The following stories by Alpha graduates have won awards and appeared in professional publications:

Sarah Brand, 2006 & 2007
“Perchance to Dream,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2011

Courtney Crites, 2008 & 2009
“Inked Upon Thee,” Penumbra, October 2011

Seth Dickinson, 2006 & 2007
“A Plant (Whose Name Is Destroyed),” Strange Horizons (forthcoming)
“Cronus and the Ships,” Analog, July/August 2013
“Worth of Crows,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, September 2012
“The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and Their Wounds,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, December 2011
“The Immaculate Conception of Private Ritter,” Dell Award: Winner, 2011
“Hypocrite,” Dell Award: First Runner-up, 2008
“Claymore Three-Zulu,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2007

Lara Donnelly, 2007 & 2008
“The Witches of Athens,” Strange Horizons (forthcoming)
“The Bohemian Method,” Icarus Magazine #16, March 2013
“To the Dogs,” Dell Award: Winner, 2013
“The Case of the Smitten Magician,” Dell Award: Third Runner-up (tie), 2012
“The Case of the Wayward Sister,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2011
“Family Ties,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2010
“The Case of the Unassuming Book and the Very Soiled Trousers,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2009

Haris Durrani, 2009
“Tethered,” Analog, July/August 2013
Editor, The Best Teen Writing of 2012
Winner, $10,000 Writing Portfolio Gold, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, 2011
“Jedi Night,” The Best Teen Writing of 2011
“Tethered,” Writers of the Future, Semi-Finalist, 2011 (3rd Quarter)
“The Photosynthesis of Living Engines,” Writers of the Future: Semi-Finalist, 2011 (2nd Quarter)
“U.S.-Man and the Gulab Jamin Machine,” The Best Teen Writing of 2010

Emily Gilman, 2003 & 2004
“The Castle That Jack Built,” The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2013 (Rich Horton, ed.)
“The Castle That Jack Built,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2012
“Lily,” Strange Horizons, December 2010
“The White Part of the Apple,” Fantasy Magazine, September 2009 (as Emily Tersoff)
“Stay With Me,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2008 (as Emily Tersoff)

SK Gilman, 2004 & 2005
“The Best and Bitt’rest Kiss,” Arcane, 2011
“A Strange Encounter, With Clocks and Wax and Wishes,” Moonlight Tuber #3, September 2011
“Messages from Valerie Polichar,” Shock Totem #2, July 2010 (as Sarah Dunn, with Grá Linnaea)
“The Best and Bitt’rest Kiss,” Dell Award: First Runner-up, 2009 (as Sarah Miller)
“Clockwork Angels,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2008 (as Sarah Miller)

Elena Gleason, 2005 & 2006
“Family Photo,” Daily Science Fiction, January 2011
“Whisper’s Voice,” Fantasy Magazine, April 2010
“Aeroplasty,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2009
“Erased,” Fantasy Magazine, April 2008 (winner, Best Fantasy Story of 2008)

Aleka Gurel, 2011
“Fantasmas Maravilhosas,” Dell Award: First Runner-up, 2013

Rachel Halpern, 2007 & 2008
“A Change of Heart,” Daily Science Fiction (forthcoming)
“The Taste of Salt,” Daily Science Fiction, September 2012
“The Taste of Salt,” Dell Award: Second Runner-up, 2012
“A Clarity of Mind,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2011
“Lucky Stiff,” Dell Award: Third Runner-up, 2010

Shivaun Hoad, 2006
“The Fairy’s Challenge,” Cicada, March/April 2009

Allison Jamieson-Lucy, 2009 & 2010
“To Soothe Ravaged Throats,” Daily Science Fiction, May 2011

