The Locus Award for Best Short Story is one of a series of

Locus Awards The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine ''Locus'', a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California. The awards are presented at an annual banquet. In addition to the pl ...

given every year by ''

Locus Magazine ''Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field'', founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California. It is the news organ and trade journal for the English-language science fiction and fantasy (genre ...

''. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year. Originally known as the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction, the first award in this category was presented in 1971.

Winners

Winners are as follows:Locus Award for Best Short Story
accessed 4 March 2015

References

Short Story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

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