Winners of Codex story contests.

Codex holds several short story contests of various kinds each year. Here is a complete history of those contests, including winners and (where applicable) where the winning stories have subsequently sold. Also listed are non-placing stories that sold.

To have your sale or publication of a Codex contest story listed here, visit the Have you published a Codex contest story? thread and post your success story there. (Please include contest name and year, story title, market sold to, the story’s final title, and a web address where the story was published, if available.)

 

2019


Flash, Saviour of the Universe

  • Holly Schofield

  • Jennifer Hudak

  • Kelly Sandoval

  • Beth Cato

  • Cislyn Smith

  • Nathaniel Eakman

  • Floris M. Kleijne

    • After We Buried The Hatchet—Daily Science Fiction

  • Sylvia Volk

  • Wendy Nikel

Weekend Warrior

  • Aimee Ogden

  • Alexis A. Hunter

  • Andrea G. Stewart

  • Jenn Reese

  • Kerstin Hall

  • Michelle Muenzler

  • Rachael Jones

  • Shannon Peavey

  • Aimee Picchi

  • Amanda Helms

  • Ani King

  • Emily McCosh

  • Kat Otis

  • Rebecca Birch

  • Samantha Murray

  • Tina Connolly

  • Anne Leonard

  • Eric James Stone

  • Gretchen Tessmer

  • Matt Dovey

  • Matthew Bailey

  • Megan Lee Beals

  • Mike Pettit

  • Stephen S. Power

  • Stewart C. Baker

  • Alexei Collier

  • Anatoly Belilovsky

  • Bo Balder

    • Breadcrumbs For an Alien—Nature Futures

    • Goldfish and Tea—Daily Science Fiction

  • Brian Hugenbruch

  • Christi Nogle

  • Dafydd McKimm

  • Dawn Vogel

    • A Sixteen-Step Plan to Super Villainy—Flash Fiction Magazine

  • Deborah Davitt

    • Forward, Into Violet Sunset—Factor Four

    • The Ghost Teas of Sakurajima—Mithila Review

  • Eleanor R. Wood

    • Objects Left Behind at the Sea of Tranquillity Public Library—Daily Science Fiction

  • Floris M. Kleijne

  • George Nikolopoulos

    • The Ghost Who Haunted Her—Five Minutes At Hotel Stormcove

  • Holly Schofield

    • A Moment in Time in 1953—Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove (as Diffidence in White and Grey)

  • KT Wagner

    • Meals She Has Not Eaten—Factor Four Magazine (as Auntie's Obsession)

  • Kurt Pankau

    • Carpools & Coworkers—Daily Science Fiction

  • Laura F. Sanchez

    • Bayou Luminescence—New Myths

  • P.A. Cornell

    • They Fell to Earth in a Downpour—Frozen Wavelets

  • Rebecca Roland

  • Robert Dawson

    • Replay—Sub-Q

    • Snows of Years Gone By—Frozen Wavelets

  • Sandy Parsons

    • Devouring Time—Selene Quarterly Magazine

    • The Adventures of WaterBear and MossPiglet—Zooscape

  • Stephen S. Power

    • The Last Time You'll See Me. The First Time We'll Meet—Factor Four Magazine

  • Timothy Mudie

2018


Flash, Saviour of the Universe

  • Dafydd McKimm

  • Joy Kennedy O'Neill

  • Wendy Nikel

  • Amanda Helms

  • Beth Cato

  • Timothy Mudie

  • Aimee Picchi

  • Matthew Bailey

  • Samantha Murray

Halloween Contest

  • Farewell Concert at the World's End by Robin Duncan—Pseudopod

Novella Contest

  • All the Dust of Shattered Heaven by Beth Cato

  • Listening for her Voice in the Waves by Deborah Davitt

  • Every Ocean Rises by Rachael Jones

  • Sea-Daughters, Sun-Daughters by Aimee Ogden

  • The 9th Car by Jeff Lyman

  • City of Magic and Desire by Laurence Brothers—World Castle Publishing

  • Horse in Water, Black on Gems, Blood on Thorns by Erin M. Hartshorn

  • Saving Io by Marie Vibbert

  • Mad Milk by Natalia Theodoridou

Weekend Warrior

  • Emily McCosh

  • MK Hutchins

  • Rachael Jones

  • Shannon Peavey

  • Jenn Reese

  • Joy Kennedy O'Neill

  • Karen Osborne

  • Tina Connolly

    • miscellaneous notes from the time an alien came to band camp disguised as my alto sax—F&SF

  • Jared Oliver Adams

  • K.S. O'Neill

  • Kerstin Hall

  • Matthew Bailey

  • Aimee Picchi

  • Austin DeMarco

    • The Confectioner—Daily Science Fiction

  • Bo Balder

    • Bronze in Slow Motion—Kaleidotrope

    • Kintsugi—Pseudopod

    • The Smartest Damn Machine On Earth—Analog Science Fiction & Fact

  • C.L. Holland

  • Caroline M. Yoachim

    • A Wedding Gown of Autumn Leaves—Daily Science Fiction

  • Deborah Davitt

    • Leaving Red Footprints—Switchblade/Pulp Modern: Tech Noir

  • Eleanor R. Wood

    • What The Sea Reaps, We Must Provide—Diabolical Plots

  • Floris M. Kleijne

  • George Nikolopoulos

    • An Android's Guide to Deciphering Emotions—Factor Four Magazine

    • The Curse of the Ice Dragon—Daily Science Fiction

  • Hailey Stone

    • A Subtle Fire Beneath the Skin—Sword & Sonnet: An Anthology of Battle Poets (as To Write in This Much Red)

