The winners of the 2015 Cóyotl Awards, presented by the Furry Writers’ Guild for the Best Anthropomorphic Literature of the 2015 calendar year, were announced August 13 at the Rocky Mountain Fur Con in Denver.

BEST NOVEL

Winner

• Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen (Tor Books, December 2015)

Runners-Up

• Forest Gods by Ryan Campbell (Sofawolf Press, September 2015)
• The Long Road Home by Rukis (FurPlanet Productions, July 2015)
• Rat’s Reputation by Michael H. Payne (Sofawolf Press,
• Windfall by Tempe O’Kun (FurPlanet Productions, July 2015)

BEST NOVELLA

Winner

• Koa of the Drowned Kingdom by Ryan Campbell (FurPlanet Productions, September 2015)

Runner-Up

• Losing My Religion by Kyell Gold (FurPlanet Productions, September 2015)

BEST SHORT STORY

Winner

• The Analogue Catby Alice “Huskyteer” Dryden (in The Furry Future, ed. by Fred Patten; FurPlanet Productions, January 2015)

Runners-Up

• Bullet Tooth Clawby Marshall L. Moseley (in Inhuman Acts, ed. by Ocean Tigrox; FurPlanet Productions, September 2015)
• Muskrat Bluesby Ianus J. Wolf (in Inhuman Acts, ed. by Ocean Tigrox; FurPlanet Productions, September 2015)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

Winner

• Inhuman Acts edited by Ocean Tigrox (FurPlanet Productions, September 2015)

Runners-Up

• The Furry Future edited by Fred Patten (FurPlanet Productions, January 2015)
• ROAR Volume 6 edited by Mary E. Lowd (Bad Dog Books, July 2015)

[Thanks to Fred Patten for the story.]