Otherwise Award#Winners

The Otherwise Award, originally known as the James Tiptree Jr. Award, is an American annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February 1991 by science fiction authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, subsequent to a discussion at WisCon.

In addition to the award itself, the judges publish an Honor List, which they describe as "a strong part of the award's identity", "used by many readers as a recommended reading list".{{cite web|last1=Notkin|first1=Debbie|title=2015 Winners, Honor List, and Long List Announced!|url=http://tiptree.org/2016/04/2015-winners-and-honor-list-announced|website=James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award|access-date=April 2, 2016|date=April 2016|archive-date=May 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506191817/https://tiptree.org/2016/04/2015-winners-and-honor-list-announced|url-status=live}}

In 2024, the award administrators announced that they would be switching from a single winner each year to a shortlist of three to six winners.{{Cite web |last=Hartman |first=Jed |date=August 16, 2024 |title=New directions for the Otherwise Award |url=https://otherwiseaward.org/2024/08/new-directions-for-the-otherwise-award |access-date=May 9, 2025 |website=otherwiseaward.org}}

The award was originally named for Alice B. Sheldon, who wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr. Due to controversy over the appropriateness of naming an award after Tiptree, the committee administering the award announced on October 13, 2019, that the award would be renamed the Otherwise Award.

Background

=Choice of the Tiptree name=

By choosing a masculine nom de plume, having her stories accepted under that name and winning awards with them, Alice Sheldon helped demonstrate that the division between male and female science fiction writing was illusory. Years after "Tiptree" first published science fiction, Sheldon wrote some work under the female pen name "Raccoona Sheldon"; later, the science fiction world discovered that "Tiptree" had been female all along. This discovery led to widespread discussion over which aspects of writing, if any, have an intrinsic gender. To remind audiences of the role gender plays in both reading and writing, the award was named in Sheldon's honor at the suggestion of Karen Joy Fowler.

=Controversy and name change=

In 2019, controversy arose over the appropriateness of naming an award after Tiptree. In 1987, Alice Sheldon shot and killed her ailing husband Huntington Sheldon before killing herself in the same manner. Although some have called the killing a "suicide pact" based on Sheldon's personal writings, others characterize the act as "caregiver murder"—i.e., the murder of a disabled person by the person responsible for caring for them. In light of these allegations, the Tiptree Motherboard received requests to change the name of the award. On September 2, 2019, in response to these requests, the Motherboard made a statement that "a change to the name of the Tiptree Award is [not] warranted now"; but nine days later, on September 11, they announced that the award "can't go on under its existing name".{{cite web|url=https://tiptree.org/2019/09/alice-sheldon-and-the-name-of-the-tiptree-award|title=Alice Sheldon and the name of the Tiptree Award|last=Lothian|first=Alexis|date=September 2, 2019|access-date=September 15, 2019|website=James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award}}

On October 13, 2019, the Tiptree Motherboard released an announcement stating that the Tiptree Award would become the Otherwise Award. The name refers to "the act of imagining gender otherwise" at the core of what the award has always honored, as well as being "wise to the experience of being the other". The title also draws from the Black queer scholarship of Ashon Crawley around what is termed "otherwise politics".{{Cite web|url=https://tiptree.org/2019/10/from-tiptree-to-otherwise|title=From Tiptree to Otherwise « James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award|last=Lothian|first=Alexis|date=October 13, 2019|website=James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award|language=en-US|access-date=October 13, 2019|archive-date=October 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027064045/https://tiptree.org/2019/10/from-tiptree-to-otherwise|url-status=live}} According to the statement, "Otherwise means finding different directions to move in—toward newly possible places, by means of emergent and multiple pathways and methods."

