WSFA Small Press Award Short List
August 18th, 2009 by Editors
The Washington Science Fiction Association has announces the finalists for the 2009 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction:
- “Drinking Problem” by K.D. Wentworth, published in Seeds of Change, edited by John Joseph Adams, Prime Books (August, 2008)
- “Hard Rain at the Fortean Café” by Lavie Tidhar, published in issue 14 of Aeon Speculative Fiction Magazine, edited by Bridget McKenna
- “His Last Arrow” by Christopher Sequeira, published in Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes, edited by Jeff Campbell and Charles Prepolec, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, (October, 2008)
- “Silent as Dust” by James Maxey, published in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, edited by Edmund R. Schubert, Hatrack Publishing
- “Spider the Artist” by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, published in Seeds of Change, edited by John Joseph Adams, Prime Books (August, 2008)
- “The Absence of Stars: Part 1” by Greg Siewert, published in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, edited by Edmund R. Schubert, Hatrack Publishing
- “The Toy Car” by Luisa Maria Garcia Velasco, (translated from Spanish by Ian Watson) published in April 2008 edition of Aberrant Dreams, edited by Joseph W. Dickerson
The winner will be chosen by the members of the Washington Science Fiction Association and will be announced at their annual convention, Capclave, held this year on October 16-18th in Rockville, Maryland.
Update: Further to the comments below, we have received an updated press release from the WSFA correcting the publication details for the Intergalactic Medicine Show stories.
The Medicine Show finalists all list Tor Books where the other entries list the publisher. So does Tor (hardly a small press) publish OSC’s magazine? (I thought it was OSC’s own independent online magazine.)
If they do, I wonder how they qualify as a “small press”…if not, then I’m thoroughly confused as to why Tor’s mentioned there.
Obviously I’m misunderstanding or missing something.
Any ideas, award savants? Thanks!
P.S. Locus’s listing of the finalists doesn’t mention Tor Books there. I can’t find the finalist list on WSFA’s site (always amusing when the info’s not on the award site, but is everywhere else–this happens way too often
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Congratulations to the finalists! Thanks for sharing the list.
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@1 Kendall:
The press release I saw listed Tor Books, although I also left them off my reporting at SF Site. Tor Books published a reprint anthology of items published at OSC and I imagine Tor was included in the press release because it gave people an easier way to find the stories. I did think that inclusion was rather strange given the award’s focus.
Thanks, Steven! That explains it and it is an odd situation…does one rule something ineligible because it hit the big time or recognize its small press origins and leave it eligible. I might go the other way, but then…what if Tor republished it between finalist-list-publishing and final-balloting…yanking it halfway through the process because it got picked up elsewhere seems unfair. Hmm.
Please see the correction above from the WSFA. From what they said it appears that the nominated titles did not appear in Tor’s collection of stories from the magazine.
Thanks, Editors!
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