Mills Wins Sturgeon

Other finalists were:

• “Ten Steps for Effective Mold Removal”, Derrick Boden (Apex 9/22)
• “Slow Communication”, Dominique Dickey (Fantasy 2/22)
• “In the Beginning of Me, I Was a Bird”, Maria Dong (Lightspeed 1/22)
• “If We Make It Through This Alive”, A.T. Greenblatt (Slate 1/22)
• “The City and the Thing Beneath It”, Innocent Chizaram Ilo (F&SF 1-2/22)
• “Bonsai Starships”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/22)
• “A Hole in the Light”, Annalee Newitz (Sunday Morning Transport 10/22)
• “Babang Luksa”, Nicasio Andres Reed (Reckoning 2/22)
• “Toronto Isn’t Real and Other Metropolitan Anomalies”, A.D. Sui (Augur 12/22)

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, Sarah Pinsker, Noël Sturgeon, and Taryne Taylor.

The winner will be guest of honor at the second annual Sturgeon Symposium, to be held September 20-22, 2023. The ceremony will feature a reception, opening remarks, presentation of the award, a reading by Mills, and a Q&A session. The theme, “Fantastic Worlds, Fraught Futures,” coincides with the anniversary of the publication of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, KU’s 2023-24 Common Book.

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

While you are here, please take a moment to support Locus with a one-time or recurring donation. We rely on reader donations to keep the magazine and site going, and would like to keep the site paywall free, but WE NEED YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT to continue quality coverage of the science fiction and fantasy field.

©Locus Magazine. Copyrighted material may not be republished without permission of LSFF.