The Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction
Presented by: A jury, based on nominations made by publishers and editors and reviewed by a committee of fans
For: The best in innovative fiction
| Winner | Marginalia | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| Nominee | We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read | Caroline M. Yoachim |
| Nominee | Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being | A. W. Prihandita |
| Nominee | The Midnight Commuter | Tammy Komoff |
| Nominee | After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland | Max Franciscovich |
| Winner | The Sound of Children Screaming | Rachael K. Jones |
| Nominee | Even If Such Ways Are Bad | Rich Larson |
| Nominee | Falling Bodies | Rebecca Roanhorse |
| Nominee | Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 | R. S. A. Garcia |
| Nominee | The Year Without Sunshine | Naomi Kritzer |
| Winner | Quandary Aminu vs The Butterfly Man | Rich Larson |
| Nominee | Nine Theories of Time | Spencer Nitkey |
| Nominee | The Pigeon Keeper|'s Daughter | Su-Yee Lin |
| Nominee | The Little God of the Staircase | Meg Elison |
| Nominee | A Chestnut, a Persimmon, a Cunning Lie | Michelle Denham |
| Winner | Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather | Sarah Pinsker |
| Nominee | L'esprit De L'escalier | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | A Tableau of Things That Are | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Nominee | A Flower Cannot Love the Hand | Aimee Ogden |
| Nominee | Colors of the Immortal Palette | Caroline M. Yoachim |
| Winner | The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter | Elaine Cuyegkeng |
| Nominee | The Bone-Stag Walks | K. T. Bryski |
| Nominee | City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat | Usman T. Malik |
| Nominee | Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law | Lavie Tidhar |
| Nominee | The Sycamore and the Sybil | Alix E. Harrow |
| Winner | For He Can Creep | Siobhan Carroll |
| Nominee | The House Wins in the End | L. Chan |
| Nominee | Love in the Time of Immuno-Sharing | Andy Dudak |
| Nominee | Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun | Jerome Stueart |
| Nominee | A Civilization Dreams of Absolutely Nothing | Thoraiya Dyer |
| Winner | When We Were Starless | Simone Heller |
| Nominee | Barleycorn | Cae Hawksmoor |
| Nominee | The Heart of Owl Abbas | Kathleen Jennings |
| Nominee | The War of Light and Shadow, in Five Dishes | Siobhan Carroll |
| Nominee | A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies | Alix E. Harrow |
| Winner | Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand | Fran Wilde |
| Nominee | The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard) | Matthew Kressel |
| Nominee | Infinite Love Engine | Violet Allen |
| Nominee | And Then There Were (N – One) | Sarah Pinsker |
| Nominee | Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance | Tobias S. Buckell |
| Winner | The City Born Great | N. K. Jemisin |
| Nominee | You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay | Alyssa Wong |
| Nominee | Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man | Suzanne Palmer |
| Nominee | Seasons of Glass and Iron | Amal El-Mohtar |
| Nominee | The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Winner | The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | The Deepwater Bride | Tamsyn Muir |
| Nominee | Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers | Alyssa Wong |
| Nominee | Pocosin | Ursula Vernon |
| Nominee | Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight | Aliette de Bodard |