    • When the Tides Bring You Back—Factor Four Magazine

  • Helen French

  • Jeff Soesbe

  • Joy Kennedy O'Neill

    • A is for Aardvark—New Flash Fiction Review (as Animals at the Ball)

    • Pushing a Prayer—Lascaux Review

    • The Roots That Roam—Abyss & Apex

  • Kat Otis

  • Kate Heartfield

  • Larry Hodges

    • Death for the Cure: A Comedy About Cancer—Galaxy's Edge

  • Laura F. Sanchez

    • Long as a Country Mile—Every Day Fiction

  • Laurence Brothers

    • Happy To Be Of Service—Manawaker Studios

    • Sarvangasana—Sensory Perceptions

  • Matthew Bailey

    • The Pilot Was Human—Factor Four (as Naked Skin, Fearful Metal)

  • Michelle Muenzler

  • Rebecca Birch

    • The Lights of Wonderland—Factor Four Magazine

  • Robert Dawson

    • Take Your Partners—Wild Musette

  • Shawn Proctor

    • Unicorns on All Street, Fairies in the Coffee Shop—Galaxy's Edge

  • Stewart C. Baker

2017


Collaboration Contest

  • Coachwhip and Wade, Hex-tamers For Hire by Toni Pi & K.G. Jewell—Intergalactic Medicine Show

Flash, Saviour of the Universe

  • Emily McCosh

  • Lina Rather

    • Quick-Reject McDreck

  • Paul R. Hardy

    • The Aptonymic Alliterator

  • Rebecca Birch

    • The Sun Is a Deadly Laser

  • David Vaughan

    • Flagon with the Dragon

  • Eleanna Castroianni

    • Alium Sativum

  • Joy Kennedy O'Neill

    • Tribble Nibbles

  • Stephen S. Power

    • 73

  • Aimee Ogden

    • Extra Virgin Olive Oil

  • Aimee Picchi

    • The Toast in the Machine

  • Eugenia Triantafyllou

    • Eugenia Triantafyllou

  • Wendy Nikel

    • T.Rex with a Typewriter

  • Anna Zumbro

  • Bo Balder

    • It's Spring in the Forever Zoo—The Overcast

  • Christi Nogle

  • Deborah Davitt

    • Arthur Polaris and the Curse of Vanth—StoryHack (as Night of a Thousand Eyes)

    • Conceit and Capability—Galaxy's Edge

  • Eleanna Castroianni

    • The Silent Flowers of the Magician's Garden—Beneath Ceaseless Skies

  • Eleanor R. Wood

    • One And One Makes One—Harbinger Press' Flash Fiction Fridays

  • George Nikolopoulos

    • Magic Flowing Through Our Hands Like Water—Selene Quarterly Magazine

    • Memoirs of a One-Time Dragon Slayer's Apprentice—Factor Four

  • James Beamon

    • A Villain Considers His Options—Daily Science Fiction

    • A Villain Turns Mad—Daily Science Fiction

  • Jon Lasser

    • The Chex Gambit—Toasted Cake

  • Joy Kennedy O'Neill

    • A La Carte—Daily Science Fiction

    • Moon In Her Doorway—Daily Science Fiction

  • Laurence Brothers

    • A Handful of Dust—Gunsmoke & Dragonfire

    • The Violet Hour—Galaxy's Edge

  • Michelle Muenzler

  • Natalia Theodoridou

    • An Actual Fish—Future SF Digest

  • Patrick Hurley

  • Rebecca Birch

  • Stephen S. Power

    • The Paper Dragon—Daily Science Fiction

  • Vajra Chandrasekera

    • Heron of EarthClarkesworld

    • TerminusThree-Lobed Burning Eye

    • When Leopard's-Bane Came to the Door of Third Heaven—Liminal

Halloween Contest

  • Farewell Concert at the World's End by Robin Duncan—Pseudopod

Novella Contest

  • A place we used to visit by Bennett North

  • To Talk of Kings by Kate Marshall

  • Le Jardin Animé (1893) by Victoria Sandbrook Flynn—Giganotosaurus

  • Songs of Water and Bone by Amanda Helms

  • The Wilst by Cara DiGirolama

  • Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water by Vylar Kaftan

  • Life and Death in 10E by Abhinav Bhat

  • The King of Next Week by Elaine IsaakGuardbridge

  • The Wind, the Dark, and the Quiet by Jeremy Gottwig

  • Red Noise by John Murphy

  • Rouge Demon by Laurence Brothers

  • The Demons of Wall Street by Laurence Brothers—Mirror World Publishing

Weekend Warrior

2016


Codexian Idol

  • Two by Two, Into the Sea by Samantha Murray

  • How to Breathe in Deep Water by Shannon Peavey

  • The Only Human by Andrew Gray

  • The Dead Gets on You by Jennifer Dornan-Fish—Flame Tree Press: Swords & Steam (as Fire to Set the Blood)

  • Three Meetings of the Pregnant Man Support Group by James Beamon—Apex Magazine

  • Prisoner's Game by Sylvia Volk

  • The Fifth Unforgivable by Vajra Chandrasekera

  • Follow the White Line by Bo Balder—Clarkesworld

  • All The Pretty Children by Erin Roberts—The Dark (as Snake Season)

  • Dandelion by John Shade—Shimmer

Flash, Saviour of the Universe

Halloween Contest

  • Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Alexei Collier—Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores

