Nebula Awards Nominees and Winners: Best Short Story

2023

• “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont” by P. A. Cornell, published by Fantasy. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2023
• “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R. S. A. Garcia, published by Uncanny. Winner, Best Short Story in 2023
• “Window Boy” by Thomas Ha, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2023
• “The Sound of Children Screaming” by Rachael K. Jones, published by Nightmare. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2023
• “Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2023
• “Bad Doors” by John Wiswell, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2023

2022

• “Destiny Delayed” by Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald, published by Asimov’s. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2022
• “Give Me English” by Ai Jiang, published by F&SF. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2022
• “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills, published by Uncanny. Winner, Best Short Story in 2022
• “Douen” by Suzan Palumbo, published by The Dark. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2022
• “Dick Pig” by Ian Muneshwar, published by Nightmare. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2022
• “D. I. Y” by John Wiswell, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2022

2021

• “Mr. Death” by Alix E. Harrow, published by Apex. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2021
• “Proof by Induction” by José Pablo Iriarte, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2021
• “Let All the Children Boogie” by Sam J. Miller, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2021
• “Laughter Among the Trees” by Suzan Palumbo, published by The Dark. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2021
• “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Uncanny. Winner, Best Short Story in 2021
• “For Lack of a Bed” by John Wiswell, published by Diabolical Plots. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2021

2020

• “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse” by Rae Carson, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2020
• “Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math” by Aimee Picchi, published by Daily Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2020
• “A Guide for Working Breeds” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, published by Solaris. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2020
• “The Eight-Thousanders” by Jason Sanford, published by Asimov’s. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2020
• “My Country is a Ghost” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2020
• “Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell, published by Diabolical Plots. Winner, Best Short Story in 2020

2019

• “A Catalog of Storms” by Fran Wilde, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2019
• “How the Trick Is Done” by A C Wise, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2019
• “Give the Family My Love” by A. T. Greenblatt, published by Clarkesworld. Winner, Best Short Story in 2019
• “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” by Karen Osborne, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2019
• “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing” by Shiv Ramdas, published by Strange Horizons. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2019
• “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island” by Nibedita Sen, published by Nightmare Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2019

2018

• “Interview for the End of the World” by Rhett C. Bruno. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2018
• “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington” by P. Djèlí Clark, published by Fireside Magazine. Winner, Best Short Story in 2018
• “Going Dark” by Richard Fox. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2018
• “And Yet” by A. T. Greenblatt, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2018
• “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E. Harrow, published by Apex Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2018
• “The Court Magician” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2018

2017

• “Fandom for Robots” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2017
• “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” by Rebecca Roanhorse, published by Apex Magazine. Winner, Best Short Story in 2017
• “Utopia, LOL” by Jamie Wahls, published by Strange Horizons. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2017
• “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” by Fran Wilde, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2017
• “The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)” by Matthew Kressel, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2017
• “Carnival Nine” by Caroline M. Yoachim, published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2017

2016

• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2016
• “Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar, published by The Starlit Wood. Winner, Best Short Story in 2016
• “Sabbath Wine” by Barbara Krasnoff, published by Clockwork Phoenix 5. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2016
• “Things With Beards” by Sam J. Miller, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2016
• “This Is Not a Wardrobe Door” by A. Merc Rustad, published by Fireside Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2016
• “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2016
• “Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station│Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0” by Caroline M. Yoachim, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2016

2015

• “Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2015
• “Damage” by David D. Levine, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2015
• “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong, published by Nightmare Magazine. Winner, Best Short Story in 2015
• “Madeleine” by Amal El-Mohtar, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2015
• “Today I Am Paul” by Martin L. Shoemaker, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2015
• “When Your Child Strays from God” by Sam J. Miller, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2015

2014

• “When It Ends, He Catches Her” by Eugie Foster, published by Daily Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2014
• “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2014
• “A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide” by Sarah Pinsker, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2014
• “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” by Matthew Kressel, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2014
• “The Fisher Queen” by Alyssa Wong, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2014
• “The Breath of War” by Aliette de Bodard, published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2014
• “Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon, published by Apex Magazine. Winner, Best Short Story in 2014

2013

• “The Sounds of Old Earth” by Matthew Kressel, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2013
• “Selkie Stories Are for Losers” by Sofia Samatar, published by Strange Horizons. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2013
• “Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer” by Kenneth Schneyer, published by Clockwork Phoenix 4. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2013
• “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky, published by Apex Magazine. Winner, Best Short Story in 2013
• “Alive, Alive Oh” by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2013

2012

• “Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard, published by Clarkesworld. Winner, Best Short Story in 2012
• “Robot” by Helena Bell, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2012
• “Nanny’s Day” by Leah Cypess, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2012
• “Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream” by Maria Dahvana Headley, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2012
• “Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes” by Tom Crosshill, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2012
• “Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain” by Cat Rambo. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2012
• “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” by Ken Liu, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2012

2011

• “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Winner, Best Short Story in 2011
• “The Axiom of Choice” by David W. Goldman, published by New Haven Review. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2011
• “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2011
• “Her Husband’s Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2011
• “Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son” by Tom Crosshill, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2011
• “Movement” by Nancy Fulda, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2011

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