{"id":494,"date":"2009-08-17T21:38:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T01:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2009-08-20T22:47:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T02:47:59","slug":"wsfa-small-press-award-committee-announces-finalists-for-2009-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/wsfa-small-press-award-committee-announces-finalists-for-2009-award\/","title":{"rendered":"WSFA Small Press Award Committee Announces Finalists for 2009 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsfasmallpressaward.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2007 WSFA Small Press Award\" src=\"http:\/\/wsfasmallpressaward.org\/2007\/WSPA_Award_2007_Small.jpg\" title=\"2007 WSFA Small Press Award\" width=\"181\" height=\"250\" ALIGN=\"right\" HSPACE=\"8\"\/><\/a>The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/wsfasmallpressaward.org\">WSFA Small Press Award<\/a> for Short Fiction (for stories published in 2008): <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrinking Problem\u201d by K.D. Wentworth, published in <strong>Seeds of Change<\/strong>, edited by John Joseph Adams, Prime Books (August, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHard Rain at the Fortean Caf\u00e9\u201d by Lavie Tidhar, published in issue 14 of <em>Aeon Speculative Fiction Magazine<\/em>, edited by Bridget McKenna.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis Last Arrow\u201d by Christopher Sequeira, published in <strong>Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes<\/strong>, edited by Jeff Campbell and Charles Prepolec, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, (October, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSilent as Dust\u201d by James Maxey, published in <em>Orson Scott Card&#8217;s Intergalactic Medicine Show<\/em>, edited by Edmund R. Schubert, Hatrack Publishing, January 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpider the Artist\u201d by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, published in <strong>Seeds of Change<\/strong>, edited by John Joseph Adams, Prime Books (August, 2008)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Absence of Stars: Part 1\u201d by Greg Siewert, published in <em>Orson Scott Card&#8217;s Intergalactic Medicine Show<\/em>, edited by Edmund R. Schubert, Hatrack Publishing, December 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Toy Car\u201d by Luisa Maria Garcia Velasco, (translated from Spanish by Ian Watson) published in April 2008 edition of <em>Aberrant Dreams<\/em>, edited by Joseph W. Dickerson.<\/p>\n<p>The award honors the efforts of small press publishers in providing a critical venue for short fiction in the area of speculative fiction. The award showcases the best original short fiction published by small presses in the previous year (2008). An unusual feature of the selection process is that all voting is done with the identity of the author (and publisher) hidden so that the final choice is based solely on the quality of the story.  <\/p>\n<p>The winner is chosen by the members of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.org\"> Washington Science Fiction Association<\/a> (www.wsfa.org) and will be presented at their annual convention, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capclave.org\">Capclave<\/a> (www.capclave.org), held this year on October 16-18th in Rockville, Maryland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2009 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction (for stories published in 2008): \u201cDrinking Problem\u201d by K.D. Wentworth, published in Seeds of Change, edited by John Joseph Adams, Prime Books (August, 2008). \u201cHard Rain at the Fortean Caf\u00e9\u201d by Lavie Tidhar, published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,40],"tags":[237,88,87,236,128],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capclave","category-reading","category-wsfa-small-press-award","tag-awards","tag-fantasy","tag-science-fiction","tag-small-press","tag-wsfa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WSFA Small Press Award Committee Announces Finalists for 2009 Award - A Curious Statistical Anomaly<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/wsfa-small-press-award-committee-announces-finalists-for-2009-award\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"davinci\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/amperzen.com\\\/blog\\\/wsfa-small-press-award-committee-announces-finalists-for-2009-award\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/amperzen.com\\\/blog\\\/wsfa-small-press-award-committee-announces-finalists-for-2009-award\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"davinci\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/amperzen.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4344e39b0408fba0234cf68dcf6ea62e\"},\"headline\":\"WSFA Small Press Award Committee Announces Finalists for 2009 Award\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-08-18T01:38:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-08-21T02:47:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/amperzen.com\\\/blog\\\/wsfa-small-press-award-committee-announces-finalists-for-2009-award\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":308,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/amperzen.com\\\/blog\\\/wsfa-small-press-award-committee-announces-finalists-for-2009-award\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/wsfasmallpressaward.org\\\/2007\\\/WSPA_Award_2007_Small.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Awards\",\"fantasy\",\"science fiction\",\"Small Press\",\"WSFA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Capclave\",\"Reading\",\"WSFA Small Press Award\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/amperzen.com\\\/blog\\\/wsfa-small-press-award-committee-announces-finalists-for-2009-award\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/amperzen.com\\\/blog\\\/wsfa-small-press-award-committee-announces-finalists-for-2009-award\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/amperzen.com\\\/blog\\\/wsfa-small-press-award-committee-announces-finalists-for-2009-award\\\/\",\"name\":\"WSFA Small Press Award Committee Announces Finalists for 2009 Award - 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