A 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, & 2023 Hugo Award winner, 2016 Parsec Award winner, 2019 British Fantasy Award winner, and 2024 Locus Award winner, Uncanny Magazine is an online Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine featuring passionate SF/F fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, provocative nonfiction, and a deep investment in the diverse SF/F culture. Each issue contains intricate, experimental stories and poems with verve and imagination that elicit strong emotions and challenge beliefs, from writers of every conceivable background. Uncanny believes there’s still plenty of room in the genre for tales that make you feel.
Brought to you by Co-Publishers/Co-Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas (11-time Hugo Award winner) and Michael Damian Thomas (8-time Hugo Award winner), each issue contains new and classic speculative fiction, podcasts, poetry, essays, art, and interviews. Uncanny‘s contributors range from the award-winning leading voices of the field to exciting, emerging talents. Numerous pieces from Uncanny Magazine have been awards’ winners and finalists and have been included in Year’s Best anthologies.
How You Can Read Uncanny:
Uncanny issues are published as eBooks (mobi, pdf, epub) bimonthly on the first Tuesday of each month through all of the major online eBook stores. Every issue contains 5-6 new short stories, 1 reprinted story, 4 poems, 4 nonfiction essays, and 2 interviews, at minimum.
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Awards:
2015 William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review– “Does Sex Make Science Fiction ‘Soft’?“, Uncanny Magazine #1, Tansy Rayner Roberts- WINNER
Spectrum 23 Award- Editorial Category– Traveling to a Distant Day by Tran Nguyen (Uncanny Magazine #4 Cover)- WINNER GOLD AWARD
2016 BooktubeSFF Awards- Best Short Work– “Midnight Hour” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny Magazine #5)- JUDGE’S WINNER
2016 Hugo Awards- Best Semiprozine– Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, and Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky- WINNER
2016 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (Uncanny Magazine #2)- WINNER
2016 Chesley Awards- Best Cover Illustration: Magazine– Traveling to a Distant Day
by Tran Nguyen (Uncanny Magazine #4 Cover)- WINNER
2016 Parsec Awards- Best Speculative Fiction Magazine or Anthology Podcast– The Uncanny Magazine Podcast– WINNER
2017 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong, (Uncanny Magazine #10)- WINNER
2017 Chesley Awards- Best Cover Illustration: Magazine– Bubbles and Blast Off
by Galen Dara (Uncanny Magazine #10 Cover)- WINNER
2017 Rhysling Award- Best Long Poem– “Rose Child” by Theodora Goss, (Uncanny Magazine #13)- WINNER
2017 Hugo Awards- Best Semiprozine– Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky- WINNER
2018 Hugo Awards- Best Semiprozine– Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky- WINNER
2018 Hugo Awards- Best Editor, Short Form– Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- WINNER
2018 Eugie Award– “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” by Fran Wilde, (Uncanny Magazine #18)- WINNER
2017 D Franklin Defying Doomsday Award– The Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Kickstarter Campaign, with particular recognition going to guest Nonfiction Editor/DPDSF Co-Editor-in-Chief Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and guest DPDSF Personal Essay Editor Nicolette Barischoff- WINNER
2019 Hugo Awards- Best Semiprozine– Uncanny Magazine, Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Managing Editor Michi Trota, Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue Editors-in-Chief Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien- WINNER
2019 Aurora Awards- Best Related Work– Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction edited by Dominik Parisien and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Uncanny Magazine #24)- WINNER
2019 British Fantasy Awards- Best Magazine/Periodical– Uncanny Magazine– WINNER
2019 World Fantasy Awards- Best Short Fiction– “Like a River Loves the Sky” by Emma Törzs (Uncanny Magazine #21)- WINNER
2020 Hugo Awards- Best Semiprozine– Uncanny Magazine, Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Managing/Nonfiction Editor Michi Trota, Managing Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu, Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky- WINNER
2020 Ignyte Awards- Best in Creative Nonfiction– “Black Horror Rising” by Tananarive Due- (Uncanny Magazine #28)- WINNER
2021 Ignyte Awards- Best Novelette– “The Inaccessibility of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny Magazine #35)- WINNER
2021 Ignyte Awards- Best Short Story– “You Perfect, Broken Thing” by C.L. Clark (Uncanny Magazine #32)- WINNER
2021 WSFA Small Press Award– “Metal Like Blood in the Dark” by T. Kingfisher (Uncanny Magazine #36) ed. by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas- WINNER
