Editor Neil Clarke announced the winners of the 2021 Clarkesworld Magazine Reader’s Poll for best story and cover art in the March issue.

BEST STORY OF 2021

2021 Winner

• “Yesterday’s Wolf” by Ray Nayler (Short Story, 9/2021)

2nd: Place (TIE)

• “You Are Born Exploding” by Rich Larson (Novelette, 12/2021)
• “The Cold Calculations” by Aimee Ogden (Short Story, 12/2021)
• “Bots of the Lost Ark” by Suzanne Palmer (Novelette, 6/2021)

3rd Place (TIE)

• “Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self”
  by Isabel J. Kim (Short Story, 3/2021)
• “The Failed Dianas” by Monique Laban (Short Story, 2/2021)

4th Place (TIE)

• “Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma” by R.S.A. Garcia (Novella, 1/2021)
• “Sarcophagus” by Ray Nayler (Novelette, 4/2021)

BEST COVER OF 2021

• “Forward” by Wenjuinn Png (2/2021)