Book prize
Locus Award for Best Novella winners
12 winners and 19 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.
The Locus Award for Best Novella has 12 winners we hold, from 1981 to 2025, and 19 nominees. The most recent winner here is What Feasts at Night (2025), first published by Tor Nightfire in 2024. Each entry links to the first edition and the points that identify it.
Won
Winners
- 2025 What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher First edition: Tor Nightfire 2024
- 2024 Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2023
- 2023 Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers First edition: Tor 2022
- 2022 Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells First edition: Recorded Books 2021
- 2018 All Systems Red by Martha Wells First edition: Tor.com 2017
- 2017 Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2016
- 2016 Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds First edition: Tachyon Publications 2015
- 2011 The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang First edition: Subterranean Press 2010
- 2009 Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link First edition: Viking 2008
- 1997 Bellwether by Connie Willis First edition: Bantam Books 1996
- 1996 Remake by Connie Willis First edition: M.V. Ziesing 1994
- 1981 Nightflyers by George R. R. Martin First edition not yet identified
Shortlisted and nominated
Also in the running
- 2022 A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers First edition: Tor.com 2021
- 2022 Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2021
- 2021 Finna by Nino Cipri First edition: Tor.com 2020
- 2021 Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2020
- 2021 The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo First edition: Tor 2020
- 2021 Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey First edition: Tor.com 2020
- 2020 Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2019
- 2020 The Deep by Daveed Diggs First edition: Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio 2019
- 2020 To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers First edition not yet identified
- 2019 Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells First edition: Recorded Books 2018
- 2019 The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2018
- 2019 The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts First edition: Tachyon Publications 2018
- 2019 The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard First edition: Subterranean Press 2018
- 2018 Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2017
- 2017 The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle First edition not yet identified
- 2016 Binti by Nnedi Okorafor First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2015
- 2008 The Game by Diana Wynne Jones First edition: Puffin 2007
- 1991 The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman First edition: Morrow 1990
- 1982 True Names by Vernor Vinge First edition not yet identified
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