Winners of the 2025 British Fantasy Awards announced

The winners of the 2025 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• Masquerade, OO Sangoyomi (Forge Books)

The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

• My Darling Dreadful Thing, Johanna van Veen (Poisoned Pen Press)

Best Novella

• The Last to Drown, Lorraine Wilson (Luna Press)

Best Short Fiction

• Loneliness Universe, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Magazine)

Best Collection

• Elephants in Bloom, Cecile Cristofari (Newcon Press)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• ParSec

Best Audio Work

• Breaking the Glass Slipper

Best Independent Press

• Flame Tree Press

Best Artist

• Kelly Chong

Best Anthology

• Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, edited Sofia Ajram (Ghoulish Books)

Best Non-Fiction

• Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters, Sacha Coward (Unbound)

The Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• Frances White, for 'Voyage of the Damned' (Penguin Michael Joseph)

The Aldiss Award for endeavours in literature and gaming, specifically around world building

• Rogba Payne, for 'The Dance of Shadows'

Winners of the 2024 British Fantasy Awards announced

The winners of the 2024 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• Talonsister – Jen Williams (Titan)

The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

• Don’t Fear the Reaper – Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)

Best Novella

• The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar – Indra Das (Subterranean Press)

Best Short Fiction

• The Brazen Head of Westinghouse – Tim Major (IZ Digital)

Best Collection

• Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic – Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow Publications)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Shoreline of Infinity

Best Audio Work

• The Tiny Bookcase – Nico Rogers & Ben Holroyd-Dell

Best Independent Press

• Flame Tree Press

Best Artist

• Asya Yordonova

Best Anthology

• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, ed. Jordan Peele (Picador)

Best Non-Fiction

• Writing The Future, eds. Dan Coxon & Richard V Hirst (Dead Ink)

The Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• Teika Marija Smits, for “Umbilical” (Newcon Press) & “Waterlore” (Black Shuck Books)

Legends Of FantasyCon Award

• Debbie Bennett

The Karl Edward Wagner Award for outstanding contribution to the genre

• Ramsey Campbell

Shortlist For The 2024 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The shortlist for the 2024 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• A Day of Fallen Night – Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury)
• At Eternity’s Gates – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• Beyond Sundered Seas – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon – Wole Talabi (Daw Books)
• Talonsister – Jen Williams (Titan)

The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

• A House with Good Bones – T Kingfisher (Titan)
• Boys in the Valley – Philip Fracassi (Orbit)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper – Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
• How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix (Titan)
• Looking Glass Sound – Catriona Ward (Viper)
• One Life Left – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)

Best Novella

• The Darkness in the Pines – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• The Last Day and the First – Tim Lebbon (PS Publishing)
• The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar – Indra Das (Subterranean Press)
• They Shut Me Up – Tracy Fahey (PS Publishing)
• Thornhedge – T Kingfisher (Titan)
• Untethered Sky – Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)

Best Short Fiction

• Professor Flotsam’s Cabinet of Peculiarities – Shona Kinsella (Great British Horror 8)
• The Brazen Head of Westinghouse – Tim Major (IZ Digital)
• The Pilfered Quill – Rachel Rener & David Green (From the Arcane)
• The Ripe Fruit in the Garden – CA Yates (Great British Horror 8)
• Turn Again, O My Sweetness – CA Yates (At the Lighthouse)

Best Collection

• A Curious Cartography – Alison Littlewood (Black Shuck Books)
• Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic – Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow Publications)
• No Happily Ever After – Phil Sloman
• No One Will Come Back for Us – Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)
• The House on the Moon – Georgina Bruce (Black Shuck Books)
• Under my Skin – KJ Parker (Subterranean Press)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Hellebore
• Interzone / IZ Digital
• khōréō 
• Occult Detective Magazine
• Shoreline of Infinity

Best Audio Work

• Cast of Wonders (Escape Artists)
• The Penumbra Podcast – Harley Takagi Kaner, Kevin Vibert, Ginny D’Angelo, Alice C. LeBeau, Noah Simes
• PodCastle (Escape Artists)
• PseudoPod (Escape Artists)
• Simultaneous Times Podcast (Space Cowboy Books)
• The Tiny Bookcase – Nico Rogers & Ben Holroyd-Dell

Best Independent Press

• Angry Robot
• Black Shuck Books
• Eibonvale Press
• Flame Tree Press
• Luna Press Publishing
• Newcon Press

