's Progress | Joy Marchand |
| Nominee | No Word for Goodbye | Pam McNew |
| Nominee | My Addiction | Edward Morris |
| Nominee | Pavlov's Best Friend | Kristine Ong Muslim |
| Nominee | Lovers | Rhonda Parrish |
| Nominee | To the Royal Society of Cryptozoologists from the Concerned Daughter of a Member | Caitlyn Paxson |
| Nominee | Streamside | Mark Rich |
| Nominee | The Invisible Woman Runs for President | Karen A. Romanko |
| Nominee | The Astronaut's Return | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Autopoiesis | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Cherries in Winter | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Logos | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | The Devourer | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Some Random Hero | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | Becoming Fictional | Jen Valencia |
| Nominee | Screams | Ian Watson |
| Nominee | Frankenstein's Ice Mirror | Diana Adams |
| Nominee | Pandora's Box, Afterward | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Piece of Mind | Anthony Bernstein |
| Nominee | Pygmalion | Malcolm Deeley |
| Nominee | Emile's Ghosts | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | Songs Were Washing Up | Francesca Forrest |
| Nominee | The Illuminator | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | Green Willow Wife | Jeannine Hall Gailey |
| Nominee | "faint" | Charles Gramlich |
| Nominee | Six Miles from Nowhere | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | Green Cotillions | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Internet Witch | Karen L. Newman |
| Nominee | "eruptions" | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | There, where the universe begins | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | Bats | Greg Schwartz |
| Nominee | Dear Giant Squid | Peter Sears |
| Nominee | Lunaticus (in D Minor) | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | A Sad, a Southern Face | Lynn Strongin |
| Nominee | In the World | Sandy Walejko |
| Nominee | Smells | Jane Yolen |
| Winner | The Seven Devils of Central California | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Runner-up | In Deepspace Shadows | Kendall Evans |
| Finalist | The Engineer | Bryan D. Dietrich |
| Nominee | Orpheus Gives Directions to the Orphics | Ruth Berman |
| Nominee | Three Deaths | Leah Bobet |
| Nominee | Interrogation at City Gate | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | From the Sea of Fertility | Malcolm Deeley |
| Nominee | Riddle of the Sphinx | Kendall Evans |
| Nominee | Transit of Jupiter | Kendall Evans |
| Nominee | The Last Astronaut | Kendall Evans+David Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | 28 Blackbirds at the End of the World | J. Bruce Fuller |
| Nominee | To Be Read in 500 Years | Albert Goldbarth |
| Nominee | How Raven Made His Bride | Theodora Goss |
| Nominee | A Sliver of Light in Darkness | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Réanimation Médicale | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Seducing the Crone | Katharine Mills |
| Nominee | First Light of Mars | Drew Morse |
| Nominee | The Most Secret Rooms | Kristine Ong Muslim |
| Nominee | Jaguar Moon | Misha Nogha |
| Nominee | Valadinne the Renegade | Misha Nogha |
| Nominee | Dunt | Alice Oswald |
| Nominee | The Spiders in the Sky | Richard Pitaniello |
| Nominee | Space Envelopes | Terrie Leigh Relf+Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin |
| Nominee | Brothers in Arms | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Those Who Wait | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Deja Dragon, Damsel Vu | Charles M. Saplak |
| Nominee | Private Eden: 2250 | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Kameraden Obscure: A Retrospective | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | The Song of the Dragon-Prowed Ships | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | To Ride in Service of the King | Mikal Trimm |
| Nominee | The Robot's Daughter | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Nominee | Gleipnir Diaries | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Nominee | Portrait of a Girl in Dress and Boots | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Nominee | The Tale of the Sands | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Nominee | Virgin and the Unicorn | Jessica Paige Wick |
| Nominee | Before the Beginning | Ben Wilensky |
| Nominee | Eating the Breadcrumbs | Erzebet YellowBoy |
| Winner | Eating Light | F. J. Bergmann |
| Runner-up | Ice Palace | Margaret Atwood |
| Finalist | The Oracle on River Street | Rachel Swirsky |
| Nominee | Be True | Mary Alexandra Agner |
| Nominee | The Marian Lee | Mary Alexandra Agner |
