The Supernatural Fiction Award . . . Ten Years Ago . . .

The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award
WINNER, Summer 2015

BY RACHEL WYMAN

It was in June, 2015 when TGS published the first winner of The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award: “Guédé,” a story of love and voodoo in New York City, by Rachel Wyman, a Brooklyn dancer and artist who had never previously published a work of fiction. Wyman also painted her own illustration for the piece.

Along with all the other winners and honorable mentions over the past ten years, “Guédé” has remained on the TGS website, and is available here.

In June of this year, with the publication of the Spring TGS Fiction Award winner and two honorable mentions, we will have completed a full decade of biannually providing cash awards and publication to the finest short fiction submitted to us on a supernatural or magic realism theme.

If you’d like to enjoy all of our past winners and honorable mentions including the most recent ones, you can peruse them all in our story archives.

And if you’re interested in entering the current TGS Fiction Award Competition for Spring 2025 . . . you still have a a few weeks to get your submission in. You’ll find complete guidelines and access to our electronic submissions system here.