Locus Award for Best Short Story
2025

winner

Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole
by
Isabel J Kim

finalist

The V*mpire
by
PH Lee

finalist

Three Faces of a Beheading
by
Arkady Martine

finalist

The Night Birds
by
Premee Mohamed

finalist

Stitched to Skin Like Family Is
by
Nghi Vo

finalist

We Will Teach You How to Read, We Will Teach You How to Read
by
Caroline M Yoachim

finalist

The Wood at Midwinter
by
Susanna Clarke

finalist

Autumn's Red Bird
by
Aliette de Bodard

finalist

Five Views of the Planet Tartarus
by
Rachael K Jones

finalist

Parthenogenesis
by
Stephen Graham Jones

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 Short Story was given

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