| Nominee | Dark Matter | Rae Armantrout |
| Nominee | The Crone Meets Her Son (On a Battlefield) | K. J. Bishop |
| Nominee | If We Had No Moon | John Borneman |
| Nominee | Mrs. McGregor | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Beyond the Clouds of Paradise | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Reservations Suggested | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Falling | David Clink |
| Nominee | After Appomattox | Holly Cooley |
| Nominee | The Cyburbs | Constance Cooper |
| Nominee | Les Fantômes (29 August 2005) | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | Virgin Dragon Birth | Gary Every |
| Nominee | Loup garou | Serena Fusek |
| Nominee | How to Hide in a Japanese Print | Lila Garrott |
| Nominee | The Amateur Astronomer in Me | Timothy Green |
| Nominee | Weightless | K. S. Hardy |
| Nominee | The Night Silent | Christopher Hivner |
| Nominee | Cellwoman | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | Poems from the New Symbiont | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | The Beetles' Dung, the Bird's Blind Eye | Kendall Evans+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | The Periodic Table | Charles Larsen |
| Nominee | Winter's Keep | Yoon Ha Lee |
| Nominee | To All My Clones | Shelley Lesher |
| Nominee | Heat | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | Foodstuff | A. E. Lowery |
| Nominee | My Android Bob | Pam McNew |
| Nominee | Ursine Conversation | Pam McNew |
| Nominee | I Can Feel the Drilling | Drew Morse |
| Nominee | Nine days out— | Jaime Lee Moyer |
| Nominee | Tales of You | Jaime Lee Moyer |
| Nominee | Valandinne Sings Galdr and Seio | Misha Nogha |
| Nominee | Time | Norman J. Olson |
| Nominee | "my man come back" | Daniel R. Robichaud |
| Nominee | They Threw Their Daughters Into the Sea | Karen A. Romanko |
| Nominee | Menace Anyone | Brian Rosenberger |
| Nominee | Be Patient, Don't Try to Open Your Eyes | Sankar Roy |
| Nominee | Ersatz Man, Walking | Charles Saplak |
| Nominee | Next Time Write It Down | Charles Saplak |
| Nominee | Given to the Frost | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Snowball's Chance | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Night Falls | Greg Schwartz |
| Nominee | Skyman's Daughter | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Only the Moon | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | Follow Me Home | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | The Windfalls | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Tribute to an Astronaut | Rita Janice Traub |
| Nominee | The Envoy | Mikal Trimm |
| Nominee | Snow After False Spring, Again | Mary Turzillo |
| Nominee | We Made Poetry | Mary Turzillo |
| Nominee | At the Tsukiji Fish Market | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | Doomed | K. Ceres Wright |
| Nominee | Giving Back to the Muse | Mike Allen |
| Winner | untitled | Ray Bradbury |
| Winner | The Journey to Kailash | Mike Allen |
| Runner-up | The Eight Legs of Grandmother Spider | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Finalist | Sleepers | Samantha Henderson |
| Nominee | The Story of the River in the Desert | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Nominee | There Was a Bad Tree | John Giorno |
| Nominee | Pilate's Wife | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Advent | J. C. Runolfson |
| Nominee | Phantasia! | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | Making Nothing Happen | Duane Ackerson |
| Nominee | Go Home from Bonnie Earth | Danny Adams |
| Nominee | The Psychic Above Burritoville | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Sisyphus Walks | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Isaac from the Outside | Gregory Benford |
| Nominee | A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest | Bruce Boston+Robert Frazier |
| Nominee | Spot in Space | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | The Drowned City | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | In Wicked Hollows, on Darkling Plains | Kendall Evans+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Sakhmet the Destroyer | Gary Every |
| Nominee | Women of the Resurrection | Emily Gaskin |
| Nominee | Tinker | Samantha Henderson |
| Nominee | Triptych: Three Views of the Capture of the City of Bisanthe | Samantha Henderson |
| Nominee | Siren's Call | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | Marvels of Horror | John Edward Lawson |
| Nominee | Clock Function | Isabel Pelech |
| Nominee | Kristallnacht | Lawrence Schimel |
| Nominee | Homecoming | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Foreign Thoughts | Pamela K. Taylor |
| Nominee | Fallen | Sheree Renée Thomas |
| Nominee | Africa Screams | Mikal Trimm |
