WSFA Small Press Award

The WSFA Small Press Award was inaugurated by the Washington Science Fiction Association in 2007. The award is open to works of imaginative literature (e.g. science fiction, fantasy, horror) published in English for the first time in the previous calendar year. Furthermore, the Small Press Award is limited to short fiction—works under 20,000 words in length—that was published by a small press.^[1] The nominees are narrowed down by a panel elected by the WSFA membership, and these finalists are then judged by the entire WSFA membership to select a winner. Throughout the process, the author and publisher of each story are kept anonymous.^[how?]

The winning story is announced at Capclave, the WSFA convention held in the Washington, D.C. area each October.

Award winners

Year	Author	Work	Publication	Ref
2007	Peter S. Beagle	"El Regalo"	The Line Between, Tachyon Publications
2008	Tom Doyle	"The Wizard of Macatawa"	Paradox, Issue 11
2009	Greg Siewert	"The Absence of Stars: Part One"	Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, December 2008
2010	Tansy Rayner Roberts	"Siren Beat"	Twelfth Planet Press, October 2009
2011	Carrie Vaughn	"Amaryllis"	Lightspeed, June 2010
2012	Tansy Rayner Roberts	"The Patrician"	Love and Romanpunk, Twelfth Planet Press, May 2011
2013	Ken Liu	"Good Hunting"	Strange Horizons, October 2012
2014	Alex Shvartsman	"Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma"	Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, April 2013
2015	Ursula Vernon	"Jackalope Wives"	Apex Magazine, January 2014	[2]
2016	Martin L. Shoemaker	"Today I Am Paul"	Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2015	[3]
2017	Ursula Vernon	"The Tomato Thief"	Apex Magazine, January 2016	[4]
2018	Suzanne Palmer	"The Secret Life of Bots"	Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2017	[5]
2019	Virginia M. Mohlere	"The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change"	Luna Station Quarterly, May 2018	[6]
2020	Charlotte Honigman	"The Partisan and the Witch"	Skull & Pestle: New Tales of Baba Yaga (World Weaver Press, 2019)
2021	T. Kingfisher	"Metal Like Blood in the Dark"	Uncanny Magazine, September/October 2020
2022	Steven Harper	"Eight Mile and the City"	When Worlds Collide (Zombies Need Brains, July 2021)
2023	Naomi Kritzer	"The Dragon Project"	Clarkesworld Magazine, March 2022