2021 Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards– Best Short Story- “You Perfect, Broken Thing” by C.L. Clark (Uncanny Magazine #32)- WINNER
2021 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “Metal Like Blood in the Dark” by T. Kingfisher, (Uncanny Magazine #36)- WINNER
2021 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- WINNER
2022 Rhysling Award- Best Short Poem– “Confessions of a Spaceport AI” by Mary Soon Lee, (Uncanny Magazine #43)- WINNER
2022 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “That Story Isn’t the Story ” by John Wiswell, (Uncanny Magazine #43)- WINNER
2022 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- WINNER
2022 Eugie Award– “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- WINNER
2022 Hugo Awards- Best Semiprozine– Uncanny Magazine, Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Managing/Poetry Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu, Nonfiction Editor Elsa Sjunneson, Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky- WINNER
2022 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- WINNER
2022 Ignyte Awards- Best Short Story– “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark, (Uncanny Magazine #42)- WINNER
2022 Ignyte Awards- Best in Speculative Poetry– “POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION” by Abu Bakr Sadiq, (Uncanny Magazine #43)- WINNER
2022 Nebula Awards- Best Novelette– “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” by John Chu, (Uncanny Magazine #47)- WINNER
2022 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills, (Uncanny Magazine #49)- WINNER
2023 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” by John Chu, (Uncanny Magazine #47)- WINNER
2023 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills, (Uncanny Magazine #49)- WINNER
2023 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award– “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills, (Uncanny Magazine #49)- WINNER
2023 Rhysling Award- Best Short Poem– “In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White” by Terese Mason Pierre, (Uncanny Magazine #46)- WINNER
2023 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills, (Uncanny Magazine #49)- WINNER
2023 Hugo Awards- Best Semiprozine– Uncanny Magazine, Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Managing/Poetry Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu, Managing Editor Monte Lin, Nonfiction Editor Meg Elison, Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky- WINNER
2023 Ignyte Awards- Best Novelette– “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” by John Chu, (Uncanny Magazine #47)- WINNER
2023 BSFA Awards- Best Short Fiction– “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark, (Uncanny Magazine #50)- WINNER
2023 Nebula Awards- Best Novelette– “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer, (Uncanny Magazine #55)- WINNER
2023 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia, (Uncanny Magazine #53)- WINNER
2024 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark, (Uncanny Magazine #50)- WINNER
2024 Locus Awards- Best Magazine– Uncanny Magazine– WINNER
2023 Shirley Jackson Awards- Best Novelette– “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, (Uncanny Magazine #53)- WINNER
2024 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette- ““The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer, (Uncanny Magazine #55)- WINNER
2024 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award– “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia, (Uncanny Magazine #53)- WINNER
Awards Nominations:
2015 Aurora Awards- Best Poem/Song – English– “The New Ways” by Amal El-Mohtar, Uncanny Magazine #1, – Finalist
2015 Parsec Awards- Best Speculative Fiction Magazine or Anthology Podcast– The Uncanny Magazine Podcast– Finalist
2015 Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing– Previously Published Short-Form Fiction- “Planet Lion” by Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny Magazine #4)- Finalist
2016 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award– “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (Uncanny Magazine #2)- Finalist
2016 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (Uncanny Magazine #2)- Finalist
2016 World Fantasy Awards- Best Short Fiction– “Pockets” by Amal El-Mohtar, (Uncanny Magazine #2)- Finalist
2016 World Fantasy Awards- Best Short Fiction– “Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History” by Sam J. Miller, (Uncanny Magazine #2)- Finalist
2016 World Fantasy Awards- Special Award Nonprofessional– Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny– Finalist
2016 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander, (Uncanny Magazine #13)- Finalist
2016 Nebula Awards- Best Novelette– “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong, (Uncanny Magazine #10)- Finalist
2017 John Preston Short Story Award– “Rooms Formed of Neurons and Sex” by Ferrett Steinmetz, (Uncanny Magazine #12)- Honorable Mention
2017 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander, (Uncanny Magazine #13)- Finalist
