2025 World Fantasy Award Nominees Announced

The nominees for the 2025 World Fantasy Awards have been announceds, recognizing fantasy and horror work published in 2024..

The awards will be presented during World Fantasy Convention 2025, to be held November 2 2025 in Brighton, UK.

Novel

• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey/Hodderscape)
• The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (Henry Holt & Co./Quercus)
• The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister (Counterpoint Press/Titan Books)
• The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman (Viking/Del Rey)
• The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills (Tachyon Publications)

Novella

• Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud (Tor Nightfire/Titan Books)
• In the Shadow of Their Dying by Michael F. Fletcher and Anna Smith Spark (Grimdark Magazine)
• Yoke of Stars by R. B. Lemberg (Tachyon Publications)
• The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo (Tordotcom)
• The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom/Titan Books UK)

Short Fiction

• “Our Best Selves” by Hiron Ennes (Weird Horror Magazine #9)
• “Godskin” by CL Hellisen (Strange Horizons, March 4, 2024)
• “The V*mpire,” by PH Lee (Reactor, October 2024)
• “Raptor” by Maura McHugh (Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology)
• “Everything in the Garden is Lovely” by Hannah Yang (Apex Magazine #143, March 2024)

Anthology

• Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology, ed. Dan Coxon (Drugstore Indian Press)
• Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point eds. Carol Gyzander & Anna Taborska (Flame Tree Press)
• Northern Nights ed. Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
• The Dagon Collection ed. Nate Pedersen (PS Publishing)
• The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread ed. dave ring (Neon Hemlock Press)

Collection

• Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda (Norton/Virago)
• A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell (Hogarth/Granta Books)
• Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
• Kindling: Stories by Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer Press)
• Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima (Tor Books)

Artist

• Jenni Coutts
• Nico Delort
• Manzi Jackson
• Tran Nguyen
• Liv Rainey-Smith

Special Award, Professional

• Hildur Knútsdóttir and Mary Robinette Kowal, for The Night Guest audiobook (Tor Nightfire)
• Gabriela Lee, Anna Felicia Sanchez, and Sydney Paige Guerrero, for Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction (The University of the Philippines Press)
• David Thomas Moore, for editorial work with Solaris/Rebellion
• Sheree Renée Thomas, for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Jacob Weisman, for Tachyon Publications

Special Award, Non-Professional

• Andy Duncan, for “It Is Always Time to Think about These Things” (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 35, Number 1)
• Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link, for Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications and Weird Horror magazine
• DeVaun Sanders, for FIYAH magazine
• Steve J Shaw, for Black Shuck Books
• Patrick Swenson, for Fairwood Press

Lifetime Achievement

• Juliet Marillier
• Michael Whelan