List of Gaylactic Spectrum Award winners and nominees for best short fiction

The Gaylactic Spectrum Awards are given to works of science fiction, fantasy and horror that explore LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender) topics in a positive way. They were founded in 1998, first presented by the Gaylactic Network in 1999, and in 2002 they were given their own organization, the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Foundation.^[1]

Awards are given in categories for novels, short fiction and best other work, although in some years the award for short fiction has not been presented due to lack of sufficient nominees or no nominee of high enough quality. Other categories have also been added and removed in intervening years, and works produced before the inception of the awards are eligible to be inducted into the "Hall of Fame". The short fiction category is open to submissions of short written works released during the prior calendar year in North America that includes "significant positive GLBT content". The long list of nominees is reduced to a short list of finalists, and the results are generally announced and presented at Gaylaxicon, a convention dedicated to LGBT science fiction, although they have also been presented at Worldcon in the past.^[2][3] This article lists all the "Best short fiction" award nominees and winners, and short fiction hall of fame inductees.^[4]

Each award consists of an etched image on lucite on a stand, using a spiral galaxy in a triangle logo, which is based on the logo the Gaylactic Network. The award winner's name, work title, award year and award category are etched on a small plaque on the base or on the plexiglass itself. A small cash stipend is awarded to winners in the Best Short Fiction category. The cost of the awards is paid for through individual donations and fundraising events.^[4]

Logo of the Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation

Steve Berman has the record for most nominations, having been a finalist four times without winning. No writer has won the short fiction award more than once.^[5]

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the award ceremonies; the books were released in the preceding years. Entries with a lavender background have won the relevant award; those with a white background are the finalist nominees. Superscript letters after the result indicate simultaneous nominations in other categories.

