Spectacular news, Space Unicorns! “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia won the Sturgeon Memorial Award! Plus, “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer was third-place runner up!!! Congratulations to Rhonda, Naomi, and to all of the finalists!

From Locus Magazine:

Established in 1987 by James Gunn and the heirs of Theodore Sturgeon, including his partner Jayne Engelhart Tannehill and Sturgeon’s children, the Sturgeon Award is “a memorial to one of the great short-story writers in a field distinguished by its short fiction.” This year’s jurors were Elizabeth Bear, Kelly Link, Sarah Pinsker, Noël Sturgeon, and Taryne Taylor.

The award will be presented in-person at the third annual Sturgeon Symposium at the Hall Center for the Humanities in Lawrence, KS. The Sturgeon Award ceremony, to be held on October 24, will feature a reception, opening remarks, presentation of the award, a reading by Garcia, and a Q&A session. The theme of this year’s symposium is “Stars in Our Pockets: Celebrating Samuel R. Delany.” The Symposium itself is from October 24-25.

For more information, see the Gunn Center’s website.