Catherynne M. Valente
Encyclopedia
Catherynne M. Valente is a Tiptree
–, Andre Norton
–, and Mythopoeic Award–winning novelist, poet, and literary critic. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine
, the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous Year's Best volumes. Her critical work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities under the name Bethany L. Thomas as well as in the essay anthology Chicks Dig Time Lords. She keeps a blog at http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com and currently lives on Peaks Island in the state of Maine with her husband. Valente has also published five books of poetry and won the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry.
Her debut novel
, The Labyrinth, was a Locus
Recommended Book, and her subsequent novels have been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus awards. Her 2009 book, Palimpsest
, won the Lambda Award for GLBT Science Fiction or Fantasy. Her two-volume series The Orphan's Tales
won the 2008 Mythopoeic Award, and its first volume, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden won the 2006 James Tiptree, Jr. Award
, was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award
, and was The Plain Dealers #1 summer reading novel in 2007.
In 2009, she donated her archive to the http://www.ulib.niu.edu/rarebooks/sciencefiction.cfm Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection] in the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University
.
, who along with her own varied discography composes albums based on Valente's work. The pair perform reading concerts throughout North America, often featuring dancers, aerial artists, art auctions featuring jewelry and paintings based on the novels, and other performances.
Valente is extremely active in the crowdfunding movement of online artists, and her novel The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
was the first online, crowdfunded book to win a major literary award before traditional publication.
Valente coined the term mythpunk as a joke for describing her own and other works of challenging folklore-based fantasy in a blog post in 2006.
The Orphan's Tales series (Bantam
):
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1) ISBN 0553384031 (Oct 2006
)
The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (vol. 2) ISBN 055338404X (Oct 2007
)
James Tiptree, Jr. Award
The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is an annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February of 1991 by science fiction authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, subsequent to a discussion at WisCon.- Background...
–, Andre Norton
Andre Norton Award
The Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, named to honor prolific science fiction and fantasy author Andre Norton , is a yearly juried award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to the author of an outstanding young adult science fiction or...
–, and Mythopoeic Award–winning novelist, poet, and literary critic. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine
Clarkesworld Magazine
Clarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R...
, the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous Year's Best volumes. Her critical work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities under the name Bethany L. Thomas as well as in the essay anthology Chicks Dig Time Lords. She keeps a blog at http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com and currently lives on Peaks Island in the state of Maine with her husband. Valente has also published five books of poetry and won the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry.
Her debut novel
Debut novel
A debut novel is the first novel an author publishes. Debut novels are the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to publish in the future...
, The Labyrinth, was a Locus
Locus (magazine)
Locus, subtitled "The Magazine Of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field", is published monthly in Oakland, California. It reports on the science fiction and fantasy publishing field, including comprehensive listings of all new books published in the genre. It is considered the news organ and trade...
Recommended Book, and her subsequent novels have been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus awards. Her 2009 book, Palimpsest
Palimpsest (novel)
Palimpsest is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in March of 2009. It follows four separate characters as they discover and explore a mysterious city accessed only at night....
, won the Lambda Award for GLBT Science Fiction or Fantasy. Her two-volume series The Orphan's Tales
The Orphan's Tales
The Orphan's Tales is a fantasy series by Catherynne M. Valente with illustrations by Michael Kaluta. The two novels of the series, In the Night Garden and In the Cities of Coin and Spice, are in turn split into four books...
won the 2008 Mythopoeic Award, and its first volume, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden won the 2006 James Tiptree, Jr. Award
James Tiptree, Jr. Award
The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is an annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February of 1991 by science fiction authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, subsequent to a discussion at WisCon.- Background...
, was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award
World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...
, and was The Plain Dealers #1 summer reading novel in 2007.
In 2009, she donated her archive to the http://www.ulib.niu.edu/rarebooks/sciencefiction.cfm Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection] in the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University is a state university and research institution located in DeKalb, Illinois, with satellite centers in Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Rockford, and Oregon. It was originally founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895 by Illinois Governor John P...
