Winner
- “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind”, Sarah Pinsker (Strange Horizons Jul 2013)
Finalists
- “Bloom”, Gregory Norman Bossert (Asimov's Dec 2013)
- “The Irish Astronaut”, Val Nolan (Electric Velocipede May 2013)
- “Mystic Falls”, Robert Reed (Clarkesworld Nov 2013)
- “Over There”, Will McIntosh (Asimov's Jan 2013)
- “Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer”, Kenneth Schneyer (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
- “They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov's Jan 2013)
- “The Urashima Effect”, E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld Jun 2013)
- “The Weight of the Sunrise”, Vylar Kaftan (Asimov's Feb 2013)
- “The Wildfires of Antarctica”, Alan DeNiro (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2013)