2017 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong, (Uncanny Magazine #10)- Finalist
2017 Hugo Awards- Best Editor, Short Form– Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2017 Eugie Award– “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong, (Uncanny Magazine #10)- Finalist
2017 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander, (Uncanny Magazine #13)- Finalist
2017 Locus Awards- Best Editor– Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2017 Locus Awards- Best Magazine– Uncanny Magazine– Finalist
2017 British Fantasy Awards- Best Magazine/Periodical– Uncanny Magazine– Finalist
2017 World Fantasy Awards- Best Short Fiction– “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander, (Uncanny Magazine #13)- Finalist
2017 World Fantasy Awards- Special Award Nonprofessional– Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny– Finalist
2017 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” by Fran Wilde, (Uncanny Magazine #18)- Finalist
2017 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “Fandom for Robots” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, (Uncanny Magazine #18)- Finalist
2017 Nebula Awards- Best Novelette– “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time” by K.M. Szpara, (Uncanny Magazine #16)- Finalist
2017 Nebula Awards- Best Novella– “And Then There Were (N-One)” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #15)- Finalist
2018 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” by Fran Wilde, (Uncanny Magazine #18)- Finalist
2018 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “Fandom for Robots” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, (Uncanny Magazine #18)- Finalist
2018 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “Sun, Moon, Dust” by Ursula Vernon, (Uncanny Magazine #16)- Finalist
2018 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time” by K.M. Szpara, (Uncanny Magazine #16)- Finalist
2018 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– ‘‘Children of Thorns, Children of Water’’ by Aliette de Bodard, (reprint from 2017) (Uncanny Magazine #17)- Finalist
2018 Hugo Awards- Best Novella– “And Then There Were (N-One)” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #15)- Finalist
2018 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award– “And Then There Were (N-One)” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #15)- Finalist
2018 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award– “Fandom for Robots” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, (Uncanny Magazine #18)- Finalist
2018 Nommo Award- Best Short Story– “Read Before Use” by Chinelo Onwualu, (Uncanny Magazine #16)- Finalist
2018 Locus Awards- Best Novella– “And Then There Were (N-One)” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #15)- Finalist
2018 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– ‘‘Children of Thorns, Children of Water’’ by Aliette de Bodard, (reprint from 2017) (Uncanny Magazine #17)- Finalist
2018 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “The Worshipful Society of Glovers” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny Magazine #17)
2018 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “Fandom for Robots” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, (Uncanny Magazine #18)- Finalist
2018 Locus Awards- Best Editor– Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2018 Locus Awards- Best Magazine– Uncanny Magazine– Finalist
2018 Eugie Award– “And Then There Were (N-One)” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #15)- Finalist
2018 World Fantasy Awards- Best Short Fiction– “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” by Fran Wilde, (Uncanny Magazine #18)- Finalist
2018 World Fantasy Awards- Special Award Nonprofessional– Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny– Finalist
2018 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “And Yet” by A. T. Greenblatt, (Uncanny Magazine #21)- Finalist
2019 Hugo Awards- Best Editor, Short Form– Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2019 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– “The Thing About Ghost Stories” by Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny Magazine #25)- Finalist
2019 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society” by T. Kingfisher (Uncanny Magazine #25)- Finalist
2019 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat” by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Magazine #23)- Finalist
2019 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “How to Swallow the Moon” by Isabel Yap (Uncanny Magazine #25)- Finalist
2019 Locus Awards- Best Editor– Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2019 Locus Awards- Best Magazine– Uncanny Magazine– Finalist
2019 Aurora Awards- Best Poem/Song– “Osiris” by Leah Bobet (Uncanny Magazine #25)- Finalist
2019 Aurora Awards- Best Fan Writing and Publications– “Constructing the Future” by Derek Newman-Stille (Uncanny Magazine #24)- Finalist
2019 World Fantasy Awards- Special Award Nonprofessional– Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine– Finalist
