Works by women eligible for 2009 SF Awards

This is a list of works written by women and eligible for SF awards to be given out in 2009 based on works published from January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2008. Awards that follow this eligibility format include the Hugo, the Campbell, the World Fantasy Award, the Tiptree, and the Phillip K. Dick. (The Nebulas have a rolling period of eligibility for nomination based on the specific date a work was published.) We're listing these works as a form of award activism: to bring them greater attention, to share information about them for ourselves, and to help avoid problems like the 2006 Hugo vacuum. See Eligibility and voting by award for a quick index of information about individual awards, and links to the individual award pages for more detail.

Please include here any eligible work, along with the relevant information: title, publication date, and format. For novels, it's useful to search Amazon for the author's name: the list of works has publication date and format right there.

Note: Some awards are based on first publication and other awards are based on first publication in the US, England, etc. If a work was first published outside of the time period but would be eligible for some awards, please add it and add in parentheses any restrictions or explanations about eligibility.

Related: Women eligible for 2009 SF Awards | Works by women eligible for 2010 SF Awards

• See Eligibility and voting by award
• See Award activism
• See 2006 Hugo vacuum

Book Length Fiction

Novels

Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, Bram Stoker and Campbell Memorial eligible: if published in paperback in the US, Philip K. Dick eligible

• Kelley Armstrong, Personal Demon (March 2008, Orbit)
• Kage Baker, Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key (March 2008, Subterranean Press)
• Kage Baker, The House of the Stag (September 2008, Tor)
• Elizabeth Bear, Dust (January 2008, Bantam Spectra)
• Anne Bishop, Tangled Webs (March 2008, Roc)
• Marie Brennan, Midnight Never Come (June 2008, Orbit)
• Lois McMaster Bujold The Sharing Knife: Passage (February 2008, Eos)
• Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (2008)
• Jenny Davidson, The Explosionist (October 2008, Harper)
• Kate Elliott, Shadow Gate (February 2008, Little Brown UK/Orbit)
• Bernadine Evaristo, Blonde Roots (2008, Hamish Hamilton)
• Jaine Fenn, Principles of Angels (June 2008, Gollancz)
• Karen Joy Fowler, Wit's End (April 2008, Putnam/Marian Wood)
• Jo Graham, Black Ships (March 2008, Orbit US)
• Robin Hobb, Renegade's Magic (February 2008, Eos) (first published in the UK)
• Cecelia Holland, Varanger (April 2008, Tor/Forge)
• Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else' (June 2008, Harvill Secker)
• Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels (October 2008, Knopf)
• Tanith Lee, Tempting the Gods (April 2008, Wildside Press)
• Doris Lessing, Alfred and Emily (2008)
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia (April 2008, Harcourt)
• Robin McKinley, Chalice (September 2008, Penguin)
• Judith Merril, Not Only a Woman (February 2008, NESFA Press)
• Elizabeth Moon, Victory Conditions (February 2008, Ballantine Del Rey)
• Dru Pagliassotti, Clockwork Heart (March 2008, Juno Books)
• Holly Phillips, The Engine's Child (November 2008, Ballantine Del Rey)
• Justina Robson, Going Under' (2008, Gollancz/Pyr)
• Mary Doria Russell, Dreamers of the Day (2008)
• Ekaterina Sedia, The Alchemy of Stone (2008, Prime)
• Jennifer Stevenson, The Brass Bed (April 2008, Ballantine)
• Karen Traviss, Judge (April 2008, Eos)
• Jo Walton, Half a Crown (September 2008, Tor)
• Michelle West, The Hidden City (March 2008, DAW)
• Liz Williams, Winterstrike (2008, Tor UK)

First Novel

Locus and Bram Stoker eligible

• Jo Graham, Black Ships (March 2008, Orbit US)
• Dru Pagliassotti, Clockwork Heart (March 2008, Juno Books)

Collections

World Fantasy, Stoker and Locus eligible - single author, original or reprint, single or multiple editors

• Kelly Link, Pretty Monsters (October 2008, Viking)
• Jennifer Pelland, Unwelcome Bodies (February 2008, Apex Book Company)
• Nisi Shawl, Filter House (August 2008, Aqueduct Press)
• Catherynne M. Valente, A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects (April 2008, Norilana Books)

Anthologies

World Fantasy, Stoker and Locus eligible - multiple author original or reprint, single or multiple editors

• A Field Guide to Surreal Botany, Janet Chui (& Jason Erik Lundberg), eds. (2008, Two Cranes Press)
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 4, Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy & Debbie Notkin, eds. (January 2008, Tachyon Publications, anth)
• Lace and Blade, Deborah J. Ross, ed. (February 2008, Leda (imprint of Norilana Books), anth)
• Warrior Wisewoman, Roby James, ed. (June 2008, Norilana Books, anth)
• Clockwork Phoenix, Mike Allen, ed. (July 2008, Norilana Books, anth)
• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXIII, Elisabeth Waters, ed. (November 2008, Norilana Books, anth)
• The New Weird, Ann VanderMeer (with Jeff VanderMeer) ed., (February 2008, Tachyon Publications)
• Paper Cities, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (April 2008, Senses Five Press)
• The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (2008, Viking)

