(Last updated 10 August 2015) This page lists awards, accolades, and reprints for works we published in 2013 and 2014, plus other honors received in 2015.

There is an airlessness to the stories; they lack the softness and warmth and yielding quality of living flesh.

There are some writers who did not write enough. Claudia J. Edwards is one of those. In her writing career, she published only four books—one a year between 1986 and 1989. And then she faded from view. I don’t know what became of her or why she stopped writing, but I wish very much she had written more.

Of all the women writers I’ve written about for this column, Housman is far and away the one I have struggled with most.

A whirlwind is the beginning. . . . And in a whirlwind is the end. Yet the seed is in the whirlwind, and in the kiss of snow.

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I should not need to write about Miyabe Miyuki.

Judith Tarr is one of the most accomplished, complex, innovative, and consistently brilliant writers I can think of.

Strange Horizons has a nomination for best magazine/periodical and Kari Sperring's Matrilines column has a nomination for best non-fiction. The full shortlist is available on the British Fantasy Society's website.

I’m not sure exactly how old I was when I first encountered the works of Louise Lawrence—no more than thirteen or fourteen—but I do remember the effect her writing had on me.