  • The Vengeance of Hallowtide by Paul R. Hardy

  • Gods of the Deep, Spirits of the Wall by Amanda Helms

  • A Spider Trapped in Wax by Matt Dovey—Pseudopod

  • This Time, Forever by Michelle Muenzler—Supernatural Horror Short Stories

  • Lux Nocturna by Eleanor R. Wood—Galaxy's Edge

  • The Hammer's Prayer by Benjamin C. Kinney—Diabolical Plots

  • Thirteen Bullets by Laurence Brothers—Podcastle

Title Rummage Sale Contest

  • With Cardamom I'll Bind Their Lips by Beth Cato

  • Foxglove and Lavender by Travis Burnham

  • Properties of Obligate Pearls by L.S. Johnson

  • The Stylized Unicorn Escapes Its Poster in a Seattle Teenager's Bedroom by Tom Carpenter—Galaxy's Edge

  • Goodbye, Until We Die Again by T. Jane Berry

  • I'm Sorry I Couldn't Make It True by Wendy Nikel

  • To Touch the Sun Before it Fades by Aimee Ogden—Persistent Visions

  • Cardinal Skin by Bo Balder—Abandoned Places

  • A Vocabulary of Remorse by Dantzel Cherry—Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities anthology

  • Midnight on the Space Station Alcatraz by Floris M. Kleijne Catalysts, Explorers, and Secret Keepers (Museum of Science Fiction)

  • Soliloquy in a Cheap Diner off Route 66 by James Beamon—Apex Magazine

  • To Them We Are Merely Clay by Liz Colter—Galaxy's Edge

  • After The Story Ends by M.E. Garber—Galaxy's Edge

  • Sweet Marrow by Vajra Chandrasekera—Strange Horizons

Weekend Warrior

  • Caroline M. Yoachim

  • John Murphy

  • Rachael Jones

  • Anna Zumbro

  • Kelly Sandoval

  • Laura Pearlman

    • Six Ways to Become a Cat—Mothership Zeta (as Noteworthy Customer Service Interactions, Example 12: Mendoza and Squeakyb)

  • Lauren M. Roy

  • Samantha Murray

  • Shannon Peavey

  • Alex Shvartsman

    • I Have No Talent and I Must Stream—Nature Futures (as Fifteen Minutes)

  • Amanda Helms

  • Amy Sisson

  • Anatoly Belilovsky

    • The Perils of Bonaparte—Copperfield Review

  • Austin DeMarco

    • Infinity Minus OneDaily Science Fiction

    • Rules for Quantum Speed Dating—Daily Science Fiction

  • Barbara A. Barnett

  • Beth Goder

  • Bo Balder

    • Ritual—Nature Futures (as Skin Hunger)

    • The Mad Hatter's Daughter—Bracken Magazine (as I Am Your Rabbit)

    • UnravelingFreeze Frame Fiction

  • Christopher Cornell

    • L.A. Loves You—City of the Future

  • Dantzel Cherry

    • Troubleshooting Your Doomsday Device—T. Gene Davis's Speculative Blog

  • Eleanor R. Wood

  • Eric James Stone

    • A Potential Application of Induced Resonance in a Four-Dimensional Crystal of Quantum Spacetime—Analog Science Fiction & Fact

  • Floris M. Kleijne

  • Holly Heisey

  • Holly Schofield

    • Half-BakedTheme of Absence

    • The Intrepid Goshawk's First (and Last) Potluck Signup Sheet—Sub-Q (as Vector III's Potluck Signup Sheet)

  • Jeff Stehman

    • A Familiar and Her Wizard—Electric Spec

    • Moving LairBards & Sages Quarterly

  • Jose Iriarte

  • Joy Kennedy O'Neill

  • Julie Frost

  • Kate Heartfield

    • A Threadbare Carpet—Tesseracts

    • Aluminum and Silk49th Parallels

    • In Dragonfly Lake—Kaleidotrope

  • Larry Hodges

    • Christmas GI Joes—Factor Four Magazine

    • The Plaything on the Tesseract Wall—Analog Science Fiction & Fact

    • The Village on the Tesseract Wall—Analog Science Fiction & Fact (as The Plaything on the Tesseract Wall)

  • Laurence Brothers

    • Down Stepped Proud Galatea With A Sigh—Spirits' Tincture

    • The Stranger—Third Flatiron Cat's Breakfast anthology (as Strange Stars)

  • Lynette Mejia

    • Now Watch as Belinda Unmakes the World—Flash Fiction Online

    • Swamp Rats—Flash Fiction Online (as Mamita)

  • M.E. Garber

  • Matt Dovey

  • Matt Mikalatos

  • Michelle Muenzler

  • MK Hutchins

  • Natalia Theodoridou

  • Rebecca Birch

  • Robert Dawson

    • On Words That Cannot Be Pronounced—Star*Line

    • The Nochi-Jite of Space-Admiral Moto—Buckshot

  • Shannon Fay

  • Stewart C. Baker

  • Trina Marie Phillips

    • The Hero—Daily Science Fiction

  • Vajra Chandrasekera

2015


Codexian Idol

  • Cortaud by Shannon Peavey

  • A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds by James Beamon—Lightspeed

  • Children of Blood, Children of Stone by Kelly Sandoval

  • The Empty Throne by Benjamin C. Kinney

  • In that Fierce Light by Eric James Stone—Analog Science Fiction & Fact (as Crowdfinding)

  • Push Coat by Holly Schofield—Wild Musette (as Twisted Threads)

  • The Waters and the Wild of Winter Street by Jessi Cole Jackson—Book Smugglers

  • Silverbird Rising by Rebecca Birch—Intergalactic Medicine Show

Flash, Saviour of the Universe

  • Merc Rustad

  • Sarah Pinsker

  • K.B. Rylander

  • Samantha Murray

  • Alexis A. Hunter

  • Cislyn Smith

Halloween Contest

  • They're Smart, You Know by Kelly Sandoval

  • The Sweetness of Honey and Rot by Merc Rustad

  • House of Whacks by Sarah Pinsker—Fantasy & Science Fiction (as Talking to Dead People)

  • The Haunting of Anita Reyes by Benjamin C. Kinney—Strange Horizons (as The First Confirmed Case of Non-Corporeal Recursion: Patient Anita R.)

