Awards for 2009 works
(Last updated 5 August 2011)
This page lists awards, accolades, and reprints for works we published in 2009, plus other honors received in 2010.
Awards
Winner of the 2010 World Fantasy Award, Special Award: Non-Professional
- Susan Marie Groppi (for Strange Horizons)
Nominated for the 2010 World Fantasy Award, Short Story
Winner of the Rhysling Award, Short Poem category
- To Theia, by Ann K. Schwader
Second Place in the Rhysling Award, Long Poem category
- Rattlebox III, by Mike Allen, Kendall Evans, & David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Honor List, Tiptree Award (in 2010)
- Beautiful White Bodies, by Alice Sola Kim
Long List, Tiptree Award (in 2010)
- A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc, by Helen Keeble
- Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut, by Cat Rambo
- Nira and I, by Shweta Narayan
Honor List, Tiptree Award (in 2011, after story was reprinted in a collection)
- Diana Comet, by Sandra McDonald
Reprints
Reprinted in Year's Best SF 15, ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
- On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk, by Peter M. Ball
Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
- Bespoke, by Genevieve Valentine
To be reprinted in 2011 in The Apex Book of World SF, Volume II, ed. Lavie Tidhar
- Nira and I, by Shweta Narayan
Reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2010 Edition, ed. Paula Guran
- Everything Dies, Baby, by Nadia Bulkin
Honorable mentions
Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- The Shangri-La Affair, by Lavie Tidhar
- This Must Be the Place, by Elliott Bangs
- Diana Comet, by Sandra McDonald
- The Rising Waters, by Benjamin Crowell
- Second-Hand Information, by Jennifer Linnaea
- Another End of the Empire, by Tim Pratt
- River of Heaven, by Rachel Manija Brown
- Salt's Father, by Eric Gregory
- The Yeast of Eire, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
- Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut, by Cat Rambo
- True Names, by Stephanie Burgis
- A Brief Investigation of the Process of Decay, by Genevieve Valentine
- Beautiful White Bodies, by Alice Sola Kim (listed under its pre-publication title)
Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two, ed. Ellen Datlow
- Obedience, by Brenna Yovanoff
- Husbandry, by Eugene Fischer
- True Names, by Stephanie Burgis
- Beautiful White Bodies, by Alice Sola Kim (listed under its pre-publication title)
StorySouth magazine notable stories
StorySouth listed the following SH stories as notable stories as part of this year's Million Writers Award process:
- Greetings from Kampala by Angela Ambroz
- The Shangri-La Affair, by Lavie Tidhar (also shortlisted for top ten stories of the year)
- Nira and I, by Shweta Narayan (also shortlisted for top ten stories of the year)
- Salt's Father, by Eric Gregory
- The Yeast of Eire, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Previous years
For more recent years, see our main Awards page.
Awards, accolades, and reprints for works we published in earlier years can be found on the following pages: