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Best Short Story
Subcategory of Ditmar Awards
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Notes

  • Any work of science fiction, fantasy or horror less than 7,500 words.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2021

winner The Calenture Kaaron Warren , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Of Gods and Globes 2 : A Cosmic Anthology 2020;

Year: 2020

winner Whom My Soul Loves Rivqa Rafael , 2019 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Strange Horizons , 11 November 2019;

Year: 2019

winner The Heart of Owl Abbas Kathleen Jennings , 2018 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Tor.com Fiction , April 2018; The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy : 2019 Edition 2019;

'A composer in an unstable city-state accidentally discovers the perfect singer for his work—a clockwork man—and sows the seeds of revolution.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Year: 2018

winner A Pearl Beyond Price Janeen Webb , 2017 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Cthulhu Deep Down Under : Volume 1 2017;

Year: 2017

winner No Fat Chicks Cat Sparks , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: In Your Face 2016; (p. 1-18)

In the near future, a mystery virus has rendered all women obese, and one group of male friends are not coping with the new world order at all well.

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