Solstice Award

The Solstice Award, created in 2008, is given at the discretion of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) president, with the majority approval of the Board of Directors.

The award is for individuals who have had "a significant impact on the science fiction or fantasy landscape, and is particularly intended for those who have consistently made a major, positive difference within the speculative fiction field."

In 2016 the SFWA renamed the award the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award in honor of genre author Kate Wilhelm, a winner of the award in 2009.

Year	Winners
2009	Martin H. Greenberg, Kate Wilhelm, and Algis Budrys (posthumous)
2010	Tom Doherty, Donald A. Wollheim (posthumous), and Terri Windling
2011	Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr. (posthumous), and Michael Whelan
2012	Octavia Butler (posthumous), and John Clute
2013	Carl Sagan (posthumous) and Ginjer Buchanan
2014	No awards presented
2015	Joanna Russ (posthumous) and Stanley Schmidt