← Awards

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 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