  • Smells Like Teen Spirits by Olivia Fowler

  • More Than Yarn, Dragon, Woman by Rebecca Roland

  • Free-Birding into the Zombie Apocalypse by Jeff Stehman—On Spec

  • Tantric Abbey by Laurence Brothers

  • An Act of Consumption, In Two Parts by Michelle Muenzler—Daily Science Fiction

  • Spearfisher by Shannon Peavey

  • Mr. Pony by Stephen S. Power—Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores

  • Lesions of the Heart by Holly Schofield—Analog Science Fiction & Fact (as Clarity of Signal)

  • Episodes from the Abner-Mortimer Karmic War by James Beamon—No Sh!t, There I Was

  • At The Bend Of The Road by Robert Dawson—Zen of the Dead (Popcorn Press)

Novella Contest

  • The Intergenerational Tree by Kate MacLeod

  • Chimera City by Tim W. Burke

  • The Wave Speaker by J.S. Bangs

Title Rummage Sale Contest

  • Eyes Can Hear, and Tongues Will See by K.B. Rylander

  • The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles by Rachael Jones—Beneath Ceaseless Skies

  • Diving for Pieces of Truth by Samantha Murray

  • Beat Softly, My Wings of Steel by Beth Cato—PodCastle

  • Press Play to Watch It Die by Caroline M. Yoachim

  • The Hula-Hoop Heart by Dan Stout—Saturday Evening Post

  • Love Like Salt by L.S. Johnson—On the Premises (as The Tale of King Edgar)

  • What Slides Off Your Skin by Lynette Mejia

  • Some Things I Probably Should Have Mentioned Earlier by Laura Pearlman—Mothership Zeta

  • The Temple of Thirteen Pleasures by Laurence Brothers—Sockdolager

  • Games of Catching and Letting Go by M.E. Garber—Fantasy Scroll Magazine (as Catching and Letting Go)

  • A Drop of Ink Preserved in Amber by Marina J. Lostetter—Shimmer

  • As Far As by Nancy S.M. Waldman—Bundaran Press' Lazarus Risen

  • The Three Lives of Truck the Red by Naru Sundar—The Sockdolager

  • Turtle Learns His Manners by Shane Halbach—AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review (as Jackrabbit's Revenge)

  • If X Is A Real Number by Sofie Bird—Fireside

  • Fallinghome: A Reevaluation by Stewart C. Baker—Big Echo SF

Weekend Warrior

2014


Flash, Saviour of the Universe

Halloween Contest

Novella Contest

  • The Grove of the Gray Phantoms by Brigitte McCray

  • The Memory of a Snowflake by S.B. Divya—Tor.com (as Runtime)

  • Andvari Rising by Elizabeth Shack

Weekend Warrior

  • Aidan Doyle

  • Oliver Buckram

  • Matt Mikalatos

  • Sarah Pinsker

    • Notes to My Past And/Or Alternate Selves—UFO 3

    • Songs in the Key of Highschool—Asimov's Science Fiction (as Songs in the Key of You)

    • The House in Love—Fantasy & Science Fiction (as Today's Smarthouse in Love)

    • The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced—Women Destroy Science Fiction

  • K.S. O'Neill

    • Upstream—Daily Science Fiction

  • Kelly Sandoval

2013


Codexian Idol

  • Two of a Kind by Shannon Peavey

  • This Is The Way The Universe Ends: With A Bang. Oh, Definitely With A Bang by Brian Dolton

  • Til the Singers Fade by Sarah Pinsker—Lightspeed Magazine (as No Lonely Seafarer)

  • The Species of Least Concern by Erica Satifka—Intergalactic Medicine Show

  • Crash by Eric James Stone—What Fates Impose (as A Crash Course in Fate)

Halloween Contest

  • The Jagged Gate by James Maxey

  • Dogs from Other Places by Shannon Peavey

  • Dance of the Eidolons Blade Walker by James Beamon

  • Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium by Gray Rinehart—Intergalactic Medicine Show

  • Boy's Night by Rebecca Birch—Cast of Wonders

  • Hunter's Moon by Robert Dawson—Ghosts on Drugs

  • Lullabies for a Clockwork Child by Shane Halbach—Pseudopod

  • The Brack by Vajra Chandrasekera—Black Static

Historical Speculative Fiction Contest

  • Dust Devils by Shannon Peavey

  • Voi Che Sapete by Anatoly Belilovsky

  • Agincourt by the Bay by Frank Dutkiewicz

  • There Will Be One Vacant Chair by Sarah Pinsker—Long Hidden

  • Two Kingdoms Woman by James Beamon—InterGalactic Medicine Show

Novella Contest

  • The Liar by John Murphy—Fantasy & Science Fiction

  • The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman Malik—Tor.com

  • The Law Encrypted On Their Hearts by J.S. Bangs

Setting the Stage Contest

  • Beyond the Trenches We Lie by A.T. Greenblatt—Escape Pod

  • No Body by John Murphy

  • An Eulogy for the Man Who Ransomed the Muse by Sarah Grey

  • Betty and the Squelchy Saurus by Caroline M. Yoachim—Fireside

  • The Long View by Erica Satifka—Shimmer (as We Take the Long View)