| Nominee | Lost on the Shores of Avalon | Mikal Trimm |
| Nominee | The Child Bride of the Lost City of Ubar | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | The Descent of the Corn-Queen of the Midwest | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | The Minotaur's Last Letter to His Mother | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Winner | The Graven Idol's Godheart | Rich Ristow |
| Runner-up | god is dead short live god | Joe Haldeman |
| Finalist | Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Hole | Lawrence Schimel |
| Nominee | Taking Back the Moon | Duane Ackerson |
| Nominee | Sleeping Beauty | Mary Alexandra Agner |
| Nominee | Bacchanal | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Manifest Density | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Beach Climbing | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Nominee | I Build Engines | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | In the Sweltering Ruins of the Old City | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | To a Lover Dying Old | Lida Broadhurst |
| Nominee | When We Sent Our Poems Into Space | Jennifer Crow |
| Nominee | Two Cathedrals | Malcolm Deeley |
| Nominee | Deepspace Meditation | Kendall Evans |
| Nominee | When Will Time Unfold | Robert Frazier |
| Nominee | First Festival | Samantha Henderson |
| Nominee | In All Probability | K. J. Kirby |
| Nominee | As the Moon Loses Its Smile | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | The Spider Wakes | Deborah P. Kolodji+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Demands of the Voluptuous Virginal Sacrifice | John Edward Lawson |
| Nominee | Dwarves | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Touched by the Gods | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | "Time stumbles sideways" | Robin Mayhall |
| Nominee | Sir Once Forgotten | Jaime Lee Moyer |
| Nominee | The Last Madman | William Sanders |
| Nominee | Template for a Fairy Tale | Mike Allen+Charles Saplak |
| Nominee | Spiral Scream | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | It will appear on your water and sewerage bill | Julia Sevin |
| Nominee | Saint Jefferson Then and Now | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Ogygia | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Pluto Contemplates His Next Career | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Nominee | A Candlemass Poem | Jo Walton |
| Nominee | Cobwebs in Heaven | Ian Watson |
| Nominee | Disneyesque | Neal Wilgus |
| Nominee | Frost Bitten | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | Love's Resistance—Crossing the Wheatstone Bridge | John Borneman |
| Nominee | Casualty | Kenneth B. Chiacchia |
| Nominee | The Edge of the World | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | The Mute | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Nominee | Very Soon ... | Hosho McCreesh |
| Nominee | Twilight | Jaime Lee Moyer |
| Nominee | Into the Heart | Mirta Ana Schultz |
| Nominee | Spider Silk | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | A Wing and a Prayer | Jessica D. Thompson |
| Nominee | Atom's Apple | Roger E. Naylor+Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | Time Zones | Elizabeth Jodi Woodward |
| Winner | The Tin Men | Kendall Evans+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Runner-up | Old Twentieth: a century full of years | Joe Haldeman |
| Finalist | First Cross of Mars | Drew Morse |
| Nominee | Chagall's Lamp | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Picasso's Rapture | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Thanomorphosis | Mike Allen+W. Gregory Stewart |
| Nominee | Croatoan | Louis Armand |
| Nominee | The Double | Lee Ballentine |
| Nominee | Mindsong | Normand R. Bernier+Leonard R. Johnson, Jr. |
| Nominee | Sihu's Jar | John Borneman |
| Nominee | River Watch | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Garbled Contact | Greg Braquet |
| Nominee | Rapunzel, Rapunzella | Kendall Evans |
| Nominee | Monogamous Kings | Gary Every |
| Nominee | Rildix Falls | C. A. Gardner |
| Nominee | Cock | Albert Goldbarth |
| Nominee | Cabazon | Samantha Henderson |
| Nominee | Macramé Williams on Lake Titicaca | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Rattlebox | Mike Allen+David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Void-Egg Verses | Yoon Ha Lee |
| Nominee | Malgré la Nuit Seule et le Jour en Feu | David Lunde |
| Nominee | words fail | Eric Marin |
| Nominee | Cargoes of Immensity: October 4, 2004 | Mark Rich |
| Nominee | Ithaca, at Last | Darrell Schweitzer |
| Nominee | An Infernal Firmament | Tobias Seamon |
