Kelly Link


science fiction awards database

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2024
The Book of Love • novel • Penguin Random House/Random House
awards:
• Nebula Awards 2025 — novel — nomination
• Locus Awards 2025 — first novel — nomination
• Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2025 — finalist

2023
White Cat, Black Dog • collection • Random House
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2024 — collection — nomination
• Locus Awards 2024 — collection — winner
“Prince Hat Underground” • short fiction • White Cat, Black Dog
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2024 — novella — nomination
• Locus Awards 2024 — novelette — 5th place

2022
World Fantasy Awards 2023 — special award, professional — nomination

2021
“Skinder's Veil” • short fiction • When Things Get Dark
awards:
• Locus Awards 2022 — novelette — 8th place

2019
“The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear” • short fiction • Tin House 2019
awards:
• Locus Awards 2020 — short story — 7th place
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2020 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2020

2016
World Fantasy Awards 2017 — special award, professional — nomination

2015
Get in Trouble • collection • Random House
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2016 — collection — nomination
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2016 — collection — nomination
citations:
• 2020: The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time, Time Magazine
“The Game of Smash and Recovery” • short fiction • Strange Horizons 17 Oct 2015
awards:
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2016 — winner
anthologies:
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume Ten, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Rebellion/Solaris 2016
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2016
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, ed. Karen Joy Fowler & John Joseph Adams, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner 2016
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-third Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Griffin 2016

2014
Monstrous Affections (KL & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) • anthology • Candlewick Press
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2015 — anthology — winner
• Locus Awards 2015 — anthology — 6th place
“The New Boyfriend” • short fiction • Monstrous Affections
awards:
• Locus Awards 2015 — novelette — 11th place
“The Lady and the Fox” • short fiction • My True Love Gave to Me
awards:
• Locus Awards 2015 — short story — 18th place
anthologies:
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Nine, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris 2015
“I Can See Right Through You” • short fiction • McSweeney's #48
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2015 — short fiction — nomination
• Locus Awards 2015 — novelette — 17th place (tie)
anthologies:
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, ed. Joe Hill & John Joseph Adams, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner 2015
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2015
Locus Awards 2015 — editor — 7th place

2013
Locus Awards 2014 — editor — 9th place

2012
“Two Houses” • short fiction • Shadow Show: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2013 — short fiction — nomination
• Locus Awards 2013 — short story — 11th place
anthologies:
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Seven, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2013
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2013
Locus Awards 2013 — editor — 13th place

2011
Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (KL & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) • anthology • Candlewick Press
awards:
• Locus Awards 2012 — anthology — 4th place
“Valley of the Girls” • short fiction • Subterranean Sum 2011
awards:
• Locus Awards 2012 — short story — 10th place
anthologies:
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2012
“The Summer People” • short fiction • Tin House 49; Steampunk!
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2012 — novelette — winner
• Locus Awards 2012 — novelette — 2nd place
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2012
Locus Awards 2012 — editor — 14th place

2010
Locus Awards 2011 — editor — 18th place
As Judge — World Fantasy Awards 2010

2009
“The Cinderella Game” • short fiction • Troll's Eye View
awards:
• Locus Awards 2010 — short story — 9th place
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2010
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2010
• Troll's Eye View, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking 2009
“Secret Identity” • short fiction • Geektastic
awards:
• Locus Awards 2010 — novelette — 10th place
anthologies:
• Superheroes, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2013
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2010
Locus Awards 2010 — editor — 12th place

2008
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-first Annual Collection (Ellen Datlow, KL & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) • anthology • St. Martin's Griffin
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2009 — anthology — nomination
• Locus Awards 2009 — anthology — 2nd place
Pretty Monsters • collection • Viking
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2009 — collection — nomination
• Locus Awards 2009 — collection — 3rd place
“The Surfer” • short fiction • The Starry Rift
awards:
• Locus Awards 2009 — novella — 10th place
anthologies:
• The Starry Rift, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Viking 2008
“Pretty Monsters” • short fiction • Pretty Monsters
awards:
• Locus Awards 2009 — novella — winner
anthologies:
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2009
World Fantasy Awards 2009 — special award, professional — winner
Locus Awards 2009 — editor — 12th place