  • The Rhythm Man by James Beamon—Fantasy & Science Fiction

  • Leapling by Nicole Feldringer—Cast of Wonders

  • Regarding Your Position as our Third Year Teacher by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley—Daily Science Fiction

Weekend Warrior

  • Oliver Buckram

    • Half a Conversation, Overheard While Inside an Enormous Sentient Slug—Fantasy & Science Fiction

    • Space Opera—Fantasy & Science Fiction (as Un Opera nello Spazio (A Space Opera))

    • The Black Waters of Lethe—Beneath Ceaseless Skies

  • Sarah Grey

    • Of Ash and Old Dreams—Daily Science Fiction

    • Southside Gods—Intergalactic Medicine Show

    • The Social Phobic's Guide to Interior Design—Flash Fiction Online

  • Sarah Pinsker

    • Join Our Team of Time Travel Professionals—Daily Science Fiction

    • On the Hearth, by Heart—Asimov's Science Fiction (as The Low Hum of Her)

    • They Sent Runners OutFireside

  • Alex Shvartsman

    • The Epistolary History—Nature Futures

    • True Love—Daily Science Fiction

  • Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

  • Caroline M. Yoachim

  • Anatoly Belilovsky

  • Barbara A. Barnett

    • Puppet WranglingEvil Girlfriend Media's Speculate

    • The Perfect Coordinates to Raise a Child—Daily Science Fiction

    • The Shop of Illusions and Amethyst—Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (as The Shop of Dying Illusions)

  • Beth Cato

  • Elise Catherine Tobler

    • A Map of Marrow—Clarkesworld (as (R+D)/I=M (five stories combined))

    • Cravings—Clarkesworld (as (R+D)/I=M (five stories combined))

    • Good Travelers—Clarkesworld (as (R+D)/I=M (five stories combined))

    • Mars Needs Grapes—Clarkesworld (as (R+D)/I=M (five stories combined))

    • On Loan—Clarkesworld (as (R+D)/I=M (five stories combined))

  • Elizabeth Shack

    • Kalar's Wall—Plasma Frequency

    • Pictures in Crayon—Cast of Wonders

    • Pictures in Crayon—Daily Science Fiction

    • The Girl with Flowers for Hair—Daily Science Fiction

  • Eric James Stone

  • Erica Satifka

    • Back to the Land—AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review (as the Speaking Ground)

    • Real Plastic Trees—Spark: A Creative Anthology

  • Gareth D. Jones

    • Hiking in my Head—Daily Science Fiction

    • The Probable Tradesman—Abyss & Apex

  • Grayson Bray Morris

    • The Gifted Sommelier—Abyss & Apex

  • Jake Kerr

    • Chip's Six Attempts at Popularity—Waylines

    • Looking for Bad Guys—Fireside

  • Jeff Stehman

  • Jessica May Lin

    • Dark, Beautiful Force—Daily Science Fiction

    • Mortar Flowers—Nature Futures

  • John Murphy

    • At the Old Folks Home at the End of the World—InterGalactic Medicine Show

  • Jose Iriarte

  • Kat Otis

    • A Sonorous Expiration—Daily Science Fiction

    • The Family Business—Every Day Fiction

    • What Memories are Made Of—Daily Science Fiction

  • Ken Hinckley

    • The Ostracons of Europa—Nature Futures

  • Ken Liu

    • City of Chrysanthemum—Daily Science Fiction

  • Kenneth Kao

    • Memories of Forgetting—Daily Science Fiction

  • Larry Hodges

    • The Short Reign of the King—Galaxy's Edge (as Plop Plop)

  • Lee Hallison

    • Rule Number One—Nature Futures (as The Best of Us)

    • Such Days Deserved—Daily Science Fiction

  • Lou J. Berger

    • Kadif—Galaxy's Edge (as Matial)

    • The Tour Guide—Galaxy's Edge

  • Marina J. Lostetter

    • The Prayer Ladder—Galaxy's Edge

  • Michael Haynes

  • Pam Wallace

  • Rebecca Birch

  • Samantha Murray

    • Eight Pieces of Losing You—Daily Science Fiction

    • Everything That Has Already Been Said—Lightspeed Magazine

    • Jumping Into the Sky—Daily Science Fiction

  • Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

    • The Front Line—Nature Futures

  • Tina Connolly

2012


Codexian Idol

  • Waking, Weeping and Four Weathered Wings by Anaea Lay

  • A Spirited Education by Tony Pi

  • A Starscape Slightly Askew by Nancy Fulda—The Gruff Variations: Writing for Charity Anthology, Vol. 1

