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The Nebula Awards^® are annual awards voted on and presented by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to celebrate excellence in science fiction and fantasy writing in works published during the previous calendar year. An anthology including the winning pieces of short fiction and several runners-up is also published every year.

2023

“The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer, published by Uncanny. Winner
“A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair” by Renan Bernardo, published by Samovar.
“I am AI” by Ai Jiang, published by Shortwave.
“Imagine Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon” by Angela Liu, published by Clarkesworld.
“Saturday’s Song” by Wole Talabi, published by Lightspeed Magazine.
“Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, published by Uncanny.

2022

“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You“, John Chu (Uncanny 7–8/22) Winner
“Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold“, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 5–6/22)
“Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness“, S.L. Huang (Clarkesworld 12/22)
“A Dream of Electric Mothers“, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
“The Prince of Salt and the Ocean’s Bargain“, Natalia Theodoridou (Uncanny 9/22)
“We Built This City“, Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld 6/22)

2021

“O2 Arena” by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki Winner
“Just Enough Rain” by P.H. Lee
“(emet)” by Lauren Ring
“That Story Isn’t the Story” by John Wiswell
“Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim

2020

“Two Truths and a Lie” Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com 6/17/20) Winner
“Stepsister” Leah Cypess (F&SF 5-6/20)
“The Pill” Meg Elison (Big Girl, PM Press)
“Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super” A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 5-6/20)
“Where You Linger” Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Uncanny 1-2/20)
“Shadow Prisons” Caroline M. Yoachim (serialized in the Dystopia Triptych series as “The Shadow Prison Experiment”, “Shadow Prisons of the Mind”, and “The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma”, Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press)

2019

Carpe Glitter Cat Rambo Winner
“A Strange Uncertain Light” G.V. Anderson
“For He Can Creep” Siobhan Carroll
“His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light” Mimi Mondal
“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” Sarah Pinsker
“The Archronology of Love” Caroline M. Yoachim

2018

“The Only Harmless Great Thing” Brooke Bolander Winner
“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections” Tina Connolly
“An Agent of Utopia” Andy Duncan
“The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births” José Pablo Iriarte
“The Rule of Three” Lawrence M. Schoen
“Messenger” by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and R.R. Virdi

2017

“A Human Stain” Kelly Robson (Tor.com 1/4/17) Winner
“Dirty Old Town” Richard Bowes (F&SF 5-6/17)
“Weaponized Math” Jonathan P. Brazee (The Expanding Universe, Vol. 3)
“Wind Will Rove” Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)
“A Series of Steaks” Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld 1/17)
“Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time” K.M. Szpara (Uncanny 5-6/17)

2016

“The Long Fall Up”, William Ledbetter (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) Winner
“Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea”, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed)
“Blood Grains Speak Through Memories”, Jason Sanford (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
“The Orangery”, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing)
“You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny)

2015

“Our Lady of the Open Road,” Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 6/15) Winner
“Rattlesnakes and Men,” Michael Bishop (Asimov’s 2/15)
“And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead,” Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed 2/15)
“Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds,” Rose Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/11/15)
“The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society,” Henry Lien (Asimov’s 6/15)
“The Deepwater Bride,” Tamsyn Muir (F&SF 7-8/15)