James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award

The James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award is an annual literary prize for works of SF or fantasy from the previous year which expand or explore the understanding of gender. The idea for the award was originally proposed by Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Murphy at the 1991 WisCon.

The award honored the memory of SF writer James Tiptree, Jr. (1915-1987). Tiptree was the main pen name used by psychologist Alice Bradley Sheldon when she was writing SF. The first winner of the award was Gwyneth Jones for her novel, White Queen, in 1992. Double awards are not uncommon.

In 2019, the Award was renamed the Otherwise Award over sudden concerns about Sheldon’s suicide pact with her husband, which resulted in their 1987 deaths. It has been acknowledged that a connection to Tiptree remains via the title of one of her collections, Warm Worlds and Otherwise.

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Year	Author	Work
Retrospective	Suzy McKee Charnas	Motherlines and Walk to the End of the World
Retrospective	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Left Hand of Darkness
Retrospective	Joanna Russ	The Female Man and When It Changed
1991	Eleanor Arnason	A Woman of the Iron People
1991	Gwyneth Jones	White Queen
1992	Maureen F. McHugh	China Mountain Zhang
1993	Nicola Griffith	Ammonite
1994	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Matter of Seggri
1994	Nancy Springer	Larque on the Wing
1995	Elizabeth Hand	Waking The Moon
1995	Theodore Roszak	The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
1996	Ursula K. Le Guin	Mountain Ways
1996	Mary Doria Russell	The Sparrow
1997	Candas Jane Dorsey	Black Wine
1997	Kelly Link	Travels with the Snow Queen
1998	Raphael Carter	Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation
1999	Suzy McKee Charnas	The Conqueror's Child
2000	Molly Gloss	Wild Life
2001	Hiromi Goto	The Kappa Child
2002	M. John Harrison	Light
2002	John Kessel	Stories for Men
2003	Matt Ruff	Set This House in Order: A Romance Of Souls
2004	Joe Haldeman	Camouflage
2004	Johanna Sinisalo	Not Before Sundown
2005	Geoff Ryman	Air
2006	Catherynne M. Valente	The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden
2006	Shelley Jackson	Half Life
2007	Sarah Hall	The Carhullan Army
2008	Patrick Ness	The Knife of Never Letting Go
2008	Nisi Shawl	Filter House
2009	Greer Gilman	Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
2009	Fumi Yoshinaga	Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
2010	Dubravka Ugresic	Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
2011	Andrea Hairston	Redwood and Wildfire
2012	Caitlin R. Kiernan	The Drowning Girl
2012	Kiini Ibura Salaam	Ancient, Ancient
2013	N. A. Sulway	Rupetta
2014	Monica Byrne	The Girl in the Road
2014	Jo Walton	My Real Children
2015	Eugene Fischer	The New Mother
2015	Pat Schmatz	Lizard Radio
2016	Anna-Marie McLemore	When the Moon Was Ours
2017	Virginia Bergin	Who Runs The World?
2018	Gabriela Damián Miravete	"They Will Dream in the Garden"
Renamed Otherwise Award
2019	Akwaeke Emezi	"Freshwater"
2020	Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki	"Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon"

In 2015 the Tiptree Motherboard began awarding annual Fellowships of $500 per recipient to two creators who are doing work that pushes forward the Tiptree mission in making visible the many forces that are changing gender today and tomorrow.

Year	Tiptree Fellows
2015	Micha Cardenas
2015	Walidah Imarisha, Elizabeth La Pensée
2016	Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Mia Sereno
2017	H. Pueyo, Ineke Chen-Meyer
2018	Vida Cruz, Ana Hurtado
Year	Otherwise Fellows
2019	Devonix, Martha Riva Palacio Obón
2020	Shreya Ila Anasuya, Eleyna Haroun, F. S. Hurston

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Award

1991—2019

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