2022 Cóyotl Awards Reading List
As we get ready for the 2022 Cóyotl Awards, authors and publishers are pulling together their eligible publications for your consideration. This page contains a non-exhaustive list of works which are eligible for nomination this year. If you have a work to add to this list, you can use this form. Please be sure to include the full title and author name, as well as what category the work belongs to. For more information, please see the award rules.
Award nominations open February 1st and close March 15th, and voting opens March 15th and close April 15th.
Cóyotl Awards chair Madison Scott-Clary is ineligible for the award.
Novels
- Harry A. Wozzeck — Lost Inside the Blue Line
- NightEyes DaySpring — Scars of the Golden Dancer
- Casimir Laski — Winter Without End
- Frances Pauli - Full Circlet
- Frances Pauli - Primal
- Roan Rosser — Red Pandemonium
- Malcolm F. Cross — Mouse Cage
- Tim Susman — Unfinished Business
- T. Kingfisher — Illuminations
- Kyell Gold — Return from Divalia
- Rukis — Illicit Alliance
- Bill Siracusa — A Spot of Murder
Novellas
- Mary E. Lowd — The Otter's Wings: A Labyrinth of Souls Novel
- K. C. Shaw — Royal Red
- Arilin Thorferra — Saida & Autumn
Short stories
- Utunu — "Lids" in When the World Was Young
- NightEyes DaySpring — "Eyeshine of the Soothsayer" in When the World Was Young
- Domus Vocis — "Dancing on Devil's Night" on The Voice of Dog Part 1 and Part 2
- NightEyes DaySpring — "Same as Me" on The Voice of Dg
- Tiberius Rings and Fruitz — "Vagabond" on the Voice of Dog Part 1 and Part 2
- Casimir Laski — Riddles With a Raven
- Rob MacWolf — "Let Him That Speaketh Fate to Men Have No Fate Of His Own" in When the World Was Young
- Casimir Laski — "Mark of the Stranger" in When the World Was Young
- Nenekiri Bookwyrm — "You're My Guiding Star" on The Voice of Dog
- Nenekiri Bookwyrm — "Hanging By A Thread" in ROAR Vol. 11
- Nenekiri Bookwyrm — "What Lurks Beneath The Pile" in Beast! Vol. 1
- Jenna Hanan Moore — "Junebug's Secret" in Land Beyond the World
- Jenna Hanan Moore — "Olivia and the Best Dogs" in Potato Soup Journal
- Jenna Hanan Moore — "Daisy's Tale" in Lorelei Signal
- Frances Pauli - What Gold Smells Like - Short Story(in the Pirating Pups anthology)
- Mary E. Lowd — "Octopus Ex Machina"
- Mary E. Lowd — "An Otter's Soul"
- Mary E. Lowd — "The Freedom of the Queen"
- Mary E. Lowd — "Sarah Flowermane and the Unicorn"
- Mary E. Lowd — "Cosmic the Pangolin"
- Mary E. Lowd — "Flerble Gerbil was a Hologram"
- Mary E. Lowd — "The Dreaming Arm"
- Marissa James — "Coyote Woman Sings the Blues"
- Gretchen Tessmer — "Charley Coavins"
- Marie Croke — "The Swift-Footed Darliing of the Rocks (Do NOT Actually Call Me That)"
- Emily Randolph-Epstein — "My Song Too Fierce"
- Rebecca E. Treasure — "Harold's Hook"
- Dana Vickerson — "The Best Way to Procure Breakfast"
- Divyasri Krishnan — "The Sacrificial Mouse"
- Gabriel Robinson — "Cat and Mouse"
- David Sklar — "What They Serve in Valhalla"
- Jack Adam — "Drakopegasus"
- Anna Madden — "Mooncalf"
- Katlina Sommerberg — "Death is the Referee"
- Amy Clare Fontaine — "Where Does It Hurt?"
- Carol Scheina — "The Power of Volcanic Love"
- Kristen Hornung — "The Reunion"
- Wen Wen Yang — "The Huli Jing of China Town"
- Stephen R. Loftus-Mercer — "Entanglement Solved"
- Field T. Mouse - "Mouse Your House"
- Dirt Coyote - "Wild Thing" Part Two
- Nighteyes Dayspring - "Same as Me"
- J.S. Hawthorne - "The Reason Why"
- Kergiby - "How it Pans Out"
- Rob MacWolf - "The Homecoming of Daniel Usherswell"
- Zack Loup - "Screw the Looking Glass"
- Dirt Coyote - "Keep to the Path" Part 2
- Pascal Farful - "The Shadows Seize Vengeance"
- Alex Katz - "Chump Change"
- Pascal Farful - "Victor Tremblay in Because the Night"
- Darius Davis - "A Pride at Pride"
- Michel-Vincent Corbeaux - "Heraclitan Bird-Songs"
- Sakara Fox - "The Dance of Peruvan" in When the World Was Young
- Utunu - "Lids" in When the World Was Young
- Huskyteer - "Worn-Out Tools" in When the World Was Young
- J.F.R. Coates - "Howling to the Moon" in When the World Was Young
- Rose LaCroix - "Daughter of Thunder or The Land of Many Deer" in When the World Was Young
- Kayode Lycaon - "Preist of Lilies" in When the World Was Young
- Rob MacWolf - "Let Him That Speaketh Fate to Men Have No Fate of his Own" in When the World Was Young
- Thomas 'Faux' Steele - "The Shrine of T-am-adad" in When the World Was Young
- Haya Baru - "Unmourned" in When the World Was Young
- K. C. Shaw — "Sugar Magnolia" in ROAR 11
- Reggie Kwok — "The Green Paifang"
- J.F.R. Coates — An Invisible Enemy
- J.F.R. Coates — "The First Snowflake
Anthologies
Individuals mentioned act in an editorial role.
- The Furry Historical Fiction Society — When the World Was Young
- Mary E. Lowd — Zooscape Issue 14: Built to Last
- Mary E. Lowd — Zooscape Issue 15: Cats, Mice, Mythology
- Mary E. Lowd — Zooscape Issue 16: Pain, Survival, and Love
- Ian Madison Keller — ROAR 11
- Andrew Ferrell — Winter of Wonder: Fauna
- K. Vale Nagle — Tales of Feathers and Flames
- Rhonda Parish — Pirating Pups
Other works
- Zack Loup - "Psychopomp: Cross Road Blues"
- Casimir Laski - "Watership Down by Richard Adams: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective"