The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2015 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction: “All of Our Past Places” by Kat Howard, published in Unlikely Story #9: The Journal of Unlikely Cartography, June 2014. “Careful Magic” by Karen Healey published in Kaleidoscope, Twelfth Planet Press, August 2014. “Cookie […]

The 2014 winner of the WSFA Small Press Award is Alex Shvartsman for his story, “Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma”, published in Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, edited by Edmund R. Schubert (Hatrack Publishing, April 2013). The winner was announced during a short awards ceremony at this year’s Capclave. The award committee will begin accepting […]

The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2012 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction: “Acts of Chivalry” by Sean McMullen, published in Tales of Australia: Great Southern Land, edited by Stephen C. Ormsby and Ellen Mae Franklin (Satalyte Publishing, December 2013). “Bits” by Naomi Kritzer, published in Clarkesworld […]

The Washington Science Fiction Association has established a literary award to honor the work done by small presses in promoting and preserving science fiction. The award, now in its eighth year, is given annually for short fiction works (17,500 words or fewer) of imaginative literature (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative fiction or like literature) […]

The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the winner of the 2013 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction published in the previous year: “Good Hunting” by Ken Liu, published in Strange Horizons, edited by Brit Mandelo, An Owomoyela, and Julia Rios (October 2013). The award honors the efforts of small press publishers […]

The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2013 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction (published in 2012): “Astrophilia” by Carrie Vaughn, published in Clarkesworld Magazine, edited by Neil Clarke (July 2012). “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” by Ken Liu, published in Lightspeed Magazine, edited by John Joseph […]

We are now into our final week of voting for the WSFA Small Press Award. The last day for voting is midnight, Friday, August 16th. Paid-up member of WSFA, are eligible to take part in the contest by reading the finalists and voting for your favorites. Read the rules page and do not share the […]

As reported by Brian Lewis: Since it hasn’t been elsewhere yet, below are the people who will be holding elective office in WSFA, as of the First Friday in June and when their term of office expires. CapClave Chairs’ terms expire when the books of their con are closed (usually, but not always, before the […]

The 2012 WSFA Small Press Award was presented by WSFA Small Press Award Committee Chair Cathy Green, during the Capclave 2012 Convention in Gaithersburg Maryland. The winner of the 2012 WSFA Small Press Award was “The Patrician” by Tansy Rayner Roberts, published in Love and Romanpunk, by Twelfth Planet Press, May 2011, edited by Alisa […]

WSFA Small Press Award – 2012 Nominees The WSFA Small Press Award honors the efforts of small press publishers in providing a critical venue for short fiction in the area of speculative fiction. The award showcases the best original short fiction published by small presses in the previous year (2011). An unusual feature of the […]