The following is a list of winners and shortlisted works of the Otherwise Award, an annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated (as the James Tiptree Jr. Award) in February 1991 by science fiction authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, and is awarded and discussed yearly at WisCon. The name of the award was changed to its current form in October 2019.
The judges also announce an Honor List each year.
Winners and Honor List edit
Winning titles are marked by a blue background.
| Year | Author(s) | Work | Publisher | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Eleanor Arnason | A Woman of the Iron People | William Morrow | Winner |
| Gwyneth Jones | White Queen | Victor Gollancz Ltd | Winner | |
| John Barnes | Orbital Resonance | Tor | Honor | |
| Karen Joy Fowler | Sarah Canary | Henry Holt and Company | Honor | |
| Mary Gentle | The Architecture of Desire | Bantam Books | Honor | |
| Greer Gilman | Moonwise | NAL / Roc Books | Honor | |
| Marge Piercy | He, She and It | Summit Books | Honor | |
| 1992 | Maureen F. McHugh | China Mountain Zhang | Tor | Winner |
| Carol Emshwiller | Venus Rising | Edgewood Press | Honor | |
| Ian R. MacLeod | "Grownups" in Voyages by Starlight | Davis Publications | Honor | |
| Judith Moffett | Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream | St. Martin's Press | Honor | |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Red Mars | HarperCollins | Honor | |
| Sue Thomas | Correspondence | The Women's Press | Honor | |
| Lisa Tuttle | Lost Futures | Grafton | Honor | |
| Élisabeth Vonarburg | In the Mother's Land (Chroniques du pays des mères) | Bantam Books | Honor | |
| 1993 | Nicola Griffith | Ammonite | Del Ray | Winner |
| Eleanor Arnason | Ring of Swords | Tor | Honor | |
| Margaret Atwood | The Robber Bride | Bantam Books | Honor | |
| Sybil Claiborne | In the Garden of Dead Cars | Cleis Press | Honor | |
| L. Timmel Duchamp | "Motherhood" in Full Spectrum 4 | Bantam Books | Honor | |
| Rodrigo Garcia y Robertson | "The Other Magpie" | Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines | Honor | |
| James Patrick Kelly | "Chemistry" | Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines | Honor | |
| Laurie J. Marks | Dancing Jack | DAW Books | Honor | |
| Ian McDonald | "Some Strange Desire" in The Best of Omni III | Omni Publications International Ltd. | Honor | |
| Alice Nunn | Illicit Passage | Woman's Redress Press | Honor | |
| Paul Park | Coelestis | HarperCollins | Honor | |
| 1994 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "The Matter of Seggri" in Crank! #3 Spring 1994 | Broken Mirrors Press | Winner |
| Nancy Springer | Larque on the Wing | AvoNova | Winner | |
| Eleanor Arnason | "The Lovers" in Asimov's Science Fiction July 1994 | Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines | Honor | |
| Suzy McKee Charnas | The Furies | Tor | Honor | |
| L. Warren Douglas | Cannon's Orb | Del Ray | Honor | |
| Greg Egan | "Cocoon" in Asimov's Science Fiction May 1994 | Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines | Honor | |
| Ellen Frye | Amazon Story Bones | Spinsters Ink | Honor | |
| Gwyneth Jones | North Wind | Victor Gollancz Ltd | Honor | |
| Graham Joyce and Peter F. Hamilton | "Eat Reecebread" in Interzone #86 August 1994 | David Pringle | Honor | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | "Forgiveness Day" in Asimov's Science Fiction November 1994 | Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines | Honor | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | A Fisherman of the Inland Sea | HarperCollins | ||
| Rachel Pollack | Temporary Agency | St. Martin's Press | Honor | |
| Geoff Ryman | Unconquered Countries | St. Martin's Press | Honor | |
