XYZZY Award for Best Writing
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The XYZZY Award for Best Writing is one of the annual awards given by XYZZYnews to works of interactive fiction. This award has been given since 1996. The award for Best Writing recognizes a game which rises above the others in the quality of its descriptive text.
- 1996: So Far by Andrew Plotkin
- * Aayela by Magnus Olsson
- * Lost New York by Neil deMause
- * The Meteor, the Stone, and a Long Glass of Sherbet by Graham Nelson
- * Tapestry by Daniel Ravipinto
- 1997: Sunset Over Savannah by Ivan Cockrum
- * Babel by Ian Finley
- * I-0 by Adam Cadre
- * She's Got a Thing for a Spring by Brent vanFossen
- * The Space Under the Window by Andrew Plotkin
- 1998: Photopia by Adam Cadre
- * Anchorhead by Michael Gentry
- * Little Blue Men by Michael Gentry
- * Muse by Chris Huang
- * Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
- 1999: For a Change by Dan Schmidt
- * Exhibition by Ian Finley
- * by Mike Snyder
- * Varicella by Adam Cadre
- * Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
- 2000: Metamorphoses by Emily Short
- * My Angel by Jon Ingold
- * Rameses by Stephen Bond
- * Shade by Andrew Plotkin
- * You are a CHEF! by Dan Shiovitz
- 2001: Fallacy of Dawn by Robb Sherwin
- * All Roads by Jon Ingold
- * Best of Three by Emily Short
- * No Time to Squeal by Mike Sousa and Robb Sherwin
- * Pytho's Mask by Emily Short
- 2002: The Moonlit Tower by Yoon Ha Lee
- * Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky by Paul O'Brian
- * Savoir Faire by Emily Short
- * Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish out of Me! by Jon Ingold and Mike Sousa
- * When Help Collides by J. D. Berry
- 2003: Narcolepsy by Adam Cadre
- * City of Secrets by Emily Short
- * Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short
- * Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
- * To Hell in a Hamper by J. J. Guest
- 2004: Blue Chairs by Chris Klimas
- * Future Boy! by Kent Tessman
- * Gamlet by Tomasz Pudlo
- * Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin
- * The Dreamhold by Andrew Plotkin
- 2005: Vespers by Jason Devlin
- * Bolivia by Night by Aidan Doyle
- * Chancellor by Kevin Venzke
- * Mix Tape by Brett Witty
- * Tough Beans by Sara Dee
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