This juried award has been presented since March 1992 in memory of James Tiptree Jr, for sf or fantasy fiction that best "explores or expands gender roles". It is usually given at Wiscon, the annual Convention held in Madison, Wisconsin. Following the practice of the award website, winners below are listed by year of publication rather than presentation.
To celebrate this award's fifth anniversary in 1997, a panel of all past jurors voted on retrospective Tiptree Awards for notable work before 1991. An award to Tiptree herself was deemed redundant: the retrospective winners were Suzy McKee Charnas for Walk to the End of the World (1974) and Motherlines (1978); Ursula K Le Guin for The Left Hand of Darkness (1969); and Joanna Russ for "When It Changed" (in Again, Dangerous Visions, anth 1972, ed Harlan Ellison) and The Female Man (1975).
With gently Feminist irony, award funds are raised through bake sales and the sale of cookbooks. Additionally, fund-raising anthologies of relevant stories, essays and novel extracts have appeared: The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies (anth 2004), The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2: Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies (anth 2005) and The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender (anth 2007), all edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin and Jeffrey D Smith. [DRL]
Winners
- 1991: (tie) Eleanor Arnason, A Woman of the Iron People
(1991); Gwyneth Jones, White Queen (1991) - 1992: Maureen F McHugh, China Mountain Zhang (1992)
- 1993: Nicola Griffith, Ammonite
(1993) - 1994: (tie) Ursula K Le Guin, "The Matter of Seggri" (Spring 1994 Crank!); Nancy Springer, Larque on the Wing (1994)
- 1995: (tie) Elizabeth Hand, Waking The Moon (1994 UK: cut rev 1995); Theodore Roszak, The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995)
- 1996: (tie) Ursula K Le Guin, "Mountain Ways" (August 1996 Asimov's); Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (1996)
- 1997: (tie) Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine (1997); Kelly Link, "Travels with the Snow Queen" (Winter 1996/1997 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet)
- 1998: Raphael Carter, "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" (in Starlight 2, anth 1998, ed Patrick Nielsen Hayden)
- 1999: Suzy McKee Charnas, The Conqueror's Child (1999)
- 2000: Molly Gloss, Wild Life (2000)
- 2001: Hiromi Goto, The Kappa Child (2001)
- 2002: (tie) M John Harrison, Light (2002); John Kessel, "Stories for Men" (October/November 2002 Asimov's)
- 2003: Matt Ruff, Set This House In Order: A Romance of Souls (2003)
- 2004: (tie) Joe Haldeman, Camouflage (2004); Johanna Sinisalo, Not Before Sundown (trans 2003; vt Troll: A Love Story 2004)
- 2005: Geoff Ryman, Air: Or, Have Not Have (2004)
- 2006: Shelley Jackson, Half Life (2006)
- 2007: Sarah Hall, The Carhullan Army (2007)
- 2008: (tie) Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008); Nisi {SHAWL}, Filter House (coll 2008)
- 2009: Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales (coll 2009); Fumi Yoshinaga, Ooku: The Inner Chambers (vols 1 & 2, graph 2009)
- 2010: Dubravka Ugresic, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (2010)
- 2011: Andrea Hairston, Redwood and Wildfire (2011)
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