Sogen SF Short Story Prize

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Sogen SF Short Story Prize
Awarded for Japanese science fiction and related genres
CountryFlag of Japan.svg  Japan
Presented by Tokyo Sogensha
First awarded2010
Website www.tsogen.co.jp/award/sfss/

The Sogen SF Short Story Prize (創元SF短編賞, Sōgen SF Tanpen Shō) is an annual Japanese literary award conducted by Tokyo Sogensha since 2010. [1] It is a prize contest for original unpublished stories of science fiction and other related genres. It is mainly intended for amateur writers, but also open to who have professional publications.

Contents

The winning stories have been published in the year's-best Japanese SF anthology series from the publisher's imprint Sōgen SF Bunko until 2019. Since 2020, they will be included in Genesis, the publisher's hard cover SFF series. Since 2023, they will be appeared on the publisher's magazine Shimi no Techo.

In 2010 and 2011, some of finalist stories were collected into original anthology series Beyond Imagination (原色の想像力, Genshoku no Sōzōryoku). [2] [3]

Until 2019, Regular judges have been Nozomi Ohmori (critic/translator/anthologist) and Sanzō Kusaka (critic/anthologist), who have edited the year's-best. Another notable author have been invited as a guest judge each year.

Recognition

Yūsuke Miyauchi's first collection Banjō no Yoru (盤上の夜) was nominated for the 147th Naoki Prize [4] and won the 2012 Nihon SF Taisho Award. [5]

Dempow Torishima's first collection Kaikin no To (皆勤の徒) won the 2013 Nihon SF Taisho Award. The English translation of the book, Sisyphean, was published in 2018, [6] following that the original award-winning novella "Kaikin no To" was translated into English as "Sisyphean" and included in the English anthology Phantasm Japan. [7] His first novel Yadokari no Hoshi (宿借りの星) also won the 2019 Nihon SF Taisho Award.

Winners

English titles are for translated stories.

YearSubmissionsAwardsTitleAuthor(s)Guest judge
2010612WinnerAgari (あがり) Yūri Matsuzaki Masaki Yamada
Second placeUdon, Kitsune-tsuki no (うどん キツネつきの) Haneko Takayama
Special citation by Nozomi OhmoriSaezuri no UtyūYūichi Sakanaga
Special citation by Sanzō KusakaTsuchi no ChiriTakashi Yamashita
Special citation by Masaki YamadaBanjō no Yoru (盤上の夜)Yūsuke Miyauchi
2011594WinnerSisyphean (皆勤の徒, Kaikin no To) Dempow Torishima Akira Hori
Second placeMayu no Miru YumeShunshō Utsugi
Special citation by Nozomi OhmoriHana to Shōnen Niro Katase
Special citation by Sanzō KusakaKudan no HitomiTatsuhiko Shibo
Special citation by Akira HoriMono Mina IkoeruTsutomu Oshizawa
2012618WinnerSubete no Yume Hateru Chi de (〈すべての夢|果てる地で〉) Teiji Riyama Hirotaka Tobi
Second placePrometheus no Bansan Takehiko Okishi
Special citation by Nozomi OhmoriTerra no SuisōAoba Minazuki
Special citation by Sanzō KusakaAtamayamaEi Funazato
Special citation by Hirotaka TobiEnu ShiToshimichi Watanabe
2013576WinnerGingafū Hansō (銀河風帆走) Kenrei Miyanishi Toh Enjoe
Special citation by Nozomi OhmoriThe Unknown Hero: Secret OriginTateaki Kashima
Special citation by Sanzō KusakaKyōren no Onna ShishōMaki Takatsuki
Special citation by Toh EnjoeHuminshō KitanYoda Kee
2014461WinnersFūga (風牙) Mitsuhiro Monden Hideaki Sena
Landscape to Natsu no Teiri (ランドスケープと夏の定理) Yūya Takashima
Special citation by Nozomi OhmoriOnna TomodachiSatoshi Arii
Special citation by Sanzō KusakaKaijūTakurō Urade
Special citation by Hideaki SenaKen ha Deja vuShūzaemon Goudo
2015510WinnerKamigami no Hohō (神々の歩法) Iori Miyazawa Riku Onda
Special citation by Nozomi OhmoriKono Kogoeta Sekai ni Umareru Mae niEiichi Ube
Special citation by Sanzō KusakaKimitachi Kyoshitsu ni HairinasaiTomoko Itō
Special citation by Riku OndaBakko ChanMayu Henmi
2016464WinnerYoshida Dōmei (吉田同名) Muneo Ishikawa Hiroshi Yamamoto  [ ja ]
Special citation by Nozomi OhmoriSaibō Remin no Meikai Shindo LiveRen Fukami
Special citation by Sanzō KusakaKurueyo.Ifu Azumi
Special citation by Hiroshi YamamotoNiji no IshiToshin Kagami
2017417Winner74-Byō no Seijaku to Kodoku (七十四秒の静寂と孤独) Mikihiko Hisanaga Satoshi Hase
Special citation by Satoshi HaseGin no Ame Furu FuruYō Hisano
2018424WinnerTenku seyo Hosshō-ji (天駆せよ法勝寺) Yūgen Yashima Motoko Arai
Second placeKikai ha Naze Korosu kaMasaki Nagumo
Special citation by Nozomi OhmoriNatsu no MusubimeHisaki Orito
Special citation by Sanzō KusakaKanki ni SomareKenji Nonaka
Special citation by Motoko AraiAdversarial Vipers, Arui ha Saigo no Ginkō GōtōHitozō Takeda
2019511WinnerSangita (サンギータ) Tokio Amasawa Yūsuke Miyauchi
Second placeInchin Shikatsu (飲鴆止渇)Sayo Onoda
Special citation by Sanzō Kusaka"Sakhalin Shakaishugi Kyōwakoku Kindai Shūkyō Shiryō" (2099) Bassui, oyobi Sonota ZakkiMamoru Tanibayashi
Special citation by Yūsuke MiyauchiKaitensuru Dōbutsu no SeishitenChiba Shū
YearSubmissionsAwardsTitleAuthor(s)Judges
2020 [8] 468WinnerAo no Shanghai (蒼の上海)Matō Oriteru Akira Hori
Yūsuke Miyauchi
Tetsuya Kohama (Editor)
Special citation by JudgesŌedo Shinguraritei (大江戸しんぐらりてい)Kazane Yarai
2021 [8] 550WinnerIteza no Kaoru Natsu (射手座の香る夏)Rin MatsukiAkira Hori
Dempow Torishima
Tetsuya Kohama
Second placeKami no Buta (神の豚)Kumiko Mizobuchi
2022 [9] 496WinnerKaze ni naruniwa mada (風になるにはまだ)Chinami SasaharaMasaki Yamada
Dempow Torishima
Tetsuya Kohama
2023 [10] 487WinnerRyū to Chinmoku no Ginga (竜と沈黙の銀河)Toryū AbeMasaki Yamada (absence due to illness)

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