new careers. Such authors include Barth Anderson, Greg Beatty, C. J. Cherryh, Ian Creasey, Paul Di Filippo, Samantha Henderson, Matthew Kressel, Jay Lake, Richard A. Lovett, Tim Pratt, Cat Rambo, Ken Scholes, Justin Stanchfield, Bud Sparhawk, Michael Swanwick, and Rachel Swirsky. Anthology A selection of fiction and poetry, predominantly from issues #15 to #27, was published in The Best of Abyss & Apex, Volume One (Hadley Rille Books, 2009) edited by Wendy S Delmater. Awards and honors 2015 Abyss & Apex was nominated for a 2015 Hugo in the Best Semiprozine category. 2014 "Principles of Entropy" by Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg was nominated for a 2014 Rhysling Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. 2013 Year's Best SF (Gardner Dozois), honorable mentions for 2013: "The Artist, Deeply, Brushes" by Ken Altabef, "Luminous Fish Scanalyze My Name" by Paul Di Filippo and Damien Broderick, "The Shadow Artist" by Ruth Nestvold. Abyss & Apexs 4Q 2010 story, "Rumor of Wings" by Alter S. Reiss, was the featured story on the 12/5/13 Podcastle. 2012 Year's Best SF (Gardner Dozois), honorable mentions for 2012: "Land of Fire & Ashes" by Colin P Davies, "Lace Downstairs" by Arkady Martine, "Aurum" by Genevieve Valentine. 2011 Year's Best SF (Gardner Dozois), honorable mentions for 2011: "A New Bridge Across the Lethe" by Howard V. Hendrix, "Bots D'Amour" by Cat Rambo. 2010 Year's Best SF (Gardner Dozois), honorable mentions for 2010: "Sunlight" by Kelly Dwyer, "Anything Chocolate" by Caren Gussoff, "Talking to Elephants" by Mary Anne Mohanraj, "Ice Moon Tale" by Eilis O'Neal, "Night of the Manticore" by Tony Pi, "High Art" by Alan Smale, "The Tortouous Path" by Bud Sparhawk, "Spirits in the Night" by Michael Swanwick, "The Monks of Udom Xhai" by Lavie Tidhar. 2009 Year's Best SF (Gardner Dozois), honorable mentions for 2009: "Letter Found in a Chest Belonging to the Marquis de Montseraille Following the Death of That Worthy Individual" by Marie Brennan, "Mirror Girl" by Paul Carson, "A Hundredth Name" by Christopher Green, "East of Chula Vista" by Samantha Henderson, "In The Middle of Nowhere With Company" by Ruth Nestvold, "Rainbows and Other Shapes" by Patricia Russo, "No Cord or Cable" by Bud Sparhawk. Howard Hendrix's poem "Bumbershoot", published in 2009, won the 2010 Dwarf Stars Award (Best Poem of 10 lines or less) from the Science Fiction Poetry Association. "Incarnation in the Delta" by Richard Foss (Abyss & Apex, #29: First Quarter 2009) was on the Tangent Online Recommended Reading List for 2009. 2008 "Snatch Me Another" by Mercurio D. Rivera (Abyss & Apex 1Q/08) was reprinted in Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy, 2008 edited by Rich Horton and made the Locus Recommended Reading list for 2008. Alan Smale's "Quartet, With Mermaids" and Joanne Steinwachs' "The Number of Angels in Hell" were given honorable mentions in Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One Tony Pi's "Metamorphoses In Amber" was a 2008 Prix Aurora Awards Finalist for Best Short Form Work in English. Year's Best SF (Gardner Dozois), honorable mentions for 2008: "Quartet, with Mermaids" by Alan Smale, "Dancing For the Monsoon" by Aliette de Bodard, "Stories of the Alien Invasion" by Manek Mistry, "Metamorphoses in Amber" by Tony Pi. 2007 Year's Best SF (Gardner Dozois), honorable mentions for 2007: "The Man Behind the Curtain" by Joseph Paul Haines, 2006 Year's Best SF (Gardner Dozois), honorable mentions for 2006: "In the Season of Blue Storms" by Jude Marie Green, "New Spectacles" by Will MacIntosh, "Interfaith" by Lisa Mantchev, "All the Wonder in the World" by Lavie Tidhar. 2005 "Prayer Causes Stars" was nominated for the 2006 Rhysling Award (short