2007
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection (by Ellen Datlow, KL & Gavin J. Grant, ed.) • anthology • St. Martin's Griffin
awards:
• Locus Awards 2008 — anthology — 4th place
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (KL & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) • anthology • Ballantine Del Rey
awards:
• Locus Awards 2008 — anthology — 5th place
Stranger Things Happen / Magic for Beginners • collection
awards:
• Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2008 — Translated Short Story or Collection — winner
“The Wrong Grave” • The Restless Dead
anthologies:
• The Living Dead 2, ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books 2010
“The Constable of Abal” • short fiction • The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
awards:
• Locus Awards 2008 — novelette — 19th place
anthologies:
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Two, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2008
• The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking 2007
“Light” • short fiction • Tin House Fall 2007
awards:
• Locus Awards 2008 — novelette — 15th place
anthologies:
• Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2008 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Wildside Press/Prime Books 2008
Locus Awards 2008 — editor — 8th place

2006
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (Gavin Grant & KL, eds.)
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2007 — semiprozine — nomination
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection (Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant & KL, eds.) • anthology • St. Martin's Griffin
awards:
• British Fantasy Awards 2007 — anthology — nomination
• Locus Awards 2007 — anthology — 2nd place
“The Wizards of Perfil” • Firebirds Rising
anthologies:
• The Way of the Wizard, ed. John Joseph Adams, Prime Books 2010
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume One, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2007
Locus Awards 2007 — editor — 9th place
As Judge — James White Award 2006

2005
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (Ellen Datlow, KL & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) • anthology • St. Martin's Griffin
awards:
• Locus Awards 2006 — anthology — winner
Magic for Beginners • collection • Small Beer Press
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2006 — collection — nomination
• Bram Stoker Awards 2006 — fiction collection — nomination
• Locus Awards 2006 — collection — winner
• International Horror Guild Awards 2006 — collection — nomination
• SF Site Readers Poll 2006 — sf/fantasy book — 5th place
“The Great Divorce” • short fiction • One Story 7 Oct 2005
awards:
• Locus Awards 2006 — short story — 11th place
“Some Zombie Contingency Plans” • short fiction • Magic for Beginners
awards:
• Bram Stoker Awards 2006 — long fiction — nomination
• Locus Awards 2006 — short story — 2nd place
anthologies:
• The Living Dead, ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books 2008
“Monster” • short fiction • Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things that Aren't as Scary...
awards:
• Locus Awards 2006 — short story — 8th place
anthologies:
• Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Locus Press 2006
• Year’s Best Fantasy 6, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Tachyon Publications 2006
“Magic for Beginners” • short fiction • Magic for Beginners Small Beer Press; F&SF Sep 2005
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2006 — novella — nomination
• Nebula Awards 2006 — novella — winner
• World Fantasy Awards 2006 — novella — nomination
• British SF Association Awards 2006 — short fiction — winner
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2006 — third place
• Locus Awards 2006 — novella — winner
anthologies:
• Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2017
• Other Worlds Than These, ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books 2012
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2007, ed. Mike Resnick, Penguin/Roc 2007
• Best Short Novels: 2006, ed. Jonathan Strahan, SFBC 2006
Locus Awards 2006 — editor — 6th place