.
Themes
Valente's work tends to center on folkloric and mythological themes, reimagining fairy tales and genre tropes via feminist, surrealist, and postmodern lenses. Her writing is characterized by stylistic and structural experimentation as well as complex linguistic and poetic techniques.Multimedia and mythpunk
Valente tours with singer/songwriter SJ TuckerSJ Tucker
S. J. Tucker is an Arkansas-born North American female singer-songwriter. Originally inspired by alternative folk rock artists like Joni Mitchell, Jeff Buckley and Ani DiFranco, Tucker – also called "Sooj" or "Skinny White Chick" – soon branched out to assume a more diverse identity...
, who along with her own varied discography composes albums based on Valente's work. The pair perform reading concerts throughout North America, often featuring dancers, aerial artists, art auctions featuring jewelry and paintings based on the novels, and other performances.
Valente is extremely active in the crowdfunding movement of online artists, and her novel The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in May 2011. It follows a 12 year old girl named September as she is spirited away from her average life to Fairyland....
was the first online, crowdfunded book to win a major literary award before traditional publication.
Valente coined the term mythpunk as a joke for describing her own and other works of challenging folklore-based fantasy in a blog post in 2006.
Novels
- The Labyrinth (Prime BooksPrime BooksEdited by two-time Hugo-nominee and 2006 World Fantasy-winner Sean Wallace, Prime Books is an award-winning independent publishing house, specializing in a mix of literary/commercial anthologies, collections, novels, and two magazines: Fantasy Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine. Some of its...
) ISBN 1894815653 (20042004 in literatureThe year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation....
) - The Ice Puzzle (20042004 in literatureThe year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation....
), an original online casebook (in fiction form) of The Snow QueenThe Snow QueenThe Snow Queen is a fairy tale by author Hans Christian Andersen . The tale was first published in 1845, and centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Gerda....
fairy tales across different cultures - Yume No Hon: The Book of DreamsYume No Hon: The Book of DreamsYume No Hon: The Book of Dreams is a novel about a woman living as a hermit in ancient Japan written by Catherynne M. Valente.-Plot summary:After her village is destroyed, Ayako lives alone in the mountains...
(Prime BooksPrime BooksEdited by two-time Hugo-nominee and 2006 World Fantasy-winner Sean Wallace, Prime Books is an award-winning independent publishing house, specializing in a mix of literary/commercial anthologies, collections, novels, and two magazines: Fantasy Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine. Some of its...
) ISBN 0809510871 (Blue and Red alternate editions) (20052005 in literatureThe year 2005 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February 25 - Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation....
) - The Grass-Cutting SwordThe Grass-Cutting SwordThe Grass-Cutting Sword is a novella by Catherynne M. Valente. It was published by Prime Books in 2006.- Plot summary :The tale is a postmodern interpretation of the Japanese folk-tale of Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi , which is taken from the collection of folk-lore in the Kojiki...
(Prime BooksPrime BooksEdited by two-time Hugo-nominee and 2006 World Fantasy-winner Sean Wallace, Prime Books is an award-winning independent publishing house, specializing in a mix of literary/commercial anthologies, collections, novels, and two magazines: Fantasy Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine. Some of its...
) ISBN 0809562308 (June 20062006 in literatureThe year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Literature:*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun*Chris Adrian - The Children's Hospital *Martin Amis - House of Meetings...
) - PalimpsestPalimpsest (novel)Palimpsest is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in March of 2009. It follows four separate characters as they discover and explore a mysterious city accessed only at night....
(BantamBantam BooksBantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine...
) ISBN 0553385763 (Feb 20092009 in literatureThe year 2009 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*8 October - Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature....
) - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own MakingThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own MakingThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in May 2011. It follows a 12 year old girl named September as she is spirited away from her average life to Fairyland....