| Nominee | Postcards from the Province of Hyphens | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Shadowplay | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Tarot in the Dungeon | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | And We Shall Go A'Questing | Mikal Trimm |
| Nominee | Phoenix Barley | Uncle River |
| Nominee | Danse Macabre | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Nominee | Joan | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Winner | The Strip Search | Mike Allen |
| Runner-up | Tsunami child | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Finalist | South | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Constellations | Duane Ackerson |
| Nominee | Utnapishtim on Friday After Dessert | Danny Adams |
| Nominee | Storm of Souls | Linda Addison |
| Nominee | TimeFlood | Mike Allen+Ian Watson |
| Nominee | Icarus | Chris Ambrose |
| Nominee | Those Who Landed, Surprised to Discover That Zombies Had Taken Over the Planet | Michael A. Arnzen |
| Nominee | Prayer Causes Stars | Greg Beatty |
| Nominee | Prince Charming | Helena Bell |
| Nominee | Grieve Not | John Borneman |
| Nominee | The Cathedral of Lost Faces | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Through the Back Windshield | Ash Bowen |
| Nominee | Like | Harry Bose |
| Nominee | Keepers (from Grannie's Garden) | Mary E. Choo |
| Nominee | How the Sea People Mourn | Constance Cooper |
| Nominee | Colder | Jennifer Crow |
| Nominee | Village of the Mermaids: A Painting by Paul Delvaux | Cythera |
| Nominee | Ratatouille | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | Medusa | Roger Dutcher |
| Nominee | "As the Sun Rises" | Marcus Ewert |
| Nominee | Scorpions | Chris Fox (I) |
| Nominee | Robot Origami | Robert Frazier |
| Nominee | After Cavafy | John Garrison |
| Nominee | Slow Spider Sunset | Todd Hanks |
| Nominee | Reptile Brain | Samantha Henderson |
| Nominee | Frankenstein's Monster's Wife's Therapist | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | Orpheus Retires | Erin Keane |
| Nominee | From Earth to Moon | K. J. Kirby |
| Nominee | Application of Einstein's Theories to Personal Affairs | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Potato Pilots | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Baskets Full of Gods | Rio Le Moignan |
| Nominee | New from the Götterdämmerung Shop | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Fighting the Tide | Melissa Marr |
| Nominee | Mist and Shadows | Helen Marshall |
| Nominee | Thoughts, from a Sin Eater | Pam McNew |
| Nominee | Screen Savior | Vincent Miskell |
| Nominee | Once Upon a Time | Jaime Lee Moyer |
| Nominee | A Bestiary: Tlaltecuhtli | Tim Pratt |
| Nominee | The Presence of Merlin on Glastonbury Tor | Teresa Noelle Roberts |
| Nominee | Mindgames | Margo Roby |
| Nominee | Fairy Tale Ending | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | The Intelligent Designer | Irving Rothchild |
| Nominee | The Holes Left Behind | C. W. Sabetelli |
| Nominee | Genetics | Charles Saplak |
| Nominee | Lost Over East Texas | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Theoretical Physics of Loss | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | The Sandman's Sestina | E. Sedia |
| Nominee | Medusa in L.A. | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Ibis, Scribe | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | In Sight of the Seasons | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | In Retirement | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | *Sacrifice to the Solstice* | roibeárd Uí-neíll |
| Nominee | Catastrophic Love Song | Jamie Wasserman |
| Nominee | American Requiem | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | O Is for October | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Winner | Soul Searching | Tim Pratt |
| Runner-up | Making Monsters | Tim Pratt |
| Finalist | The Night Watchman Dreams His Rounds at the REM Sleep Factory | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | The Poltergeist of Polaris | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Nominee | The Other Sleeping Beauties | Greg Beatty |
| Nominee | Gargoyle | John Borneman |
| Nominee | The Changing of the Flesh | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Flounder | Christine Butterworth |
| Nominee | Interiors and Exteriors | Joe R. Christopher |
| Nominee | The Smile | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Azurite Mine | Gary Every |
| Nominee | Her First Affair | Larry Hammer |
| Nominee | Blue Teardrops | L. A. Story Houry |
| Nominee | Craft and the Artificial Satellite | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | Uncompressed Rituals | Robert Frazier+Andrew Joron |
| Nominee | Quietly Stealing the Sun | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Winter | F. Korn |
