James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award
The James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award is an annual literary prize for works of SF or fantasy from the previous year which expand or explore the understanding of gender. The idea for the award was originally proposed by Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Murphy at the 1991 WisCon.
The award honored the memory of SF writer James Tiptree, Jr. (1915-1987). Tiptree was the main pen name used by psychologist Alice Bradley Sheldon when she was writing SF. The first winner of the award was Gwyneth Jones for her novel, White Queen, in 1992. Double awards are not uncommon.
In 2019, the Award was renamed the Otherwise Award over sudden concerns about Sheldon’s suicide pact with her husband, which resulted in their 1987 deaths. It has been acknowledged that a connection to Tiptree remains via the title of one of her collections, Warm Worlds and Otherwise.
| Year | Author | Work |
|---|---|---|
| Retrospective | Suzy McKee Charnas | Motherlines and Walk to the End of the World |
| Retrospective | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Retrospective | Joanna Russ | The Female Man and When It Changed |
| 1991 | Eleanor Arnason | A Woman of the Iron People |
| 1991 | Gwyneth Jones | White Queen |
| 1992 | Maureen F. McHugh | China Mountain Zhang |
| 1993 | Nicola Griffith | Ammonite |
| 1994 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Matter of Seggri |
| 1994 | Nancy Springer | Larque on the Wing |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Hand | Waking The Moon |
| 1995 | Theodore Roszak | The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein |
| 1996 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Mountain Ways |
| 1996 | Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow |
| 1997 | Candas Jane Dorsey | Black Wine |
| 1997 | Kelly Link | Travels with the Snow Queen |
| 1998 | Raphael Carter | Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation |
| 1999 | Suzy McKee Charnas | The Conqueror's Child |
| 2000 | Molly Gloss | Wild Life |
| 2001 | Hiromi Goto | The Kappa Child |
| 2002 | M. John Harrison | Light |
| 2002 | John Kessel | Stories for Men |
| 2003 | Matt Ruff | Set This House in Order: A Romance Of Souls |
| 2004 | Joe Haldeman | Camouflage |
| 2004 | Johanna Sinisalo | Not Before Sundown |
| 2005 | Geoff Ryman | Air |
| 2006 | Catherynne M. Valente | The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden |
| 2006 | Shelley Jackson | Half Life |
| 2007 | Sarah Hall | The Carhullan Army |
| 2008 | Patrick Ness | The Knife of Never Letting Go |
| 2008 | Nisi Shawl | Filter House |
| 2009 | Greer Gilman | Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales |
| 2009 | Fumi Yoshinaga | Ōoku: The Inner Chambers |
| 2010 | Dubravka Ugresic | Baba Yaga Laid an Egg |
| 2011 | Andrea Hairston | Redwood and Wildfire |
| 2012 | Caitlin R. Kiernan | The Drowning Girl |
| 2012 | Kiini Ibura Salaam | Ancient, Ancient |
| 2013 | N. A. Sulway | Rupetta |
| 2014 | Monica Byrne | The Girl in the Road |
| 2014 | Jo Walton | My Real Children |
| 2015 | Eugene Fischer | The New Mother |
| 2015 | Pat Schmatz | Lizard Radio |
| 2016 | Anna-Marie McLemore | When the Moon Was Ours |
| 2017 | Virginia Bergin | Who Runs The World? |
| 2018 | Gabriela Damián Miravete | "They Will Dream in the Garden" |
| Renamed Otherwise Award | ||
| 2019 | Akwaeke Emezi | "Freshwater" |
| 2020 | Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki | "Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon" |
In 2015 the Tiptree Motherboard began awarding annual Fellowships of $500 per recipient to two creators who are doing work that pushes forward the Tiptree mission in making visible the many forces that are changing gender today and tomorrow.
| Year | Tiptree Fellows |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Micha Cardenas |
| 2015 | Walidah Imarisha, Elizabeth La Pensée |
| 2016 | Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Mia Sereno |
| 2017 | H. Pueyo, Ineke Chen-Meyer |
| 2018 | Vida Cruz, Ana Hurtado |
| Year | Otherwise Fellows |
| 2019 | Devonix, Martha Riva Palacio Obón |
| 2020 | Shreya Ila Anasuya, Eleyna Haroun, F. S. Hurston |
| Award | 1991—2019 |
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