2009 — Issues 28-39
Award Winners
Award Nominations
- 2010 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
- 2010 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine
- 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : "Non-Zero Probabilities" by N.K. Jemisin (audio)
- 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : "Spar" by Kij Johnson (audio)
- 2010 Finalist: the Locus Award for Best Short Story : "Spar" by Kij Johnson (audio)
- 2009 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : "Non-Zero Probabilities" by N.K. Jemisin (audio)
- 2010 Theodore Sturgeon Award Finalist: "Spar" by Kij Johnson (audio) [Kij, a juror for this award, withdrew the story]
- 2010 Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover "Brain Tower" by Kazuhiko Nakamura.
Year's Best Selections
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 4, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- "Spar" by Kij Johnson
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" by Catherynne M. Valente
Honorable Mentions
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- "Celadon" by Desirina Boskovich
- "Placa del Fuego" by Tobias S. Buckell
- "Brief Candle" by Jason K. Chapman
- "Teaching Bigfoot to Read" by Geoffrey W. Cole
- "Spar" by Kij Johnson
- "White Charles" by Sarah Monette
- "Night, in Dark Perfection" by Richard Parks
- "The Mermaids Singing Each to Each" by Cat Rambo
- "Of Melei, of Ulthar" by Gord Sellar
- "The Dying World" by Lavie Tidhar
- "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" by Catherynne M. Valente
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- "Spar" by Kij Johnson
- "Rolling Steel" by Jay Lake and Shannon Page
- "White Charles" by Sarah Monette
- "The Dying World" by Lavie Tidhar
Other Distinctions
- "In the Lot and in the Air" by Lisa Hannett, 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List
- "Spar" by Kij Johnson, 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List
- "White Charles" by Sarah Monette, 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List
- "Of Melei, of Ulthar" by Gord Sellar, 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List
- "The Dying World" by Lavie Tidhar, 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List
- "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" by Catherynne M. Valente, 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List
2008 — Issues 16-27
Award Winners
- 2009 Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover "Floating Fish" by Mats Minnhagen.
Award Nominations
- 2009 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
- 2009 World Fantasy Award : Special Award Non-Professional
- 2009 World Fantasy Award : Best Short Story "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" by Catherynne M. Valente
Year's Best Selections
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
Unplugged: The Year's Best Online Fiction, Rich Horton ed.
- "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" by Catherynne M. Valente
Year's Best Fantasy 9, David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer ed.
- "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" by Catherynne M. Valente
Best Horror of the Year, Volume 1, Ellen Datlow ed.
- "When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald
Honorable Mentions
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- "Teeth" by Stephen Dedman
- "After Moreau" by Jeffrey Ford
- "Clockwork Chickadee" by Mary Robinette Kowal
- "Blue Ink" by Yoon Ha Lee
- "The River Boy" by Tim Pratt
- "When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald
- "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antartica" by Catherynne Valente
- "Can You See Me Now?" by Eric Witchey
Unplugged: The Year's Best Online Fiction, Rich Horton ed.
- "The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue into the Black" by Jay Lake
- "When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2009 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- "The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue into the Black" by Jay Lake
- "When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald
- "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antartica" by Catherynne Valente
Best Horror of the Year, Volume 1, Ellen Datlow ed.
- "Teeth" by Stephen Dedman
- "Captain's Lament" by Stephen Graham Jones
Other Distinctions
- "The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue into the Black" by Jay Lake, 2008 Locus Recommended Reading List, finished 15th in 2009 Locus Poll for Best Short Story
- "A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica" by Catherynne M. Valente, 2008 Locus Recommended Reading List, finished 11th in 2009 Locus Poll for Best Short Story
- 9th Place in magazine category, 2009 Locus Poll
2007 — Issues 4-15
Award Nominations
- "There's No Light Between Floors" by Paul Tremblay, 2007 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction
- "Something in the Mermaid Way" by Carrie Laben, Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction
- "The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer, Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction
- "Orm the Beautiful" by Elizabeth Bear, WSFA Small Press Award
- "The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer, WSFA Small Press Award
- "Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky" by Ken Scholes, Nebula Awards Preliminary Ballot
Year's Best Selections
Fantasy Best of the Year 2008, Rich Horton ed.
- "Something in the Mermaid Way" by Carrie Laben
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 2, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- "Orm the Beautiful" by Elizabeth Bear
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #19, Stephen Jones ed.
- "The Ape's Wife" by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Wilde Stories 2008: The Best of the Year's Gay Speculative Fiction, Steve Berman ed.
- "Acid and Stoned Reindeer" by Rebecca Ore
Honorable Mentions
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- "Orm the Beautiful" by Elizabeth Bear
- "Automatic" by Erica L. Satifka
- "Chewing Up the Innocent" by Jay Lake
- "The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer
- "Qubit Conflicts" by Jetse De Vries
- "The Oracle Spoke" by Holly Phillips
- "I'll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said" by Cat Rambo
- "The Beacon" by Darja Malcolm-Clarke
- "The Ape's Wife" by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- "Lost Soul" by M P Ericson
- "A Dance Across Embers" by Lisa Mantchev
- "Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky" by Ken Scholes
- "Acid and Stoned Reindeer" by Rebecca Ore
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant ed.
- "Orm the Beautiful" by Elizabeth Bear
- "Clockmaker's Requiem" by Barth Anderson
- "Something in the Mermaid Way" by Carrie Laben
- "The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer
- "The Oracle Spoke" by Holly Phillips
- "Moon Over Yodok" by David Charlton
- "I'll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said" by Cat Rambo
- "The Ape's Wife" by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- "There's No Light Between Floors" by Paul Tremblay
Best American Fantasy 2, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer ed.
- "Acid and Stoned Reindeer" by Rebecca Ore
Other Distinctions
- SciFi.com Site of the Week: August 29, 2007
- "Orm the Beautiful" by Elizabeth Bear, 2007 Locus Recommended Reading List
- "The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer, 2007 Locus Recommended Reading List
- "Clockmaker's Requiem" by Barth Anderson, 2007 Locus Recommended Reading List
Quotes
"Stylishly written and usually faintly perverse fantasy is also available at Clarkesworld Magazine" — Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection
2006 — Issues 1-3
Awards
- Million Writers Award for Best New Online Magazine
- Million Writers Award for Best Online Short Story for "Urchins, While Swimming" by Catherynne M. Valente
Year's Best Selections
Best New Romantic Fantasy 2, Paula Guran ed.
- "A Light in Troy" by Sarah Monette
Horror: Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, Sean Wallace and John Gregory Betancourt ed.
- "Lydia's Body" by Vylar Kaftan
Honorable Mentions
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant and Kelly Link ed.
- "304, Adolph Hitler Strasse" by Lavie Tidhar
- "Lydia's Body" by Vylar Kaftan
- "Urchins, While Swimming" by Catherynne M. Valente
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- "A Light in Troy" by Sarah Monette