| Melissa Scott | Trouble and Her Friends | Tor | Honor | |
| Delia Sherman | "Young Woman in a Garden" in Xanadu | Tor | Honor | |
| George Turner | Genetic Soldier | William Morrow | Honor | |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Hand | Waking the Moon | HarperPrism | Winner |
| Theodore Roszak | The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein | Random House | Winner | |
| Kelley Eskridge | "And Salome Danced" in Little Deaths | Millennium / Dell Abyss | Honor | |
| Kit Reed | Little Sisters of the Apocalypse | Black Ice Books | Honor | |
| Lisa Tuttle | "Food Man" | Lisa Tuttle (chapbook) | Honor | |
| Terri Windling (ed.) | The Armless Maiden and Other Stories for Childhood's Survivors | Tor | Honor | |
| Suzy McKee Charnas | Motherlines | Berkeley-Putnam | Retrospective Award | |
| Suzy McKee Charnas | Walk to the End of the World | Ballantine | Retrospective Award | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | The Left Hand of Darkness | Walker & Co. | Retrospective Award | |
| Joanna Russ | The Female Man | Bantam Books | Retrospective Award | |
| Joanna Russ | "When It Changed" in Again, Dangerous Visions | Doubleday | Retrospective Award | |
| Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | Houghton Mifflin | Retrospective Honor | |
| Iain Banks | The Wasp Factory | Macmillan | Retrospective Honor | |
| Katherine Burdekin | Swastika Night | Feminist Press | Retrospective Honor | |
| Octavia E. Butler | Wild Seed | Doubleday | Retrospective Honor | |
| Samuel R. Delany | Babel-17 | Ace | Retrospective Honor | |
| Samuel R. Delany | Triton | Ace | Retrospective Honor | |
| Carol Emshwiller | Carmen Dog | Mercury Press | Retrospective Honor | |
| Sonya Dorman Hess | "When I Was Miss Dow" in Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s | Vintage Books | Retrospective Honor | |
| Elizabeth A. Lynn | Watchtower | Berkley Books | Retrospective Honor | |
| Vonda N. McIntyre | Dreamsnake | Houghton Mifflin | Retrospective Honor | |
| Naomi Mitchison | Memoirs of a Spacewoman | Victor Gollancz Ltd | Retrospective Honor | |
| Marge Piercy | Woman on the Edge of Time | Fawcett | Retrospective Honor | |
| Joanna Russ | The Two of Them | Berkley-Putnam | Retrospective Honor | |
| Pamela Sargent (ed.) | Women of Wonder (Series): Women of Wonder, More Women of Wonder, The New Women of Wonder | Vintage Books | Retrospective Honor | |
| John Varley (ed.) | The Barbie Murders | Berkley Books | Retrospective Honor | |
| Kate Wilhelm | The Clewiston Test | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Retrospective Honor | |
| Monique Wittig | Les Guérillères | Peter Owen Publishers | Retrospective Honor | |
| Pamela Zoline | The Heat Death of the Universe | Harcourt Brace | Retrospective Honor | |
| 1996 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "Mountain Ways" in Asimov's Science Fiction August 1996 | Winner | |
| Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow | Random House | Winner | |
| Fred Chappell | "The Silent Woman" in Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You | St. Martin's Press | Honor | |
| Suzy McKee Charnas | "Beauty and the Opera, or The Phantom Beast" in Asimov's Science Fiction March 1996 | Dell Magazines | Honor | |
| L. Timmel Duchamp | "Welcome, Kid, to the Real World" in Tales of the Unanticipated Spring/Summer/Fall 1996 | Minnesota Science Fiction Society | Honor | |
| Alasdair Gray | A History Maker | Canongate Books | Honor | |
| Jonathan Lethem | "Five Fucks" in The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye | Harcourt Brace | Honor | |
| Pat Murphy | Nadya | Tor | Honor | |
| Rachel Pollack | Godmother Night | St. Martin's Press | Honor | |
| Lisa Tuttle | The Pillow Friend | White Wolf | Honor | |