(May 2011 from Feiwel & Friends) which started out in 2009 as a crowdfunded middle-grade online novel (originally, a fictional children's book in PalimpsestPalimpsest (novel)Palimpsest is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in March of 2009. It follows four separate characters as they discover and explore a mysterious city accessed only at night....
). - The Habitation of the BlessedThe Habitation of the BlessedThe Habitation of the Blessed - subtitled A Dirge for Prester John, Volume One - is a fantasy novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in November of 2010.-Summary:...
(Night Shade BooksNight Shade BooksNight Shade Books is an independent publishing company based in San Francisco, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It was started in 1997 by Jason Williams, with Jeremy Lassen coming on board as a partner shortly after the company's founding...
) ISBN 1597801992 (November 2010), Book 1 of the Dirge for Prester John series - Deathless (Tor BooksTor BooksTor Books is one of two imprints of Tom Doherty Associates LLC, based in New York City. It is noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles. Tom Doherty Associates also publishes mainstream fiction, mystery, and occasional military history titles under its Forge imprint. The company was founded...
) ISBN 0765326302 (March 2011) - The Folded World (Night Shade BooksNight Shade BooksNight Shade Books is an independent publishing company based in San Francisco, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It was started in 1997 by Jason Williams, with Jeremy Lassen coming on board as a partner shortly after the company's founding...
) ISBN 1597802034 (November 2011), Book 2 of the Dirge for Prester John series - Myths of Origin (Wyrm Publishing) ISBN 1890464147 (November 2011), Omnibus collection of The Labyrinth, Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams, The Grass-Cutting Sword, and Under in the Mere.
The Orphan's Tales series (Bantam
Bantam Books
Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine...
):
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1) ISBN 0553384031 (Oct 2006
2006 in literature
The year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Literature:*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun*Chris Adrian - The Children's Hospital *Martin Amis - House of Meetings...
)
- Book of the Steppe
- Book of the Sea
The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (vol. 2) ISBN 055338404X (Oct 2007
2007 in literature
The year 2007 in literature involves some significant new books.-Events:*November 19 - First Kindle e-book reader released.*December 11 - Terry Pratchett informs fans on-line that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.-Literature:...
)
- Book of the Storm
- Book of the Scald
Poetry
- Music of a Proto-Suicide (chapbook) (2004)
- Apocrypha (Prime BooksPrime BooksEdited by two-time Hugo-nominee and 2006 World Fantasy-winner Sean Wallace, Prime Books is an award-winning independent publishing house, specializing in a mix of literary/commercial anthologies, collections, novels, and two magazines: Fantasy Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine. Some of its...
) ISBN 0809550741 (20052005 in literatureThe year 2005 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February 25 - Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation....
) - Oracles: A Pilgrimage (Prime BooksPrime BooksEdited by two-time Hugo-nominee and 2006 World Fantasy-winner Sean Wallace, Prime Books is an award-winning independent publishing house, specializing in a mix of literary/commercial anthologies, collections, novels, and two magazines: Fantasy Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine. Some of its...
) ISBN 0809500450 (20062006 in literatureThe year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Literature:*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun*Chris Adrian - The Children's Hospital *Martin Amis - House of Meetings...
) - The Descent of Inanna (Papaveria PressPapaveria PressPapaveria Press is an independent British publishing house based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. It specializes in special, limited handbound editions and trade paperbacks in the fields of fairy tale, myth and poetry.-History:...
) (20062006 in literatureThe year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Literature:*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun*Chris Adrian - The Children's Hospital *Martin Amis - House of Meetings...
) - A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects (May 20082008 in literatureThe year 2008 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*January 1 - In the 2008 New Year Honours, Hanif Kureishi , Jenny Uglow , Peter Vansittart and Debjani Chatterjee are all rewarded for "services to literature".*June 15 - Gore Vidal, asked in a New York Times...
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Nonfiction
- Introduction to Jane EyreJane EyreJane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England, in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre. An Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York...