Administration

The Tiptree award is administered by the Tiptree "Motherboard".{{Cite web |title=Motherboard « James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award |url=https://otherwiseaward.org/about-the-award/motherboard |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108010342/https://otherwiseaward.org/about-the-award/motherboard |archive-date=November 8, 2021 |access-date=November 7, 2021 |website=James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award|date=May 12, 2015 }}

Fundraising efforts for the Tiptree include publications (two cookbooks), "feminist bake sales", and auctions. The Tiptree cookbook The Bakery Men Don't See, edited by WisCon co-founder Jeanne Gomoll, was nominated for a 1992 Hugo Award. Tiptree Award juries traditionally consist of four female and one male juror (the "token man").Merrick, Helen. The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms {{ISBN|978-1-933500-33-1}} Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2009; pp. 172–176

In 2011, the Tiptree Motherboard received the Science Fiction Research Association's Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service for its "outstanding service activities – promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations".[http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/08/tiptree-motherboard-receives-clareson-award/ "Tiptree Motherboard Receives Clareson Award"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808083120/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/08/tiptree-motherboard-receives-clareson-award/ |date=August 8, 2017 }} Locus Online August 29, 2011

Anthologies

Selections of the winners, various short-listed fiction, and essays have appeared in four Tiptree-related collections, Flying Cups and Saucers (1999) and a series of annual anthologies published by Tachyon Publications of San Francisco. These include:

Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by The Secret Feminist Cabal and Debbie Notkin (1999)
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (2005)
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (2006)
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3 edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (2007)

