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2020 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Awards

There are various competitions that attempt to find the best science fiction, fantasy and horror of each year, and I've collated the winners and nominees from what seems to be the major awards in a series of posts (see the very bottom for links to all of them). The requirement for inclusion is that the award ceremony occurs in the current year (as listed in the title), so the post will be updated as they are announced throughout the year.

The awards considered are: Arthur C. Clarke, Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, BSFA, Compton Crook, Dragon, Eugie, Hugo/Lodestar, John W. Campbell Memorial, Lambda, Locus, Nebula/Andre Norton, Otherwise, Philip K. Dick, Prometheus, Shirley Jackson, Sturgeon and World Fantasy.

This is the post for the short story category. The ordering is based on the "score" of each book, with a nomination giving 1 point, and a win giving 1.5 points. Otherwise it's ordered by title. What do you think should win?

3: A Catalog of Storms - Fran Wilde
Finalist - Hugo
Finalist - Locus
Finalist - Nebula
- Read Online

2.5: Give the Family My Love - A. T. Greenblatt
Winner - Nebula
Finalist - Sturgeon
- Read Online

2: And Now His Lordship Is Laughing - Shiv Ramdas
Finalist - Hugo
Finalist - Nebula
- Read Online

2: Blood is Another Word for Hunger - Rivers Solomon
Finalist - Hugo
Finalist - World Fantasy
- Read Online

2: For He Can Creep - Siobhan Carroll
Finalist - Eugie
Finalist - World Fantasy
- Read Online

2: Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun - Jerome Stueart
Finalist - Eugie
Finalist - World Fantasy
- Amazon

2: Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island - Nibedita Sen
Finalist - Hugo
Finalist - Nebula
- Read Online

2: The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power - Karen Osborne
Finalist - Nebula
Finalist - Sturgeon
- Read Online

2: The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex - Tobias S. Buckell
Finalist - Locus
Finalist - Sturgeon
- Amazon

1.5: As the Last I May Know - S. L. Huang
Winner - Hugo
- Read Online

1.5: Kali_Na - Indrapramit Das
Winner - Shirley Jackson
- Amazon

1.5: The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra's Diary) - Gwendolyn Kiste
Winner - Bram Stoker
- Amazon

1: A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy - Rebecca Roanhorse
Finalist - Locus
- Amazon

1: A Civilization Dreams of Absolutely Nothing - Thoraiya Dyer
Finalist - Eugie
- Magzter

1: A Touch of Madness - Tim Waggoner
Finalist - Bram Stoker
- Amazon

1: Bury Me in Tar and Twine - Jess Landry
Finalist - Bram Stoker
- Amazon

1: Do Not Look Back, My Lion - Alix E. Harrow
Finalist - Hugo
- Read Online

1: Everyone Knows That They're Dead. Do You? - Genevieve Valentine
Finalist - World Fantasy
- Amazon

1: Fisher-Bird - T. Kingfisher
Finalist - Locus
- Amazon

1: For Your Own Good - Ian Whates
Finalist - BSFA
- Amazon

1: How the Trick is Done - A. C. Wise
Finalist - Nebula
- Read Online

1: How to Become a Witch-Queen - Theodora Goss
Finalist - Shirley Jackson
- Amazon

1: I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married - Fonda Lee
Finalist - Locus
- Read Online

1: It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning - Ted Chiang
Finalist - Locus
- Read Online (behind a wall, ironically)

1: Jolene - Fiona Moore
Finalist - BSFA
- TTA Press

1: Lest We Forget - Elizabeth Bear
Finalist - Locus
- Amazon

1: Love in the Time of Immuno-Sharing - Andy Dudak
Finalist - Eugie
- Read Online

1: Lydia - Cindy O'Quinn
Finalist - Bram Stoker
- Amazon

1: Of Warps and Wefts - Innocent Chizaram Ilo
Finalist - Otherwise
- Read Online

1: Read After Burning - Maria Dahvana Headley
Finalist - World Fantasy
- Amazon

1: The Archronology of Love - Caroline M. Yoachim
Finalist - Sturgeon
- Read Online

1: The Book of Last Words - Greg Chapman
Finalist - Bram Stoker
- Amazon

1: The Bookstore at the End of America - Charlie Jane Anders
Finalist - Locus
- Amazon

1: The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear - Kelly Link
Finalist - Locus
- Read Online

1: The House Wins in the End - L. Chan
Finalist - Eugie
- Read Online

1: The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir - Karin Tidbek
Finalist - Sturgeon
- Read Online

1: The Painter of Trees - Suzanne Palmer
Finalist - Sturgeon
- Read Online

1: The Truth About Josh Enloe - Nick Straatmann
Finalist - Shirley Jackson
- Parhelion

1: The Well - Mariana Enríquez
Finalist - Shirley Jackson
- The Southern Review

1: Thoughts and Prayers - Ken Liu
Finalist - Locus
- Read Online

1: Whistle, My Lad and I Will Come - Gina Ochser
Finalist - Shirley Jackson
- Fairy Tale Review

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