| Nominee | Homicide | Claudia C. Mcgivney |
| Nominee | Stirk | Harold Renisch |
| Nominee | Old Gods, New Rules | Heather Shaw |
| Nominee | string theory | Mary Sheffield |
| Nominee | Vitia Capitalis | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | Three Observations Upon the Discovery That Water Once Existed on Mars | Bud Webster |
| Winner | No Ruined Lunar City | Greg Beatty |
| Runner-up | The Clockmaker's Wife | Mikal Trimm |
| Finalist | Rich & Strange | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | The Asteroid Painter | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | The Best of All Probable Worlds | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Strange Cargo | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Seating Chart | Ruth Berman |
| Nominee | Her Hero | Leah Bobet |
| Nominee | Heavy Weather | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | I Am the Ugly Stepsister | Judith Boyer |
| Nominee | Family Tree | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Carnival | Jennifer de Guzman |
| Nominee | Bolts of Memory | Roger Dutcher |
| Nominee | Her Master's Whereabouts | John Garrison |
| Nominee | Wizard Turns His Wife Into a Frog | John Grey |
| Nominee | Red Shirt | Marci Rae Johnson |
| Nominee | Six Breaths | Wesley Lambert |
| Nominee | Mother of Atlantis | Robin M. Mayhall |
| Nominee | Rural Blessings | Pam McNew |
| Nominee | The Oculist Builds Glass Eyes to Refocus His Grief | David Memmott |
| Nominee | To Catch the Light | Joy Oestreicher |
| Nominee | A Poet on Board | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | How to Survive on a Distant Planet | Thomas D. Reynolds |
| Nominee | Witch, You Say | Karen A. Romanko |
| Nominee | The Submergence and Re-Emergence of John Starkey | Charles M. Saplak |
| Nominee | Diving Xibalba | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Through a Lens Vaguely (Mars '03) | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | The Seasons of Death | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Daughters of the Ash-Tree | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | An Eclipse of Raven | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | The Spice of Life | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | * elementary scientific theism * | roibeárd Uí-neíll |
| Nominee | Plastered | Scott H. Urban |
| Nominee | Gingerbread | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | Thank-You Note to Sandra from the Anti-Matter Universe | William John Watkins |
| Nominee | In Praise of Spam | Ian Watson |
| Nominee | Lamia | Frida Westford |
| Nominee | Musings About Seth | Jane Yolen |
| Nominee | "Time, that gnaws at bronze lions and dolphins" | Derek Walcott |
| Winner | untitled | Robert Frazier |
| Winner | Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks | Theodora Goss |
| Runner-up | A Portrait of the Artist | Vandana Singh |
| Finalist | Hugo Schizophrenica | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | Death of the Father | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | The Crow Is Dismantled in Flight | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man | Richard Chwedyk |
| Nominee | Beast | Erin Donahoe |
| Nominee | The Mad Scientist Has All the Time in the World | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Morning Becomes the Milkman | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | Clutch Purse | Tim Pratt |
| Nominee | Quasimodo Takes the Grand Tour | Tobias Seamon |
| Nominee | A Price of Course Worth Paying | Steve Sneyd |
| Nominee | Green Fuses | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Harlequin, Lonely | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | The Prince Revisited | Jamie Wasserman |
| Nominee | What If | James F. Yockey |
| Winner | Just Distance | Roger Dutcher |
| Runner-up | "Observe the Month of Spring" | Lucy Cohen Schmeidler |
| Finalist | How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves | Mike Allen |
| Finalist | Nursery Ghosts | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | Cranial Sacral | Diane Ackerman |
| Nominee | To Feel the Cold | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | When She Dances | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Warm Thick Beer | Jeremy Gottwig |
| Nominee | Night of the Living Dead | John Grey |
| Nominee | Winter in the Tropic of Cancer | Elizabeth Henderson |
| Nominee | Basement World | L. A. Story Houry |
| Nominee | Hands Tell All | Tracina Jackson-Adams |
| Nominee | The Length of a Candle | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Isis | April Lott |
| Nominee | What It Comes Down To | David Lunde |
| Nominee | Alternate History | Maureen McHugh |
| Nominee | Tomatoes Cannot Tolerate Frost | Nathan Parker |