2019 WSFA Small Press Award– “The Hydraulic Emperor” by Arkady Martine, published in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 20, ed. by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2019 WSFA Small Press Award– “The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat” by Brooke Bolander, published in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 23, ed. by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2019 Nebula Awards- Best Novelette– “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #29)- Finalist
2019 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” by Karen Osborne, (Uncanny Magazine #27)- Finalist
2019 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “How the Trick Is Done” by A.C. Wise, (Uncanny Magazine #29)- Finalist
2019 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “A Catalog of Storms” by Fran Wilde, (Uncanny Magazine #26)- Finalist
2020 Hugo Awards- Best Editor, Short Form– Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2020 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #29)- Finalist
2020 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– “Away With the Wolves” by Sarah Gailey (Uncanny Magazine #30, Disabled People Destroy Fantasy)- Finalist
2020 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “A Catalog of Storms” by Fran Wilde, (Uncanny Magazine #26)- Finalist
2020 Locus Awards- Best Novella– “A Time to Reap” by Elizabeth Bear, (Uncanny Magazine #31)- Finalist
2020 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #29)- Finalist
2020 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “A Catalog of Storms” by Fran Wilde, (Uncanny Magazine #26)- Finalist
2020 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– ‘Lest We Forget” by Elizabeth Bear, (Uncanny Magazine #28)- Finalist
2020 Locus Awards- Best Editor– Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2020 Locus Awards- Best Magazine– Uncanny Magazine– Finalist
2020 Locus Awards- Best Anthology– The Best of Uncanny, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, eds. (Subterranean)- Finalist
2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award– “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” by Karen Osborne, (Uncanny Magazine #27)- Finalist
2020 World Fantasy Awards- Best Short Fiction– “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #29)- Finalist
2020 World Fantasy Awards- Special Award Nonprofessional– Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny– Finalist
2020 Ignyte Awards- Best Short Story– “Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan” by Christopher Caldwell (Uncanny Magazine #28)- Finalist
2020 Ignyte Awards- Best in Speculative Poetry– “Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve’s Beast” by Brandon O’Brien (Uncanny Magazine #28)- Finalist
2020 Ignyte Awards- Best in Speculative Poetry– “goddess in forced repose” by Tamara Jerée (Uncanny Magazine #30, Disabled People Destroy Fantasy)- Finalist
2020 Nebula Awards- Best Novelette– “Where You Linger” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, (Uncanny Magazine #32)- Finalist
2020 Nebula Awards- Best Novelette– “Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super” by A. T. Greenblatt, (Uncanny Magazine #34)- Finalist
2020 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse” by Rae Carson, (Uncanny Magazine #32)- Finalist
2020 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “My Country Is a Ghost” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, (Uncanny Magazine #32)- Finalist
2021 Hugo Awards- Best Semiprozine– Uncanny Magazine, Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Managing Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu, Nonfiction Editor Elsa Sjunneson, Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky
2021 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– “Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super” by A. T. Greenblatt, (Uncanny Magazine #34)- Finalist
2021 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– “The Inaccessibility of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny Magazine #35)- Finalist
2021 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse” by Rae Carson, (Uncanny Magazine #32)- Finalist
2021 Ignyte Awards- Best Short Story– “My Country Is a Ghost” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, (Uncanny Magazine #32)- Finalist
2021 Ignyte Awards- Best in Speculative Poetry– “Fin” by Terese Mason Pierre (Uncanny Magazine #36)- Finalist
2021 Ignyte Awards- Best in Speculative Poetry– “Hungry Ghost” by Millie Ho (Uncanny Magazine #33)- Finalist
2021 Ignyte Awards- Best in Creative Nonfiction– “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Excellence” by Nibedita Sen- (Uncanny Magazine #36)- Finalist
2021 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “The Inaccessibility of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny Magazine #35)- Finalist
2021 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super” by A. T. Greenblatt, (Uncanny Magazine #34)- Finalist
