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The Process

How is the Tiptree winner chosen?

Each year the Tiptree Award motherboard appoints a panel of five jurors to read and discuss among themselves the merits of gender-bending fiction published in the previous year. Anyone and everyone is invited to forward recommendations for novels and short fiction works via our Web site. Publishers are encouraged to alert Karen about soon-to-be-published gender-bending fiction.

At the end of a year of reading and deliberation, the jurors choose a winner. This process ensures that the criteria for the award are reinvented every year by a new group of people whose only charge is to look for science fiction and fantasy that “explores and expands gender.” Each set of jurors refines and re-examines their own definitions of that phrase.

Who nominates works to be considered by the jurors?

The Tiptree Award hopes you will submit works that you think are appropriate. You can submit works at this link.

When is the winner announced?

The Tiptree Award is different from most other literary awards in that it does not wait till the actual award ceremony to make the big announcement. Winners and short list are made public a month or more before the ceremony. In addition, the founding mothers and the motherboard instruct the jurors not to release a list of nominees before the actual award, because we feel that creates an artificial set of “losers” instead of a list of books worthy of attention. Instead, we publish an annotated “short list” of fiction which the jurors consider worthy of readers’ attention. In some years, the jurors also publish a “long list” of books they found \ interesting in the course of their reading.

       

What do you get when you win the Tiptree Award?

The winner or winners are invited to the Tiptree Award ceremony to accept their award and prize money. Each year’s winners receives $1000, a piece of original art, some chocolate, and their trip to the ceremony. What’s more, they get the dubious privilege of having the more-than-amateur Tips Chorus sing an original song in their honor. In addition, a different artist is hired each year by the Tiptree Award motherboard to create a work of art that is presented in honor of the winning novel or short story.