| Nominee | She | Karen R. Porter |
| Nominee | The Seductiveness of the Memory Hole | Jessy Randall |
| Nominee | Tarot Cards and UFOs | Mark Rudolph |
| Nominee | Language of Scorpions | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Storm Gods of the Connecticut River Valley | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | What to Do When an Alien Spacecraft Lands and the Visitors Come Out to Greet You | John Teehan |
| Nominee | Memory Man | Ian Watson |
| Winner | Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy | Charles M. Saplak+Mike Allen |
| Winner | Matlacihuatl's Gift | Sonya Taaffe |
| Runner-up | Medusa's Tale | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Finalist | Not One of Us | Tyree Campbell |
| Nominee | The Big Bang Cycle | Abbi Ball |
| Nominee | Film Artifact: A Review | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | She Was There for Him the Last Time | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Frank | CAConrad |
| Nominee | Dirge with Jazz Backbeat | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | Mission to a Quantum Asteroid | Kendall Evans |
| Nominee | Devosha K. Deeos and the Disks of Eternity | Clark Hays |
| Nominee | Doubt | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | millennial dreams | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | A Voyage to the Moon | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Ice Magic | Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. |
| Nominee | Another Start on Finite Time | Marge B. Simon |
| Nominee | The Intergalactic Host Program | Laurel Winter |
| Winner | Potherb Gardening | Ruth Berman |
| Runner-up | A Ghost Story | Mike Allen |
| Finalist | meteor shower | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | A Million Layers Removed | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | The Storm Maidens | Anastasia Andersen |
| Nominee | Final Whimper | Jim Applegate |
| Nominee | On Einstein | Francis Cartier |
| Nominee | The Tree | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Like Death | Erin Donahoe |
| Nominee | Annchuck, by Daylight | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | The Fortune Teller | Chris Ferrier |
| Nominee | Footnote from The Official Guide to Time Travel | Robert Frazier |
| Nominee | At the Last | Jennifer A. Grier |
| Nominee | Seven Pairs of Iron Shoes | Tracina Jackson-Adams |
| Nominee | The Watercolor Sky | Laura Jacobsen |
| Nominee | When a Snake Bites You in the Ass | Rebecca Lu Kiernan |
| Nominee | A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut | Tim Pratt |
| Nominee | Carnival 2001 | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Old Earth Is the Museum of Genetic Art | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Salon de Nadir | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Buying November | Scott Thomas |
| Nominee | Starry Crown | Sheree Renée Thomas |
| Nominee | The Pleasure Surgeons | Ian Watson |
| Nominee | Werechihuahua | Ian Watson |
| Winner | We Die as Angels | William John Watkins |
| Runner-up | Threnody at Sea | Mark Rudolph |
| Finalist | True Love | Ian Watson |
| Nominee | I Am the Bullet | Duane Ackerson |
| Nominee | Consumed | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | Saturn Devours His Children | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | A Star Is Born | Tippi N. Blevins |
| Nominee | Silent World | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | The Poet | Michael Carman |
| Nominee | Shipwreck | David Livingstone Clink |
| Nominee | Swan Transformed | Erin Donahoe |
| Nominee | It's a Disaster, Really | Timons Esaias |
| Nominee | February 4th, Farmer's Almanac Entry | Donna Farley |
| Nominee | Zero's Demon | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | The Stars, Natasha | Tim Jones |
| Nominee | If the Dead Must Speak | Ward Kelley |
| Nominee | Insignificant Others | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | The Heat of the Moon | Gary Lehmann |
| Nominee | Vampires on a Bed of Wild Rice | Rebecca Marjesdatter |
| Nominee | October Witches | Jack Fisher+Wendy Rathbone |
| Nominee | Jazz Vamps | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Autumn at the Robo Factory | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | The Castaway Bar: 1967 | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Embers and Memory | W. Gregory Stewart |
| Nominee | Venusian Landscape: Portrait | Nancy Ellis Taylor |
| Winner | How to Make a Human | Lawrence Schimel |
| Runner-up | Pavane for a Cyber-Princess | Bruce Boston |
| Runner-up | In Bubastis | Denise Dumars |
| Finalist | Trouble with Math | Roger Dutcher |
| Finalist | A Crash Course in Lemon Physics | Robert Frazier |