2021 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse” by Rae Carson, (Uncanny Magazine #32)- Finalist
2021 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “Dresses Like White Elephants” by Meg Elison, (Uncanny Magazine #34)- Finalist
2021 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “The Sycamore and the Sybil” by Alix E. Harrow, (Uncanny Magazine #33)- Finalist
2021 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know” by Ken Liu, (Uncanny Magazine #37)- Finalist
2021 Locus Awards- Best Editor– Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2021 Locus Awards- Best Magazine– Uncanny Magazine– Finalist
2021 Aurora Awards- Best Poem/Song– “The Death of the Gods” by Leah Bobet (Uncanny Magazine #32)- Finalist
2021 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award– “50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know” by Ken Liu, (Uncanny Magazine #37)- Finalist
2021 Eugie Award– “The Sycamore and the Sybil” by Alix E. Harrow, (Uncanny Magazine #33)- Finalist
2021 World Fantasy Awards- Best Short Fiction– “The Nine Scents of Sorrow” by Jordan Taylor, (Uncanny Magazine #35)- Finalist
2021 World Fantasy Awards- Best Short Fiction– “My Country Is a Ghost” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, (Uncanny Magazine #32)- Finalist
2021 World Fantasy Awards- Special Award Nonprofessional– Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny– Finalist
2021 Stabby Awards- Best Short Fiction– “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- Finalist
2022 Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards- Best Short Story– “Immortal Coil” by Ellen Kushner, (Uncanny Magazine #41)- Finalist
2021 Nebula Awards- Best Novella– “The Giants of the Violet Sea” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, (Uncanny Magazine #42)- Finalist
2021 Nebula Awards- Best Novelette– “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- Finalist
2021 Nebula Awards- Best Novelette– “That Story Isn’t the Story ” by John Wiswell, (Uncanny Magazine #43)- Finalist
2021 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– “Proof by Induction” by José Pablo Iriarte, (Uncanny Magazine #40)- Finalist
2022 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- Finalist
2022 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– “That Story Isn’t the Story ” by John Wiswell, (Uncanny Magazine #43)- Finalist
2022 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.” by Fran Wilde, (Uncanny Magazine #40)- Finalist
2022 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “Proof by Induction” by José Pablo Iriarte, (Uncanny Magazine #40)- Finalist
2022 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story– “The Sin of America” by Catherynne M. Valente, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- Finalist
2022 Aurora Awards- Best Short Story– “Eighteen Days of Barbareek” by Rati Mehrotra, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- Finalist
2022 Ignyte Awards- Best Novelette– “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- Finalist
2022 Ignyte Awards- Best in Creative Nonfiction– “The Necessity of Slavery Stories” by Troy L. Wiggins, (Uncanny Magazine #41)- Finalist
2022 Ignyte Awards- Best in Creative Nonfiction– “What You Might Have Missed” by Arley Sorg, (Uncanny Magazine #43)- Finalist
2022 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “Mulberry and Owl” by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny Magazine #42)- Finalist
2022 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.” by Fran Wilde, (Uncanny Magazine #40)- Finalist
2022 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark, (Uncanny Magazine #42)- Finalist
2022 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “Proof by Induction” by José Pablo Iriarte, (Uncanny Magazine #40)- Finalist
2022 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “The Sin of America” by Catherynne M. Valente, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- Finalist
2022 Locus Awards- Best Editor– Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2022 Locus Awards- Best Magazine– Uncanny Magazine– Finalist
2022 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award– “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark, (Uncanny Magazine #42)- Finalist
2022 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award– “Proof by Induction” by José Pablo Iriarte, (Uncanny Magazine #40)- Finalist
2022 Eugie Award– “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- Finalist
2022 World Fantasy Awards- Best Short Fiction– “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark, (Uncanny Magazine #42)- Finalist
2022 World Fantasy Awards- Best Short Fiction– “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #39)- Finalist
2022 World Fantasy Awards- Special Award Nonprofessional– Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny– Finalist
2023 Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards- Best Short Fiction– “I Will Have This Diamond for a Heart” by Carlos Hernandez, (Uncanny Magazine #45)- Finalist