(Illustrated) (Norilana BooksNorilana BooksNorilana Books is an independent publishing company, founded in August 2006 and based in Los Angeles, California. It is operated and owned by Vera Nazarian. Norilana publishes reprints of previously published Science Fiction and Fantasy works, including the novels of Modean Moon...
) ISBN 193416979X (20072007 in literatureThe year 2007 in literature involves some significant new books.-Events:*November 19 - First Kindle e-book reader released.*December 11 - Terry Pratchett informs fans on-line that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.-Literature:...
) - "Regeneration X" in Chicks Dig Time Lords (2010, Mad Norwegian PressMad Norwegian PressMad Norwegian Press is an American publisher of science-fiction guides and novels. The company has worked with authors such as Peter David, Harlan Ellison, Robert Shearman, Lance Parkin, Elizabeth Bear, Mary Robinette Kowal, Seanan McGuire, Jody Lynn Nye, Catherynne M...
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Short fiction
- "The Oracle Alone" Music of a Proto-Suicide (2004)
- "Ghosts of Gunkanjima" Papaveria PressPapaveria PressPapaveria Press is an independent British publishing house based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. It specializes in special, limited handbound editions and trade paperbacks in the fields of fairy tale, myth and poetry.-History:...
(2005) - "The Maiden-Tree" Cabinet des Fees (2005)
- "Bones Like Black Sugar" Fantasy MagazineFantasy MagazineFantasy Magazine is a U.S.-based online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It was launched as a print edition at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. It continued in this format for six more issues, but in mid-October 2007, it moved online, with daily content, and spun off...
(2005) - "Psalm of the Second Body" PEN Book of Voices (2005)
- "Ascent Is Not Allowed" The Minotaur in Pamplona (2005)
- "Thread: A Triptych" Lone Star Stories (2006)
- "Urchins, While Swimming" Clarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R...
(2006) - "Milk and Apples" Electric VelocipedeElectric VelocipedeElectric Velocipede is a Hugo Award winning small press speculative fiction zine edited by John Klima. First published in 2001, Electric Velocipede has featured stories by some of the genre's leading fiction writers, including Hal Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, Catherynne M. Valente and Leslie What...
(2006) - "Temnaya and the House of Books" Mythic (2006)
- "A Grey and Soundless Tide" Salon Fantastique (2006)
- "A Dirge For Prester John" INTERFICTIONS (2007)
- "22/ballad.htm The Ballad of the Sinister Mr. Mouth" Lone Star Stories (2007)
- "La Serenissima" Endicott StudioEndicott StudioEndicott Studio is a nonprofit organization, based in the United States and United Kingdom, that is dedicated to literary, visual, and performance arts inspired by myth, folklore, fairy tales, and the oral storytelling tradition. It was founded in 1987 by Terri Windling, and is co-directed by...
(2007) - "The Proslogium of the Great Lakes" Farrago's Wainscot (2007)
- "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" Clarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R...
(2008) - "Tales of Beaty and Strangeness: City of Blind Delights" Clockwork Phoenix (2008)
- "The Hanged Man" Farrago's Wainscot (2008)
- " An Anthology of Urban Fantasy: Palimpsest" Paper Cities, ed. Ekaterina SediaEkaterina SediaEkaterina Sedia is a Russian-born fantasy author who is currently living in the United States. Her most recent work is The Alchemy of Stone, a steampunk novel that explores sexism and class bigotry. Alchemy received a star review from Publishers Weekly and was made the LA Timess 2008 Summer...
(2008) - " The Harpooner at the Bottom of the World" Spectra Pulse Magazine (2008)
- " Golubash, or, Wine-War-Blood-Elegy" Federations (2009)
- " The Secret History of Mirrors" Clockwork Phoenix 2 (2009)
- " A Book of Villainous Tales:A Delicate Architecture" Troll's Eye View (2009)
- "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" Clarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R...
(2009) - "The Anachronist's Cookbook" Steampunk Tales (2009)
- "A Between Books Anthology:Proverbs of Hell" The Stories in Between (2010)
- "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" Dark Faith (2010)
- "Secretario" Weird TalesWeird TalesWeird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....