| Nominee | And All Dust Part of the Dreamer | Mike Allen+Charles M. Saplak |
| Nominee | Shades and Illuminations | Bruce Boston+G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Back to October | Jack Fisher+Wendy Rathbone |
| Nominee | Lament for Cyania | Robert Frazier |
| Nominee | Cross Plains Conjure Man | Charles Allen Gramlich |
| Nominee | Compassion Against the Glass | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | Requiem for Dinosaurs | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Mark | Mario Milosevic |
| Nominee | The Stone (LowInthorne) | Samuel Minier |
| Nominee | Sir Boss Remembered | Darrell Schweitzer |
| Nominee | On the Floor | Craig Sernotti |
| Nominee | In the Shade of You | Heather Shaw |
| Winner | January Fires | Joe Haldeman |
| Runner-up | Valley of Years | David Kopaska-Merkel^David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Runner-up | Maya | James S. Dorr |
| Finalist | Event Horizons | Gene Van Troyer |
| Finalist | The Lesions of Genetic Sin | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Worldbuilding | Sabina C. Becker |
| Nominee | Tale of the Dream Merchant | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Virtual Death | Roger Dutcher |
| Nominee | Barley Bree and Autumn | Phil Emery |
| Nominee | Stalking the Perception | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | Beds | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | Skin | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | Because We Must | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Beneath the Pale City | Kurt Newton |
| Nominee | Pegasus Rose | Richard William Pearce |
| Winner | My Wife Returns As She Would Have It | Bruce Boston |
| Runner-up | Reflections in a Fading Mir | Ann K. Schwader |
| Runner-up | Of Dance Steps and Distances | G. O. Clark |
| Finalist | Persephone Wakening | Tracina Jackson-Adams |
| Nominee | Planeta do Favela | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | First Contact | David Clink |
| Nominee | Sarah | Sandy DeLuca |
| Nominee | Nehebka | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | Outbound: Cryogenic Dream #1 | Roger Dutcher |
| Nominee | Advice for Our New Galactic Warriors | Timons Esaias |
| Nominee | The Last Word | Timons Esaias |
| Nominee | untitled | Albert Goldbarth |
| Nominee | Every Other Day of the Year | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | The Sibyl Sevant | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Terminal Moraine | Terry McGarry |
| Nominee | Not Yet of the Flesh | Tom Piccirilli |
| Nominee | The Oort Cloud | John Salonia |
| Nominee | Ebonmadder's Run | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | Fairy in Winter | Bobbi Sinha-Morey |
| Nominee | Poem for Persephone | Mary Rudbeck Stanko |
| Winner | Grimoire | Rebecca Marjesdatter |
| Runner-up | Clark the Ripper | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Runner-up | The Au Pair from Out There | Ann K. Schwader |
| Runner-up | Brigit | Peggy J. Taylor |
| Finalist | The Language of Rain | Wendy Rathbone |
| Finalist | The Unfinished Map of the Sky | G. O. Clark |
| Finalist | Silicon Trade Agreement | Ruth Berman |
| Finalist | song of a last duckbill | W. Gregory Stewart |
| Finalist | A Picture Postcard of the Cerne Abbas Giant | David Lunde |
| Nominee | Another Short Horror Story | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | What if the Aliens Have Come? | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Badges of Either's Woe | Michele Scalisese+Tom Piccirilli |
| Nominee | When an Alien Is Inhabiting Your Body | Laurel Winter |
| Nominee | Umbilicile | Michael A. Arnzen |
| Winner | Christmas (after we all get time machines) | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Runner-up | Handwork | Rebecca Marjesdatter |
| Finalist | Salem Town | Corrine de Winter |
| Finalist | Impressions from Giger's Necronomicons | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | Renounce the Emerald Piety | Lee Ballentine |
| Nominee | The Whole Behold | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | The VR Screen | Carol D. Page |
| Nominee | Safeguard | Scott Urban |
| Nominee | Ode to My Screen Saver | Ian Watson |
| Winner | Confessions of a Body Thief | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Chinese Music | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | Eating the Mystery | Robert Frazier+James Patrick Kelly |
| Nominee | Towards Darwin | Roy Gray |
| Nominee | A Ship Beset | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | The Snowman | Kurt Newton |
| Nominee | Secret Rooms | Wendy Rathbone |
| Nominee | Crazy Dreams | John Calvin Rezmerski |
| Nominee | Inside the Box | Tracey S. Rosenberg |
| Nominee | On the Bus to Utica | Carl Dennis |
