The Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2025 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction:
- “A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts” by Pat Murphy, Lightspeed Magazine (December 2024) ed. John Joseph Adams
- “A Hero’s Tale” by E. Florian Gludovacz, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores (July 2024) ed. Fran Eisenmann
- “A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places” by Marissa Lingen, Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue 406 (May 2024) ed. Scott H. Andrews
- “A Slightly Different Sunrise From Mercury, Nevada” by Íde Hennessy, Strange Horizons (November 2024), ed. Gautam Bhatia
- “All We Ever Had” by M. A. Akins, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores (August 2024) ed. Fran Eisenmann
- “Bespoke” by Elly Bangs, Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures ed. by Ann LeBlanc, Neon Hemlock (2024)
- “Collaborators” by Michael Payne, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores (December 2024) ed. Fran Eisenmann
- “Within the Seed Lives the Fruit” by Leah Andelsmith, Reckoning 8 (June 2024), ed. By Knar Gavin and Waverly SM.
The 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 (2016).
An unusual feature of the selection process is that all voting is done with the identity of the author (and publisher) hidden so that the final choice is based solely on the quality of the story.
The winner is chosen by the members of the Washington Science Fiction Association (www.wsfa.org) and will be presented at Capclave (www.capclave.org), held this year on September 19-21, 2025 in Gaithersburg, Maryland.