Winners

class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" \|+ {{Sronly\|Otherwise Award winners}} !Year !Author(s) !Work !Publisher !Ref.
rowspan="2" \|1991 \|{{sort\|arnason, eleanor\|Eleanor Arnason}} \|{{sort\|woman of the iron people\|A Woman of the Iron People}} \|William Morrow \|
{{sort\|jones, gwyneth\|Gwyneth Jones}} \|White Queen \|Victor Gollancz Ltd \|
1992 \|{{sort\|mchugh, maureen f\|Maureen F. McHugh}} \|China Mountain Zhang \|Tor \|
1993 \|{{sort\|griffith, nicola\|Nicola Griffith}} \|Ammonite \|Del Rey Books \|
rowspan="2" \|1994 \|{{sort\|le guin, ursula k.\|Ursula K. Le Guin}} \|{{sort\|matter of seggri\|"The Matter of Seggri" in Crank! #3, spring 1994}} \|Broken Mirrors Press \|
{{sort\|springer, nancy\|Nancy Springer}} \|Larque on the Wing \|AvoNova \|
rowspan="7" \|1995 \|{{sort\|hand, elizabeth\|Elizabeth Hand}} \|Waking the Moon \|HarperPrism \|
{{sort\|Roszak, theodore\|Theodore Roszak}} \|{{sort\|memoirs of elizabeth frankenstein\|The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein}} \|Random House \|
{{sort\|charnas, suzy mckee\|Suzy McKee Charnas}} \|Motherlines \|Berkeley-Putnam \|
{{sort\|charnas, suzy mckee\|Suzy McKee Charnas}} \|Walk to the End of the World \|Ballantine \|
{{sort\|le guin, ursula k.\|Ursula K. Le Guin}} \|{{sort\|left hand of darkness\|The Left Hand of Darkness}} \|Walker & Co. \|
{{sort\|russ, joanna\|Joanna Russ}} \|{{sort\|female man\|The Female Man}} \|Bantam Books \|
{{sort\|russ, joanna\|Joanna Russ}} \|{{sort\|when it changed\|"When It Changed" in Again, Dangerous Visions}} \|Doubleday \|
rowspan="2" \|1996 \|{{sort\|le guin, ursula k.\|Ursula K. Le Guin}} \|{{sort\|mountain ways\|"Mountain Ways" in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1996}} \| \|
{{sort\|russell, mary doria\|Mary Doria Russell}} \|{{sort\|sparrow\|The Sparrow}} \|Random House \|
rowspan="2" \|1997 \|{{sort\|dorsey, candas jane\|Candas Jane Dorsey}} \|Black Wine \|Tor \|
{{sort\|link, kelly\|Kelly Link}} \|{{sort\|travels with the snow queen\|"Travels with the Snow Queen" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Volume 1, Number 1, winter 1996–1997}} \|Small Beer Press \|
1998 \|{{sort\|carter, raphael\|Raphael Carter}} \|{{sort\|contenital agenesis of gender ideation\|"Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" in Starlight 2}} \|Tor \|
1999 \|{{sort\|charnas, suzy mckee\|Suzy McKee Charnas}} \|{{sort\|conqueror's child\|The Conqueror's Child}} \|Tor \|
2000 \|{{sort\|gloss, molly\|Molly Gloss}} \|Wild Life \|Simon & Schuster \|
2001 \|{{sort\|goto, hiromi\|Hiromi Goto}} \|{{sort\|kappa child\|The Kappa Child}} \|Red Deer Press \|
rowspan="2" \|2002 \|{{sort\|harrison, m. john\|M. John Harrison}} \|Light \|Victor Gollancz Ltd \|
{{sort\|kessel, john\|John Kessel}} \|{{sort\|stories for men\|"Stories for Men" in Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2002}} \| \|
2003 \|{{sort\|ruff, matt\|Matt Ruff}} \|Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls \|HarperCollins \|
rowspan="2" \|2004 \|{{sort\|haldeman, joe\|Joe Haldeman}} \|Camouflage \|Ace \|
{{sort\|sinisalo, johanna\|Johanna Sinisalo}} \|Not Before Sundown (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi) Published in the United States as Troll – a love story \|Peter Owen Publishers \|
2005 \|{{sort\|ryman, geoff\|Geoff Ryman}} \|Air \|St. Martin's Griffin \|
rowspan="3" \|2006 \|{{sort\|jackson, shelley\|Shelley Jackson}} \|Half Life \|HarperCollins \|
{{sort\|valente, catherynne m.\|Catherynne M. Valente}} \|{{sort\|orphan's tales\|The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden}} \|Spectra Books \|
{{sort\|phillips, julie\|Julie Phillips}} \|James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon \|St. Martin's Press \|
2007 \|{{sort\|hall, sarah\|Sarah Hall}} \|{{sort\|carhullan army\|The Carhullan Army}} \|Faber and Faber (UK 2007); HarperCollins (US 2008) \|
