The following is a list of winners and shortlisted works of the Otherwise Award, an annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated (as the James Tiptree Jr. Award) in February 1991 by science fiction authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, and is awarded and discussed yearly at WisCon. The name of the award was changed to its current form in October 2019.
The judges also announce an Honor List each year.
Winning titles are marked by a blue background.
| Year | Author(s) | Work | Publisher | Citation | ||
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| < | --Year -->1991 | William Morrow | Winner | |||
| White Queen | Victor Gollancz Ltd | Winner | ||||
| Orbital Resonance | Tor | Honor | ||||
| Sarah Canary | Henry Holt and Company | Honor | ||||
| Bantam Books | Honor | |||||
| Moonwise | NAL / Roc Books | Honor | ||||
| He, She and It | Summit Books | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->1992 | China Mountain Zhang | Tor | Winner | ||
| Venus Rising | Edgewood Press | Honor | ||||
| Davis Publications | Honor | |||||
| Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream | St. Martin's Press | Honor | ||||
| Red Mars | HarperCollins | Honor | ||||
| Correspondence | Honor | |||||
| Lost Futures | Grafton | Honor | ||||
| Bantam Books | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->1993 | Ammonite | Del Ray | Winner | ||
| Ring of Swords | Tor | Honor | ||||
| Bantam Books | Honor | |||||
| In the Garden of Dead Cars | Cleis Press | Honor | ||||
| Bantam Books | Honor | |||||
| Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines | Honor | |||||
| Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines | Honor | |||||
| Dancing Jack | DAW Books | Honor | ||||
| Omni Publications International Ltd. | Honor | |||||
| Illicit Passage | Woman's Redress Press | Honor | ||||
| Coelestis | HarperCollins | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->1994 | Broken Mirrors Press | Winner | |||
| Larque on the Wing | AvoNova | Winner | ||||
| Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines | Honor | |||||
| Tor | Honor | |||||
| Cannon's Orb | Honor | |||||
| in Asimov's Science Fiction May 1994 | Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines | Honor | ||||
| Amazon Story Bones | Spinsters Ink | Honor | ||||
| North Wind | Honor | |||||
| in Interzone #86 August 1994 | David Pringle | Honor | ||||
| Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines | Honor | |||||
| HarperCollins | ||||||
| Temporary Agency | Honor | |||||
| Unconquered Countries | Honor | |||||
| Trouble and Her Friends | Tor | Honor | ||||
| Tor | Honor | |||||
| Genetic Soldier | William Morrow | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->1995 | Waking the Moon | HarperPrism | Winner | ||
| Random House | Winner | |||||
| Millennium / Dell Abyss | Honor | |||||
| Little Sisters of the Apocalypse | Black Ice Books | Honor | ||||
| Lisa Tuttle (chapbook) | Honor | |||||
| Tor | Honor | |||||
| Motherlines | Berkeley-Putnam | Retrospective Award | ||||
| Walk to the End of the World | Ballantine | Retrospective Award | ||||
| Walker & Co. | Retrospective Award | |||||
| Bantam Books | Retrospective Award | |||||
| Doubleday | Retrospective Award | |||||
| Houghton Mifflin | Retrospective Honor | |||||
| Macmillan | Retrospective Honor | |||||
| Swastika Night | Feminist Press | Retrospective Honor | ||||
| Wild Seed | Doubleday | Retrospective Honor | ||||
| Babel-17 | Ace | Retrospective Honor | ||||
| Triton | Ace | Retrospective Honor | ||||
| Carmen Dog | Mercury Press | Retrospective Honor | ||||
| Vintage Books | Retrospective Honor | |||||
| Watchtower | Berkley Books | Retrospective Honor | ||||
| Dreamsnake | Houghton Mifflin | Retrospective Honor | ||||
| Memoirs of a Spacewoman | Victor Gollancz Ltd | Retrospective Honor | ||||
| Woman on the Edge of Time | Fawcett | Retrospective Honor | ||||
| Berkley-Putnam | Retrospective Honor | |||||
| Women of Wonder (Series): Women of Wonder, More Women of Wonder, The New Women of Wonder | Vintage Books | Retrospective Honor | ||||
| Berkley Books | Retrospective Honor | |||||
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Retrospective Honor | |||||
| Peter Owen Publishers | Retrospective Honor | |||||
| Harcourt Brace | Retrospective Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->1996 | Winner | ||||
| Random House | Winner | |||||
| St. Martin's Press | Honor | |||||
