The was an award handed out annually between 2000 and 2006 by the Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese publisher MediaWorks

MediaWorks (publisher)

was a Japanese publishing company in the Kadokawa Group known for their brand magazines and book labels. These included such well-known magazines as Dengeki Daioh, and Dengeki G's Magazine, along with MediaWorks' main light novel publishing imprint Dengeki Bunko. The company was merged with ASCII...

 for exceptionally written short stories and novella

Novella

A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...

s. The prize was associated with MediaWorks' now-defunct light novel

Light novel

A is a style of Japanese novel primarily targeting junior high and high school students . The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. Light novels are often called or for short...

 magazine Dengeki hp

Dengeki hp

was a Japanese seinen magazine published by MediaWorks centered on publishing light novels. The first issue was released on December 18, 1998, and for the first eight issues was published quarterly; after this, it is being published bimonthly...

. 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
  Mamizu Arisawa
  is a male Japanese light novelist from Tokyo, Japan. In 2001, Arisawa won the silver prize in the eighth installment of MediaWorks' Dengeki Novel Prize with his work Infinity Zero. Following this, the novel was published by MediaWorks under their Dengeki Bunko label, and three other volumes in the...
  
  : Novelist of the Inukami!
  Inukami!
  is a Japanese light novel series written by Mamizu Arisawa, with illustrations by Kanna Wakatsuki. The series originally started serialization in volume seventeen of ASCII Media Works' now-defunct light novel magazine Dengeki hp on April 18, 2002...
  
  series
• Gakuto Coda
  Gakuto Coda
  is a Japanese light novelist. His series Missing has been adapted into a manga, and Tokyopop will be releasing both in Fall 2007. He is known for basing his horror novels on research into psychology and folklore.- Missing series :...
  
  : Novelist of the Missing
  Missing (light novels)
  Missing is a series of Japanese light novels by Gakuto Coda, published by MediaWorks under their Dengeki Bunko label. The first novel in the series was adapted into a manga, which is being released in English by Tokyopop since August 2007, along with the novels since November 2007...
  
  series
• Yukako Kabei: Novelist, and winner of the ninth Dengeki Novel Prize
  Dengeki Novel Prize
  The is a literary award handed out annually by the Japanese publisher ASCII Media Works for their Dengeki Bunko light novel imprint. The contest has discovered many popular and successful light novelists, like Kouhei Kadono and Yashichiro Takahashi. Originally called the Dengeki Game Novel...
  
  
• Naoko Koyama: Editor-in-chief of Dengeki hp
  Dengeki hp
  was a Japanese seinen magazine published by MediaWorks centered on publishing light novels. The first issue was released on December 18, 1998, and for the first eight issues was published quarterly; after this, it is being published bimonthly...
  
  
• Masami Okayu: Novelist of the Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
  Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
  is a Japanese light novel series written by Masaki Okayu and illustrated by Torishimo. It centers on a teenage boy and a killer angel from the future who constantly gets him into trouble and kills him violently and repeatedly with a spiked club, only to resurrect him seconds later. The novels were...
  
  series

Second prize (2001)

Grand Prize

Under Rug Locking, Itsuki Nase

Honerable Mention

Sakura in Pale Rose Bump, Takehiro Ariwara

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan

is a Japanese light novel series written by Masaki Okayu and illustrated by Torishimo. It centers on a teenage boy and a killer angel from the future who constantly gets him into trouble and kills him violently and repeatedly with a spiked club, only to resurrect him seconds later. The novels were...

, Masami Okayu

Third prize (2002)

Grand Prize

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

Honerable Mention

Maisō Wakusei TheFuneralPlanet, Chiaki Yamashina

Fourth prize (2003)

Grand Prize

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

Yusaku Igarashi

is a Japanese writer of light novels. In 2003. Igarashi won the Grand Prize in the fourth Dengeki hp Novella Prize held by MediaWorks for his novella Shiawase Nisei Taidōkyo Keikaku: Yōsei-san no Ohanashi. The following year in 2004, Igarashi debuted with his light novel series Nogizaka Haruka no...

Honerable 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