The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is presented each year at WorldCon.
Female recipients[]
- 1977 C. J. Cherryh
- 1986 Melissa Scott
- 1987 Karen Joy Fowler
- 1988 Judith Moffett
- 1989 Michaela Roessner
- 1990 Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- 1991 Julia Ecklar
- 1993 Laura Resnick
- 1994 Amy Thomson
- 1998 Mary Doria Russell
- 1999 Nalo Hopkinson
- 2001 Kristine Smith
- 2002 Jo Walton
- 2005 Elizabeth Bear
- 2007 Naomi Novik
- 2008 Mary Robinette Kowal
- 2010 Seanan McGuire (as Mira Grant)
- 2012 E. Lily Yu
- 2013 Mur Lafferty
- 2014 Sofia Samatar