rowspan="2" \|2008 \|{{sort\|ness, patrick\|Patrick Ness}} \|{{sort\|knife of never letting go\|The Knife of Never Letting Go}} \|Walker & Co. (UK); Candlewick Press (US) \|{{Cite web \|last= \|date=April 26, 2009 \|title=Tiptree Award Winners \|url=https://locusmag.com/2009/04/tiptree-award-winners/ \|access-date=June 27, 2023 \|website=Locus Online \|archive-date=March 11, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311013032/https://locusmag.com/2009/04/tiptree-award-winners/ \|url-status=live }}
{{sort\|shawl, nisi\|Nisi Shawl}} \|Filter House \|Aqueduct Press \|
rowspan="2" \|2009 \|{{sort\|gilman, greer\|Greer Gilman}} \|Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales \|Small Beer Press \|
{{sort\|yoshinaga, fumi\|Fumi Yoshinaga}} \|{{sort\|ooku: the inner chambers\|Ōoku: The Inner Chambers}} \|Hakusensha (Japan); VIZ Media (English-speaking world) \|
2010 \|{{sort\|ugresic, dubravka\|Dubravka Ugresic}} \|Baba Yaga Laid an Egg \|Canongate Books \|{{Cite web \|title=2010 Tiptree Award Winner Announced! \|url=http://tiptree.org/?page_id=169 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409101723/http://tiptree.org/?page_id=169 \|archive-date=April 9, 2011 \|access-date=March 21, 2011 \|publisher=James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council}}{{Cite web \|last= \|date=March 21, 2011 \|title=2010 Tiptree Award Winner \|url=https://locusmag.com/2011/03/2010-tiptree-award-winner/ \|access-date=June 27, 2023 \|website=Locus Online \|archive-date=August 17, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817110357/https://locusmag.com/2011/03/2010-tiptree-award-winner/ \|url-status=live }}
2011 \|{{sort\|hairston, andrea\|Andrea Hairston}} \|Redwood and Wildfire \|Aqueduct Press \|{{Cite web \|title=2011 Tiptree Award Winner announced. \|url=http://tiptree.org/2011-james-tiptree-award \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509215315/http://tiptree.org/2011-james-tiptree-award \|archive-date=May 9, 2012 \|access-date=March 10, 2012 \|publisher=James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council}}
rowspan="2" \|2012 \|{{sort\|kiernan, caitlin r.\|Caitlín R. Kiernan}} \|{{sort\|drowning girl\|The Drowning Girl}} \|Roc Books \|{{Cite web \|last= \|date=March 5, 2013 \|title=Kiernan and Salaam Win Tiptree Awards \|url=https://locusmag.com/2013/03/kiernan-and-salaam-win-tiptree-awards/ \|access-date=June 27, 2023 \|website=Locus Online \|archive-date=December 10, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210030655/http://locusmag.com/2013/03/kiernan-and-salaam-win-tiptree-awards/ \|url-status=live }}
{{sort\|salaam, kiini ibura\|Kiini Ibura Salaam}} \|Ancient, Ancient \|Aqueduct Press \|
2013 \|{{sort\|sulway, n. a.\|N. A. Sulway}} \|Rupetta \|Tartarus Press \|
rowspan="2" \|2014 \|{{sort\|byrne, monica\|Monica Byrne}} \|{{sort\|girl in the road\|The Girl in the Road}} \|Penguin Random House \|{{Cite web \|last= \|date=April 4, 2015 \|title=Tiptree Awards Winners Announced: Byrne and Walton \|url=https://locusmag.com/2015/04/tiptree-awards-winner-announced-byrne-and-walton/ \|access-date=June 27, 2023 \|website=Locus Online \|archive-date=December 6, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206204113/https://locusmag.com/2015/04/tiptree-awards-winner-announced-byrne-and-walton/ \|url-status=live }}
{{sort\|walton, jo\|Jo Walton}} \|My Real Children \|Tor \|
rowspan="2" \|2015 \|{{sort\|Fischer, Eugene\|Eugene Fischer}} \|{{sort\|new mother\|"The New Mother" in Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2015}} \|Dell Magazines \|
{{sort\|Schmatz, Pat\|Pat Schmatz}} \|Lizard Radio \|Candlewick Press \|
2016 \|{{sort\|mclemore, anna-marie\|Anna-Marie McLemore}} \|When the Moon Was Ours \|Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Griffin \|{{Cite web \|last= \|date=March 14, 2017 \|title=McLemore Wins 2016 Tiptree Award \|url=https://locusmag.com/2017/03/mclemore-wins-2016-tiptree-award/ \|access-date=June 27, 2023 \|website=Locus Online \|archive-date=March 2, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302182420/https://locusmag.com/2017/03/mclemore-wins-2016-tiptree-award/ \|url-status=live }}