  Winners and joint winners

  Finalists/Short-listed nominees

  No award given

Year	Author(s)	Title	Published in	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1999	No Award	—	—	—	NA	[6]
2000	Arnason, EleanorEleanor Arnason	"Dapple"	Asimov's SF 09/99	Bantam Dell	Won	[6]
2000	Friesner, EstherEsther Friesner	"Chanoyu"	Asimov's SF 03/99	Bantam Dell	Nom	[6]
2000	Constantine, StormStorm Constantine	"The Thorn Boy"	Novella	Eidolon	Nom	[6]
2001	No Award	—	—	—	NA^[A]	[7]
2001	Egan, GregGreg Egan	"Oracle"	Asimov's SF 07/00	Bantam Dell	Nom^[A]	[7]
2002	Latner, Alexis GlynnAlexis Glynn Latner	"Kindred"	Bending the Landscape: Horror	Overlook	Won	[8]
2002	Berman, SteveSteve Berman	"The Anthvoke"	Strange Horizons & Trysts	Lethe Press	Nom	[8]
2002	Phillips, IanIan Phillips	"The Devil and Mrs. Faust"	See Dick Deconstruct	Attagirl Press	Nom	[8]
2002	Bell, M. ShayneM. Shayne Bell	"If On A Moonlit Night"	Realms of Fantasy 12/01	Sovereign Media	Nom	[8]
2002	Richerson, CarrieCarrie Richerson	"Love On A Stick"	Bending the Landscape: Horror	Overlook	Nom	[8]
2002	Tiedemann, MarkMark Tiedemann	"Passing"	Bending the Landscape: Horror	Overlook	Nom	[8]
2002	Shawl, NisiNisi Shawl	"Shiomah's Land"	Asimov's SF 03/01	Bantam Dell	Nom	[8]
2002	Asaro, CatherineCatherine Asaro	"Soul of Light"	Sextopia	Circlet Press	Nom	[8]
2002	Klages, EllenEllen Klages	"Triangle"	Bending the Landscape: Horror	Overlook	Nom	[8]
2003	Monette, SarahSarah Monette	"Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland"	Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #11	Small Beer Press	Won	[9]
2003	Treleaven, ScottScott Treleaven	"Bugcrush"	Queer Fear 2	Arsenal Pulp Press	Nom	[9]
2003	Knippenberg, RobertRobert Knippenberg	"For the Mortals Among Us"	Mind & Body	Circlet Press	Nom	[9]
2003	Ford, Michael ThomasMichael Thomas Ford	"Night of the Werepuss"	Queer Fear 2	Arsenal Pulp	Nom	[9]
2003	Nickle, DavidDavid Nickle	"Polyphemus' Cave"	Queer Fear 2	Arsenal Pulp	Nom	[9]
2003	Dedman, StephenStephen Dedman	"Till Human Voices Wake Us"	Queer Fear 2	Arsenal Pulp	Nom	[9]
2003	Hogarth, MCAMCA Hogarth	"Unspeakable"	Strange Horizons	Strangehorizons.com	Nom	[9]
2004	Anderson, BarthBarth Anderson	"Lark Till Dawn, Princess"	Mojo: Conjure Stories	Warner Aspect	Won	[10]
2004	Pratt, TimTim Pratt	"Down With the Lizards and the Bees"	Realms of Fantasy 08/03	Sovereign Media	Nom	[10]
2004	Rochelle, WarrenWarren Rochelle	"The Golden Boy"	Silver Gryphon	Golden Gryphon	Nom	[10]
2004	Berman, SteveSteve Berman	"Kiss"	X-Factor 10/03	Magazine	Nom	[10]
2004	Pratt, TimTim Pratt	"Living With the Harpy"	Strange Horizons	Strangehorizons.com	Nom	[10]
2004	Bernobich, BethBeth Bernobich	"Poison"	Strange Horizons	Strangehorizons.com	Nom	[10]
2004	Dellamonica, A MA M Dellamonica	"The Riverboy"	Land/Space	Tesseract	Nom	[10]
2004	Shawl, NisiNisi Shawl	"The Tawny Bitch"	Mojo: Conjure Stories	Warner Aspect	Nom	[10]
2004	Moore, Nancy JaneNancy Jane Moore	"Walking Contradiction"	Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction	Pocket Books	Nom	[10]
2005	Hall, RichardRichard Hall	"Country People"	Shadows of the Night	Southern Tier	Won	[11]
2005	Lundoff, CatherineCatherine Lundoff	"At the Roots of the World Tree"	Kenoma	E-zine	Nom	[11]
2005	Anderson, ColleenColleen Anderson	"Hold Back The Night"	Open Space	Red Deer	Nom	[11]
2005	Lawrence, JayeJaye Lawrence	"Kissing Frogs"	Fantasy & Science Fiction 05/04	Spilogale Inc	Nom	[11]
2005	McConnell, DavidDavid McConnell	"The Mask"	Shadows of the Night	Southern Tier	Nom	[11]
2005	Szymanski, ThereseTherese Szymanski	"The Morning After"	Shadows of the Night	Southern Tier	Nom	[11]
2005	Finlay, Charles ColemanCharles Coleman Finlay	"Pervert"	Fantasy & Science Fiction 03/04	Spilogale Inc	Nom	[11]
2005	Rosenfeld, CarolCarol Rosenfeld	"Rabbit Rerun"	Shadows of the Night	Southern Tier	Nom	[11]
2005	Griffith, NicolaNicola Griffith	"Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese"	With her Body	Aqueduct	Nom	[11]
2006	No Award (nominees carried over to next year)	—	—	—	NA	[12]
2007	Gerrold, DavidDavid Gerrold	"In the Quake Zone"	Down These Dark Spaceways	SFBC	Won (joint)	[13]
2007	Parks, JoyJoy Parks	"Instinct"	The Future Is Queer	Arsenal Pulp	Won (joint)	[13]
2007	Barzak, ChristopherChristopher Barzak	"The Language of Moths"	Realms of Fantasy	Sovereign Media	Won (joint)	[13]
2007	Pollack, RachelRachel Pollack	"The Beatrix Gates"	The Future Is Queer	Arsenal Pulp	Nom	[13]
