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.

• 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)
• Elizabeth Bear, Dust (January 2008, Bantam Spectra)
• Anne Bishop, Tangled Webs (March 2008, Roc)
• Kate Elliott, Shadow Gate (February 2008, Little Brown UK/Orbit)
• 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)
• Tanith Lee, Tempting the Gods (April 2008, Wildside Press)
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia (April 2008, Harcourt)
• Judith Merril, Not Only a Woman (February 2008, NESFA Press)
• Elizabeth Moon, Victory Conditions (February 2008, Ballantine Del Rey)
• Jennifer Stevenson, The Brass Bed (April 2008, Ballantine)
• Karen Traviss, Judge (April 2008, Eos)
• Michelle West, The Hidden City (March 2008, DAW)

First Novel

Locus and Bram Stoker eligible

• Jo Graham, Black Ships (March 2008, Orbit US)

Collections

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

• 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

• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 4, Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy & Debbie Notkin, eds. (January 2008, Tachyon Publications, anth)
• The New Weird, Ann VanderMeer (with Jeff VanderMeer) ed., (February 2008, Tachyon Publications)
• Paper Cities, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (April 2008, Senses Five Press)

Short Fiction

Short Stories

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

• Sue Burke, Spiders (Asimov's, March 2008)
• Merrie Haskell, An Almanac for the Alien Invaders (Asimov's, April/May 2008)
• Cat Rambo, Kallakak's Cousins (Asimov's, March 2008)
• Catherine Wells, Ghost Town (Asimov's, April/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)
• Carol Emshwiller
  • Master of the Road to Nowhere (Asimov's, March 2008)
• Kathleen Ann Goonan, Memory Dog (Asimov's, April/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

• 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

• Ruth Berman, Snow Angels (Asimov's, March 2008)
• Joanne Merriam, Death on Other Planets (Asimov's, April/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

Script

Nebula eligible