Literary award · United States
Locus Award for Best Novella
Literary award by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus.
About Locus Award for Best Novella
The Locus Award for Best Novella is one of a number of Locus Awards given out each year by Locus magazine. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year. The first award in this category was presented in 1973.
From the Wikipedia article “Locus Award for Best Novella”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Recent winners
| Year | Winner | Winning work |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Amal El-Mohtar | The River Has Roots |
| 2025 | Ursula Vernon | What Feasts at Night |
| 2024 | Ursula Vernon | Thornhedge |
| 2023 | Becky Chambers | A Prayer for the Crown-Shy |
| 2022 | Martha Wells | Fugitive Telemetry |
| 2021 | P. Djèlí Clark | Ring Shout; or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times |
| 2020 | Max Gladstone | This Is How You Lose the Time War |
| 2020 | Amal El-Mohtar | This Is How You Lose the Time War |
From Wikidata; the list may be incomplete for some years.
Eligibility and entering
Check the official rules of the Locus Award for Best Novella for the current eligibility window, accepted formats, residency or language requirements and any entry fee. For most established prizes the publisher submits on the author's behalf, often with a limit on entries per imprint.
If you are self-published, look for an explicit statement that independently published books are accepted, and budget for entry fees and copies for judges.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q17008972 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).