2007	Valente, Catherynne MCatherynne M Valente	"Bones Like Black Sugar"	Fantasy magazine	Prime	Nom	[13]
2007	Pelland, JenniferJennifer Pelland	"The Captive Girl"	Helix SF 08/06	Helix	Nom	[13]
2007	Berman, SteveSteve Berman	"Caught by Skin"	Sex in the System	Thunder's Mouth	Nom	[13]
2007	Potter, AlexanderAlexander Potter	"Facing Down Your Demons"	All Hell Breaking Loose	DAW	Nom	[13]
2007	Baker, L-JL-J Baker	"Fairy Tale Ending"	Tales from the Asylum	From the Asylum	Nom	[13]
2007	Duchamp, L TimmelL Timmel Duchamp	"Obscure Relations"	The Future Is Queer	Arsenal Pulp	Nom	[13]
2007	Bruce, CamillaCamilla Bruce	"Plums"	Shifting Again	Torquere	Nom	[13]
2007	Draven, AlexAlex Draven	"Sleeping Bears Lie"	Shifting Too	Torquere	Nom	[13]
2007	Wright, KristinaKristina Wright	"The Specter of Sin"	Call of the Dark	Bella Books	Nom	[13]
2007	Bowes, RichardRichard Bowes	"There's A Hole In The City"	SciFiction	SciFi.Com	Nom	[13]
2007	DeCina, KimberlyKimberly DeCina	"Voce"	Sleeping Beauty, Indeed	Torquere	Nom	[13]
2007	Watts, JuliaJulia Watts	"We Recruit"	Stake Through the Heart	Bella	Nom	[13]
2008	Lewis, JoshuaJoshua Lewis	"Ever So Much More Than Twenty"	So Fey	Lethe Press	Won	[14]
2008	Augustin, K.S.K.S. Augustin	"Prime Suspect"	eBook	Total-E-Bound	Nom	[14]
2008	Berman, SteveSteve Berman	"Bittersweet"	Journal of Mythic Arts	Endicott Studio	Nom	[14]
2008	Black, HollyHolly Black	"The Coat of Stars"	So Fey	Lethe Press	Nom	[14]
2008	Cassandra Clare & Ruby deBrazier	"Charming, A Tale of True Love"	So Fey	Lethe Press	Nom	[14]
2008	Decker, M.M. Decker	"Side Effects"	Alleys & Doorways	Torquere	Nom	[14]
2008	Ellwood, LeighLeigh Ellwood	"The Healing"	eBook	Phaze	Nom	[14]
2008	Gidney, CraigCraig Gidney	"A Bird of Ice"	So Fey	Lethe Press	Nom	[14]
2008	Kelly, James PatrickJames Patrick Kelly	"Dividing the Sustain"	New Space Opera	Eos	Nom	[14]
2008	Kelly, KiernanKiernan Kelly	"Dancing on the Head of a Pin"	eBook	Torquere	Nom	[14]
2008	Lewis, Valerie Z.Valerie Z. Lewis	"The Steel Anniversary"	Alleys & Doorways	Torquere	Nom	[14]
2008	Lundoff, CatherineCatherine Lundoff	"Medusa's Touch"	Crave: Tales of Lust, Love, and Longing	Lethe Press	Nom	[14]
2008	Talbot, JuliaJulia Talbot	"The Reflection of Love"	Alleys & Doorways	Torquere	Nom	[14]
2008	Vanderhooft, JoSelleJoSelle Vanderhooft	"Were"	Alleys & Doorways	Torquere	Nom	[14]
2009	No Award (nominees carried over to next year)	—	—	—	NA
2010	Duncan, HalHal Duncan	"The Behold of the Eye"	Lone Star Stories/Wilde Stories 2009'	Lethe Press	Won (joint)
2010	Scott, MelissaMelissa Scott	"The Rocky Side of the Sky"	Periphery	Lethe Press	Won (joint)
2010	Gilman , Carolyn IvesCarolyn Ives Gilman	"Angels Alone"	Periphery	Lethe Press	Nom
2010	Lane , JoelJoel Lane	"Behind the Curtain"	Dark Horizons Issue 52/Wilde Stories 2009	Lethe Press	Nom
2010	Currier , JamesonJameson Currier	"The Bloomsbury Nudes"	Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet	Dark Scribe Press	Nom
2010	Walsh , KaiteKaite Walsh	"City of the Dead"	Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades	Lethe Press	Nom
2010	Jeffers , AlexAlex Jeffers	"Firooz and His Brother"	Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 2008/Wilde Stories	Lethe Press	Nom
2010	Dawn , AmberAmber Dawn	"Here Lies the Last Lesbian Rental in East Vancouver"	Fist of the Spider Woman	Arsenal Pulp Press	Nom
2010	Scalise , MichelleMichelle Scalise	"I Am the Shadow That Walks There"	Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet	Dark Scribe Press	Nom
2010	Thomas , LeeLee Thomas	"I'm Your Violence"	Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet	Dark Scribe Press	Nom
2010	Evans , Aurelia T.Aurelia T. Evans	"In Circles"	Fist of the Spider Woman	Arsenal Pulp Press	Nom
2010	Brenchley , ChazChaz Brenchley	"In the Night Street Baths"	Lace and Blade - Norilana Books/Wilde Stories 2009	Lethe Press	Nom
2010	Scott , MelissaMelissa Scott	"One Horse Town"	Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades	Lethe Press	Nom
2010	Cobalt , KalKal Cobalt	"Parts"	Wired Hard 4	Circlet Press	Nom
2010	Amara , AstridAstrid Amara	"Remember"	Tangle	Blind Eye Books	Nom
2010	Jernigan , ZacharyZachary Jernigan	"The Succession of Knoorikios Khnum"	Wired Hard 4	Circlet Press	Nom
2010	McConchie , LynLyn McConchie	"Waiting Tables and Time"	Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades	Lethe Press	Nom
2011 -	No Award	—	—	—	NA