(2010) - "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time" Clarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R...
(2010) - "How to Become a Mars Overlord" Lightspeed MagazineLightspeed MagazineLightspeed Magazine is an online fantasy and science fiction magazine published by Prime Books, which also publishes its sister companion Fantasy Magazine. The first issue was published in June of 2010 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by Orson Scott Card,...
(2010) - "15 Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai" Haunted Legends (2010)
- "In the Future When All's Well" Teeth (2011)
- "A Voice Like a Hole" Welcome to Bordertown (2011)
- "The Wolves of Brooklyn" Fantasy MagazineFantasy MagazineFantasy Magazine is a U.S.-based online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It was launched as a print edition at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. It continued in this format for six more issues, but in mid-October 2007, it moved online, with daily content, and spun off...
(2011) - "The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While" Tor.com (2011)
- "White Lines on a Green Field" Subterranean Magazine (2011)
- "Silently and Very Fast" Clarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R...
and WSFA Press (2011)
Collections
- This Is My Letter To The World: The Omikuji Project, Cycle One (2010)
- Ventriloquism short story collection (PS PublishingPS PublishingPS Publishing is a Hornsea based publisher founded in 1999 by Peter Crowther. They specialise in novella length fiction from the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres. It has quickly become established as one of Britain's premier small presses...
) (December 2010)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work (if applicable) |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | James Tiptree, Jr. Award James Tiptree, Jr. Award The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is an annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February of 1991 by science fiction authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, subsequent to a discussion at WisCon.- Background... |
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1) |
| 2007 | Story South Million Writers Award for Best Online Short Story StorySouth storySouth is an online quarterly literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, criticism, essays, and visual artwork, with a focus on the Southern United States. The journal also runs the annual Million Writers Award to select the best short stories published each year in online magazines or... |
Urchins, While Swimming, Clarkesworld Magazine Clarkesworld Magazine Clarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R... Issue 3 |
| 2007 | World Fantasy Award World Fantasy Award The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy... Nominee (Best Novel) |
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1) |
| 2008 | Rhysling Award (long poem category) | The Seven Devils of Central California, Farrago's Wainscot Summer 2007 |
| 2008 | Mythopoeic Award (adult literature) | The Orphan's Tales The Orphan's Tales The Orphan's Tales is a fantasy series by Catherynne M. Valente with illustrations by Michael Kaluta. The two novels of the series, In the Night Garden and In the Cities of Coin and Spice, are in turn split into four books... (series) |
| 2009 | World Fantasy Award World Fantasy Award The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy... Nominee (Best Short Story) |
A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica, Clarkesworld Magazine Clarkesworld Magazine Clarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R... May 2008) |
| 2009 | Andre Norton Award Andre Norton Award The Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, named to honor prolific science fiction and fantasy author Andre Norton , is a yearly juried award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to the author of an outstanding young adult science fiction or... |
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in May 2011. It follows a 12 year old girl named September as she is spirited away from her average life to Fairyland.... |
| 2010 | CultureGeek Readers' Choice Award (Best Web Fiction of the 21st Century) | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in May 2011. It follows a 12 year old girl named September as she is spirited away from her average life to Fairyland.... |
| 2010 | Hugo Award for Best Novel Hugo Award for Best Novel The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was once officially... (nominee) |
Palimpsest Palimpsest (novel) Palimpsest is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in March of 2009. It follows four separate characters as they discover and explore a mysterious city accessed only at night.... |
| 2010 | Locus Awards (nominee) | Palimpsest Palimpsest (novel) Palimpsest is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in March of 2009. It follows four separate characters as they discover and explore a mysterious city accessed only at night.... |
| 2010 | Lambda Literary Awards | Palimpsest Palimpsest (novel) Palimpsest is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in March of 2009. It follows four separate characters as they discover and explore a mysterious city accessed only at night.... |