2017 \|{{sort\|bergin, virginia\|Virginia Bergin}} \|Who Runs the World? \|Macmillan \|{{Cite web \|title=2017 James Tiptree, Jr. Award \|date=December 2016 \|url=https://tiptree.org/award/2017-james-tiptree-jr-award \|access-date=March 25, 2018}}{{Cite web \|last= \|date=March 14, 2018 \|title=Bergin Wins 2017 Tiptree Award \|url=https://locusmag.com/2018/03/bergin-wins-2017-tiptree-award/ \|access-date=June 27, 2023 \|website=Locus Online \|archive-date=January 30, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130181323/https://locusmag.com/2018/03/bergin-wins-2017-tiptree-award/ \|url-status=live }}
2018 \|{{sort\|miravete, gabriela damián\|{{ill\|Gabriela Damián Miravete\|es}}}} \|{{Sort\|They Will Dream in the Garden\|"They Will Dream in the Garden"}} \|Latin American Literature Today \|{{Cite web \|last= \|date=March 25, 2019 \|title=Miravete Wins 2018 Tiptree Award \|url=https://locusmag.com/2019/03/miravete-wins-2018-tiptree-award/ \|access-date=June 27, 2023 \|website=Locus Online \|archive-date=January 31, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131100250/https://locusmag.com/2019/03/miravete-wins-2018-tiptree-award/ \|url-status=live }}
2019 \|{{sort\|emezi, akwaeke\|Akwaeke Emezi}} \|Freshwater \|Grove Press \|{{Cite web \|last= \|date=April 13, 2020 \|title=Emezi Wins 2019 Otherwise Award \|url=https://locusmag.com/2020/04/emezi-wins-2019-otherwise-award/ \|access-date=June 27, 2023 \|website=Locus Online \|archive-date=May 29, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529183125/https://locusmag.com/2020/04/emezi-wins-2019-otherwise-award/ \|url-status=live }}
2020 \|{{Sortname\|last=Ekpeki\|first=Oghenechovwe Donald}} \|Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon \|Aurelia Leo \|{{Cite web \|last= \|date=September 7, 2021 \|title=Ekpeki Wins 2020 Otherwise Award \|url=https://locusmag.com/2021/09/ekpeki-wins-2020-otherwise-award/ \|access-date=June 27, 2023 \|website=Locus Online \|archive-date=January 25, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125000508/https://locusmag.com/2021/09/ekpeki-wins-2020-otherwise-award/ \|url-status=live }}
rowspan="2" \|2021 \|{{sort\|Aoki, Ryka\|Ryka Aoki}} \|Light from Uncommon Stars \|Tor Books \|{{Cite web \|last=Lothian \|first=Alexis \|date=January 17, 2023 \|title=Ryka Aoki and Rivers Solomon win 2021 Otherwise Award! Honor List announced \|url=https://otherwiseaward.org/2023/01/ryka-aoki-and-rivers-solomon-win-2021-otherwise-award-honor-list-announced \|access-date=January 22, 2023 \|website=Otherwise Award \|archive-date=January 22, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122025346/https://otherwiseaward.org/2023/01/ryka-aoki-and-rivers-solomon-win-2021-otherwise-award-honor-list-announced \|url-status=live }}{{Cite web \|last= \|date=January 19, 2023 \|title=2021 Otherwise Award Winners \|url=https://locusmag.com/2023/01/2021-otherwise-award-winners/ \|access-date=June 27, 2023 \|website=Locus Online \|archive-date=February 7, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207212041/https://locusmag.com/2023/01/2021-otherwise-award-winners/ \|url-status=live }}
{{sort\|Solomon, Rivers\|Rivers Solomon}} \|Sorrowland \|MCD Books \|
2022 \| colspan="3" \|Suspended \|{{Cite web \|date=December 14, 2021 \|title=2022 Otherwise Award \|url=https://otherwiseaward.org/award/2022-otherwise-award \|access-date=May 9, 2025 \|website=otherwiseaward.org}}
2023 \| colspan="3" \|Suspended \|{{Cite web \|date=December 19, 2022 \|title=2023 Otherwise Award \|url=https://otherwiseaward.org/award/2023-otherwise-award \|access-date=May 9, 2025 \|website=otherwiseaward.org}}
rowspan="4" \|2024 \|{{sort\|North, Emet\|Emet North}} \|In Universes \|HarperCollins \|{{Cite web \|last=Hartman \|first=Jed \|date=May 6, 2025 \|title=Announcing the 2024 Otherwise Award winners! \|url=https://otherwiseaward.org/2025/05/announcing-the-2024-otherwise-award-winners \|access-date=May 9, 2025 \|website=otherwiseaward.org}}
{{sort\|Verrone, P. C.\|P. C. Verrone}} \|"Kiss of Life" \|FIYAH \|
{{sort\|Chandrasekera, Vajra\|Vajra Chandrasekera}} \|Rakesfall \|Macmillan \|
{{sort\|Min, Dolki\|Dolki Min, translated by Victoria Caudle}} \|Walking Practice \|HarperCollins \|