Short Fiction

Short Stories

Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon eligible. World Fantasy is under 10,000 words

• Alana Joli Abbott, Nomi's Wish (Coyote Wild, August 2008)
• Elizabeth Bear, Hobnoblin Blues (Realms of Fantasy, February 2008)
• Beth Bernobich, Shopping Spree (Baen's Universe, August 2008)
• Deborah Biancotti, The Tailor of Time (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
• Naomi Bloch, The Same Old Story (Strange Horizons, 1 December 2008)
• Leah Bobet, Bell, Book, and Candle (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
• Leah Bobet, Kimberley Ann Duray Is Not Afraid (Strange Horizons, 29 September 2008)
• K. Tempest Bradford, Until Forgiveness Comes (Strange Horizons, 17 November 2008)
• Marie Brennan, Lost Soul (Intergalactic Medicine Show #7, January 2008)
• Marie Brennan, Kiss of Life (Beneath the Surface, ed. Tim Deal, 2008)
• Marie Brennan, The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe (Paradox #12, April 2008)
• Marie Brennan, Beggar's Blessing (Shroud Magazine #2, 2008)
• Marie Brennan, A Mask of Flesh (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
• Marie Brennan, Kingspeaker (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #3, November 2008)
• Marie Brennan, A Heretic by Degrees (Intergalactic Medicine Show #10, November 2008)
• Sarah Rees Brennan, An Old-Fashioned Unicorn's Guide to Courtship (Coyote Wild, August 2008)
• Sue Burke, Spiders (Asimov's, March 2008)
• Stephanie Campisi, The Title of This Story (Paper Cities, Senses Five Press, April 2008)
• Sarah Carless, Daystar (OnSpec, January 2008)
• Nancy Chenier, Re-Annunciation (OnSpec, January 2008)
• Deborah Coates
  • The Whale's Lover (Asimov's, January 2008)
  • How to Hide Your Heart (Strange Horizons, 21 January 2008)
• Tina Connolly
  • The Salivary Reflex (GUD, February 2008)
  • On the Eyeball Floor (Strange Horizons, 2 June 2008)
• Constance Cooper, Called Out to Snow Crease Farm (Strange Horizons, 28 July 2008)
• Haddayr Copley-Woods, Dead (Strange Horizons, 25 February 2008)
• Sheila Crosby, The Appliance of Science (Escape Velocity, February 2008)
• Jennifer Crow, Seven Scenes from Harrai's Sacred Mountain (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
• A.M. Dellamonica, Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy (Strange Horizons, 21 April 2008)
• Kris Dikeman, Nine Sundays in a Row (Strange Horizons, 27 October 2008)
• Debra Doyle (with James D. Macdonald), Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistrita (F&SF, February 2008)
• Oz Drummond, Re\Creation, (Analog, November 2008)
• Eugenie Edquist, Motor Skills (Andromeda Spaceways, February 2008)
• Francesca Forrest, The Oracle (Coyote Wild, August 2008)
• Jess Freeborn, A Deck of Cards (Polluto, January 2008)
• Joanna Galbraith, The Moon-Keeper's Friend (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
• Gwynne Garfinkle, In Lieu of a Thank You (Strange Horizons, 16 June 2008)
• Vanessa Gebbie, Jamie Hawkins' Muse (GUD, February 2008)
• Kathleen Ann Goonan, Sundiver Day (The Starry Rift, 2008)
• Peni R. Griffin, The Singers in the Tower (Realms of Fantasy, February 2008)
• Ann Halam, Cheats (The Starry Rift, 2008)
• Merrie Haskell
  • An Almanac for the Alien Invaders (Asimov's, April/May 2008)
  • The Girl-Prince (Coyote Wild August 2008)
• Jennifer Harwood-Smith, The Faces of My Friends (Interzone, February 2008)
• Lynne Hawkinson, Tokyo Rising (Strange Horizons, 4 February 2008)
• Samantha Henderson, The Ballad of Delphinium Blue (Sybil's Garage #5, April 2008)
• Karen Heuler, Landscape, With Fish (Weird Tales, January 2008)
• Deb Hoag, Werewolf of Sappho (Polluto, January 2008)
• M.K. Hobson
  • The People's Republic of the Edelweiss Village Putt-Putt Golf Course (Realms of Fantasy, February 2008)
  • Crushing Butterflies (Flytrap 9, May 2008)
  • Comus of Central Park (Interzone 217, July 2008)
  • The Hand of the Devil on a String (Shimmer, July 2008)
  • The Purple Basil (Realms of Fantasy, October 2008)
  • The Serpent Who Sleeps Beneath The Shards (Talebones 37, Fall 2008)
• Mary Hodge, Family (Coyote Wild, August 2008)
• Rosamund Hodge, I Have Heard the Angels Singing, Each to Each (Coyote Wild, August 2008)
• Erin Hoffman, Root and Vein (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
• J. J. Irwin, Still Living (Strange Horizons, 7 January 2008)
• Alaya Dawn Johnson, Down the Well (Strange Horizons, 4 August 2008)
• Vylar Kaftan
  • The Girl Next Door (Sybil's Garage #5, April 2008)
  • Godivy (Paper Cities, Senses Five Press, April 2008)
• Sarah Kanning, Sex with Ghosts (Strange Horizons, 18 August 2008)
• Helen Keeble, In Ashes (Strange Horizons, 7 April 2008)
• Larissa Kelly, Engines of Survival (Strange Horizons, 22 December 2008)
• Alice Sola Kim, We Love Deena (Strange Horizons, 11 February 2008)
