This week sees round whatever of this debate, occasioned by the opening of nominations for this year's Hugo Awards. I lean more towards the side of reticence about this sort of thing, for reasons that are probably easily explained, but I can justify doing at least this much, because the information isn't immediately transparent:
We published just the one new novelette last year, "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" by Sarah Pinsker. All our other original fiction was (so far as the definitions used by most SF awards are concerned) short stories.
The following authors we published last year gained eligibility for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer as a result (i.e. we were their first professional sale). If you liked their stories here, and are eligible to nominate, do seek out other work by them and consider them for this award.
- O.J. Cade ("Longfin's Daughters" and "The Mythology of Salt")
- Lara Elena Donnelly ("The Witches of Athens")
- Elliott Essex ("Why Don't You Ask the Doomsday Machine?")
- José Iriarte ("Yuca and Dominoes")
- Meda Kahn ("Difference of Opinion")
- Carmen Maria Machado ("Inventory")
- Victor Fernando R. Ocampo ("A Secret Map of Shanghai")
- Yukimi Ogawa ("Town's End")
- Ryan Simko ("The Lucia Bird")
- Sathya Stone ("Jinki and the Paradox")
- Sabrina Vourvoulias ("Collateral Memory")
- Lillian Wheeler ("ARIECC 1.0")
In addition, the following writers we published last year were already Campbell-eligible:
- Ada Hoffmann ("The Mother of All Squid Builds a Library" and "You Have to Follow the Rules")
- Kelly Rose Pflug-Back ("The Clover Still Grows Wild in Wawanosh")
- Sarah Pinsker ("In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind")
- Sofia Samatar ("Selkie Stories are for Losers")
- Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam ("The Siren")
You can find more Campbell-eligible writers listed here, some of whom haven't even sold stories to SH. A lot of people are recommending Benjanun Sriduankaew for a nomination, for instance, and they're not wrong to do so.
Also, so far as general short fiction nominations go, I'm still putting my ballot together, but I'd recommend all of the following for consideration:
- Novella
- Spin by Nina Allan (TTA Press; SH review by Lila Garrott)
- Novelette
- "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" by Ted Chiang (Subterranean Online)
- Cave and Julia by M. John Harrison (Kindle Single)
- "Entangled" by Ian R. MacLeod (in Asimov's)
- "In Metal, In Bone" by An Owomoyela (in Eclipse Online)
- Short story
- "We're All Gonna Have the Blues" by Rodge Glass (in Beacons ed. Gregory Norminton)
- "Droplet" by Rahul Kanakia (in We See a Different Frontier eds. Fabio Fernandes and Djibril al-Ayad)
- "Vector" by Benjanun Sriduankaew (in We See a Different Frontier eds. Fabio Fernandes and Djibril al-Ayad)
- "Saga's Children" by EJ Swift (in The Lowest Heaven eds. Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin)
(EJ Swift would be a good Campbell pick, too.)