World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction

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This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy short story voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.

Award winners and finalists

WFC 2004 was held in Tempe, Arizona. Judges were John Clute, Sherwood Smith, Michael Stackpole, Alain Nevant, and Scott Wyatt.

Winner: "Don Ysidro", Bruce Holland Rogers (Polyphony 3, Wheatland Press)
Circle of Cats, Charles de Lint (Viking)
"Ancestor Money", Maureen F. McHugh (SCIFICTION)
"Gus Dreams of Biting the Mailman", Alex Irvine (Trampoline, Small Beer Press)
"O One", Chris Roberson (Live Without a Net, Roc)

WFC 2005 was held in Madison, Wisconsin, and is chaired by Meg Turville-Heitz. Judges were Alis Rasmussen (Kate Elliott), Jeffrey Ford, Tim Lebbon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Jessica Amanda Salmonson.

Winner: "Singing My Sister Down", Margo Lanagan (Black Juice, Allen & Unwin Australia)
"The Wings of Meister Wilhelm", Theodora Goss (Polyphony 4, Wheatland Press)
"The Faery Handbag", Kelly Link (The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, Viking)
"Reports of Certain Events in London", China Miéville (McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, Vintage)
"Northwest Passage", Barbara Roden (Acquainted With The Night, Ash Tree Press)