2021 World Fantasy Award Finalists Announced

2021 World Fantasy Award finalists have been announced. The awards will be presented during World Fantasy Convention 2021, to be held November 4-7, 2021 in Montreal, Quebec.

Best Novel

• Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor)
• The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga/Titan UK)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey/Jo Fletcher UK)
• The Midnight Bargain, CL Polk (Erewhon/Orbit UK) 

 

Best Novella

• Ring Shout, or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times, P Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• “Stepsister”, Leah Cypess (F&SF 5-6/20)
• Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings (Tordotcom)
• The Four Profound Weaves, RB Lemberg (Tachyon)
• Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)

 

Best Short Fiction

• 
”Glass Bottle Dancer”, Celeste Rita Baker (Lightspeed 4/20)
• “The Women Who Sing for Sklep”, Kay Chronister (Thin Places)
• “The Nine Scents of Sorrow”, Jordan Taylor (Uncanny 7-8/20)
• “My Country Is a Ghost”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 1-2/20)
• “Open House on Haunted Hill”, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 6/15/20) 

 

Best Anthology

• Edited By, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Subterranean)
• The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol. 1, James D Jenkins & Ryan Cagle, eds. (Valancourt)
• Shadows & Tall Trees 8, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
• The Book of Dragons, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager)
• The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage) 

 

Best Collection

• The Best of Jeffrey Ford, Jeffrey Ford (PS)
• Velocities: Stories, Kathe Koja (Meerkat)
• Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoko Matsuda (Soft Skull)
• We All Hear Stories in the Dark, Robert Shearman (PS)
• Nine Bar Blues, Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man) 

 

Best Artist

• Rovina Cai
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Reiko Murakami
• Daniele Serra
• Charles Vess 

 

Special Award – Professional

• Clive Bloom, for The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan)
• CC Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Jo Fletcher, for Jo Fletcher Books
• Maria Dahvana Headley, for Beowulf: A New Translation (MCD x FSG Originals US/Scribe UK)
• Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, for The Monster Theory Reader (University of Minnesota Press) 

 

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Scott H Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Brian Attebery, for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
• Arley Sorg & Christie Yant, for Fantasy Magazine
• Lynne M Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine 

 

Lifetime Achievement

• Megan Lindholm
  
• Howard Waldrop