Best Artist

• Jenni Coutts
• Vince Haig
• David Rix
• Asya Yordonova

Best Anthology

• At the Lighthouse, ed. Sophie Essex (Eibonvale Press)
• Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, ed. Wole Talabi (Android Press)
• Never Whistle at Night, ed. Shane Hawk (Vintage)
• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, ed. Jordan Peele (Picador)
• Something Peculiar: Great British Horror 8, ed. Steve J Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
• The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy, eds. Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane (Titan) 

Best Non-Fiction

• Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror – Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts – Delyth Badder & Mark Norman (Calon)
• The Full Lid – Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
• Writing the Future, eds. Dan Coxon & Richard V Hirst (Dead Ink)

The Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• Moniquill Blackgoose, for “To Shape a Dragon’s Breath” (Del Ray)
• Vajra Chandrasekera, for “The Saint of Bright Doors” (Tordotcom)
• Hannah Kaner, for “Godkiller” (HarperVoyager)
• Charlotte Langree, for “Fractured: Tales of Flame and Fury” (Clarendon House Publications)
• Em X Liu, for “The Death I Gave Him” (Solaris)
• Teika Marija Smits, for “Umbilical” (Newcon Press) & “Waterlore” (Black Shuck Books)

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

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)

Winners Of The 2022 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The winners of the 2022 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society, at FantasyCon at the Radisson Red Hotel and Conference Centre, Heathrow.

Best Newcomer (The Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Shelley Parker-Chan, for She Who Became the Sun (Tor)

Best Film / Television Production

• Last Night in Soho

Best Non-Fiction

• Writing the Uncanny, ed. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)

Best Artist

• Jenni Coutts

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• The Girl from the Sea, Molly Knox Ostertag (Graphix)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Apex Magazine

Best Independent Press

• Luna Press Publishing

Best Audio

• Monstrous Agonies, HR Owen

Best Anthology

• Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction, ed. Xueting C. Ni (Solaris)

Best Short Fiction

• Bathymetry, Lorraine Wilson (in Strange Horizons)

Best Collection

• Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer Press)

Best Novella

• Defekt, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)

Best Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award)

• The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Viper Books)

Best Fantasy Novel (The Robert Holdstock Award)

• She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)

Shortlist For The 2022 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The shortlist for the 2022 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society, with the winners to be announced at FantasyCon at the Radisson Red Hotel and Conference Centre, Heathrow, in September 2022.

Best Newcomer (The Sydney J Bounds Award)

• JT Greathouse, for The Hand of the Sun King (Gollancz)
• Ian Green, for The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath (Head of Zeus)
• Shelley Parker-Chan, for She Who Became the Sun (Tor)
• Lorraine Wilson, for This is Our Undoing (Luna Press Publishing)
• CA Yates, for We All Have Teeth (Fox Spirit)
• Xiran Jay Zhao, for Iron Widow (Penguin Teen)

Best Film / Television Production

• Dune
• The Green Knight
• In the Earth
• Last Night in Soho
• Space Sweepers

Best Non-Fiction

• After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin, Thomas Connolly (Liverpool University Press)
• Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985, ed. Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre (PM Press)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
• Ginger Nuts of Horror, Jim Mcleod
• Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Francesca T. Barbini (Luna Press Publishing)
• Writing the Uncanny, ed. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)

Best Artist

• Olga Beliaeva
• Randy Broecker
• Alison Buck
• Jenni Coutts
• Vincent Sammy
• Daniele Serra

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• 2000AD (Rebellion)
• DIE Vol. 4, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)
• Djeliya, Juni Ba (TKO Studios)
• ExtraOrdinary, VE Schwab & Enid Balam (Titan Comics)
• The Girl from the Sea, Molly Knox Ostertag (Graphix)
• Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming, Stan Sakai (IDW Publishing)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Anathema Magazine
• Apex Magazine
• Black Static
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Interzone
• Shoreline of Infinity

Best Independent Press

• Black Shuck Books
• Luna Press Publishing
• Unsung Stories
• Wizard’s Tower Press

Best Audio

• Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounsom & Charlotte Bond
• Daughter of Fire and Water, Lyndsey Croal
• Monstrous Agonies, HR Owen
• PodCastle, Escape Artists
• PseudoPod, Escape Artists

Best Anthology

• Dreamland: Other Stories, ed. Sophie Essex (Black Shuck Books)
• Out of the Darkness, ed. Dan Coxon (Unsung Stories)
• Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction, ed. Xueting C. Ni (Solaris)
• There Is No Death, There Are No Dead, ed. Aaron J. French & Jess Landry (Crystal Lake)
• When Things Get Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow (Titan)
• The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola Press)

