Honorable Mentions

Beautiful Summer” received an honorable mention in The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, edited by Ellen Datlow.
The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty-third Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link.

[Prime Books]…launched a slick new fantasy magaine, called, appropriately enough, Fantasy Magazine, edited by Sean Wallace. The premiere issue featured strong work by Jeff Ford, Tim Pratt, Eugie Foster, and others.

—Gardner Dozois, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection.

In addition, Wallace debuted Fantasy Magazine at the World Fantasy Convention, which showcased some dark as well as light fantasy. The best darker stories were by Sarah Brandywine Johnson, Eugie Foster, Simon Logan, and Catherynne M. Valente..

—Ellen Datlow, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection

The Center of the Universe” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
Daughter of Bótù” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
Click to see the Writers of the Future Honorable Mention certificate for "Running on Two Legs" Gifts Not Asked For” received an honorable mention in the 2nd quarter 2004 L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest.
The Music Company” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link.
Returning My Sister’s Face” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link.
Click to see the Writers of the Future Honorable Mention certificate for "Running on Two Legs" Running on Two Legs” received an honorable mention in the 4th quarter 2002 L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest.
Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” received an honorable mention in The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 2, edited by Ellen Datlow.
The Son That Pain Made” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link.
The Tiger Fortune Princess” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link.
Within Your Soul I Sightless See” received an honorable mention in The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 2, edited by Ellen Datlow.
Year of the Fox” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link.

Steve Berman’s So Fey: Queer Fairy Fictions (Haworth) was one of the stronger themed anthologies of the year. Favorite stories include Holly Black’s heartbreaking “The Coat of Stars” and Eugie Foster’s “Year of the Fox,” as well as work by Craig Laurence Gidney and Laurie J. Marks.

—Gavin Grant & Kelly Link, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection

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