| Nominee | Through a Teardrop Lens | Bob Erman |
| Nominee | Caravan on the Black Silk Road | J. P. V. Stewart |
| Winner | egg horror poem | Laurel Winter |
| Nominee | The Boy in the Golden Atom | Ruth Berman |
| Nominee | Day Care Golems | Ruth Berman |
| Nominee | New Colors and Old | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | The Seven Wonders of the New World | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Kiki in the Museum of Life's Pain | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | My Study of Neutrinos | John Grey |
| Nominee | I Met a Beast with Cloven Thoughts | Steven Rogers |
| Nominee | In Darker Skies of Mind | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Night Glyphs | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | The Ritual of Proper Preparation | Steve Sneyd |
| Nominee | Serial Killers Being Things | Lida Broadhurst |
| Nominee | Passing On | Margaret B. Simon |
| Winner | untitled | Bruce Boston |
| Winner | Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother | John Grey |
| Finalist | On Reading Bradbury | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | Warning to the Younger Sisters | Marion Arenas |
| Nominee | It's All Time Machines She Said | Timons Esaias |
| Nominee | Monkey from a Cannon | Rhys Hughes |
| Nominee | Shaman | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | The Weatherman | Andrew Joron |
| Winner | why goldfish shouldn't use power tools | Laurel Winter |
| Finalist | Medusa's Daughter | James S. Dorr |
| Winner | Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes | Terry A. Garey |
| Nominee | Gears | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Ghost Ships | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | The Grounded Astronaut Forgoes His Pension for the Gift of Prophecy... | David Memmott |
| Nominee | whistling women | Rhea Rose |
| Winner | Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Bilateral Symmetry | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | Satan Is a Mathematician | Keith Allen Daniels |
| Winner | Variants of the Obsolete | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | The Westfarer | James S. Dorr |
| Winner | Skin of Glass | Dan Raphael |
| Winner | Pilot, Pilot | David Lunde |
| Winner | Basement Flats | W. Gregory Stewart+Robert Frazier |
| Winner | Spacer's Compass | Bruce Boston |
| Winner | Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over | Jeff VanderMeer |
| Winner | To Be from Earth | William J. Daciuk |
| Winner | Will | Jane Yolen |
| Winner | the button, and what you know | W. Gregory Stewart |
| Winner | Song of the Martian Cricket (for Marilyn) | David Lunde |
| Winner | Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh | Joe Haldeman |
| Winner | Dear Spaceman | Patrick McKinnon |
| Winner | Epitaph for Dreams | G. Sutton Breiding |
| Nominee | One Hundred Years of Russian Revolution, 7 November 1917 to 7 November 2017: Novaya Moskva, Mars | M. Shayne Bell |
| Winner | In the Darkened Hours | Bruce Boston |
| Winner | Winter Solstice, Camelot Station | John M. Ford |
| Winner | Salinity | Robert Frazier |
| Winner | White Trains | Lucius Shepard |
| Winner | Rocky Road to Hoe | Suzette Haden Elgin |
| Winner | The Nightmare Collector | Bruce Boston |
| Winner | Daedalus | W. Gregory Stewart |
| Winner | Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope | Jonathan V. Post |
| Winner | A Dream of Heredity | John Calvin Rezmerski |
| Winner | The Neighbor's Wife | Susan Palwick |
| Winner | Shipwrecked on Destiny Five | Andrew Joron |
| Winner | For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets | Bruce Boston |
| Winner | Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) | Siv Cedering |
| Winner | Saul's Death | Joe Haldeman |
| Winner | Two Sonnets | Helen Ehrlich |
| Winner | In Computers | Alan P. Lightman |
| Winner | Your Time and You | Adam Cornford |
| Winner | The Well of Baln | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Winner | On the Speed of Light | Raymond DiZazzo |
| Winner | Meeting Place | Ken Duffin |
| Winner | On Science Fiction | Thomas M. Disch |
| Winner | The Migration of Darkness | Peter Payack |
| Winner | Encased in the Amber of Eternity | Robert Frazier |
| Winner | The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes | Andrew Joron |
| Winner | For the Lady of a Physicist | Michael Bishop |
| Winner | Fatalities | Duane Ackerson |
| Winner | Story Books and Treasure Maps | Steve Eng |
| Winner | The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps | Gene Wolfe |
| Winner | Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night | Andrew Joron |
| Winner | The Starman | Duane Ackerson |
| Nominee | Corruption of Metals | Sonya Dorman |