Best Short Fiction

• Bathymetry, Lorraine Wilson (in Strange Horizons)
• Fill the Thickened Lung with Breath, CA Yates (in Dreamland: Other Stories, Black Shuck Books)
• A Flight of Birds, EM Faulds (in Shoreline of Infinity #25)
• Henrietta, TH Dray (in BFS Horizons #13)
• O2 Arena, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (in Galaxy’s Edge)
• Sky Eyes, Julie Travis (in Dreamland: Other Stories, Black Shuck Books)

Best Collection

• The Ghost Sequences, AC Wise (Undertow Publications)
• I Spit Myself Out, Tracy Fahey (Sinister Horror Company)
• The Museum for Forgetting, Pete W Sutton (Grimbold Books)
• Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer Press)
• We All Have Teeth, CA Yates (Fox Spirit)

Best Novella

• & This is How to Stay Alive, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Neon Hemlock)
• Defekt, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
• Matryoshka, Penny Jones (Hersham Horror)
• A Spindle Splintered, Alix E Harrow (Tordotcom)
• These Lifeless Things, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
• Treacle Walker, Alan Garner (4th Estate)

Best Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award)

• The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Penguin)
• A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
• A Dowry of Blood, ST Gibson (Nyx Publishing / Orbit)
• The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Viper Books)
• My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
• Nothing but Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Titan)

Best Fantasy Novel (The Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Black Coast, Mike Brooks (Orbit)
• The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit)
• She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)
• Sistersong, Lucy Holland (Tor)
• This is Our Undoing, Lorraine Wilson (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Unbroken, CL Clark (Orbit)

2021 British Fantasy Awards Winners Announced

The winners of the 2021 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

 

The winners were announced at FantasyCon in Birmingham, September 26 2021.

Best Newcomer (The Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Kathleen Jennings, for Flyaway (Tordotcom)

 

Best Film / Television Production

• The Boys: What I Know (Season 2, episode 8)

 

Best Non-Fiction

• Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, ed. Alison Peirse (Rutgers University Press)

 

Best Artist

• Daniele Serra

 

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• DIE Vol. 2: Split the Party, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image Comics)

 

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Strange Horizons

 

Best Independent Press

• Luna Press Publishing

 

Best Audio

• The Magnus Archives, Rusty Quill

 

Best Anthology

• Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, ed. Zelda Knight & Oghenechovwe Ekpedi Donald (Aurelia Leo)

 

Best Short Fiction

• Infinite Tea in the Demara Café, Ida Keogh (in “London Centric: Tales of Future London, Newcon Press)

 

Best Collection

• The Watcher in the Woods, Charlotte Bond (Black Shuck Books)

 

Best Novella

• Ring Shout, P Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)

 

Best Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award)

• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Jo Fletcher Books)

 

Best Fantasy Novel (The Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Once and Future Witches, Alix E Harrow (Orbit)

 

The Karl Edward Wagner Award for important contribution to the genre or the Society

• Alasdair Stuart
  

Finalists For The 2021 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The finalists for the 2021 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society, with the winners to be announced at FantasyCon in Birmingham, September 2021.

Best Newcomer (The Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Tiffani Angus, for Threading the Labyrinth (Unsung Stories)
• Dan Coxon, for Green Fingers & Only the Broken Remain (Black Shuck Books)
• Sean Hogan, for Three Mothers, One Father (Black Shuck Books)
• Kathleen Jennings, for Flyaway (Tordotcom)
• Simon Jimenez, for The Vanished Birds (Titan)
• Rym Kechacha, for Dark River (Unsung Stories)

 

Best Film / Television Production

• Birds of Prey
• The Boys: What I Know (Season 2, episode 8)
• The Haunting of Bly Manor: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes (Season 1, episode 8)
• The Invisible Man
• The Lighthouse
• Saint Maud

 

Best Non-Fiction

• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
• It’s the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of?, Adam Roberts (Elliot & Thompson)
• Notes from the Borderland, Lynda E Rucker (in “Black Static”, TTA Press)
• Ties that Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Francesca T Barbini (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest, Paul Kincaid (Gylphi Limited)
• Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, ed. Alison Peirse (Rutgers University Press)

 

Best Artist

• Warwick Fraser-Coombe
• David Rix
• Vincent Sammy
• Daniele Serra

 

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• The Daughters of Ys, Jo Rioux & MT Andersen (First Second)
• DIE Vol. 2: Split the Party, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image Comics)
• John Constantine: Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Marks of Woe, Simon Spurrier & Aaron Campbell (DC Comics)
• The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen (Random House Graphic)
• Rivers of London: The Fey and the Furious, Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmell (Titan)
• Venus in the Blind Spot, Junji Ito (VIZ Media LLC)

 

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Black Static
• The Dark
• FIYAH
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Shoreline of Infinity
• Strange Horizons