2004
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (Ellen Datlow, KL & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) • anthology • St. Martin's Griffin
awards:
• Bram Stoker Awards 2005 — anthology — winner
• British Fantasy Awards 2005 — anthology — nomination
• Locus Awards 2005 — anthology — 2nd place
“The Faery Handbag” • short fiction • The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2005 — novelette — winner
• Nebula Awards 2006 — novelette — winner
• World Fantasy Awards 2005 — short fiction — nomination
• British SF Association Awards 2005 — short fiction — nomination
• Locus Awards 2005 — novelette — winner (tie)
• SLF Fountain Award 2005 — honorable mention
anthologies:
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2007, ed. Mike Resnick, Penguin/Roc 2007
• Fantasy: The Best of 2004, ed. Karen Haber & Jonathan Strahan, ibooks 2005
• The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking 2004
“Stone Animals” • short fiction • Conjunctions 43: Beyond Arcadia
awards:
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2005 — shortlist
• Locus Awards 2005 — novelette — 29th place
anthologies:
• American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now, ed. Peter Straub, Library of America 2009
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Sixteen, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson 2005
World Fantasy Awards 2005 — special award, professional — nomination
Locus Awards 2005 — editor — 6th place
As Judge — SLF Fountain Award 2004

2003
Trampoline: An Anthology • anthology • Small Beer Press
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2004 — anthology — nomination
• Locus Awards 2004 — anthology — 10th place
“The Hortlak” • short fiction • The Dark: New Ghost Stories
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2004 — novella — nomination
• Locus Awards 2004 — novelette — 22nd place
anthologies:
• Zombies: The Recent Dead, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2010
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant & Kelly Link, St. Martin’s Griffin 2004
• The Dark: New Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2003
“Catskin” • short fiction • McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
awards:
• Locus Awards 2004 — novelette — 25th place (tie)
anthologies:
• Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2012
• Year’s Best Fantasy 4, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, HarperCollins/Eos 2004
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Fourteen, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson 2003
World Fantasy Awards 2004 — special award, professional — nomination
Locus Awards 2004 — editor — 9th place

2002
“Lull” • short fiction • Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists
awards:
• Locus Awards 2003 — novelette — 6th place
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s 2003
World Fantasy Awards 2003 — special award, non-professional — nomination
Locus Awards 2003 — editor — 10th place

2001
Stranger Things Happen • collection • Small Beer Press
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2002 — collection — nomination
• Locus Awards 2002 — collection — 7th place
• SF Site Readers Poll 2002 — sf/fantasy book — 5th place
citations:
• 2012: The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn
• 1988: A Basic Science Fiction Library, James Gunn
“Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water” • Stranger Things Happen
anthologies:
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Thirteen, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson 2002
“Louise's Ghost” • short fiction • Stranger Things Happen
awards:
• Nebula Awards 2002 — novelette — winner
anthologies:
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2003, ed. Nancy Kress, Roc 2003
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s 2002

2000
“Swans” • A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales
anthologies:
• A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Simon & Schuster 2000
“Shoe and Marriage” • short fiction • 4 Stories
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2001 — short fiction — nomination
“Ship, Sea, Mountain, Sky” (by Gavin J. Grant & KL) • Altair #6&7 2000
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s Griffin 2001
As Judge — James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2000

1999
“The Girl Detective” • Event Horizon Online Mar 16 1999
anthologies:
• Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy, ed. Ellen Datlow, Prime Books 2010
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s Griffin 2000

1998
“Travels with the Snow Queen” • short fiction • Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #1 Winter 1997/1998
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 1999 — short story — nomination
• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 1998 — winner
“The Specialist's Hat” • short fiction • Event Horizon 15 Nov 1998
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 1999 — short story — winner
anthologies:
• The Weird, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, Tor 2012
• Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, ed. James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, Tachyon Publications 2006
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Ten, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson 1999
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s Griffin 1999

1996
“Travels with the Snow Queen” • Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Win 1996
anthologies:
• Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold, ed. Paula Guran, Night Shade Books 2016
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1, ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin & Jeffrey D. Smith, Tachyon Publications 2004
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s Griffin 1999
“Flying Lessons” • Asimov's Oct/Nov 1996
anthologies:
• Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 30th Anniversary Anthology, ed. Sheila Williams, Tachyon Publications 2007



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