James Tiptree Jr Award
Entry updated 8 January 2024. Tagged: Award.
This juried award has been presented since March 1992 in memory of James Tiptree Jr, for sf or fantasy fiction that best "explores or expands gender roles". It is usually given at Wiscon, the annual Convention held in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2019, in the wake of debates about the renaming of the John W Campbell Award and John W Campbell Memorial Award, it was decided that the award should henceforth become the Otherwise Award (from the 2020 presentation onward). Following the practice of the award's own website, winners below are listed by year of publication rather than presentation.
To celebrate this award's fifth anniversary in 1997, a panel of all past jurors voted on retrospective Tiptree Awards for notable work before 1991. An award to Tiptree herself was deemed redundant: the retrospective winners were Suzy McKee Charnas for Walk to the End of the World (1974) and Motherlines (1978); Ursula K Le Guin for The Left Hand of Darkness (1969); and Joanna Russ for "When It Changed" (in Again, Dangerous Visions, anth 1972, ed Harlan Ellison) and The Female Man (1975).
With gently Feminist irony, award funds are raised through bake sales and the sale of cookbooks. Additionally, fund-raising anthologies of relevant stories, essays and novel extracts have appeared: The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies (anth 2004), The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2: Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies (anth 2005) and The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender (anth 2007), all edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin and Jeffrey D Smith. [DRL]
Winners
- 1991: (tie) Eleanor Arnason, A Woman of the Iron People (1991); Gwyneth Jones, White Queen (1991)
- 1992: Maureen F McHugh, China Mountain Zhang (1992)
- 1993: Nicola Griffith, Ammonite (1993)
- 1994: (tie) Ursula K Le Guin, "The Matter of Seggri" (Spring 1994 Crank!); Nancy Springer, Larque on the Wing (1994)
- 1995: (tie) Elizabeth Hand, Waking The Moon (1994 UK: cut rev 1995); Theodore Roszak, The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995)
- 1996: (tie) Ursula K Le Guin, "Mountain Ways" (August 1996 Asimov's); Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (1996)
- 1997: (tie) Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine (1997); Kelly Link, "Travels with the Snow Queen" (Winter 1996/1997 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet)
- 1998: Raphael Carter, "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" (in Starlight 2, anth 1998, ed Patrick Nielsen Hayden)
- 1999: Suzy McKee Charnas, The Conqueror's Child (1999)
- 2000: Molly Gloss, Wild Life (2000)
- 2001: Hiromi Goto, The Kappa Child (2001)
- 2002: (tie) M John Harrison, Light (2002); John Kessel, "Stories for Men" (October/November 2002 Asimov's)
- 2003: Matt Ruff, Set This House In Order: A Romance of Souls (2003)
- 2004: (tie) Joe Haldeman, Camouflage (2004); Johanna Sinisalo, Not Before Sundown (trans 2003; vt Troll: A Love Story 2004)
- 2005: Geoff Ryman, Air: Or, Have Not Have (2004)
- 2006: Shelley Jackson, Half Life (2006)
- 2007: Sarah Hall, The Carhullan Army (2007)
- 2008: (tie) Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008); Nisi Shawl, Filter House (coll 2008)
- 2009: Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales (coll 2009); Fumi Yoshinaga, Ooku: The Inner Chambers (vols 1 & 2, graph 2009)
- 2010: Dubravka Ugresic, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (2010)
- 2011: Andrea Hairston, Redwood and Wildfire (2011)
- 2012: (tie) Caitlín R Kiernan, The Drowning Girl (2012); Kiini Ibura Salaam, Ancient, Ancient (coll 2012)
- 2013: N A Sulway, Rupetta (2013)
- 2014: (tie) Monica Byrne, The Girl in the Road (2014); Jo Walton, My Real Children (2014)
- 2015: (tie) Eugene Fischer, "The New Mother" (April/May 2015 Asimov's); Pat Schmatz, Lizard Radio (2015)
- 2016: Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours (2016)
- 2017: Virginia Bergin, Who Runs the World? (2017)
- 2018: Gabriela Damián Miravete, "They Will Dream in the Garden" (trans Adrian Demopulos, May 2018 Latin American Literature Today)
- 2019: Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater (2019)
- 2020: Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald, "Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon" (in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, anth 2020, ed Zelda Knight and Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald)
- 2021: (tie) Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars (2021); Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland (2021)
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