Awards and media

Here are some of the awards and honors I've received for my writing:

• Winner of the 2008 and 2009 Interzone Readers' Polls.
• Finalist for the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novella.
• Story reprinted in Year's Best SF 14, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.
• Story nominated for the 2009 British Fantasy Award.
• Two stories nominated for the 2008 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction.
• Multiple honorable mentions in the 25th and 26th annual collections of The Year's Best Science Fiction Stories, edited by Gardner Dozois.
• Winner of a 2002 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship.
• 2003 Gold Award for Communications Crafts, Writing, from University of Minnesota Communicators Forum.
• Winner of the 2005 Fiction Warehouse Hypnologic Experiment writing contest
• Winner of the Magnificent Magnolia 2003 essay contest
• Jury selection in the Walker Art Center's 5 Minutes of Fame, December 2002
• Winner of a 1997-98 Loft Mentor Series Award for Fiction.
• Finalist for a SASE/Jerome Award.
• Finalist at the 2001 Op-Ed Slam, sponsored by the National Writers Union.
• Three-time judge of the Minnesota Book Awards, including judge of the 2003 fiction category.

Below is a sampling of the media coverage about my work. For reviews of my fiction, please see my fiction page.

• Nebula Award 2010 Interview with Jason Sanford.
  SFWA's Nebula Award website
   
• An interview with Jason Sanford by John Coyne
  November 2007 issue of Peace Corps Writers
   
• Short interview by Emma Larkins, Emerging Emma blog, August 29, 2008
   
• Million Writers Award coverage, LA Times Jacket Copy by Carolyn Kellogg, April 23, 2009
   
• From the blogs column by Sarah Crown, The Guardian newspaper, England, July 7, 2007
  (This was coverage of both my essay "Dipping Their Toes in the Genre Pool: The U.S. Literary Establishment's Need-Hate Relationship with Speculative Fiction" from The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Matthew Cheney's reaction to the essay in "The Shibboleth of "The Literary Establishment").
   
• "The Million Writers Award: raising the profile of online literary journals" by Simon Owens, Bloggasm, July 11th, 2007
   
• "Personal Views: Jason Sanford" by Mary Cox
  2005 Novel and Short Story Writers Market
  (Note: This is a six-page feature interview on online publishing and literature.)
   
• "Rank and Slush Pile: Is There a Literary Hierarchy" by Timothy Schaffert
  Poets & Writers Magazine, May/June 2009
  (Note: Quoted at the end of the article, which stirred a minor bit of controversy.)
   
• "Introduction to Online Markets"
  2007 Novel and Short Story Writers Market
  (Note: quoted about online markets and storySouth.)
   
• Short profile in Auburn Magazine, Spring 2006