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+ Zk | Coyotl Awards Speech
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+- Best Short Story
+- Short stories are the heart of the furry writing world, it seems, and for good reason. It’s nice to be able to tell something from start to finish in only a few thousand words, there’s always a market for shorter works, and it’s a good way to feel that sense of accomplishment when you finish.
+- There are many different venues for short stories. Anthologies fill the furry publishing world, podcasts and magazines continue to thrive, and SoFurry remains a bustling hub of furry writing.
+- Because of that, there were many, many submissions for short stories to the reading list this year, and even with the ability to nominate only three short stories, there were a wide variety to choose from in order to narrow it down for the ballot.
+- The nominees this year were:
+- “The Battler” by Cedric G! Bacon in Even Furries Hate Nazis
+- “Water” by Utunu in The Voice of Dog podcast
+- “Summer Strawberries” by Mary E Lowd in The Voice of Dog podcast
+- and “Nazis Should Never Be Normal” by Nathan Hopp in Even Furries Hate Nazis
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+- This year, I’m pleased to announce that the Cóyotl Award for Best Short Story in 2020 goes to “Water” by Utunu, as appearing on The Voice of Dog podcast!
+- Utunu has been making video games since the early 90s, and currently works at BioWare. He likes gaming (especially boardgames and good old-fashioned pencil & paper gaming), African fauna, playing squash and proper football, commissioning artwork, languages and linguistics, writing, worldbuilding, commissioning more artwork, long sentences, and the Oxford comma. Unfortunately he has time for very few of these.
+- His writing has appeared in Heat #15, Civilized Beasts, and soon FANG #11., and find him on Fur Affinity and Twitter (@WildDogUtunu).
+- You can find his short story “Water” on The Voice of Dog podcast, available from many fine podcasting services, or on thevoice.dog
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+- Best Anthology
+- I’ve already mentioned that anthologies play a huge role within the furry writing world. They offer one of the biggest paying markets for authors throughout the fandom, and the draw for submissions is alluring.
+- Publishers such as FurPlanet, Bound Tails, and Goal Publications all have plenty of different anthologies available, whether they are recurring series or one-off topical collections of short stories.
+- As paying markets, they also provide a great step on the path to membership in the Furry Writers’ Guild.
+- The nominees for best anthology this year were:
+- Difursity: Stories by Furries of Color edited by Weasel
+- Selections of Anthropomorphic Regalements Vol. 1 edited by K. C. Alpinus
+- Boldly Going Forward edited by Sean Gerace
+- Even Furries Hate Nazis edited by Kate Watts
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+- For the 2020 Cóyotl Award for Best Anthology, please give a round of applause for Selections of Anthropomorphic Regalements, Vol. 1, edited by K. C. Alpinus and published by Goal Publications!
+- Kirisis “KC” Alpinus, the happy-go-lucky dhole with a penchant for peaches, tea, hummus, and Asian cuisine. A magna cum laude graduate of Tuskegee University, she’s a Political Scientist by day, and eclectic author of erotica and neo-noir by night. SoFurry & Furaffinity: Kiris Twitter: @Darheddol
+- Goal Publications was originally created in late 2015 to publish A Glimpse of Anthropomorphic Literature, a furry webzine that even today serves as a great starting point for readers new to furry literature.
+- You can find SOAR at goalpublications.com, baddogbooks.com, or many other fine retailers.
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+- Best Novella
+- Best Other Work
+- Best Novel
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