| Tess Williams | "And She Was the Word" in Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy 22/23 | Eidolon Publications | Honor | |
| Sue Woolfe | Leaning Towards Infinity | Vintage Books | Honor | |
| 1997 | Candas Jane Dorsey | Black Wine | Tor | Winner |
| Kelly Link | "Travels with the Snow Queen" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Volume 1, Number 1, winter 1996-7 | Small Beer Press | Winner | |
| Storm Constantine | "The Oracle Lips" in The Fortune Teller | DAW Books | Honor | |
| Paul Di Filippo | "Alice, Alfie, Ted and the Aliens" in i 117 | Honor | ||
| Emma Donoghue | Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins | HarperCollins | Honor | |
| L. Timmel Duchamp | "The Apprenticeship of Isabetta di Pietro Cavazzi" in Asimov's Science Fiction September 1997 | Honor | ||
| Molly Gloss | The Dazzle of Day | Tor | Honor | |
| M. John Harrison | Signs of Life | St. Martin's Press | Honor | |
| Gwyneth Jones | "Balinese Dancer" in Asimov's Science Fiction September 1997 | Honor | ||
| Ian McDonald | Sacrifice of Fools | Victor Gollancz Ltd | Honor | |
| Vonda N. McIntyre | The Moon and the Sun | Pocket Books | Honor | |
| Shani Mootoo | Cereus Blooms at Night | Press Gang Publishers | Honor | |
| Salman Rushdie | "The Firebird's Nest" in The New Yorker June 23, 1997 | Condé Nast | Honor | |
| Paul Witcover | Waking Beauty | HarperPrism | Honor | |
| 1998 | Raphael Carter | "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" in Starlight 2 | Tor | Winner |
| Eleanor Arnason | "The Gauze Banner" in More Amazing Stories | Tor | Honor | |
| Octavia E. Butler | Parable of the Talents | Seven Stories Press | Honor | |
| Ted Chiang | "Story of Your Life" in Starlight 2 | Tor | Honor | |
| Stella Duffy | Singling Out The Couples | Sceptre | Honor | |
| Karen Joy Fowler | Black Glass | Henry Holt and Company | Honor | |
| Maggie Gee | The Ice People | Richard Cohen Books | Honor | |
| Carolyn Ives Gilman | Halfway Human | Avon Eos | Honor | |
| Phyllis Gotlieb | Flesh and Gold | Tor | Honor | |
| Nalo Hopkinson | Brown Girl in the Ring | Warner Aspect | Honor | |
| Gwyneth Jones | "La Cenerentola" in Interzone 136 | Honor | ||
| James Patrick Kelly | "Lovestory" in Asimov's Science Fiction June 1998 | Honor | ||
| Ursula K. Le Guin | "Unchosen Love" in Amazing Stories Fall 1994 | TSR | Honor | |
| Elizabeth A. Lynn | Dragon's Winter | Ace / Berkley Books | Honor | |
| Maureen F. McHugh | Mission Child | Avon Eos | Honor | |
| Karl-Rene Moore | "The Hetairai Turncoat" in Wired Hard 2 | Circlet Press | Honor | |
| Rebecca Ore | "Accelerated Grimace" in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1998 | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Honor | |
| Sara Paretsky | Ghost Country | Delacorte Press | Honor | |
| Severna Park | Hand of Prophecy | Avon Eos | Honor | |
| Kit Reed | Weird Women, Wired Women | Wesleyan University Press | Honor | |
| Kit Reed | "Bride of Bigfoot" in Weird Women, Wired Women | Wesleyan University Press | Honor | |
| Robert Reed | "Whiptail" in Asimov's Science Fiction October/November 1998 | Honor | ||
| Mary Rosenblum | "The Eye of God" in Asimov's Science Fiction March 1998 | Honor | ||
| Joan Slonczewski | The Children Star | Tor | Honor | |
| Martha Soukup | "The House of Expectations" in Starlight 2 | Tor | Honor | |
| Sean Stewart | Mockingbird | Ace | Honor | |
| Sarah Zettel | Playing God | Warner Aspect | Honor | |
| 1999 | Suzy McKee Charnas | The Conqueror's Child | Tor | Winner |
| Judy Budnitz | If I Told You Once | Picador / St. Martin's Press | Honor | |
| Sally Caves | "In the Second Person" in Terra Incognita #4 | Honor | ||
| Graham Joyce | "Pinkland" in Crossing the Border | Indigo | Honor | |
