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2021 Otherwise Award Winners
The 2021 Otherwise Award (formerly the James Tiptree, Jr. Award), for works of speculative fiction which explore and expand gender, has been announced.
Winners:
- Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (Tor)
- Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (MCD; #Merky)
Honor List:
- A Natural History of Transition by Callum Angus (Metonymy)
- Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon (Transit Lounge)
- The Actual Star by Monica Byrne (Harper Voyager US)
- Bestiary by K-Ming Chang (One World)
- Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel & Friends)
- Chouette by Claire Oshetsky (Ecco)
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
- The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Erewhon)
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Swoon Reads)
Our congrats to Ryka Aoki, Rivers Solomon and all the Honor List members. You can read more details about each selection on the official Otherwise website.
2020 Otherwise Award Winner
The 2020 Otherwise Award, for works of speculative fiction which explore and expand gender, has been announced.
Winner:
- Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Dominion)
Honor List:
- City of a Thousand Feelings by Anya Johanna DeNiro (Aqueduct)
- Helicopter Story by Isabel Fall (Clarkesworld 1/20)
- Custom Options Available by Amy Griswold (Fireside 1/20)
- Depart, Depart by Sim Kern (Stelliform)
- The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
- The Seep by Chana Porter (Soho)
- The Moon Room by Maria Romasco Moore (Kaleidotrope Spring ’20)
- The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick)
Our congrats to Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and all the Honor List members. You can read more details about each selection on the official Otherwise website.
2019 Otherwise Award Winner
The 2019 Otherwise Award (formerly the James Tiptree, Jr. Award), for works of speculative fiction which explore and expand gender, has been announced.
Winner:
- Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (Grove Press)
Honor List:
- “Dreamborn” by Kylie Ariel Bemis (in Maiden, Mother, Crone, edited by Gwen Benaway, Bedside Press)
- The Book of Flora by Meg Elison (47North)
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World)
- Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley (Tachyon Publications)
- “Of Warps and Wefts” by Innocent Chizaram Ilo (Strange Horizons)
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor Books)
- The Elemental Logic series by Laurie J. Marks (Fire Logic, Earth Logic, Water Logic, and Air Logic, Small Beer)
- The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya (Soft Skull Press)
- The Deep by Rivers Solomon (Gallery / Saga Press)
Our congrats to Akwaeke Emezi and all the Honor List members. You can read more details about each selection on the official Otherwise website.
