Locus Award for Best Novelette
2025

winner

By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars
by
Premee Mohamed

finalist

Encore
by
Wole Talabi

finalist

Joannas Bodies
by
Eugenia Triantafyllou

finalist

Loneliness Universe
by
Eugenia Triantafyllou

finalist

A Stranger Knocks
by
Tananarive Due

finalist

I'm Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe
by
Daryl Gregory

finalist

The River Judge
by
S L Huang

finalist

Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!
by
TJ Klune

finalist

The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea
by
Naomi Kritzer

finalist

Another Girl Under the Iron Bell
by
Angela Liu

About the Locus Awards

The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus. Website

Years when the Locus Award for Best Novelette was given

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