^A Short fiction was part of other works this year.

Short fiction Hall of Fame inductees

In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the award ceremonies; the works were all first published before the founding of the awards in 1998. As of 2008, one short story has been inducted into the Hall of Fame:

Year	Author(s)	Title	Published in	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2000	Theodore Sturgeon	"The World Well Lost"	Universe 06/1953	Clark Publishing	Inducted	[6]

See also

• Homosexuality in speculative fiction
• Lambda Literary Awards winners and nominees for science fiction, fantasy and horror
• Gaylactic Spectrum Award winners and nominees for best novel
• Gaylactic Spectrum Award winners and nominees for best other work

References

General

• Kelly, Mark R. (2007). "Locus index to Science Fiction Awards: Gaylactic Spectrum Awards". Locus Publications. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
• "Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation Homepage". Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation. 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-13.

Specific

1. "About the Gaylactic Spectrum Award". Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation. 2000–2008. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
2. "Books and Publishing June 1999". Locus Publications. 2003. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
3. "News Log July 2003". Locus Publications. 2003. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
4. "Gaylactic Spectrum Award Official Rules". Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation. 2000–2008. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
5. Kelly, Mark R. (2003–2007). "Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Records and Tallies". Locus Publications. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
6. "2000 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation. 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
7. "2001 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation. 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
8. "2002 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation. 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
9. "2003 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation. 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
10. "2004 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation. 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
11. "2005 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation. 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
12. "2006 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation. 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
13. "2007 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation. 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
14. "2008 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation. 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-13.

External links

• The Gaylactic Spectrum Awards official site