  • By Appointment to the Throne by Alter S. Reiss—Beneath Ceaseless Skies

  • The Shaadi Exile by Amanda E. Forrest—Writers of the Future Volume 30

  • You Were She Who Abode by Elise Catherine Tobler—Clarkesworld

Halloween Contest

  • By Moonlight by Steven R. Stewart

  • Ghost Days by Ken Liu

  • Time Out by Frank Dutkiewicz

  • Dinner with the Captain by Oliver Buckram

  • FRODO and the Witch Hut Hunt by Matt Mikalatos

Novella Contest

  • The Museum of Error by Oliver Buckram—Fantasy & Science Fiction

  • Dear Hope by Vylar Kaftan

  • A Song of the Younger World by Grayson Bray Morris

Weekend Warrior

  • Steven R. Stewart

    • Metal and Flesh—Daily Science Fiction

    • The Cold Beyond the Pools—Redstone Science Fiction

  • Caroline M. Yoachim

    • After the Earthquake—Daily Science Fiction

    • Blue Sand—Daily Science Fiction

    • Harmonies of Time—Daily Science Fiction

    • The Carnival Was Eaten, All Except the Clown—Electric Velocipede

  • Tina Connolly

  • Amanda E. Forrest

  • Helena Bell

    • Robot—Clarkesworld

  • Alex Shvartsman

    • Manna From Heaven—Bards & Sages Quarterly

  • Amy Sundberg

    • Man on the Moon Day—Daily Science Fiction

  • Barbara A. Barnett

    • Lost in the Music—Intergalactic Medicine Show (as Notes on a Page)

    • The Swan Maiden—Flash Fiction Online

  • Beth Cato

    • A Song Not Fully Sung—Every Day Fiction

    • Pest Control—Every Day Fiction

    • Pigeons in Heaven—Every Day Fiction

    • The Vulgarity of Flowers—Plasma Frequency

  • Elise Catherine Tobler

    • Harder Trick Than Heart—Jabberwocky 12

    • Key to the Kingdom—Every Day Fiction

  • Eric James Stone

    • Dark Roads for the Eternal Ruler—Daily Science Fiction

  • Frank Dutkiewicz

    • Fool's Gold—Daily Science Fiction

  • Gareth D. Jones

    • Lords of Time—Tall Tales TV Podcast (as Escapades in Time)

    • The Sound of Death—InterGalactic Medicine Show

  • Jeff Stehman

    • An Unchanted Sword—Unidentified Funny Objects

  • John Murphy

    • Tumbleweeds and Indelicate Questions—Nature Futures

  • Kat Otis

    • Faerie Food—Daily Science Fiction

  • Keffy Kehrli

  • Kenneth Kao

    • Cereal as a Distraction to Meta-Awareness—DarkFuse Horror D'oeuvres

    • Evolution of a Thread—Suddenly Lost in Words

    • Hanashi Ukemi—Nightblade Fantasy and Horror

    • Make Believe—Toasted Cake

  • Larry Hodges

    • Human Help Desk—Abyss & Apex

    • The Monkey Cage Rules—Alternative Truths

    • The Untold Christmas Carol—Galaxy's Edge

  • Lee Hallison

    • Taking Care of Ma—Daily Science Fiction

    • Wildness and Wet—Daily Science Fiction

  • Nicole J. LeBoeuf

    • Other Theories of Relativity—Toasted Cake

  • Oliver Buckram

    • The Running of the Robots—Flash Fiction Online

  • Pam Wallace

  • Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

    • All That We Need—Vignettes from the End of the World

  • Tina Connolly

    • Queen Astor, Who Dances—Fireside

  • Tony Pi

    • Susumu Must Fold—Daily Science Fiction

2011


Codexian Idol

  • In the Fading Light of Sundown by Nancy Fulda—Intergalactic Medicine Show

  • The Shackles of Memory by Mike Wood

  • When All is Said and Done by K.G. Jewell—Intergalactic Medicine Show

  • Ten Million Sheets of Paper, All in Black and White by Caroline M. Yoachim—Gigonotosaurus

  • The Lighthouse Keeper by Gareth D. Jones—Plasma Frequency

  • In the Space Between by Jeff Stehman—Bastion

  • Yesterday's Taste by Lawrence M. Schoen Transitories

Halloween Contest

  • Notes from a Dead Man's House on the Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe by Helena Bell

  • Lion Dance by Vylar Kaftan—Asimov's Science Fiction

  • Roundabout by Nathaniel Lee

  • Interstitial Spaces by Gray Rinehart—Analog Science Fiction & Fact

  • Jack-o-Lanterns by Gray Rinehart—Analog Science Fiction & Fact

  • SEAGULLs by Gray Rinehart—Analog Science Fiction & Fact

  • Mr. Yuk by John Murphy—On the Premises

  • War of the Night by Larry Hodges—Galaxy's Edge

  • Noise by Linda A.B. Davis—Perihelion

  • Remains of the Witch by Tony Pi—Intergalactic Medicine Show

Novella Contest

  • It, Claudius by John Murphy

  • The Weight of the Sunrise by Vylar Kaftan

  • Barry's Tale by Vylar Kaftan—Buffalito Buffet

Setting the Stage Contest

  • The Aliens Made of Glass by Helena Bell

  • What Is a Warrior Without His Wounds? by Gray Rinehart—Asimov's Science Fiction

  • And Nothing of Consequence was Lost by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

Caroline M. Yoachim

  • Deathbed—Daily Science Fiction

  • Mother Ship—Lightspeed Magazine

  • One Last Night at the Carnival, Before the Stars Go OutFlash Fiction Online

  • Eric James Stone

    • Nine Tenths of the Law—Blood Lite 3: Aftertaste (Anthology)

