2019 World Fantasy Award Finalists Announced

2019 World Fantasy Award finalists have been announced. The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, held during October 31 - November 3 in Los Angeles.

Novel

• In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• The Poppy War by RF Kuang (Harper Voyager)
• Witchmark by CL Polk (Tor.com)
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press)

Novella

• The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com)
• The Black God’s Drums by P Djèlí Clark (Tor.com)
• The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press)
• “The Privilege of the Happy Ending” by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Aug. 2018)
• Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)

Short Fiction

• “The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation” by Adam-Troy Castro (Nightmare Magazine, July 2019)
• “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E Harrow (Apex Magazine, February 2018)
• “Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake” by Mel Kassel (Lightspeed, October 2018)
• “The Court Magician” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed, January 2018)
• “Like a River Loves the Sky” by Emma Törzs (Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2018)

Anthology

• Sword and Sonnet, edited by Aidan Doyle, Rachael K Jones, and E Catherine Tobler (Ate Bit Bear)
• The Book of Magic, edited by Gardner Dozois (Bantam Books US/HarperVoyager UK)
• Best New Horror #28, edited by Stephen Jones (Drugstore Indian Press UK)
• Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga Press)
• Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, edited by Irene Gallo (Tor.com)

Collection

• The Tangled Lands, by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S Buckell (Saga Press/Head of Zeus UK)
• Still So Strange, by Amanda Downum (ChiZine Publications)
• An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories, by Andy Duncan (Small Beer Press)
• How Long ’til Black Future Month? by NK Jemisin (Orbit)
• Phantom Limbs, by Margo Lanagan (PS Publishing)

Artist

• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess

Special Award – Professional

• CC Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Irene Gallo, for Art Direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
• Huw Lewis-Jones, for The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (University of Chicago Press)
• Catherine McIlwaine for Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth exhibition (The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford)
• Julian Yap, Molly Barton, Jeff Li, and James Stuart for Serial Box

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Mike Allen, for Mythic Delirium
• Scott H Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Lynne M Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
• E Catherine Tobler, for Shimmer Magazine
• Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Hayao Miyazaki
• Jack Zipes