class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"

|+ {{Sronly|Otherwise Award winners}}

!Year

!Author(s)

!Work

!Publisher

!Ref.

rowspan="2" |1991

|{{sort|arnason, eleanor|Eleanor Arnason}}

|{{sort|woman of the iron people|A Woman of the Iron People}}

|William Morrow

|White Queen

|Victor Gollancz Ltd

1992

|{{sort|mchugh, maureen f|Maureen F. McHugh}}

|China Mountain Zhang

|Tor

1993

|{{sort|griffith, nicola|Nicola Griffith}}

|Ammonite

|Del Rey Books

rowspan="2" |1994

|{{sort|le guin, ursula k.|Ursula K. Le Guin}}

|{{sort|matter of seggri|"The Matter of Seggri" in Crank! #3, spring 1994}}

|Broken Mirrors Press

|Larque on the Wing

|AvoNova

rowspan="7" |1995

|{{sort|hand, elizabeth|Elizabeth Hand}}

|Waking the Moon

|HarperPrism

|{{sort|memoirs of elizabeth frankenstein|The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein}}

|Random House

|Motherlines

|Berkeley-Putnam

|Walk to the End of the World

|Ballantine

|{{sort|left hand of darkness|The Left Hand of Darkness}}

|Walker & Co.

|{{sort|female man|The Female Man}}

|Bantam Books

|{{sort|when it changed|"When It Changed" in Again, Dangerous Visions}}

|Doubleday

rowspan="2" |1996

|{{sort|le guin, ursula k.|Ursula K. Le Guin}}

|{{sort|mountain ways|"Mountain Ways" in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1996}}

|{{sort|sparrow|The Sparrow}}

|Random House

rowspan="2" |1997

|{{sort|dorsey, candas jane|Candas Jane Dorsey}}

|Black Wine

|Tor

|{{sort|travels with the snow queen|"Travels with the Snow Queen" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Volume 1, Number 1, winter 1996–1997}}

|Small Beer Press

1998

|{{sort|carter, raphael|Raphael Carter}}

|{{sort|contenital agenesis of gender ideation|"Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" in Starlight 2}}

|Tor

1999

|{{sort|charnas, suzy mckee|Suzy McKee Charnas}}

|{{sort|conqueror's child|The Conqueror's Child}}

|Tor

2000

|{{sort|gloss, molly|Molly Gloss}}

|Wild Life

|Simon & Schuster

2001

|{{sort|goto, hiromi|Hiromi Goto}}

|{{sort|kappa child|The Kappa Child}}

|Red Deer Press

rowspan="2" |2002

|{{sort|harrison, m. john|M. John Harrison}}

|Light

|Victor Gollancz Ltd

|{{sort|stories for men|"Stories for Men" in Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2002}}

2003

|{{sort|ruff, matt|Matt Ruff}}

|Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls

|HarperCollins

rowspan="2" |2004

|{{sort|haldeman, joe|Joe Haldeman}}

|Camouflage

|Ace

|Not Before Sundown (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi)
Published in the United States as Troll – a love story

|Peter Owen Publishers

2005

|{{sort|ryman, geoff|Geoff Ryman}}

|Air

|St. Martin's Griffin

rowspan="3" |2006

|{{sort|jackson, shelley|Shelley Jackson}}

|Half Life

|HarperCollins

|{{sort|orphan's tales|The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden}}

|Spectra Books

|James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

|St. Martin's Press

2007

|{{sort|hall, sarah|Sarah Hall}}

|{{sort|carhullan army|The Carhullan Army}}

|Faber and Faber (UK 2007); HarperCollins (US 2008)

rowspan="2" |2008

|{{sort|ness, patrick|Patrick Ness}}

|{{sort|knife of never letting go|The Knife of Never Letting Go}}

|Walker & Co. (UK); Candlewick Press (US)