    • Write What You Want—Intergalactic Medicine Show

  • Jeff Stehman

    • A Young Heart in Spring, With Gravestones—Azure Valley

    • Calling the Train—Intergalactic Medicine Show

    • Shadow's Echo—Toasted Cake

  • Allison Starkweather

    • Upgrade—Daily Science Fiction

  • Deborah Walker

    • Speed of Love—Daily Science Fiction

  • Helena Bell

    • In Light of Recent Events I Have Reconsidered the Wisdom of Your Space Elevator—Shimmer

  • Jeff Stehman

    • Testament—Kazka Press

  • K.G. Jewell

    • Hints of the Apocalypse—Daily Science Fiction

  • Kat Otis

    • Counting Coup—Daily Science Fiction

    • Death & Taxes—Every Day Fiction

  • Keffy Kehrli

    • Accompaniment10—Flash Quarterly

  • Kenneth Kao

    • Divine Joke—Grand Science Fiction

    • Only Backwards—Daily Science Fiction

    • Selfless—Daily Science Fiction

  • Larry Hodges

    • Life and Death and Bongo Drums—Every Day Fiction

    • The Dragon of the Apocalypse—Penumbra

    • The Shaking Sphere—Every Day Fiction

  • S.J. Driscoll

    • In Vivo—Daily Science Fiction

  • Scott W. Baker

    • Not Rats—Untied Shoelaces of the Mind

    • Ten Seconds—Daily Science Fiction

  • Steven R. Stewart

    • Fool—Brain Harvest

  • Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

    • Faith—Kazka Press (as When You Come Back Again)

    • Knight in Shining Armor—Daily Science Fiction

    • Old Flames—Daily Science Fiction

2010


Codexian Idol

  • A Sweet Calling by Tony Pi—Clarkesworld

  • The Waverunner by Kat Otis

  • Leaves Untrodden on a Timelike Path by Eric James Stone

  • Movement by Nancy Fulda—Asimov's Science Fiction

Halloween Contest

  • The Child of Samhain by Randy Henderson—Penumbra

  • Lobstersaurus by Eric James Stone—Analog Science Fiction & Fact

  • Dark Swans by Terra LeMay—Daily Science Fiction

  • The Trickster's Bones by Kenneth Kao—Buzzy Mag

  • The Devil's Backbone by Larry Hodges—After Death

  • Gris-Gris for a Mal Pris by Rebecca Roland—Stupefying Stories

Weekend Warrior

  • Tina Connolly

    • Angel Plantation—Daily Science Fiction

    • Inflection—Daily Science Fiction

    • Recalculating—Brain Harvest

  • Alexander Lumans

  • Helena Bell

    • Please Return My Brother Who Is in Your Custody—Brain Harvest (as Please Return My Son Who Is in Your Custody)

  • Amber D. Sistla

    • Not the Chosen One—Daily Science Fiction

    • The Valley of Wonders—Postscripts

    • Unglued—Nature Futures

  • Eric James Stone

    • They Do It with Robots—Daily Science Fiction

    • To Serve Aliens (Yes, It's a Cookbook)—Analog Science Fiction & Fact

  • Larry Hodges

    • The Roads to HellStupefying Stories

    • The Sanctimonious Time Traveler Trap—Quantum Muse

  • Rachel Swirsky

    • Ghosts, Stamped and Inked—Tor.com (as The Monster's Million Faces)

    • Tipping the Velvet—Pank Magazine

  • Samantha Henderson

    • Beside Calais—Strange Horizons

2009


Codexian Idol

  • Aim for the Stars by Tom Pendergrass—Intergalactic Medicine Show

  • Sneaking the Peach by Krista Hoeppner Leahy—Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

  • This Changing Light by Brian Dolton

  • Sensitive, Compartmented by Gray Rinehart—Asimov's Science Fiction

Halloween Contest

  • Return to Sender by James Maxey—Intergalactic Medicine Show

  • Stan Musial, Therapeutic Mathematics, and the Physics of Curve Balls by Gray Rinehart—Analog Science Fiction & Fact (as Therapeutic Mathematics and the Physics of Curve Balls)

  • Counterclockwise by Alethea Kontis—Intergalactic Medicine Show

  • Clockwork Fairies by Cat Rambo—Tor.com

  • Migrating Bears by Helena Bell—Daily Science Fiction

  • The Trouble with Truffles by Rick NovyM—Brane SF

  • The Suicide Witch by Vylar Kaftan—Daily Science Fiction

Mega Weekend Warrior

  • The Girl Who Was Loved By The Sea by Spencer Ellsworth—Toasted Cake

  • Rites of Man: A Hundred Years for the Heart of Scorpio by Sara King

  • Tattered Sky by Laurel Amberdine

  • The Awakening by Larry Hodges—Space & Time Magazine

Setting the Stage Contest

  • Robot People and the Flight of the Albino Peacock by Helena Bell

  • Lord of the Mountain by Lisa Poh

  • A Brooch of Bone, a Hint of Teeth by Cat Rambo

Weekend Warrior

  • Caroline M. Yoachim

    • The Safe Road—Daily Science Fiction

  • Tina Connolly

    • Golden Apples—Scheherezade's Bequest

    • Hard Choices—Brain Harvest

  • Luc Reid

  • Adam Israel

    • History of the Flesh—The Crimson Pact

  • D.T. Friedman

    • There Are No Great Truths Here—Flash Fiction Online

  • Eric James Stone

    • Buy You a Mockingbird—Daily Science Fiction

    • Dating-Man's Destiny Arrives—Penumbra

    • Early—Intergalactic Medicine Show (as An Early Ford Mustang)

