Previous winners.
2003 • Top 10 stories:
2004 • Best story:
Randa Jarrar, "You Are a 14-Year-Old Arab Chick Who Just Moved to Texas" (
Eyeshot) • Best online publication:
Eclectica • Best publisher of novella-length fiction: ''
The King's English'' • Best new online magazine or journal:
Narrative Magazine 2005 • Best story:
Alicia Gifford, "Toggling the Switch" (
Narrative Magazine) • Best story runner-up: Terry Bisson, "Super 8" (Scifiction.com) • Best story runner-up: Anjana Basu, "The Black Tongue" (
Gowanus) • Best online publication:
Strange Horizons • Best publisher of novella-length fiction: ''
The King's English'' • Best new online magazine or journal:
Anderbo 2006 • Best story:
Richard Bowes, "
There's a Hole in the City" (Scifiction.com) • Best story runner-up:
Michael Croley, "Two Lives" (
Blackbird) • Best online publication:
Storyglossia • Best publisher of novella-length fiction:
Narrative Magazine (co-winner) • Best publisher of novella-length fiction: ''
The King's English'' (co-winner) • Best new online magazine or journal:
Menda City Review (co-winner) • Best new online magazine or journal:
Clarkesworld Magazine (co-winner)
2007 • Best story:
Catherynne M. Valente, "Urchins, While Swimming" (
Clarkesword Magazine) • Best story runner-up:
A. Ray Norsworthy, "All the Way to Grangeville" (
Eclectica Magazine) • Best story runner-up:
Marshall Moore, "The Infinite Monkey Theorem" (
Word Riot) • Best online publication:
Blackbird • Best publisher of novella-length fiction: ''
Jim Baen's Universe'' • Best new online magazine or journal: ''
Farrago's Wainscot''
2008 • Best story:
Matt Bell, "Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken" (
Storyglossia) • Best story runner-up:
Sruthi Thekkiam, "Friday Afternoons on Bus 51" (
Blackbird) • Best online publication:
Narrative Magazine • Best publisher of novella-length fiction: (no award) • Best new online magazine or journal:
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 2009 • Winner:
Jenny Williams, "The Fisherman's Wife" (
LitNImage) • Runner-up:
Roderic Crooks, "Fuckbuddy" (
Eyeshot) • Honorable mention:
Geronimo Madrid, "No Bullets in the House" (
Drunken Boat) • Best online publication:
Fantasy Magazine • Best publisher of novella-length fiction:
Subterranean Magazine • Best new online magazine or journal:
Kill Author 2010 • Winner:
Summer Block, "Hospitality" (
Wheelhouse Magazine) • Runner-up:
Rachel Swirsky, "Eros, Philia, Agape" (
Tor.com) • Honorable mention:
Eric Beetner, "Ditch" (
Thuglit) • Best online publication:
Words Without Borders • Best new online magazine or journal:
Lightspeed Magazine 2011 • Winner:
Adam-Troy Castro, "
Arvies" (
Lightspeed Magazine) • Runner-up:
Eric Maroney, "The Incorrupt Body of Carlo Busso" (
Eclectica) • Honorable mention:
Amal El-Mohtar, "The Green Book" (
Apex Magazine)
2012 • Winner:
xTx, "The Mill Pond" (
StoryGlossia) • Runner-up:
Kelly Cherry, "On Familiar Terms" (
Blackbird) • Honorable mention:
Micah Dean Hicks, "The Butcher's Chimes" (
Menda City Review)
2013 • First place :
Rachel Steiger-Meister, "Chlorine Mermaid" (
Carve Magazine) • Second place:
Lou Gaglia, "Hands" (
Waccamaw) • Third place :
Adrienne Celt, "The Eternal Youth of Everyone Else" (
Carve Magazine)
2014 • First place:
Caroline Casper, "Eminence" (
Carve Magazine) • Second place:
Susan Tepper, "Distance" (
Thrice Fiction) • Third place:
Carmen Maria Machado, "Inventory" (
Strange Horizons)
2015 • First place: Wendy Oleson, “The Snow Children” (
Carve Magazine) • Second place: Chikodili Emelumadu, “Jermyn” (
Eclectica) • Third place:
Allegra Hyde, “Syndication” (
Nashville Review)
2016 • First place: Reza Ghasemi Ataee, "Anatomy of Mr.wakefield" (
Time magazine) • Second place: Jude Whelchel, "Big Joy Family" (
North Carolina Literary Review) • Third place: Annie Reid, "Last Song" (
Baltimore Review) ==References==