Dengeki hp Tanpenshōsetsu Shō

The Dengeki hp Tanpenshōsetsu Shō (電撃hp短編小説賞) was an award handed out annually between 2000 and 2006 by the Japanese publisher MediaWorks for exceptionally written short stories and novellas. The prize was associated with MediaWorks' now-defunct light novel magazine Dengeki hp. Between the first and fourth contests held, the editorial department of MediaWorks' included the narrowed-down novellas in an issue of Dengeki hp, and the winner was decided from a reader-participation voting poll. This was changed with the fifth though seven contests by the use of a committee to award the prize.

Committee members

Mamizu Arisawa: Novelist of the Inukami! series
Gakuto Coda: Novelist of the Missing series
Yukako Kabei: Novelist, and winner of the ninth Dengeki Novel Prize
Naoko Koyama: Editor-in-chief of Dengeki hp
Masami Okayu: Novelist of the Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan series

Prize winners

First prize (2000)

Grand prize: Post Girl, Jirō Masuko

Second prize (2001)

Grand prize: Under Rug Locking, Itsuki Nase

Honorable mention: Sakura in Pale Rose Bump, Takehiro Ariwara; Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan, Masami Okayu

Third prize (2002)

Grand prize: Shinjitsu no Kagami: Ofuda to Neko to Shōjo, Tenjō Hihiki

Honorable mention: Maisō Wakusei TheFuneralPlanet, Chiaki Yamashina

Fourth prize (2003)

Grand prize: Shiawase Nisei Taidōkyo Keikaku: Yōsei-san no Ohanashi, Yūsaku Igarashi

Honorable mention: Kare to Kanojo to Shōkan Mahō, Tsukasa Kōzuki; Saigo no Natsu ni Miageta Sora wa, Yu Sumimoto

Fifth prize (2004)

Grand prize: Inside World: Fuyu no Rocket, Tsukasa Suo

Gold prize: Unmei no Ito, Rakuda Mitsuki

Silver prize: Nisenyonhyakukyūkai no Kanojō, Yu Nishimura

Sixth prize (2005)

Grand prize: Unawarded

Gold prize: Mizumi no Kazoku, Shō Arisawa

Silver prize: Kaze no Sabaku, Kaze no Tō, Akito Mizawa; Choko to Hanabira, Yūei Miki

Seventh prize (2006)

Grand prize: Dramatic Ivory, Shōgo Ogawa; Reverse Kiss, Shinano Sano