The Kate Wilhelm 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. (Unlike the Hugo Awards, as with the Nebula Awards, the year of the award is for the year prior to the year the award is actually given.)
Year | Winners |
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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 |
re-named the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award | |
2016 | Peggy Rae Sapienza (posthumous) and Toni Weisskopf |
2017 | Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams |
2018 | Neil Clarke and Nisi Shawl |
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