2023 Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards- Best Short Fiction– “can i offer you a nice egg in this trying time” by Iori Kusano, (Uncanny Magazine #49)- Finalist
2022 BSFA Awards- Best Non-Fiction– “Too Dystopian For Whom? A Continental Nigerian Writer’s Perspective” by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Uncanny Magazine #48)- Finalist
2022 Nebula Awards- Best Novelette– “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold” by S.B. Divya, (Uncanny Magazine #46)- Finalist
2022 Nebula Awards- Best Novelette– “The Prince of Salt and the Ocean’s Bargain” by Natalia Theodoridou, (Uncanny Magazine #48)- Finalist
2023 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold” by S.B. Divya, (Uncanny Magazine #46)- Finalist
2023 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “The Goldfish Man” by Maureen McHugh, (Uncanny Magazine #45)- Finalist
2023 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “The Coward Who Stole God’s Name” by John Wiswell, (Uncanny Magazine #46)- Finalist
2023 Locus Awards- Best Editor– Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2023 Locus Awards- Best Magazine– Uncanny Magazine– Finalist
2023 Aurora Awards- Best Poem/Song– “In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White” by Terese Mason Pierre, (Uncanny Magazine #46)
2023 Aurora Awards- Best Poem/Song– “a sinkhole invites a street to consider its future” by Dominik Parisien, (Uncanny Magazine Issue #44)
2022 Ignyte Awards- Best in Speculative Poetry– “In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White” by Terese Mason Pierre, (Uncanny Magazine #46)
2023 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette– “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” by John Chu, (Uncanny Magazine #47)- Finalist
2023 World Fantasy Awards- Special Award Nonprofessional– Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny– Finalist
2023 WSFA Small Press Award– “At the Lighthouse, Out by the Othersea” by Juliet Kemp, (Uncanny Magazine #47) ed. by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2024 Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards- Best Short Fiction– “The Girl with a City Inside of Her” by Jeannette Ng, (Uncanny Magazine #54)- Finalist
2023 Nebula Awards- Best Novelette– “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, (Uncanny Magazine #53)- Finalist
2023 Nebula Awards- Best Short Story– ““Bad Doors” by John Wiswell, (Uncanny Magazine #50)- Finalist
2024 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story- “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark, (Uncanny Magazine #50)- Finalist
2024 Hugo Awards- Best Short Story- “The Mausoleum’s Children” by Aliette de Bodard, (Uncanny Magazine #52)- Finalist
2024 Hugo Awards- Best Novelette- “One Man’s Treasure” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #50)- Finalist
2024 Hugo Awards- Best Editor, Short Form- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2024 Hugo Awards- Best Semiprozine- Uncanny Magazine, Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Managing Editor Monte Lin, Nonfiction Editor Meg Elison, Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky- Finalist
2024 Aurora Awards- Best Poem/Song– “A Siren’s Call, A Banshee’s Wail, A Grandmother’s Dream” by Ai Jiang, (Uncanny Magazine Issue #54)
2024 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, (Uncanny Magazine #53)- Finalist
2024 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer, (Uncanny Magazine #55)- Finalist
2024 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “The Mausoleum’s Children” by Aliette de Bodard, (Uncanny Magazine #52)- Finalist
2024 Locus Awards- Best Novelette– “One Man’s Treasure” by Sarah Pinsker, (Uncanny Magazine #50)- Finalist
2024 Locus Awards- Best Short Story– “A Soul in the World” by Charlie Jane Anders, (Uncanny Magazine #51)- Finalist
2024 Locus Awards- Best Editor– Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas- Finalist
2024 Frank R. Paul Award- Best Magazine Cover– Low-season Mars Tourist by Antonio Javier Caparo (Uncanny Magazine #52)- Finalist
2024 Frank R. Paul Award- Best Magazine Cover– For Woman Wild by Grace P. Fong (Uncanny Magazine #54)- Finalist
2024 Eugie Award– “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer, (Uncanny Magazine #55)- Finalist
2024 Eugie Award– “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia, (Uncanny Magazine #53)- Finalist
2024 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award– “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer, (Uncanny Magazine #55)- Finalist
2024 Ignyte Awards- Outstanding Short Story– “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia, (Uncanny Magazine #53)- Finalist
2024 World Fantasy Awards- Best Short Fiction– “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark, (Uncanny Magazine #50)- Finalist
2024 World Fantasy Awards- Best Short Fiction– “Waystation City” by A. T. Greenblatt, (Uncanny Magazine #50)- Finalist
2024 World Fantasy Awards- Special Award Nonprofessional– Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny– Finalist