The 2015 WSFA Small Press Award was presented by Alex Shvartsman, winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award, during the Capclave 2015 Convention in Gaithersburg Maryland. The winner of the 2015 WSFA Small Press Award was Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon, published in Apex Magazine Issue 56, January 2014.
The complete list of other finalists:
- “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 Cutter Superhero” by Tansy Rayner Roberts, published in Kaleidoscope, Twelfth Planet Press, August 2014.
- “The Lesser Evil” by Day Al-Mohamed, in Sword & Laser, edited by Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt, April 29, 2014.
- “The Magician and Laplace’s Demon” by Tom Crosshill, published in Clarkesworld Magazine, December 2014.
- “N is for Nanomachine” by C.S. MacCath in A is for Apocalypse, edited by Rhonda Parrish, Niteblade, August 2014.
- “Qasida” by Rosaleen Love in Secret Lives of Books, edited by Alisa Krasnostein, Twelfth Planet Press, June 2014.
- “Vanilla” by Dirk Flinthart in Kaleidoscope, Twelfth Planet Press, August 2014.
The award committee began accepting submissions for its 2016 contest (for stories published for the first time in 2015) on January 1st, 2015. Check the WSFA Small Press Award website for details.