• Rachel Kincaid, Tell Her (Strange Horizons, 19 May 2008)
• Barbara Krasnoff, All His Worldly Goods (Sybil's Garage #5, April 2008)
• Nancy Kress, Sex and Violence (Asimov's, February 2008)
• Margo Lanagan, An Honest Day's Work (The Starry Rift, 2008)
• Tanith Lee, The Woman (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
• Ann Leckie, Marsh Gods (Strange Horizons, 7 July 2008)
• Kelly Link, The Surfer (The Starry Rift, 2008)
• Jennifer Linnaea, Pseudo Tokyo (Interzone, February 2008)
• C.S. MacCath, Akhila, Divided (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
• Alex Dally MacFarlane, Tattoos of the Sky, Tattoos of the Days (Sybil's Garage #5, April 2008)
• Elissa Malcohn, Hermit Crabs (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Darja Malcolm-Clarke
  • His One True Bride (Fantasy Magazine, June 16, 2008)
  • A Song, a Prayer, an Empty Space (Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine, #3, Autumn 2008)
  • Pearl in Shadow (Ideomancer, June 2008)
• Lisa Mantchev, Perfect Tense (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Karen Maric, The Last Deflowerer (Andromeda Spaceways, February 2008)
• Tracie McBride, The Last Tiger (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Kirstyn McDermott, Painlessness (GUD, February 2008)
• Sandra McDonald, Recipe for Survival (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Maura McHugh, Home (Shroud Magazine, Issue 2, Mar/April 2008)
• Melissa Mead, Stepsister (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Joanne Merriam, Swan Song (Strange Horizons, 6 October 2008)
• T. L. Morganfield, Night Bird Soaring (GUD #3, August 2008)
• Michelle Muenzler, Dancing the Bones (Coyote Wild, August 2008)
• Ruth Nestvold, Mars: A Traveler's Guide (F&SF, January 2008)
• Hazel Marcus Ong, Roses (Sybil's Garage #5, April 2008)
• Jennifer Pelland, Sashenka Redux (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Corie Ralston, Looking for Friendship, Maybe More (Strange Horizons, 28 January 2008)
• Cat Rambo
  • The Dew Drop Coffee Lounge (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
  • Events at Fort Plentitude, (Weird Tales, January 2008)
  • Kallakak's Cousins (Asimov's, March 2008)
  • The Bumblety's Marble (Paper Cities, Senses Five Press, April 2008)
• Laura Bradley Rede, Smacking Back (Coyote Wild, August 2008)
• Jenn Reese, Taser (Paper Cities, Senses Five Press, April 2008)
• Kate Riedel, Pest Control (OnSpec, January 2008)
• Christie Skipper Ritchotte, Just After Midnight (Strange Horizons, 20 October 2008)
• Michaela Roessner, It's a Wonderful Life (F&SF, January 2008)
• Margaret Ronald, And Spare Not the Flock (Realms of Fantasy, February 2008)
• Mary Rosenblum, The Egg Man (Asimov's, February 2008)
• Sara Saab, No Bubblewrap for Little Guys (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Veronica Schanoes, Lost in the Supermarket (Sybil's Garage #5, April 2008)
• Meredith Schwartz, How to Hold Your Breath (Strange Horizons, 15 December 2008)
• Michelle Scott, Them (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Ekaterina Sedia, There is a Monster Under Helen's Bed (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
• Janni Lee Simner, Invasive Species (Coyote Wild, August 2008)
• Angela Slatter, Pressina's Daughters (OnSpec, January 2008)
• Cat Sparks, Palisade (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
• Cat Sparks, Sammarynda Deep (Paper Cities, Senses Five Press, April 2008)
• Nancy Springer, Rumple What? (F&SF, March 2008)
• Tricia Sullivan, Post-Ironic Stress Syndrome (The Starry Rift, 2008)
• Chris Szego, Valiant on the Wing (Strange Horizons, 14 April 2008)
• Anna Tambour, The Age of Fish, Post-Flowers (Paper Cities, Senses Five Press, April 2008)
• Sarah Thomas, Ki Do (The Way of the Trees) (Strange Horizons, 31 March 2008)
• Catherynne M. Valente, The City of Blind Delight (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
• Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest (Paper Cities, Senses Five Press, April 2008)
• Kaaron Warren, Down to the Silver Spirits (Paper Cities, Senses Five Press, April 2008)
• D. E. Wasden, The Artificial Sunlight of Memory (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Susan Wardle, The Children’s Crusade (Andromeda Spaceways, February 2008)
• Catherine Wells, Ghost Town (Asimov's, April/May 2008)
• K. D. Wentworth, Exit Strategy (F&SF, March 2008)
• Leslie What, #1 (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Kate Wilhelm, The Fountain of Neptune (F&SF, April 2008)
• Genevieve Williams, Kip, Running (Strange Horizons, 10 March 2008)
• Maggie L. Wood, Fallen (Coyote Wild, August 2008)
• Sharon E. Woods, Bull (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Erzebet YellowBoy, Waiting at the Window (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)