| Dell Magazines | Honor | |||||
| Minnesota Science Fiction Society | Honor | |||||
| Canongate Books | Honor | |||||
| Harcourt Brace | Honor | |||||
| Nadya | Tor | Honor | ||||
| Godmother Night | St. Martin's Press | Honor | ||||
| White Wolf | Honor | |||||
| Eidolon Publications | Honor | |||||
| Leaning Towards Infinity | Vintage Books | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->1997 | Black Wine | Tor | Winner | ||
| Small Beer Press | Winner | |||||
| DAW Books | Honor | |||||
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| Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins | Honor | |||||
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| Tor | Honor | |||||
| Signs of Life | Honor | |||||
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| Sacrifice of Fools | Victor Gollancz Ltd | Honor | ||||
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| Cereus Blooms at Night | Honor | |||||
| Condé Nast | Honor | |||||
| Waking Beauty | HarperPrism | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->1998 | Tor | Winner | |||
| Tor | Honor | |||||
| Parable of the Talents | Honor | |||||
| Tor | Honor | |||||
| Singling Out The Couples | Sceptre | Honor | ||||
| Black Glass | Henry Holt and Company | Honor | ||||
| Richard Cohen Books | Honor | |||||
| Halfway Human | Avon Eos | Honor | ||||
| Flesh and Gold | Honor | |||||
| Brown Girl in the Ring | Honor | |||||
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| TSR | Honor | |||||
| Dragon's Winter | Ace / Berkley Books | Honor | ||||
| Mission Child | Avon Eos | Honor | ||||
| Circlet Press | Honor | |||||
| in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1998 | Honor | |||||
| Ghost Country | Honor | |||||
| Hand of Prophecy | Avon Eos | Honor | ||||
| Weird Women, Wired Women | Honor | |||||
| Wesleyan University Press | Honor | |||||
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| Tor | Honor | |||||
| Tor | Honor | |||||
| Mockingbird | Ace | Honor | ||||
| Playing God | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->1999 | Tor | Winner | |||
| If I Told You Once | Picador / St. Martin's Press | Honor | ||||
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| Indigo | Honor | |||||
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| Fjord Press | Honor | |||||
| Harcourt Brace | Honor | |||||
| Harper Voyager | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2000 | Wild Life | Simon & Schuster | Winner | ||
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| Viking | Honor | |||||
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| Invisible Cities Press | Honor | |||||
| Invisible Cities Press | Honor | |||||
| Midnight Robber | Honor | |||||
| Perdido Street Station | Honor | |||||
| Invisible Cities Press | Honor | |||||
| Eos | Honor | |||||
| Sea As Mirror | Harper Voyager | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->2001 | Red Deer Press | Winner | |||
| Half Known Lives | New Star Books | Honor | ||||
| Dark Light | Tor (US), Orbit (UK) | Honor | ||||
| Algonquin Books | Honor | |||||
| HarperCollins/Eos | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2002 | Light | Winner | |||
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| Tor | Honor | |||||
| Appleseed | Tor (US), Orbit (UK) | Honor | ||||
| SciFi.com | Special Honor | |||||
| Asimov's Science Fiction | Honor | |||||
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| Salt Fish Girl | Honor | |||||
| Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists | Bard College | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->2003 | Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls | HarperCollins | Winner | ||
| Coyote Cowgirl | Tom Doherty Associates | Honor | ||||
| Firebird Books | Honor | |||||
| SciFi.com | Honor | |||||
| Ministry of Whimsy | Honor | |||||
| Ace | Honor | |||||
| Fudoki | Tor | Honor | ||||
| Sovereign Media | Honor | |||||
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| Interzone | Honor | |||||
| Maul | Orbit | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->2004 | Camouflage | Ace | Winner | ||
| Not Before Sundown (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi) Published in the United States as Troll - a love story | Peter Owen Publishers | Winner | ||||
| Little Black Book of Stories | Chatto & Windus | Honor | ||||
| Love's Body, Dancing in Time | Aqueduct Press | Honor | ||||
| SciFi.com | Honor | |||||
| Atheneum Books | Honor | |||||