|{{Cite web |last= |date=April 26, 2009 |title=Tiptree Award Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2009/04/tiptree-award-winners/ |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=Locus Online |archive-date=March 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311013032/https://locusmag.com/2009/04/tiptree-award-winners/ |url-status=live }}

|Filter House

|Aqueduct Press

rowspan="2" |2009

|{{sort|gilman, greer|Greer Gilman}}

|Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales

|Small Beer Press

|{{sort|ooku: the inner chambers|Ōoku: The Inner Chambers}}

|Hakusensha (Japan); VIZ Media (English-speaking world)

2010

|{{sort|ugresic, dubravka|Dubravka Ugresic}}

|Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

|Canongate Books

|{{Cite web |title=2010 Tiptree Award Winner Announced! |url=http://tiptree.org/?page_id=169 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409101723/http://tiptree.org/?page_id=169 |archive-date=April 9, 2011 |access-date=March 21, 2011 |publisher=James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council}}{{Cite web |last= |date=March 21, 2011 |title=2010 Tiptree Award Winner |url=https://locusmag.com/2011/03/2010-tiptree-award-winner/ |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=Locus Online |archive-date=August 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817110357/https://locusmag.com/2011/03/2010-tiptree-award-winner/ |url-status=live }}

2011

|{{sort|hairston, andrea|Andrea Hairston}}

|Redwood and Wildfire

|Aqueduct Press

|{{Cite web |title=2011 Tiptree Award Winner announced. |url=http://tiptree.org/2011-james-tiptree-award |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509215315/http://tiptree.org/2011-james-tiptree-award |archive-date=May 9, 2012 |access-date=March 10, 2012 |publisher=James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council}}

rowspan="2" |2012

|{{sort|kiernan, caitlin r.|Caitlín R. Kiernan}}

|{{sort|drowning girl|The Drowning Girl}}

|Roc Books

|{{Cite web |last= |date=March 5, 2013 |title=Kiernan and Salaam Win Tiptree Awards |url=https://locusmag.com/2013/03/kiernan-and-salaam-win-tiptree-awards/ |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=Locus Online |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210030655/http://locusmag.com/2013/03/kiernan-and-salaam-win-tiptree-awards/ |url-status=live }}

|Ancient, Ancient

|Aqueduct Press

2013

|{{sort|sulway, n. a.|N. A. Sulway}}

|Rupetta

|Tartarus Press

rowspan="2" |2014

|{{sort|byrne, monica|Monica Byrne}}

|{{sort|girl in the road|The Girl in the Road}}

|Penguin Random House

|{{Cite web |last= |date=April 4, 2015 |title=Tiptree Awards Winners Announced: Byrne and Walton |url=https://locusmag.com/2015/04/tiptree-awards-winner-announced-byrne-and-walton/ |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=Locus Online |archive-date=December 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206204113/https://locusmag.com/2015/04/tiptree-awards-winner-announced-byrne-and-walton/ |url-status=live }}

|My Real Children

|Tor

rowspan="2" |2015

|{{sort|Fischer, Eugene|Eugene Fischer}}

|{{sort|new mother|"The New Mother" in Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2015}}

|Dell Magazines

|Lizard Radio

|Candlewick Press

2016

|{{sort|mclemore, anna-marie|Anna-Marie McLemore}}

|When the Moon Was Ours

|Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Griffin

|{{Cite web |last= |date=March 14, 2017 |title=McLemore Wins 2016 Tiptree Award |url=https://locusmag.com/2017/03/mclemore-wins-2016-tiptree-award/ |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=Locus Online |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302182420/https://locusmag.com/2017/03/mclemore-wins-2016-tiptree-award/ |url-status=live }}

2017

|{{sort|bergin, virginia|Virginia Bergin}}

|Who Runs the World?

