Winners of the 2023 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The winners for the 2023 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society. at this year's FantasyCon, hosted at The Leonardo Royal Hotel, Broad Street, Birmingham, UK, September 15-17 2023.

The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• The Spear Cuts Through Water – Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)

The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

• Just Like Home – Sarah Gailey (Hodder & Stoughton)

Best Novella

• The Queen of the High Fields – Rhiannon A Grist (Luna Press Publishing)

Best Short Fiction

• Morta – James Bennett (in The Book of Queer Saints, Medusa Publishing Haus)

Best Collection

• Under The Moon – EM Faulds (Ghost Moth Press)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Interzone

Best Audio Work

• The Stranger Times (CK McDonnell)

Best Independent Press

• Luna Press Publishing

Best Artist

• Vince Haig

Best Anthology

• Someone in Time, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)

Best Non-Fiction

• An Earnest Blackness – Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus Press)

The Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• Hiron Ennes, for Leech (Tor)

The Legends of Fantasycon Award (selected by the organisers of Fantasycon)

• Roy Gray from TTA press, for his ongoing support of Fantasycon

The Karl Edward Wagner Award (selected by the BFS committee)

• Ann Landmann