| Yumiko Kurahashi | The Woman with the Flying Head: And Other Stories (Japanese Woman Writers in Translation) | M. E. Sharpe | Honor | |
| Penelope Lively | "5001 Nights" in The Five Thousands and One Nights (European Short Stories, No. 4) | Fjord Press | Honor | |
| David E. Morse | The Iron Bridge | Harcourt Brace | Honor | |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | "Sexual Dimorphism" in The Martians | Harper Voyager | Honor | |
| 2000 | Molly Gloss | Wild Life | Simon & Schuster | Winner |
| Michael Blumlein | "Fidelity: A Primer" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September 2000 | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Honor | |
| James L. Cambias | "Diagram of Rapture" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 2000 | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Honor | |
| David Ebershoff | The Danish Girl | Viking | Honor | |
| Mary Gentle | Ash: A Secret History | Victor Gollancz Ltd | Honor | |
| Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar | "Soma" in Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root | Invisible Cities Press | Honor | |
| Nalo Hopkinson (ed.) | "The Glass Bottle Trick" in Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root | Invisible Cities Press | Honor | |
| Nalo Hopkinson | Midnight Robber | Warner Aspect | Honor | |
| China Miéville | Perdido Street Station | Macmillan | Honor | |
| Pamela Mordecai | "Once on the Shores of the Strem Senegambia" in Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root | Invisible Cities Press | Honor | |
| Severna Park | The Annunciate | Eos | Honor | |
| Tess Williams | Sea As Mirror | Harper Voyager | Honor | |
| 2001 | Hiromi Goto | The Kappa Child | Red Deer Press | Winner |
| Joan Givner | Half Known Lives | New Star Books | Honor | |
| Ken MacLeod | Dark Light | Tor (US), Orbit (UK) | Honor | |
| Hugh Nissenson | The Song of the Earth | Algonquin Books | Honor | |
| Sheri S. Tepper | The Fresco | HarperCollins/Eos | Honor | |
| 2002 | M. John Harrison | Light | Victor Gollancz Ltd | Winner |
| John Kessel | "Stories for Men" in Asimov's Science Fiction October–November 2002 | Winner | ||
| Eleanor Arnason | "Knapsack Poems" in Asimov's Science Fiction May 2002 | Honor | ||
| Ted Chiang | "Liking What You See: A Documentary" in Stories of Your Life and Others | Tor | Honor | |
| John Clute | Appleseed | Tor (US), Orbit (UK) | Honor | |
| Karen Joy Fowler | "What I Didn't See" in SciFiction July 10, 2002 | SciFi.com | Special Honor | |
| Gregory Frost | "Madonna of the Maquiladora" in Asimov's Science Fiction May 2002 | Asimov's Science Fiction | Honor | |
| Shelley Jackson | The Melancholy of Anatomy | Anchor Books | Honor | |
| Larissa Lai | Salt Fish Girl | Thomas Allen & Son Limited | Honor | |
| Peter Straub (ed.) | Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists | Bard College | Honor | |
| 2003 | Matt Ruff | Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls | HarperCollins | Winner |
| Kim Antieau | Coyote Cowgirl | Tom Doherty Associates | Honor | |
| Kara Dalkey | "Lady of the Ice Garden" in Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction | Firebird Books | Honor | |
| Carol Emshwiller | "Boys" | SciFi.com | Honor | |
| Richard Calder | "The Catgirl Manifesto" in Album Zutique #1 | Ministry of Whimsy | Honor | |
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | A Fistful of Sky | Ace | Honor | |
| Kij Johnson | Fudoki | Tor | Honor | |
| Sandra McDonald | "The Ghost Girls of Rumney Mill" in Realms of Fantasy August 2003 | Sovereign Media | Honor | |
| Ruth Nestvold | "Looking Through Lace" in Asimov's Science Fiction September 2003 | Honor | ||
| Geoff Ryman | "Birth Days" in Interzone April, 2003 | Interzone | Honor | |
| Tricia Sullivan | Maul | Orbit | Honor | |
| 2004 | Joe Haldeman | Camouflage | Ace | Winner |