|Macmillan

|{{Cite web |title=2017 James Tiptree, Jr. Award |date=December 2016 |url=https://tiptree.org/award/2017-james-tiptree-jr-award |access-date=March 25, 2018}}{{Cite web |last= |date=March 14, 2018 |title=Bergin Wins 2017 Tiptree Award |url=https://locusmag.com/2018/03/bergin-wins-2017-tiptree-award/ |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=Locus Online |archive-date=January 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130181323/https://locusmag.com/2018/03/bergin-wins-2017-tiptree-award/ |url-status=live }}

2018

|{{sort|miravete, gabriela damián|{{ill|Gabriela Damián Miravete|es}}}}

|{{Sort|They Will Dream in the Garden|"They Will Dream in the Garden"}}

|Latin American Literature Today

|{{Cite web |last= |date=March 25, 2019 |title=Miravete Wins 2018 Tiptree Award |url=https://locusmag.com/2019/03/miravete-wins-2018-tiptree-award/ |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=Locus Online |archive-date=January 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131100250/https://locusmag.com/2019/03/miravete-wins-2018-tiptree-award/ |url-status=live }}

2019

|{{sort|emezi, akwaeke|Akwaeke Emezi}}

|Freshwater

|Grove Press

|{{Cite web |last= |date=April 13, 2020 |title=Emezi Wins 2019 Otherwise Award |url=https://locusmag.com/2020/04/emezi-wins-2019-otherwise-award/ |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=Locus Online |archive-date=May 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529183125/https://locusmag.com/2020/04/emezi-wins-2019-otherwise-award/ |url-status=live }}

2020

|{{Sortname|last=Ekpeki|first=Oghenechovwe Donald}}

|Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon

|Aurelia Leo

|{{Cite web |last= |date=September 7, 2021 |title=Ekpeki Wins 2020 Otherwise Award |url=https://locusmag.com/2021/09/ekpeki-wins-2020-otherwise-award/ |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=Locus Online |archive-date=January 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125000508/https://locusmag.com/2021/09/ekpeki-wins-2020-otherwise-award/ |url-status=live }}

rowspan="2" |2021

|{{sort|Aoki, Ryka|Ryka Aoki}}

|Light from Uncommon Stars

|Tor Books

|{{Cite web |last=Lothian |first=Alexis |date=January 17, 2023 |title=Ryka Aoki and Rivers Solomon win 2021 Otherwise Award! Honor List announced |url=https://otherwiseaward.org/2023/01/ryka-aoki-and-rivers-solomon-win-2021-otherwise-award-honor-list-announced |access-date=January 22, 2023 |website=Otherwise Award |archive-date=January 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122025346/https://otherwiseaward.org/2023/01/ryka-aoki-and-rivers-solomon-win-2021-otherwise-award-honor-list-announced |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last= |date=January 19, 2023 |title=2021 Otherwise Award Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2023/01/2021-otherwise-award-winners/ |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=Locus Online |archive-date=February 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207212041/https://locusmag.com/2023/01/2021-otherwise-award-winners/ |url-status=live }}

|Sorrowland

|MCD Books

2022

| colspan="3" |Suspended

|{{Cite web |date=December 14, 2021 |title=2022 Otherwise Award |url=https://otherwiseaward.org/award/2022-otherwise-award |access-date=May 9, 2025 |website=otherwiseaward.org}}

2023

| colspan="3" |Suspended

|{{Cite web |date=December 19, 2022 |title=2023 Otherwise Award |url=https://otherwiseaward.org/award/2023-otherwise-award |access-date=May 9, 2025 |website=otherwiseaward.org}}

rowspan="4" |2024

|{{sort|North, Emet|Emet North}}

|In Universes

|HarperCollins

|{{Cite web |last=Hartman |first=Jed |date=May 6, 2025 |title=Announcing the 2024 Otherwise Award winners! |url=https://otherwiseaward.org/2025/05/announcing-the-2024-otherwise-award-winners |access-date=May 9, 2025 |website=otherwiseaward.org}}

|"Kiss of Life"

|FIYAH

|Rakesfall

|Macmillan

|Walking Practice

|HarperCollins