    • Girl Who Asks Too Much—Daily Science Fiction

    • The Steel ThroneDaily Science Fiction

  • Jenny Rae Rappaport

    • The Sock ThiefKnitty

  • Katherine Sparrow

    • The Jacob Miracle—Brain Harvest

  • Larry Hodges

    • Memory of a Minefield—Hypersonic Tales

    • One Brushstroke at a Time—Every Day Fiction

    • Patsy at the Snake Show—Beyond Centauri Magazine

    • Rationalized—Story Quest

  • Vylar Kaftan

    • Sky and Sea—Brain Harvest

2008


Codexian Idol

  • Hey Tin Man by Krista Hoeppner Leahy—Shimmer

  • Into the West by Eric James Stone—Intergalactic Medicine Show

  • Hong Kong Rendezvous by Tony Frazier

Halloween Contest

  • Where Their Worm Dieth Not by James Maxey—Masked

  • The Silent Familiar by Cat Rambo—Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight

  • 3 Minutes, 42 Seconds With Annabel Lee by Scott Roberts—Intergalactic Medicine Show (as The End-of-the-World Pool)

  • The Sorcerer of Etah by Matt Rotundo

  • Wet Work: A Tale of the Unseen by Matt Rotundo—Intergalactic Medicine Show

Weekend Warrior

  • Luc Reid

  • Gray Rinehart

  • D.T. Friedman

  • Caroline M. Yoachim

    • Firefly Igloo—Shimmer

    • Shades of Orange—Daily Science Fiction

  • Eric James Stone

    • Freefall—Daily Science Fiction

  • Jenny Rae Rappaport

    • The Black Veils—Cast of Wonders

  • Vylar Kaftan

    • What President Polk Said—Phantom

2007


Codex Collaboration Contest

  • Lights in the Orchard by Luc Reid

  • Lights in the Orchard by Maya Lassiter

Codexian Idol

  • Eater by James Maxey

  • No Love for the Middleman by Tony Frazier—Strange Horizons

  • Visits of the Dead by Elise Catherine Tobler—Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

  • Bots D'Amour by Cat Rambo—Aoife's Kiss

  • Attitude Adjustment by Eric James Stone—Analog Science Fiction & Fact

  • Not Fade Away by Nora Fleischer—Aoife's Kiss

  • Dreaming of a Broken Neck by Vylar Kaftan—Redstone Science Fiction

Halloween Contest

  • She Sleeps by Vylar Kaftan

  • Diamond Tears from Emerald Eyes by Eric James Stone—Intergalactic Medicine Show (as Like Diamond Tears from Emerald Eyes)

  • Right Before Your Very Eyes by Matt Rotundo—Intergalactic Medicine Show

  • The Worm Within by Cat Rambo—Clarkesworld

  • Toby's Trophies by Floris M. Kleijne—Sniplits.com

Setting the Stage Contest

  • Mind-Diver by Vylar Kaftan—Abyss & Apex

  • Release by Rebecca Roland

  • Brilliant Things Instead of Weeping by Laurel Amberdine

2006


Codexian Idol

  • A Shadow Cast by Angel's Wings by James Maxey—Intergalactic Medicine Show (as To Know All Things That Are In The Earth)

  • A Lincoln in Time by Eric James Stone—Digital Science Fiction

  • The Dog Prince by Rachel Ann Dryden

  • Mars Needs Baby Seals by Lawrence M. Schoen—Destination: Future

  • Fold, Spindle, and Mutilate by Mary Robinette Kowal—The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination

  • Whim of Fortune by Nancy Fulda—Asimov's Science Fiction

  • Magnetic Monopoly by Rick Novy—Tales of the Talisman

  • The Circle Unbroken by Tom Pendergrass—Return of the Raven

Halloween Contest

  • Silent as Dust by James Maxey—Intergalactic Medicine Show

  • Like Rain from Silver Skies by Nancy Fulda

  • Something Wicked this Way Plumbs by Vylar Kaftan—Shimmer

  • A Halloween Hymn by Eric James Stone—Mysterion

  • Thresher by Lawrence M. Schoen—Breach the Hull

  • Take This, and Eat by Matt Rotundo—Eldritch Embraces

  • The Bonny Claire by Rick Novy—Alt Hist

2005


Fairy Tale Contest

  • Bird Dropping and Sunday by Eric James Stone—The Immersion Book of Science Fiction

  • Hound of Colony by Luc Reid

  • Urban Renewal by Tom Pendergrass—Shimmer

  • Sunday by Alethea Kontis—Realms of Fantasy

Get the Juices Flowing Contest

  • By the Hands of Juan Peron by Eric James Stone—Daily Science Fiction

  • Crocodile Baby by Alethea Kontis—Rebel Wings

  • Bartalan's Choice by David Walton—Futurismic

  • She Talks to Angels by Matthew Champine

Halloween Contest

  • The Scream by Nancy Fulda—New Myths

  • The Echo of the Eye by James Maxey—The Blotter

  • Death Haiku Under a New Sun by Luc Reid

  • Get The Door, It's Dominique by David Gill—HarperCollins (as Soul Enchilada (novel))

  • Waiting for Raymond by Eric James Stone—Daily Science Fiction

  • Trick or Treat by Floris M. Kleijne—Big Pulp Magazine

2004


Halloween Contest

  • Dark-Foot Hugh by Luc Reid

  • The Final Flight of the Blue Bee by James Maxey—Asimov's Science Fiction

  • Nobody Dogs the Monkey by Tom Pendergrass—Aberrant Dreams

  • The Woman Who Hated Halloween by Matt Rotundo—Damnation Books