Theodora Goss
Awards Summary
Major Awards: 1
Locus Awards: 1
Other Awards: 4
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 44
— Major Awards —
Nebula Awards — for SF/F works, voted by SF & Fantasy Writers of America professional membership
(2 nominations)
2018:
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (Saga)
novel — nomination
2007:
“Pip and the Fairies” (Strange Horizons 3 Oct 2005)
short story — nomination
World Fantasy Awards — for Fantasy works; juried, with nominations from World Fantasy Con members
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2018:
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (Saga)
novel — nomination
2008:
“Singing of Mount Abora” (Logorrhea)
short story — winner
2005:
“The Wings of Meister Wilhelm” (Polyphony, Volume 4)
short fiction — nomination
Shirley Jackson Awards — for works of psychological horror and dark fantastic, juried
(1 nomination)
2020:
“How to Become a Witch-Queen” (Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery)
short fiction — nomination
— Locus Awards and Poll —
Locus Awards — for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(22 nominations; 1 win)
2026:
Letters from an Imaginary Country (Tachyon)
collection — nomination (pending)
2020:
“A Country Called Winter” (Snow White Learns Witchcraft)
novelette — 9th place
2020:
Snow White Learns Witchcraft (Mythic Delirium)
collection — 4th place
2019:
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (Saga)
fantasy novel — 3rd place
2019:
“Queen Lily” (Lightspeed Nov 2018)
novelette — 10th place
2018:
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (Saga)
first novel — winner
2018:
“Come See the Living Dryad” (Tor.com 9 Mar 2017)
novelette — 7th place
2017:
“Red as Blood and White as Bone” (Tor.com 4 May 2016)
novelette — 7th place
2015:
“Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology” (Lightspeed Jul 2014)
short story — 33rd place
2014:
“Estella Saves the Village” (Queen Victoria's Book of Spells)
short story — 22nd place
2013:
The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story (Quirk)
novelette — 23rd place
2013:
“England Under the White Witch” (Clarkesworld Oct 2012)
short story — 24th place
2012:
“Pug” (Asimov's Jul 2011)
short story — 16th place
2011:
“The Mad Scientist's Daughter” (Strange Horizons 18-25 Jan 2010)
novelette — 2nd place
2011:
“Fair Ladies” (Apex 2 Aug 2010)
short story — 32nd place
2010:
“Child-Empress of Mars” (Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing)
short story — 17th place
2008:
“Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon” (Realms of Fantasy Jun 2007)
novelette — 31st place
2008:
“Catherine and the Satyr” (Strange Horizons Oct 2007)
short story — 40th place
2008:
“Singing of Mount Abora” (Logorrhea)
short story — 33rd place
2007:
“Lessons with Miss Gray” (Fantasy Magazine #2)
novelette — 15th place
2007:
In the Forest of Forgetting (Prime Books)
collection — 9th place
2006:
“Pip and the Fairies” (Strange Horizons 3 Oct 2005)
short story — 17th place
— Other Awards —
Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award — for best first novel, voted by members of annual Balticon
(1 nomination)
2018:
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (Saga)
finalist
James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award — (renamed the Otherwise Award in 2020)
(1 nomination)
2008:
Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing (Delia Sherman & TG, eds.) (Interstitial Arts Foundation/Small Beer Press)
honor list
Lord Ruthven Awards — for fiction and nonfiction about vampires, juried
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2019:
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
fiction — winner
Mythopoeic Awards — for fantasy works in the spirit of the Inklings, voted by members of the Mythopoeic Society
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2020:
Snow White Learns Witchcraft (Mythic Delirium)
adult literature — winner
2015:
Songs for Ophelia (Papveria)
adult literature — nomination
2008:
In the Forest of Forgetting (Prime Books)
adult literature — nomination
Rhysling Awards — for SF/F poetry, voted by members of the SF Poetry Association
(4 nominations; 2 wins)
2024:
“The Witch Makes Her To-Do List” (Uncanny Jan 2023)
long poem — 2nd place
2020:
“The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly” (Uncanny May/Jun 2019)
long poem — 2nd place
2017:
“Rose Child” (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2016)
long poem — winner
2004:
“Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks” (Mythic Delirium Win/Spr 2003)
long poem — winner
Seiun Awards — for SF/F works published in Japan, voted by members of annual Japanese SF Con
(4 nominations)
2025:
“Pellargonia: A Letter to the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology”
translated story — nomination
2021:
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
translated novel — nomination
2016:
“Beautiful Boys”
translated story — nomination
2014:
“Christopher Raven”
translated short form — nomination
SLF Fountain Award — for speculative fiction short story, juried
(1 nomination)
2006:
“Pip and the Fairies” (Strange Horizons)
honorable mention
William L. Crawford - IAFA Fantasy Award — for first fantasy book, juried
(1 nomination)
2007:
In the Forest of Forgetting (Prime Books)
finalist
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