| Stable Strategies and Others | Tachyon Publications | Honor | ||||
| Life | Aqueduct Press | Honor | ||||
| Spilogale, Inc. | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2005 | Air | St. Martin's Griffin | Winner | ||
| Willful Creatures | Doubleday | Honor | ||||
| Eos | Honor | |||||
| SciFi.com | Honor | |||||
| Roc Books | Honor | |||||
| Misfortune | Honor | |||||
| Remains | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2006 | Half Life | HarperCollins | Winner | ||
| Spectra Books | Winner | |||||
| James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon | St. Martin's Press | Special Recognition | ||||
| Mindscape | Aqueduct Press | Honor | ||||
| Listening at the Gate | Atheneum Books | Honor | ||||
| Spectra Books | Honor | |||||
| William Morrow | Honor | |||||
| St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves | Knopf | Honor | ||||
| Matriarch | Eos | Honor | ||||
| Venusia | Semiotext(e) | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->2007 | Faber and Faber (UK 2007); HarperCollins (US 2008) | Winner | |||
| Dangerous Space | Honor | |||||
| Water Logic | Small Beer Press | Honor | ||||
| Empress of Mijak and The Riven Kingdom | HarperCollins | Honor | ||||
| Hyperion Books | Honor | |||||
| Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing | Small Beer Press | Honor | ||||
| Glasshouse | Ace | Honor | ||||
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| Vertigo Comics | Honor | |||||
| Flora Segunda | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2008 | Walker & Co. (UK); Candlewick Press (US) | Winner | |||
| Filter House | Aqueduct Press | Winner | ||||
| Bantam Books | Honor | |||||
| HarperTeen | Honor | |||||
| Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet: A Shadowbridge Novel | Del Ray | Honor | ||||
| Published in the United States as Eon: Dragoneye Reborn Published in the United Kingdom as Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye | HarperCollins / Viking | Honor | ||||
| Spilogale, Inc. | Honor | |||||
| Tender Morsels | Knopf | Honor | ||||
| Lavinia | Harcourt | Honor | ||||
| Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) | Quercus (UK) | Honor | ||||
| Tor | Honor | |||||
| Prime Books | Honor | |||||
| Girl Meets Boy | Canongate Books | Honor | ||||
| Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) | Harcourt | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->2009 | Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales | Small Beer Press | Winner | ||
| Hakusensha (Japan); VIZ Media (English-speaking world) | Winner | |||||
| Aqueduct Press | Special Honor | |||||
| Coeur de lion | Honor | |||||
| Night Shade Books | Honor | |||||
| Strange Horizons | Honor | |||||
| Night Shade Books | Honor | |||||
| Distances | Aqueduct Press | Honor | ||||
| Lifelode | NESFA Press | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->2010 | Baba Yaga Laid an Egg | Canongate Books | Winner | ||
| Orbit | Honor | |||||
| Orbit | Honor | |||||
| Strange Horizons | Honor | |||||
| Crossed Genres | Honor | |||||
| Aqueduct Press | Honor | |||||
| Who Fears Death | DAW Books | Honor | ||||
| Living with Ghosts | DAW Books | Honor | ||||
| Soft Skull Press | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2011 | Redwood and Wildfire | Aqueduct Press | Winner | ||
| Beauty Queens | Scholastic Press | Honor | ||||
| Aqueduct Press | Honor | |||||
| God's War | Night Shade Books | Honor | ||||
| Aqueduct Press | Honor | |||||
| Dell Magazines | Honor | |||||
| Strange Horizons | Honor | |||||
| Small Beer Press | Honor | |||||
| Big Mouth House | Honor | |||||
| Harper Voyager | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2012 | Roc Books | Winner | |||
| Ancient, Ancient | Aqueduct Press | Winner | ||||
| Range of Ghosts | Tor | Honor | ||||
| Rituals | Plus One Press | Honor | ||||
| Up Against it | Tor | Honor | ||||
| 2312 | Orbit | Honor | ||||
| Jagannath | Cheeky Frawg Books | Honor | ||||
| Firebrand | Epicon Press | Honor | ||||
| Aqueduct Press | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2013 | Rupetta | Tartarus Press | Winner | ||
| Big Mama Stories | Aqueduct Press | Honor | ||||
| in Electric Velocipede #24 | Electric Velocipede | Honor | ||||
| Hild | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Honor | ||||
| Arthur A. Levine Books | Honor | |||||
| Ancillary Justice | Orbit | Honor | ||||
| September Girls | Honor | |||||
| All Our Pretty Songs | St. Martin's Press | Honor | ||||
