SF Awards Watch reports the nominees for this year’s WSFA Small Press Award. The award, inaugurated last year, is sponsored by the Washington Science Fiction Association, and “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. An unusual feature of the selection process is that all voting is done with the identity of the author hidden so that the final choice is based solely on the quality of the story.”
The winner will be announced at Capclave this October.
This year’s nominees are:
“Bufo Rex” by Erik Amundsen (Weird Tales #347)
“Orm the Beautiful” by Elizabeth Bear (Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2007)
“The Wizard of Macatawa” by Tom Doyle (Paradox #11)
“Harry the Crow” by John Kratman (Aeon Speculative Fiction #12)
“Mask of the Ferret” by Ken Pick and Alan Loewen (Infinite Space, Infinite Gold, Twilight Times Books)
“The Third Bear” by Jeff VandeMeer (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2007)