| Johanna Sinisalo | Not Before Sundown (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi) Published in the United States as Troll - a love story |
Peter Owen Publishers | Winner | |
| A. S. Byatt | Little Black Book of Stories | Chatto & Windus | Honor | |
| L. Timmel Duchamp | Love's Body, Dancing in Time | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Carol Emshwiller | "All of Us Can Almost …" | SciFi.com | Honor | |
| Nancy Farmer | The Sea of Trolls | Atheneum Books | Honor | |
| Eileen Gunn | Stable Strategies and Others | Tachyon Publications | Honor | |
| Gwyneth Jones | Life | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Jaye Lawrence | "Kissing Frogs" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 2004 | Spilogale, Inc. | Honor | |
| 2005 | Geoff Ryman | Air | St. Martin's Griffin | Winner |
| Aimee Bender | Willful Creatures | Doubleday | Honor | |
| Margo Lanagan | "Wooden Bride" in Black Juice | Eos | Honor | |
| Vonda N. McIntyre | "Little Faces" | SciFi.com | Honor | |
| Wen Spencer | A Brother's Price | Roc Books | Honor | |
| Wesley Stace | Misfortune | Back Bay Books | Honor | |
| Mark W. Tiedemann | Remains | BenBella Books | Honor | |
| 2006 | Shelley Jackson | Half Life | HarperCollins | Winner |
| Catherynne M. Valente | The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden | Spectra Books | Winner | |
| Julie Phillips | James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon | St. Martin's Press | Special Recognition | |
| Andrea Hairston | Mindscape | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Betsy James | Listening at the Gate | Atheneum Books | Honor | |
| Ellen Kushner | The Privilege of the Sword | Spectra Books | Honor | |
| James Morrow | The Last Witchfinder | William Morrow | Honor | |
| Karen Russell | St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves | Knopf | Honor | |
| Karen Traviss | Matriarch | Eos | Honor | |
| Mark von Schlegell | Venusia | Semiotext(e) | Honor | |
| 2007 | Sarah Hall | The Carhullan Army | Faber and Faber (UK 2007); HarperCollins (US 2008) | Winner |
| Kelley Eskridge | Dangerous Space | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Laurie J. Marks | Water Logic | Small Beer Press | Honor | |
| Karen Miller | Empress of Mijak and The Riven Kingdom | HarperCollins | Honor | |
| Nnedi Okorafor | The Shadow Speaker | Hyperion Books | Honor | |
| Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss (eds.) | Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing | Small Beer Press | Honor | |
| Charles Stross | Glasshouse | Ace | Honor | |
| Sheri S. Tepper | The Margarets | HarperCollins | Honor | |
| Brian K. Vaughan | Y: The Last Man | Vertigo Comics | Honor | |
| Ysabeau S. Wilce | Flora Segunda | Harcourt | Honor | |
| 2008 | Patrick Ness | The Knife of Never Letting Go | Walker & Co. (UK); Candlewick Press (US) | Winner |
| Nisi Shawl | Filter House | Aqueduct Press | Winner | |
| Christopher Barzak | The Love We Share Without Knowing | Bantam Books | Honor | |
| Jenny Davidson | The Explosionist | HarperTeen | Honor | |
| Gregory Frost | Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet: A Shadowbridge Novel | Del Ray | Honor | |
| Alison Goodman | The Two Pearls of Wisdom Published in the United States as Eon: Dragoneye Reborn Published in the United Kingdom as Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye |
HarperCollins / Viking | Honor | |
| John Kessel | "Pride and Prometheus" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January 2008 | Spilogale, Inc. | Honor | |
| Margo Lanagan | Tender Morsels | Knopf | Honor | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Lavinia | Harcourt | Honor | |
| John Ajvide Lindqvist | Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) | Quercus (UK) | Honor | |
