Alumni Awards and Publications
2020-2021 (Please see the Alumni News Archive for nominations and wins previous to 2020)
Megha Krishnan (CW ’19) has been selected as the new Marketing Director of khōréō magazine
Nisi Shawl (CW ’92) has won the British Fantasy Award for New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color. The anthology has also won the Starburst Brave New Words Award and an inaugural IGNYTE Awards for Best Anthology/Collected Works, presented at the first-ever FIYAHCON.
Lawrence Schimel (CW ’91) has won the PEN Translates Award.
Elly Bangs (CW ’17) has been selected as the new Two Hour Transport emcee.
Cadwell Turnbull (CW ’16) has won the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award for Debut Speculative Fiction for his novel The Lesson (Blackstone Publishing).
Woody Dismukes (CW ’18) received the inaugural IGNYTE Award for Best in Speculative Poetry, presented at the first-ever FIYAHCON, for his poem “A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century.”
Trent Walters (CW ’99) has won first place in the 3rd Quarter Writers of the Future Award! Congratulations to you, Trent!
Siobhan Carroll (CW ’09) won the Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction for her story “For He Can Creep,” also nominated for other awards below!
Rebecca Campbell (CW ’15) has won the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic for her short story “The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest” in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Sheree Renée Thomas (CW ’99) will host the 2021 Hugo Awards in Washington, D.C. with Malka Older, and Thomas will be a Guest of Honor at WisCon 45 and DisCon III.
We congratulate A. T. Greenblatt (CW ’17) and Cat Rambo (CW ’05) on their Nebula awards for short story and novelette, respectively.
2019 instructor Amal El-Mohtar also won a Nebula and a Locus award for best novella for This Is How You Lose The Time War, with Max Gladstone.
We congratulate Cynthia Ward (CW ’92), Nisi Shawl (CW ’92), and K. Tempest Bradford (CW ’03) on winning the Locus SPECIAL AWARD 2020: INCLUSIVITY AND REPRESENTATION EDUCATION for their work through Writing the Other.
Nisi Shawl (CW ’92) made us all extra proud by also winning the Locus Award for their anthology New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color.
Indrapramit Das (CW ’12) just won the Shirley Jackson award for his short story, “Kali_Na.” Well done, Indra!
Congratulations to Greg Cox (CW ’84) on winning the Scribe Award for Original Novel (Speculative) for Batman: The Court of Owls.
The following alumni are nominated for awards this season, and you may be able to vote for them! With pride, we congratulate and recommend:
A. T. Greenblatt (CW ’17)
Nebula Award
Best Novelette: “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super”
Caroline M. Yoachim (CW ’06)
Nebula Award
Best Novelette: “Shadow Prisons”
Eugenia Triantafyllou (CW ’19)
Nebula Award
Best Short Story: “My Country is a Ghost”
Phoebe Barton (CW ’19)
Nebula Award
Best Game Writing: The Luminous Underground
Vina Jie-Min Prasad (CW ’17)
Nebula Award
Best Short Story: “A Guide for Working Breeds”
Colleen (Celdae) Anderson (CW ’87)
Pushcart Prize, “Telltale Moon” in Dreams & Nightmares 116.
Rodrigo Assis Mesquita (CW ’18)
Dream Foundry Short Story Contest (finalist)
Neon Yang (CW ’13)
British Fantasy Awards, Best Novella
The Ascent to Godhood (Tordotcom)
Dr. Helen Marshall (CW ’12)
Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Adult Fiction
British Fantasy Awards, Best Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award)
British Fantasy Awards, Best Fantasy Novel (The Robert Holdstock Award)
The Migration (Random House Canada)
Maura McHugh (CW ’06)
European Science Fiction Society, Best Author
British Fantasy Awards, Best Collection
The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams (NewCon)
Christopher Caldwell (CW ’07)
IGNYTE Award for Best Short Story
“Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan”
Sheree Renée Thomas (CW ’99)
World Fantasy Award for Professional Contributions to the Genre (Dark Matter et al.)
Nisi Shawl (CW ’92)
World Fantasy Award, Best Collection
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color.
Rebecca Campbell (CW ’15)
Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Short Story
“The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest” in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Anne Toole (CW ’11)
Scribe Award, Graphic Novel
Pet Noir (with Christie Yant & Pati Nagle) (Kymera)
Colleen Anderson (CW ’87)
Dwarf Stars Award nominee, Science Fiction Poetry Association, horror haiku
“knife blade flutters”
Cadwell Turnbull (CW ’16)
2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award for Debut Speculative Fiction
The Lesson (Blackstone Publishing)
A. T. Greenblatt (CW ’17)
2020 Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award
Nebula Award
Best Short Story: “Give the Family My Love”
Tegan Moore (CW ’15)
Asimov’s Readers’ Award
Best Novella: “The Work of Wolves”
Andy Duncan (CW ’94)
Asimov’s Readers’ Award
Best Novelette: “Charlie Tells Another One”
Vylar Kaftan (CW ’04)
Nebula Award
Best Novella: “Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water”
Siobhan Carroll (CW ’09)
Hugo Award
Nebula Award
World Fantasy Award
Best Novelette: “For He Can Creep”
Mimi Mondal (CW ’15)
Nebula Award
Best Novelette: “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light”
Nibedita Sen (CW ’15)
Astounding Award for Best New Writer
Nebula Award
Hugo Award
Best Short Story: “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”
Caroline M Yoachim (CW ’06)
Nebula Award
Hugo Award
2020 Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award
Best Novelette: “The Archronology of Love”
Shiv Ramdas (CW ’16)
Nebula Award
Hugo Award
Best Short Story: “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”
Cat Rambo (CW ’05)
Nebula Award
Best Novelette: “Carpe Glitter”
Lawrence Schimel, translator (CW ’91)
Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Impure Acts by Angelo Néstore
Craig Laurance Gidney (CW ’96)
Lambda Literary Award
LBGTQ SF/F/Horror (book): A Spectral Hue
Marlee Jane Ward (CW ’14)
Aurealis Award
Best Science Fiction Novella: Prisoncorp
Best YA Short Story: “Rats”
Did we overlook your nomination? Please contact us at alumni@clarionwest.org to notify us of publications and nominations in the future!