John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer


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Sponsored by the publisher of Analog magazine, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer honors the best new writers whose work has first appeared professionally during the previous two calendar years.
NOTE: Award is for the author & not for any specific work.
2015
Wesley Chu
The Lives of Tao

2014
Sofia Samatar
A Stranger in Olondria: a novel

2013
Mur Lafferty
Playing for Keeps

2012
E. Lily Yu
Clarkesworld Issue 55

2011
Lev Grossman
The Magicians: A Novel

2010
Seanan McGuire
Rosemary and Rue

2009
David Anthony Durham
Acacia: The War with the Mein

2008
Mary Robinette Kowal
Shades of Milk and Honey

2007
Naomi Novik
His Majesty's Dragon

2006
John Scalzi
Old Man's War

2005
Elizabeth Bear
Hammered

2004
Jay Lake
Greetings From Lake Wu

2003
Wen Spencer
Alien Taste

2002
Jo Walton
King's Peace

2001
Kristine Smith
Code of Conduct

2000 — Cory Doctorow
1999 — Nalo Hopkinson
1998 — Mary Doria Russell
1997 — Michael A. Burstein
1996 — David Feintuch
1995 — Jeff Noon
1994 — Amy Thomson
1993 — Laura Resnick
1992 — Ted Chiang
1991 — Julia Ecklar
1990 — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
1989 — Michaela Roessner
1988 — Judith Moffett
1987 — Karen Joy Fowler
1986 — Melissa Scott
1985 — Lucius Shepard
1984 — R. A. MacAvoy
1983 — Paul O. Williams
1982 — Alexis Gilliland
1981 — Somtow Sucharitkul
1980 — Barry B. Longyear
1979 — Stephen R. Donaldson
1978 — Orson Scott Card
1977 — C. J. Cherryh
1976 — Tom Reamy
1975 — P. J. Plauger
1974 —(tie) Spider Robinson
(tie) Lisa Tuttle
1973 — Jerry Pournelle

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