Richard Larson, 2003 & 2004
“Dead in the Water,” Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages (Prime Books, forthcoming)
“This Serious Moonlight,” Scape Magazine, September 2012
“This Always Happens Here,” Daily Science Fiction, September 2011
“The Ghost Party,” Subterranean, May 2011
“Frosty’s Lament,” Shimmer Magazine #13, April 2011
“The Insides,” ChiZine #47, April 2011
“Urban Fantasy,” Icarus Magazine #8, March 2011
“I’ll Take You With Me,” Crossed Genres #27, February 2011
“Swimming Lessons,” Pax Americana #14, November 2010
“The Noise,” Sybil’s Garage #7, July 2010
“The Sandbox,” Electric Velocipede #17/18, August 2009
“Last Call,” Eclectica Magazine Vol. 13 No. 3, July 2009
“Up in the Air,” Strange Horizons, November 2008
“Good Night,” ChiZine #37, July 2008 (honorably mentioned in The Best Horror of the Year)
“Notice,” Vibrant Gray #2, February 2008
“Night and Day,” Pindeldyboz, September 2007

Tomas L. Martin, 2002 & 2003
“Activation,” Nature Futures, September 2010
“The Shogun and the Scientist,” Aberrant Dreams
“A Shogun’s Welcome,” Aberrant Dreams
“Some Things Never Change,” Satirica

Rebecca McNulty, 2007 & 2008
“The Sister Kite,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2012
“The Little Man’s Call,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2011
“Sister’s Hands,” Dell Award: Second Runner-up, 2010
“Scales for Ivan,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2010

Amanda Olson, 2007 & 2009
“Virtue’s Ghosts,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, July 2012
“Aunt Victoria,” Dell Award: First Runner-up, 2011

Rachel Ross, 2002 & 2003
Claws, Chicken House, 2012 (as Rachel Grinti, with Mike Grinti)
“The Changelings,” Triangulation 2003: A Confluence of Speculative Fiction

Rachel Sobel, 2008 & 2009
“The Dead Star, the Satirist, and the Soldier,” GigaNotoSaurus (forthcoming)
“In the Time of Drought,” Dell Award: Third Runner-up, 2011
“The Dead Star, the Satirist, and the Soldier,” Dell Award: Winner, 2010
“The Loyalty of Birds,” Clarkesworld Magazine, March 2009 (nominated for a Black Quill Award)

Madeline Stevens, 2010 & 2011
“Halcyon Days,” Dell Award: First Runner-up, 2012

Tina Tseng, 2009 & 2010
“A Treatise on the Duality of Peace and Accomplishing a Rewarding Parent-Child Relationship Based Upon Mutual Respect and Love,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2011

Michail Velichansky, 2002 & 2004
Claws, Chicken House, 2012 (as Mike Grinti, with Rachel Grinti)
“Evelyn,” Fantastical Visions IV, 2009
“A Monster in the Lake,” Horrors Beyond II, 2007
“Games on the Children’s Ward,” Writers of the Future 22 (first place for the quarter), 2006
“A Ragnarok Without Gods,” Corpse Blossoms, anthology nominated for Bram Stoker award, 2005
“Paper Shadows,” Fantastical Visions III, 2005
“Evelyn,” Dell Award: Third Runner-up, 2005
“Games on the Children’s Ward,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2004
“Lord of the Earth,” Fantastical Visions II, 2003
“Grounded,” Triangulation 2003: A Confluence of Speculative Fiction

Evelyn Wang, 2010
“Tippler’s Bane,” Pseudopod 231, May 2011

Jeannette Westwood, 2005 & 2006
“Locked and Keyed,” Dell Award: Honorable Mention, 2009
“The Banyan Tree,” Fantasy Magazine, October 2008
“Two Variations,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 21, November 2007
“Susano’s Comb,” Fantasy Magazine #3, 2006
“Crimson-lady at the Auction, Buying,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 18, June 2006

John Wheeler, 2008 & 2009
“Rewind,” Cicada, November/December 2012

Rebekah White, 2006 & 2007
“Girl Wonder,” Dell Award: Third Runner-up, 2008