Awards Summary
Major Awards: 6
Locus Awards: 5
Other Awards: 4
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 79
Times Served as Judge: 1
Hugo Awards —
for SF/F works, voted by members of annual World Science Fiction Convention
(12 nominations; 2 wins)
“The Difference Between Love and Time” (Someone in Time)
— novelette — nomination
The Past Is Red (Tordotcom)
— novella — nomination
“L'Esprit de L'Escalier” (Tor.com 25 Aug 2021)
— novelette — nomination
“The Sin of America” (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2021)
— short story — nomination
Space Opera (Saga)
— novel — nomination
Six-Gun Snow White (Subterranean Press)
— novella — nomination
“Fade to White” (Clarkesworld Aug 2012)
— novelette — nomination
Silently and Very Fast (WSFA)
— novella — nomination
Palimpsest (Bantam Spectra)
— novel — nomination
Nebula Awards —
for SF/F works, voted by SF & Fantasy Writers of America professional membership
(3 nominations)
Six-Gun Snow White (Subterranean)
— novella — nomination
“Fade to White” (Clarkesworld Aug 2012)
— novelette — nomination
Silently and Very Fast (WSFA)
— novella — nomination
(4 nominations)
Six-Gun Snow White (Subterranean)
— novella — nomination
Silently and Very Fast (WSFA Press; Clarkesworld)
— novella — nomination
“A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica” (Clarkesworld Magazine May 2008)
— short story — nomination
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (Bantam Spectra)
— novel — nomination
Andre Norton Award —
for YA SF/F works, presented by SFWA in parallel with the Nebula Awards
(1 nomination; 1 win)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (www.catherynnemvalente.com)
— winner
British Fantasy Awards —
for fantasy works published in the UK, voted by British Fantasy Society members, juried since 2012
(1 nomination)
The Future Is Blue (Subterranean)
— collection — nomination
Eugie Awards —
for short fiction that inspires, enlightens, and entertains, juried
(3 nominations; 1 win)
“L'Esprit de L'Escalier” (Tor.com 25 Aug 2021)
— finalist
“The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies May 2016)
— finalist
“The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild” (Clarkesworld Jan,Mar 2015)
— winner
(2 nominations; 1 win)
Radiance (Tor)
— honor list
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (Bantam Spectra)
— winner (tie)
(1 nomination)
Space Opera (Saga)
— finalist
Le Guin Prize —
for single book-length work of imaginative fiction; juried
(1 nomination)
The Past Is Red (Tordotcom)
— shortlist
Lodestar Award —
for YA SF/F works, presented by Worldcon in parallel with the Hugo Awards
(1 nomination)
Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods (McElderry)
— finalist
(1 nomination)
Comfort Me with Apples (Tordotcom)
— novella — nomination
(2 nominations; 1 win)
“The Future is Blue” (Drowned Worlds)
— winner
Silently and Very Fast (WSFA; Clarkesworld Oct 2011)
— finalist
Locus Awards —
for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(33 nominations; 5 wins)
The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One (Subterranean)
— collection — 7th place
“The Difference Between Love and Time” (Someone in Time)
— novelette — 4th place
Comfort Me with Apples (Tordotcom)
— novella — 7th place
The Past Is Red (Tordotcom)
— novella — 6th place
“L'Esprit de L'Escalier” (Tor.com 25 Aug 2021)
— novelette — 2nd place
“The Sin of America” (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2021)
— short story — 5th place
“Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo” (Strange Horizons 7 Sep 2020)
— novelette — 7th place
Space Opera (Saga)
— sf novel — 2nd place
The Future Is Blue (Subterranean)
— collection — 3rd place
The Refrigerator Monologues (Saga)
— collection — 5th place
“The Future is Blue” (Drowned Worlds)
— novelette — 5th place
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (Feiwel and Friends)
— young adult book — winner
Six-Gun Snow White (Subterranean)
— novella — winner
The Bread We Eat in Dreams (Subterranean)
— collection — 3rd place
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (Feiwel and Friends; Much-in-Little 2013)
— young adult book — 3rd place
“Coming of Age on Barsoom” (Under the Moons of Mars)
— short story — 7th place
“One Breath, One Stroke” (The Future Is Japanese)
— short story — 16th place
Deathless (Tor)
— fantasy novel — 5th place
The Folded World (Night Shade)
— fantasy novel — 9th place
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Feiwel and Friends)
— young adult book — winner
Silently and Very Fast (WSFA)
— novella — winner
“White Lines on a Green Field” (Subterranean Fal 2011)
— novelette — winner
“The Bread We Eat in Dreams” (Apex Nov 2011)
— short story — 4th place
— editor — 9th place
The Habitation of the Blessed (Night Shade)
— fantasy novel — 7th place
“How to Become a Mars Overlord” (Lightspeed Aug 2010)
— short story — 7th place
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time” (Clarkesworld Aug 2010)
— short story — 3rd place
Palimpsest (Bantam Spectra)
— fantasy novel — 4th place
“A Delicate Architecture” (Troll's Eye View)
— short story — 12th place
“The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew” (Clarkesworld Magazine Aug 2009)
— short story — 11th place
“A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica” (Clarkesworld Magazine May 2008)
— short story — 11th place
The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (Bantam Spectra)
— fantasy novel — 9th place
The Labyrinth (Prime Books)
— first novel — 14th place
(3 nominations)
Palimpsest (Bantam Spectra)
— novel — nomination
“Bones Like Black Sugar” (Fantasy #1)
— short fiction — nomination
“The Dance of Uzume-no-Ama” (Apocrypha)
— other work — nomination
(1 nomination; 1 win)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
— foreign YA novel — winner
(1 nomination; 1 win)
Palimpsest (Bantam Spectra)
— sf/fantasy/horror — winner
Mythopoeic Awards —
for fantasy works in the spirit of the Inklings, voted by members of the Mythopoeic Society
(4 nominations; 1 win)
Deathless (Tor)
— adult literature — nomination
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Feiwel and Friends)
— children's literature — nomination
Palimpsest (Bantam Spectra)
— adult literature — nomination
The Orphan's Tales (Bantam Spectra)
— adult literature — winner
Rhysling Awards —
for SF/F poetry, voted by members of the SF Poetry Association
(3 nominations; 1 win)
“Damascus Divides the Lovers by Zero, or the City is Never Finished” (by
Amal El-Mohtar & CMV) (Lone Star Stories #30, Dec 2008)
— long poem — 3rd place
“The Seven Devils of Central California” (Farrago's Wainscot Summer 2007)
— long poem — winner
“The Eight Legs of Grandmother Spider”
— long poem — 2nd place
(1 nomination)
“Fade to White” (Clarkesworld #71 Aug 2012)
— short form — nomination
WSFA Small Press Award —
for short fiction from small press publications, voted by member of Washington SF Assn
(1 nomination)
“The Days of Flaming Motorcycles” (Dark Faith)
— shortlist — nomination