| Bad Boy Records | Honor | |||||
| HarperCollins | Honor | |||||
| Sea Change | Tor | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->2014 | Penguin Random House | Winner | |||
| My Real Children | Tor | Winner | ||||
| Elysium | Aqueduct Press | Honor | ||||
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| Jurassic London | Honor | |||||
| Memory of Water | Harper Voyager | Honor | ||||
| Ascension | Masque Books | Honor | ||||
| Kaleidoscope | Twelfth Planet Press | Honor | ||||
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| Lagoon | Hodder & Stoughton | Honor | ||||
| Crossed Genres | Honor | |||||
| Unsung Stories | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2015 | Dell Magazines | Winner | |||
| Lizard Radio | Candlewick Press | Winner | ||||
| Strange Horizons | Honor | |||||
| Tor | Honor | |||||
| Two Dollar Radio | Honor | |||||
| Off to Far Ithicaa (ODY-C Vol. 1) | Image Comics | Honor | ||||
| Orbit | Honor | |||||
| Lightspeed | Honor | |||||
| Scigentasy | Honor | |||||
| All that Outer Space Allows | Whippleshield Books | Honor | ||||
| beyond: the queer sci-fi and fantasy comic anthology | beyond | Honor | ||||
| (creator, executive producer) | Steven Universe | Cartoon Network Studios/Cartoon Network | Honor | |||
| Radiance | Tor | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->2016 | When the Moon Was Ours | Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Griffin | Winner | ||
| Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens | Aqueduct Press | Honor | ||||
| Borderline | Saga Press | Honor | ||||
| PodCastle | Honor | |||||
| Will Do Magic for Small Change | Aqueduct Press | Honor | ||||
| Beneath Ceaseless Skies | Honor | |||||
| Every Heart a Doorway | Tor | Honor | ||||
| Too Like the Lightning | Tor | Honor | ||||
| Everfair | Tor | Honor | ||||
| Grove Press / Black Cat | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2017 | Who Runs the World? | Macmillan | Winner | ||
| Boston Review | Honor | |||||
| Dreadnought | Diversion Books | Honor | ||||
| Sovereign | Diversion Books | Honor | ||||
| Del Ray | Honor | |||||
| Harper Voyager | Honor | |||||
| Her Body and Other Parties | Graywolf Press | Honor | ||||
| Akashic Books | Honor | |||||
| Black Tides of Heaven | Tor | Honor | ||||
| Red Threads of Fortune | Tor | Honor | ||||
| < | --Year -->2018 | Latin American Literature Today | Winner | |||
| Capricious Magazine: The Gender Diverse Pronouns Issue | Capricious SF | Honor | ||||
| Sodom Road Exit | Arsenal Pulp Press | Honor | ||||
| Chercher la Femme | Aqueduct Press | Honor | ||||
| The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Honor | |||||
| Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology | P&M | Honor | ||||
| GlitterShip Year Two | Self-published | Honor | ||||
| Arsenal Pulp Press | Honor | |||||
| (featured artist, producer/executive producer, songwriter) | Wandaland Records / Bad Boy Records / Atlantic Records | Honor | ||||
| Capricious SF | Honor | |||||
| Amulet Books | Honor | |||||
| Shimmer Magazine | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2019 | Freshwater | Grove Press | Winner | ||
| Bedside Press | Honor | |||||
| 47North Press | Honor | |||||
| Pet | Make Me a World Press | Honor | ||||
| Meet Me in the Future | Tachyon Publications | Honor | ||||
| Of Warps and Wefts | Strange Horizons | Honor | ||||
| Tor Books | Honor | |||||
| Small Beer Press | Honor | |||||
| Soft Skull Press | Honor | |||||
| Gallery / Saga Press | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2020 | Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon | Aurelia Leo | Winner | ||
| City of a Thousand Feelings | Aqueduct Press | Honor | ||||
| Helicopter Story | Clarkesworld | Honor | ||||
| Custom Options Available | Fireside Magazine | Honor | ||||
| Depart, Depart | Stelliform Press | Honor | ||||
| Tachyon Publications | Honor | |||||
| Kaleidotrope | Honor | |||||
| Soho Press | Honor | |||||
| Candlewick Press | Honor | |||||
| < | --Year -->2021 | Light From Uncommon Stars | Tor Books | Winner | ||
| Sorrowland | MCD Books | Winner | ||||
| Metonymy Press | Honor | |||||
| Danged Black Thing | Transit Lounge | Honor | ||||
| Harper Voyager | Honor | |||||
| Bestiary | One World | Honor | ||||
| Dark and Deepest Red | Feiwel & Friends | Honor | ||||
| Chouette | Ecco Press | Honor | ||||
| She Who Became the Sun | Tor Books | Honor | ||||
| Erewhon Books | Honor | |||||
| Cemetery Boys | Swoon Reads | Honor | ||||