The Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction is an annual juried award presented to the author of a piece of short speculative fiction (20,000 words or fewer) published during the previous calendar year. It seeks to recognize fiction that is "irreplacable" and that "will become essential to speculative fiction readers." The award is named in honour of Eugie Foster, a prolific speculative writer and editor. It was first presented in 2016 at the awards banquet at Dragon Con, and has continued to be presented at the same venue in years since.
Winners and nominees In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the work was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a light yellow background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist. Shortlists are listed alphabetically by last name.
* Winners YearAuthorWorkPublisher or publicationRef. * Clarkesworld "Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight" Clarkesworld "Pocosin" Apex Magazine "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers"[external link] Nightmare Magazine * Tor.com "Seasons of Glass and Iron"[external link] The Starlit Wood "Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man" Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" Uncanny Magazine * "Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand" Uncanny Magazine "Infinite Love Engine" Lightspeed "Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance" Cosmic Powers Tor.com "And Then There Were (N-One)"[external link] Uncanny Magazine * "When We Were Starless" Clarkesworld Beneath Ceaseless Skies Apex "Barleycorn" Abyss & Apex Tor.com * "For He Can Creep"[external link] Tor.com The Dark "Love in the Time of Immuno-Sharing" Analog Analog "Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction * Black Cranes Lightspeed Uncanny Magazine "City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat" Tor.com "Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law" Tor.com * "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" Uncanny Magazine "A Tableau of Things That Are" Lightspeed Magazine "L'Espirit de L'Escalier" Tor.com Beneath Ceaseless Skies "Colors of the Immortal Palette" Uncanny Magazine "Quandary Aminu vs the Butterfly Man" Tor.com PodCastle The Dark Magazine Strange Horizons "Nine Theories of Time" Apex Magazine Nightmare Magazine "Even if Such Ways Are Bad" Reactor "Falling Bodies" Amazon "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" Uncanny Magazine "The Year Without Sunshine" Uncanny Magazine "Marginalia" Uncanny Magazine Retrieved 2026-08-06. "After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland" Beneath Ceaseless Skies "The Midnight Commuter" Abyss & Apex "Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being" Clarkesworld "We Will Teach You How to Read - We Will Teach You How to Read" Lightspeed Magazine 2026"Wolf Moon, Antler Moon"Reactor"Concerning the Multiplicity of Children in Central Florida's Suburbanized Wet Lands"Analog Science Fiction & Fact"Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins"Clarkesworld"Reverent"PodCastle"When He Calls Your Name"Uncanny Magazine
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