Dengeki HP Short Story Award
でんげきエイチピーたんぺんしょうせつしょう
Literary award for newcomer short stories based on Dengeki HP magazine.
- Established
- 2000
- Organizer
- KADOKAWA / ASCII Media Works
- Category
- Light Novels and Web Literature
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Application Deadline
- around August–September
- Announcement Period
- around January–February
- Status
- Ended
Description
The Dengeki HP Short Story Award was a newcomer literary award for short stories hosted by MediaWorks (now KADOKAWA/ASCII Media Works). It was based on the company's magazine "Dengeki HP," established in 2000 and held annually until 2006. From the 1st to 4th editions, it featured editorial preliminary selection and reader voting; from the 5th edition onward, selections were made by professional writers. It has not been held since 2007, no official end has been announced, but it is highly likely to be integrated into the Dengeki Novel Grand Prix in the future.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Publication and book release of the winning work
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Editorial preliminary screening | Editorial department | — | Announce candidate works in Dengeki HP magazine |
| Reader voting selection (1st to 4th editions) | Dengeki HP magazine readers | — | Determine the winning work by voting results and announce in the magazine |
| Professional writer final selection (5th to 7th editions) | Professional writer selection committee | — | Announce final selection results in Dengeki HP magazine |
Related Awards
- Dengeki Novel Grand Prix
Past Winners
Dramatic Ivory by 小河彰護 is introduced as a work shaped by ライトノベル, 短編. It presents its subject through a focused literary voice and is connected with the prize history of the work.
A concise entry point into Dramatic Ivory, where the work's central mood and conflict come forward.
リヴァースキス by 佐野しなの is introduced as a work shaped by ライトノベル, 性別変化. It presents its subject through a focused literary voice and is connected with the prize history of the work.
A concise entry point into リヴァースキス, where the work's central mood and conflict come forward.
The Mouse Family is a short story that won the Gold Prize in the sixth Dengeki hp Short Story Award under the name Sho Arisawa. The award is confirmed in the author's later profile as Riiro Aizawa, but no book or paperback collection containing the story was confirmed.
A Gold Prize-winning Dengeki hp short story with no confirmed book edition.
The Desert of Wind, the Tower of Wind is described as a story set in a windless desert and a windmill tower, centering on a girl who guards the wind and a young soldier. It won the Silver Prize in the sixth Dengeki hp Short Story Award and is listed by the author as appearing in Dengeki hp Vol. 40.
In a desert where the wind has died, a girl and a young soldier search for a reason to live.
Chocolate and Petals won the Silver Prize in the sixth Dengeki hp Short Story Award and was later collected in Yuei Miki's Dengeki Bunko volume Beyond the Kaleidoscope. It serves as the opening story of a linked sequence about a boy whose ordinary life crosses into the supernatural.
A small Valentine's Day uncertainty opens into a world of ghosts and lingering thoughts.
A short story by Tsukasa Suo, winner of the Dengeki hp Short Story Award. Its title suggests a light-novel imagination around an inner world and a winter rocket.
An award-recorded short story that seems to move from an inner world toward a winter sky.
A short story by Rakuda Nagatsuki, recorded as a Dengeki hp Short Story Award winner. The title evokes relationships bound by chance or fate.
An award-winning short story whose title centers on a thread of fate.
A linked story collection by Yu Nishimura. In a tower made of countless levels, surrogate machines of God administer each floor. A boy named Sadri descends toward the sea with his companion, a frog.
A boy and a frog descend a tower where machines that define happiness have begun to break down, heading toward the sea.
幸せ二世帯同居計画 ～妖精さんのお話～ is a 2003 recognized work by 五十嵐雄策. It stands within the context of ライトノベル and foregrounds the author's voice and structure.
幸せ二世帯同居計画 ～妖精さんのお話～, a recognized work by 五十嵐雄策, is shaped by ライトノベル.
真実の鏡 ～お札と猫と彼女～ is a work by 日比生典成. Recognized as an award-winning work in 2002, it opens its world through the people, places, and events suggested by its title and through the texture of its language.
真実の鏡 ～お札と猫と彼女～ can be read through the themes and verbal force that drew attention at the time of the award.
The award-winning story was later included in Itsuki Nase's linked collection Under Rug Rocking. In an endless war, Haru and Yukio, conscripted as children, live by supporting each other in a sniper's compartment, where the stillness of a fantastical battlefield overlaps with loss.
On a moonlit battlefield, two young soldiers stay close while remembering a home they cannot return to.
A light novel work by Jiro Masuko centered on a girl who delivers letters, depicting journeys and encounters that connect people's feelings.
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