The Locus Award for Best Short Story is one of a series of Locus Awards given every year by Locus magazine. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year. Originally known as the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction, the first award in this category was presented in 1971.
Winners +Award winners Year Short story Author Publication 1971 1972 1973 Basilisk 1974 1975 1976 Croatoan 1977 Tricentennial 1978 Jeffty Is Five 1979 Count the Clock that Tells the Time 1980 1981 Grotto of the Dancing Deer 1982 1983 Sur 1984 Beyond the Dead Reef 1985 Salvador 1986 With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole 1987 Robot Dreams 1988 Angel 1989 Eidolons 1990 Lost Boys 1991 Bears Discover Fire 1992 Buffalo 1993 Even the Queen 1994 Close Encounter 1995 None So Blind 1996 1997 Gone 1998 Itsy Bitsy Spider 1999 Maneki Neko 2000 macs 2001 2002 2003 October in the Chair 2004 Closing Time 2005 Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire 2006 Sunbird 2007 How to Talk to Girls at Parties 2008 2009 Exhalation 2010 Songs of the Dying Earth 2011 Songs of Love and Death 2012 2013 Immersion Clarkesworld #69 2014 Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales 2015 Kaleidoscope 2016 Cat Pictures Please Clarkesworld #110 2017 Seasons of Glass and Iron 2018 Tor.com 2019 Fireside #52 2020 2021 Little Free Library Tor.com 2022 Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather Uncanny #39 2023 Rabbit Test Uncanny #49 2024 How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub Uncanny #50 2025 Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole Clarkesworld 2026 In My CountryClarkesworld 4/25
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