The $500 award will go to the best unpublished and unsold science fiction or fantasy short story submitted by a full-time undergraduate college student. The winner will be invited to the IAFA annual Conference on the Fantastic in mid-March in Orlando, FL, and the winning story will be considered for publication in Asimov’s science fiction magazine. For information on this award, visit the Dell Award Site. (This award was formerly known as the Isaac Asimov Award.)
| Lara Donnelly | 2013 | “To the Dogs” |
| Rebekah Baldridge | 2012 | “Superposition” |
| Seth Dickinson | 2011 | “The Immaculate Conception of Private Ritter” |
| Rachel Sobel | 2010 | “The Dead Star, the Satirist, and the Soldier” |
| Josh Eure | 2009 | “We Were Real” |
| Stephen Leech | 2008 | “Blank, White and Blue” |
| Natty Bokenkamp | 2007 | “The Uncanny Valley” |
| Meghan Sinoff | 2006 | “Shift” |
| Anthony Ha | 2005 | “Around the World” |
| Anthony Ha | 2004 | “Orbiting” |
| Bryn Neuenschwander | 2003 | “Calling into Science” |
| Lena DeTar | 2002 | “Making Waves” |
| Mark Jacobsen | 2001 | “Conquering Europa” |
| Beth Adele Long | 2000 | “Repeating Patterns” |
| Marissa Lingen | 1999 | “In the Gardens and the Graves” |
| Emily Thornbury | 1998 | “The Wormholes” |
| David Kirtley | 1997 | “Lest we Forget” |
| Dylan Otto Krider | 1996 | “He Believed in Probability” |
| Shannon Fowler | 1995 | “The Cinderella Project” |
| Eric Choi | 1994 | “Dedication” |
