Nebula Awards Nominees and Winners: Best Novella

2023

• “The Crane Husband” by Kelly Barnhill, published by Tordotcom. Nominated for Best Novella in 2023
• “Linghun” by Ai Jiang, published by Dark Matter Ink. Winner, Best Novella in 2023
• “Thornhedge” by T. Kingfisher, published by Tor and Titan UK. Nominated for Best Novella in 2023
• “Untethered Sky” by Fonda Lee, published by Tordotcom. Nominated for Best Novella in 2023
• “The Mimicking of Known Successes” by Malka Older, published by Tordotcom. Nominated for Best Novella in 2023
• “Mammoths at the Gates” by Nghi Vo, published by Tordotcom. Nominated for Best Novella in 2023

2022

• “A Prayer for the Crown-Shy” by Becky Chambers, published by Tordotcom. Nominated for Best Novella in 2022
• “Bishop’s Opening” by R. S. A. Garcia, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Novella in 2022
• “Even Though I Knew the End” by C. L. Polk, published by Tordotcom. Winner, Best Novella in 2022
• “High Times in the Low Parliament” by Kelly Robson, published by Tordotcom. Nominated for Best Novella in 2022
• “I Never Liked You Anyway” by Jordan Kurella, published by Vernacular. Nominated for Best Novella in 2022

2021

• “And What Can We Offer You Tonight” by Premee Mohamed, published by Neon Hemlock. Winner, Best Novella in 2021
• “Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters” by Aimee Ogden, published by Tordotcom. Nominated for Best Novella in 2021
• “Flowers for the Sea” by Zin E. Rocklyn, published by Tordotcom. Nominated for Best Novella in 2021
• “The Necessity of Stars” by E. Catherine Tobler, published by Neon Hemlock. Nominated for Best Novella in 2021
• “The Giants of the Violet Sea” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Novella in 2021
• “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” by Becky Chambers, published by Tordotcom. Nominated for Best Novella in 2021
• “Fireheart Tiger” by Aliette de Bodard, published by Tordotcom. Nominated for Best Novella in 2021

2020

• “Tower of Mud and Straw” by Yaroslav Barsukov, published by Metaphorosis. Nominated for Best Novella in 2020
• “Finna” by Nino Cipri, published by Tordotcom. Nominated for Best Novella in 2020
• “Ring Shout” by P. Djèlí Clark, published by Tordotcom. Winner, Best Novella in 2020
• “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon” by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, published by Aurelia Leo. Nominated for Best Novella in 2020
• “The Four Profound Weaves” by R.B. Lemberg, published by Tachyon. Nominated for Best Novella in 2020
• “Riot Baby” by Tochi Onyebuchi, published by Tordotcom. Nominated for Best Novella in 2020

2019

• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” by Ted Chiang, published by Knopf. Nominated for Best Novella in 2019
• “The Haunting of Tram Car 015” by P. Djèlí Clark, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2019
• “This Is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, published by Gallery and Saga Press. Winner, Best Novella in 2019
• “Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water” by Vylar Kaftan, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2019
• “The Deep” by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes, published by Gallery and Saga Press. Nominated for Best Novella in 2019
• “Catfish Lullaby” by A C Wise, published by Broken Eye Books. Nominated for Best Novella in 2019

2018

• “Fire Ant” by Jonathan P. Brazee, published by Semper Fi Press. Nominated for Best Novella in 2018
• “The Black God’s Drums” by P. Djèlí Clark, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2018
• “The Tea Master and the Detective” by Aliette de Bodard, published by Subterranean Press. Winner, Best Novella in 2018
• “Alice Payne Arrives” by Kate Heartfield, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2018
• “Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach” by Kelly Robson, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2018
• “Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries” by Martha Wells, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2018

2017

• “River of Teeth” by Sarah Gailey, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2017
• “Passing Strange” by Ellen Klages, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2017
• “And Then There Were (N-One)” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Novella in 2017
• “Barry’s Deal” by Lawrence M. Schoen, published by NobleFusion Press. Nominated for Best Novella in 2017
• “All Systems Red” by Martha Wells, published by Tor.com. Winner, Best Novella in 2017
• “The Black Tides of Heaven” by JY Yang, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2017

2016

• “Runtime” by S.B. Divya, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2016
• “The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe” by Kij Johnson, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2016
• “The Ballad of Black Tom” by Victor LaValle, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2016
• “The Liar” by John P. Murphy, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 2016
• “A Taste of Honey” by Kai Ashante Wilson, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2016
• “Every Heart a Doorway” by Seanan McGuire, published by Tor.com. Winner, Best Novella in 2016

2015

• “Binti” by Nnedi Okorafor, published by Tor.com. Winner, Best Novella in 2015
• “The Bone Swans of Amandale” by C. S. E. Cooney. Nominated for Best Novella in 2015
• “The New Mother” by Eugene Fischer, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Novella in 2015
• “The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn” by Usman T. Malik, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2015
• “Waters of Versailles” by Kelly Robson, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2015
• “Wings of Sorrow and Bone” by Beth Cato, published by Harper Voyager Impulse. Nominated for Best Novella in 2015

2014

• “We Are All Completely Fine” by Daryl Gregory, published by Tachyon. Nominated for Best Novella in 2014
• “Yesterday’s Kin” by Nancy Kress, published by Tachyon. Winner, Best Novella in 2014
• “The Regular” by Ken Liu. Nominated for Best Novella in 2014
• “The Mothers of Voorhisville” by Mary Rickert, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2014
• “Calendrical Regression” by Lawrence M. Schoen, published by NobleFusion Press. Nominated for Best Novella in 2014
• “Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)” by Rachel Swirsky, published by Subterranean. Nominated for Best Novella in 2014

2013

• “Wakulla Springs” by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2013
• “The Weight of the Sunrise” by Vylar Kaftan, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Winner, Best Novella in 2013
• “Annabel Lee” by Nancy Kress, published by Arc Manor and Phoenix Pick. Nominated for Best Novella in 2013
• “Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novella in 2013
• “Trial of the Century” by Lawrence M. Schoen, published by Hadley Rille Books. Nominated for Best Novella in 2013
• Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente, published by Subterranean. Nominated for Best Novella in 2013

2012

• “After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall” by Nancy Kress, published by Tachyon. Winner, Best Novella in 2012
• “On a Red Station, Drifting” by Aliette de Bodard. Nominated for Best Novella in 2012
• “The Stars Do Not Lie” by Jay Lake, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Novella in 2012
• “All the Flavors” by Ken Liu, published by GigaNotoSaurus. Nominated for Best Novella in 2012
• “Katabasis” by Robert Reed, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 2012
• “Barry’s Tale” by Lawrence M. Schoen, published by Hadley Rille Books. Nominated for Best Novella in 2012

2011

• “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Winner, Best Novella in 2011
• “Kiss Me Twice” by Mary Robinette Kowal, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Novella in 2011
• “Silently and Very Fast” by Catherynne M. Valente, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Novella in 2011
• “The Ice Owl” by Carolyn Gilman, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 2011
• “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” by Ken Liu. Nominated for Best Novella in 2011
• “With Unclean Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro, published by Analog. Nominated for Best Novella in 2011

2010

• “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window” by Rachel Swirsky, published by Subterranean. Winner, Best Novella in 2010
• “The Sultan of the Clouds” by Geoffrey A. Landis, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Novella in 2010

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