| Paul Park | A Princess of Roumania (Series): A Princess of Roumania, The Tourmaline, The White Tyger, and The Hidden World | Tor | Honor | |
| Ekaterina Sedia | The Alchemy of Stone | Prime Books | Honor | |
| Ali Smith | Girl Meets Boy | Canongate Books | Honor | |
| Ysabeau S. Wilce | Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) | Harcourt | Honor | |
| 2009 | Greer Gilman | Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales | Small Beer Press | Winner |
| Fumi Yoshinaga | Ōoku: The Inner Chambers | Hakusensha (Japan); VIZ Media (English-speaking world) | Winner | |
| L. Timmel Duchamp | The Marq'ssan Cycle | Aqueduct Press | Special Honor | |
| Paul Haines | "Wives" in X6 | Coeur de lion | Honor | |
| Caitlín R. Kiernan | "Galapagos" in Eclipse 3 | Night Shade Books | Honor | |
| Alice Sola Kim | "Beautiful White Bodies" in Strange Horizons 07-14 July 2009 | Strange Horizons | Honor | |
| Maureen F. McHugh | "Useless Things" in Eclipse 3 | Night Shade Books | Honor | |
| Vandana Singh | Distances | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Jo Walton | Lifelode | NESFA Press | Honor | |
| 2010 | Dubravka Ugresic | Baba Yaga Laid an Egg | Canongate Books | Winner |
| Amanda Downum | The Bone Palace | Orbit | Honor | |
| N. K. Jemisin | The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | Orbit | Honor | |
| Sandra McDonald | "Diana Comet and the Disappearing Lover" | Strange Horizons | Honor | |
| Sandra McDonald | "Drag Queen Astronaut" in Crossed Genres issue 24 | Crossed Genres | Honor | |
| Helen Merrick | The Secret Feminist Cabal | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Nnedi Okorafor | Who Fears Death | DAW Books | Honor | |
| Kari Sperring | Living with Ghosts | DAW Books | Honor | |
| Jillian Weise | The Colony | Soft Skull Press | Honor | |
| 2011 | Andrea Hairston | Redwood and Wildfire | Aqueduct Press | Winner |
| Libba Bray | Beauty Queens | Scholastic Press | Honor | |
| L. Timmel Duchamp | "The Nones of Quintilus" in Never at Home | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Kameron Hurley | God's War | Night Shade Books | Honor | |
| Gwyneth Jones | The Universe of Things | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Alice Sola Kim | "The Other Graces" in Asimov's Science Fiction July 2010 | Dell Magazines | Honor | |
| Sandra McDonald | "Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots" in Strange Horizons, 2010.10.04 | Strange Horizons | Honor | |
| Maureen F. McHugh | "After the Apocalypse" in After the Apocalypse | Small Beer Press | Honor | |
| Delia Sherman | The Freedom Maze | Big Mouth House | Honor | |
| Kim Westwood | The Courier's New Bicycle | Harper Voyager | Honor | |
| 2012 | Caitlín R. Kiernan | The Drowning Girl | Roc Books | Winner |
| Kiini Ibura Salaam | Ancient, Ancient | Aqueduct Press | Winner | |
| Elizabeth Bear | Range of Ghosts | Tor | Honor | |
| Roz Kaveney | Rituals | Plus One Press | Honor | |
| M. J. Locke | Up Against it | Tor | Honor | |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | 2312 | Orbit | Honor | |
| Karin Tidbeck | Jagannath | Cheeky Frawg Books | Honor | |
| Ankaret Wells | Firebrand | Epicon Press | Honor | |
| Lesley Wheeler | The Receptionist | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| 2013 | N. A. Sulway | Rupetta | Tartarus Press | Winner |
| Eleanor Arnason | Big Mama Stories | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Aliette de Bodard | "Heaven Under Earth" in Electric Velocipede #24 | Electric Velocipede | Honor | |
| Nicola Griffith | Hild | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Honor | |
| Alaya Dawn Johnson | The Summer Prince | Arthur A. Levine Books | Honor | |
| Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | Orbit | Honor | |
| Bennett Madison | September Girls | HarperTeen | Honor | |
| Sarah McCarry | All Our Pretty Songs | St. Martin's Press | Honor | |
| Janelle Monáe | The Electric Lady | Bad Boy Records | Honor | |
| Helene Wecker | The Golem and the Jinni | HarperCollins | Honor | |
| S. M. Wheeler | Sea Change | Tor | Honor | |
| 2014 | Monica Byrne | The Girl in the Road | Penguin Random House | Winner |
| Jo Walton | My Real Children | Tor | Winner | |
| Jennifer Marie Brissett | Elysium | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Seth Chambers | "In Her Eyes" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January/February 2014 | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Honor | |
| Kim Curran | "A Woman Out of Time" in Irregularity | Jurassic London | Honor | |
| Emmi Itäranta | Memory of Water | Harper Voyager | Honor | |
| Jacqueline Koyanagi | Ascension | Masque Books | Honor | |
| Alisa Krasnostein & Julia Rios (eds) | Kaleidoscope | Twelfth Planet Press | Honor | |
| Pat MacEwen | "The Lightness of the Movement" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2014 | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Honor | |
| Nnedi Okorafor | Lagoon | Hodder & Stoughton | Honor | |
| Nghi Vo | "Neither Witch nor Fairy" in Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History | Crossed Genres | Honor | |
| Aliya Whiteley | The Beauty | Unsung Stories | Honor | |
| 2015 | Eugene Fischer | "The New Mother" in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine April/May 2015 | Dell Magazines | Winner |
| Pat Schmatz | Lizard Radio | Candlewick Press | Winner | |
| Susan Jane Bigelow | "Sarah's Child" in Strange Horizons 19 May 2014 | Strange Horizons | Honor | |
| Nino Cipri | "The Shape of My Name" on Tor.com | Tor | Honor | |
| Carola Dibbell | The Only Ones | Two Dollar Radio | Honor | |
| Matt Fraction and Christian Ward | Off to Far Ithicaa (ODY-C Vol. 1) | Image Comics | Honor | |
| Alex Marshall | A Crown for Cold Silver | Orbit | Honor | |
| Seanan McGuire | "Each to Each" in Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue Issue 49, June 2014 | Lightspeed | Honor | |
| A. Merc Rustad | "How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps" in scigentasy.com Issue 4 | Scigentasy | Honor | |
| Ian Sales | All that Outer Space Allows | Whippleshield Books | Honor | |
| Taneka Stotts and Sfe Monster (eds.) | beyond: the queer sci-fi and fantasy comic anthology | beyond | Honor | |
| Rebecca Sugar (creator, executive producer) | Steven Universe | Cartoon Network Studios/Cartoon Network | Honor | |
| Catherynne M. Valente | Radiance | Tor | Honor | |
| 2016 | Anna-Marie McLemore | When the Moon Was Ours | Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Griffin | Winner |
| Eleanor Arnason | Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Mishell Baker | Borderline | Saga Press | Honor | |
| Nino Cipri | "Opals and Clay" | PodCastle | Honor | |
| Andrea Hairston | Will Do Magic for Small Change | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Rachael K. Jones | "The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles" in Beneath Ceaseless Skies 203 | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | Honor | |
| Seanan McGuire | Every Heart a Doorway | Tor | Honor | |
| Ada Palmer | Too Like the Lightning | Tor | Honor | |
| Nisi Shawl | Everfair | Tor | Honor | |
| Johanna Sinisalo | The Core of the Sun (Auringon ydin) | Grove Press / Black Cat | Honor | |
| 2017 | Virginia Bergin | Who Runs the World? | Macmillan | Winner |
| Charlie Jane Anders | "Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue" | Boston Review | Honor | |
| April Daniels | Dreadnought | Diversion Books | Honor | |