Novelettes

Hugo eligible; Hugo rules say a novelette is roughly 7,500-17,500 words, which may count as a novella for the World Fantasy and Stoker, or a short story for the World Fantasy or Sturgeon

• Elizabeth Bear
  • Shoggoths in Bloom (Asimov's, March 2008)
• Beth Bernobich
  • Air and Angels (Subterranean Online, Spring 2008)
  • Pig, Crane, Fox: Three Hearts Unfolding (Magic in the Mirrorstone, Mirrorstone Books, February 2008)
  • The Golden Octopus (Postscripts #15, August 2008)
• Samantha Cope, Cowboy Angel (Strange Horizons, 15 September 2008)
• Carol Emshwiller
  • Master of the Road to Nowhere (Asimov's, March 2008)
• Kathleen Ann Goonan, Memory Dog (Asimov's, April/May 2008)
• Ann Leckie, The God of Au (Helix, April 2008)
• Tanith Lee, The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Asimov's, January 2008)
• Meghan McCarron, The Magician's House (Strange Horizons, 14 July 2008)
• Jennifer Pelland, Brushstrokes (Unwelcome Bodies, February 2008)
• Vandana Singh, Oblivion: A Journey (Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen, July 2008)
• Leslie Claire Walker, Your Blood (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Kate Wilhelm, Strangers When We Meet (Asimov's, April/May 2008)

Novellas

Hugo, Stoker, Locus and World Fantasy eligible; Hugo rules say a novella is roughly 17,500-40,000 words, World Fantasy is 10,000-40,000 words

• Catherine Asaro, The Spacetime Pool (Analog, March 2008)
• Carolyn Ives Gilman, Arkfall (F&SF, September 2008)
• Ann Miller, Retrospect (F&SF, February 2008)
• Vera Nazarian, The Duke in His Castle (Norilana Books, June 2008)
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch, The Room of Lost Souls (Asimov's, April/May 2008)

Non-Fiction

Related Books

Hugo, Stoker (as Non-Fiction) and Locus eligible, non-fiction book relating to the genre

• Farah Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of Fantasy (April 2008, Wesleyan University Press)

Poetry

Poem

Stoker eligible

• Elizabeth Barrette, With Every Fine and Subtle Sense Perceive (Sybil's Garage #5, April 2008)
• Ruth Berman, Snow Angels (Asimov's, March 2008)
• Lida Broadhurst, Asylum (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Miranda Gaw, Last Supper (Sybil's Garage #5, April 2008)
• Erin Hoffman, Hyldegarde Speaks to Jacqueline (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)
• Pam McNew, No Word for Goodbye (Sybil's Garage #5, April 2008)
• Joanne Merriam, Death on Other Planets (Asimov's, April/May 2008)
• Adrienne J. Odasso, River Girl (Sybil's Garage #5, April 2008)
• Sonya Taaffe, Evighed (Electric Velocipede #14, May 2008)

Long Poem

Rhysling eligible

Short Poem

Rhysling eligible

Film and Television

Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

Hugo eligible

Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

Hugo eligible

• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles episodes:
  • Queen's Gambit written by Natalie Chaidez, first aired February 11, 2008
  • The Demon Hand written by Toni Graphia, first aired February 25, 2008

• Torchwood episodes:
  • To the Last Man written by Helen Raynor, first aired January 30, 2008
  • Meat written by Catherine Tregenna, first aired February 6, 2008
  • Adam written by Catherine Tregenna, first aired February 13, 2008

Script

Nebula eligible