Shortlist For The 2023 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The shortlist for the 2023 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• The Bone Orchard – Sara A Mueller (Tor)
• Cast Long Shadows – Cat Hellisen (Luna Press Publishing)
• Glitterati – Oliver K Langmead (Titan)
• The Oleander Sword – Tasha Suri (Orbit)
• Path of War – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• The Spear Cuts Through Water – Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)

The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

• Full Immersion – Gemma Amor (Angry Robot)
• The Hollows – Daniel Church (Angry Robot)
• Just Like Home – Sarah Gailey (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Miracle Growth – Tim Mendees (Eerie River Publishing)
• Sundial – Catriona Ward (Viper)

Best Novella

• And Then I Woke Up – Malcolm Devlin (Tordotcom)
• The Entropy of Loss – Stewart Hotston (NewCon Press)
• Interference – Terry Grimwood (Elsewhen Press)
• Ogres – Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
• Pomegranates – Priya Sharma (PS Publishing)
• The Queen of the High Fields – Rhiannon A. Grist (Luna Press Publishing)

Best Short Fiction

• The Call of El Tunche – Shona Kinsella (in Weird Horror Anthology, Flame Tree Press)
• A Moment of Zugzwang – Neil Williamson (in ParSec #4)
• Morta – James Bennett (in The Book of Queer Saints, Medusa Publishing Haus)
• The Tails That Make You – Eliza Chan (in Fantasy Magazine #82)

Best Collection

• Behind A Broken Smile – Penny Jones (Black Shuck Books)
• Breakable Things – Cassandra Khaw (Undertow Publications)
• Candescent Blooms – Andrew Hook (Salt Publishing)
• Under The Moon – EM Faulds (Ghost Moth Press)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Interzone
• Shoreline of Infinity
• Strange Horizons

Best Audio Work

• Breaking The Glass Slipper
• The Painkiller Podcast (Bitter Pill Theatre)
• Podcastle (Escape Artists)
• Pseudopod (Escape Artists)
• The Secret of St. Kilda (Michael Ireland & Naomi Clarke)
• The Stranger Times (CK McDonnell)

Best Independent Press

• Black Shuck Books
• Flame Tree Press
• Luna Press Publishing
• NewCon Press

Best Artist

• Chris Baker (Fangorn)
• Ben Baldwin
• Jenni Coutts
• Vince Haig
• Dan Hillier

Best Anthology

• Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, ed. Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight (Tordotcom)
• The Book of Queer Saints, ed. Mae Murray (Medusa Publishing Haus)
• Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana, ed. Steve J. Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
• Isolation: The Horror Anthology, ed. Dan Coxon (Titan)
• Sky Breaker: Tales of the Wanderer – Lee C Conley, HL Tinsley, JE Hannaford, David Green, Derek Power, C Marry Hultman, Damien Larkin and CF Welburn (Nordic Press)
• Someone in Time, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)

Best Non-Fiction

• An Earnest Blackness – Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus Press)
• Fantasy: How it Works – Brian Attebery (OUP)
• The Full Lid – Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
• My Life in Horror, Vol. 2 – Kit Power
• Outlander and the Real Jacobites – Shona Kinsella (Pen & Sword History)
• Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes – Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

The Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• Sunyi Dean, for The Book Eaters (Tor)
• Hiron Ennes, for Leech (Tor)
• Somto Ihezue, for a collection of short stories: Whole; Like Stars Daring to Shine; A Girl is Blood, Spirit and Fire; The Carving of War
• Shauna Lawless, for The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Head of Zeus)
• Elijah Kinch Spector, for Kalyna the Soothsayer (Erewhon Books)
• Susan York, for Starless and Bible Black (Midnight Street Press)