Awards Summary
Major Awards: 6
Locus Awards: 5
Other Awards: 4
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 81
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
(34 nominations; 5 wins)
Space Oddity (Saga; Corsair UK)
sf novel 7th place
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
Seiun Awards
for SF/F works published in Japan, voted by members of annual Japanese SF Con
(1 nomination)
Space Opera
translated novel nomination
(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