| April Daniels | Sovereign | Diversion Books | Honor | |
| Indra Das | The Devourers | Del Ray | Honor | |
| Maggie Shen King | An Excess Male | Harper Voyager | Honor | |
| Carmen Maria Machado | Her Body and Other Parties | Graywolf Press | Honor | |
| Rivers Solomon | An Unkindness of Ghosts | Akashic Books | Honor | |
| JY Yang | Black Tides of Heaven | Tor | Honor | |
| JY Yang | Red Threads of Fortune | Tor | Honor | |
| 2018 | Gabriela Damián Miravete | "They Will Dream in the Garden" | Latin American Literature Today | Winner |
| A. C. Buchanan, ed. | Capricious Magazine: The Gender Diverse Pronouns Issue | Capricious SF | Honor | |
| Amber Dawn | Sodom Road Exit | Arsenal Pulp Press | Honor | |
| L. Timmel Duchamp | Chercher la Femme | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Meg Elison | "Big Girl" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Honor | |
| Joamette Gil | Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology | P&M | Honor | |
| Keffy R. M. Kehrli | GlitterShip Year Two | Self-published | Honor | |
| Larissa Lai | The Tiger Flu | Arsenal Pulp Press | Honor | |
| Janelle Monáe (featured artist, producer/executive producer, songwriter) | Dirty Computer | Wandaland Records / Bad Boy Records / Atlantic Records | Honor | |
| A. E. Prevost | "Sandals Full of Rainwater" | Capricious SF | Honor | |
| Maria Turtschaninoff, translated by A. A. Prime | Maresi: The Red Abbey Chronicles | Amulet Books | Honor | |
| D. Warrick | "Me, Waiting for Me, Hoping for Something More" | Shimmer Magazine | Honor | |
| 2019 | Akwaeke Emezi | Freshwater | Grove Press | Winner |
| Kylie Ariel Bemis | "Dreamborn" | Bedside Press | Honor | |
| Meg Elison | The Book of Flora | 47North Press | Honor | |
| Akwaeke Emezi | Pet | Make Me a World Press | Honor | |
| Kameron Hurley | Meet Me in the Future | Tachyon Publications | Honor | |
| Innocent Chizaram Ilo | Of Warps and Wefts | Strange Horizons | Honor | |
| Mary Robinette Kowal | The Calculating Stars | Tor Books | Honor | |
| Laurie J. Marks | The Elemental Logic Series | Small Beer Press | Honor | |
| Yukiko Motoya | The Lonesome Bodybuilder | Soft Skull Press | Honor | |
| Rivers Solomon | The Deep | Gallery / Saga Press | Honor | |
| 2020 | Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki | Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon | Aurelia Leo | Winner |
| Anya Johanna DeNiro | City of a Thousand Feelings | Aqueduct Press | Honor | |
| Isabel Fall | Helicopter Story | Clarkesworld | Honor | |
| Amy Griswold | Custom Options Available | Fireside Magazine | Honor | |
| Sim Kern | Depart, Depart! | Stelliform Press | Honor | |
| R.B. Lemberg | The Four Profound Weaves | Tachyon Publications | Honor | |
| Maria Romasco Moore | The Moon Room | Kaleidotrope | Honor | |
| Chana Porter | The Seep | Soho Press | Honor | |
| Maggie Tokuda-Hall | The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea | Candlewick Press | Honor | |
| 2021 | Ryka Aoki | Light From Uncommon Stars | Tor Books | Winner |
| Rivers Solomon | Sorrowland | MCD Books | Winner | |
| Callum Angus | A Natural History of Transition | Metonymy Press | Honor | |
| Eugen Bacon | Danged Black Thing | Transit Lounge | Honor | |
| Monica Byrne | The Actual Star | Harper Voyager | Honor | |
| K-Ming Chang | Bestiary | One World | Honor | |
| Anna-Marie McLemore | Dark and Deepest Red | Feiwel & Friends | Honor | |
| Claire Oshetsky | Chouette | Ecco Press | Honor | |
| Shelley Parker-Chan | She Who Became the Sun | Tor Books | Honor | |
| Benjamin Rosenbaum | The Unraveling | Erewhon Books | Honor | |
| Aiden Thomas | Cemetery Boys | Swoon Reads | Honor |
References edit
- ^ "The James Tiptree, Jr. Award Database". James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award. Retrieved 26 January 2019.