 

Best Independent Press

• Black Shuck Books
• Flame Tree Press
• Luna Press Publishing
• Unsung Stories

 

Best Audio

• Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounson & Charlotte Bond
• The Magnus Archives, Rusty Quill
• PodCastle, Escape Artists
• PseudoPod, Escape Artists
• The Sandman, Dirk Maggs & Neil Gaiman (Audible Originals)
• Stellar Firma, Rusty Quill

 

Best Anthology

• After Sundown, ed. Mark Morris (Flame Tree Press)
• Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, ed. Lee Murray & Genevieve Flynn (Omnium Gatherum Media)
• Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, ed. Zelda Knight & Oghenechovwe Ekpedi Donald (Aurelia Leo)
• Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8, ed. Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)

 

Best Short Fiction

• 8-Bit Free Will, John Wiswell (in PodCastle 654, Escape Artists)
• Daylight Robbery, Anna Taborska (in “Bloody Britain”, Shadow Publishing)
• Infinite Tea in the Demara Café, Ida Keogh (in “London Centric: Tales of Future London, Newcon Press)
• We Do Like to be Beside, Pete Sutton (in “Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2”, Alchemy Press)

 

Best Collection

• Bloody Britain, Anna Taborska (Shadow Publishing)
• Only the Broken Remain, Dan Coxon (Black Shuck Books)
• The Watcher in the Woods, Charlotte Bond (Black Shuck Books)
• We All Hear Stories in the Dark, Robert Shearman (PS Publishing)

 

Best Novella

• The Flame and the Flood, Shona Kinsella (Fox Spirit)
• Honeybones, Georgina Bruce (TTA Press)
• The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho (Tordotcom)
• Ring Shout, P Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• A Song for the End, Kit Power (Horrific Tales Publishing)
• Triggernometry, Stark Holborn (Rattleback Books)

 

Best Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award)

• Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed (Rebellion)
• The Hollow Places, T Kingfisher (Titan)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Jo Fletcher Books)
• The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
• Plain Bad Heroines, Emily Danforth (The Borough Press)
• Survivor Song, Paul Tremblay (Titan)

 

Best Fantasy Novel (The Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart (Orbit)
• By Force Alone, Lavie Tidhar (Tor Books)
• The City We Became, NK Jemisin (Orbit)
• Dark River, Rym Kechacha (Unsung Stories)
• The Once and Future Witches, Alix E Harrow (Orbit)
• Threading the Labyrinth, Tiffani Angus (Unsung Stories)

2020 British Fantasy Awards Winners Announced

The winners of the 2020 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Bone Ships – RJ Barker (Orbit)

 

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• The Reddening – Adam Nevill (Ritual Limited)

 

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, for The Water Dancer (Penguin)

 

Best Novella

• Ormeshadow – Priya Sharma (Tordotcom)

 

Best Short Fiction

• The Pain-Eater’s Daughter – Laura Mauro (Undertow)

 

Best Anthology 

• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction for People of Color, ed. Nisi Shawl (Solaris)

 

Best Collection

• Sing Your Sadness Deep – Laura Maro (Undertow)

 

Best Non-Fiction

• The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games – Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (New York University Press)

 

Best Independent Press

• Rebellion Publishing

 

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Fiyah

 

Best Audio

• PodCastle

 

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• DIE – Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)

 

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin

 

Best Film / Television Production

• Us – Jordan Peele (Monkeypaw Productions et al.)

Finalists For The 2020 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The finalists for the 2020 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Bone Ships – RJ Barker (Orbit)
• The Migration – Helen Marshall (Titan)
• The Poison Song – Jen Williams (Headline)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January – Alix E Harrow (Orbit)

 

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• The Institute – Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Migration – Helen Marshall (Titan)
• Mistletoe – Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)
• The Plague Stones – James Brogden (Titan)
• The Reddening – Adam Nevill (Ritual Limited)
• The Twisted Ones – T. Kingfisher (Titan)

 

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, for The Water Dancer (Penguin)
• Alix E Harrow, for The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Orbit)
• Penny Jones, for Suffer Little Children (Black Shuck Books)
• Tamsyn Muir, for Gideon the Ninth (Tordotcom)
• Nina Oram, for The Joining (Luna Press)

 

Best Novella

• The Ascent to Godhood – Neon Yang (Tordotcom)
• Butcher’s Table – Nathan Ballingrud (Gallery / Saga Press)
• The Deep – Rivers Solomon (Gallery / Saga Press)
• Ormeshadow – Priya Sharma (Tordotcom)
• Ragged Alice – Gareth L Powell (Tordotcom)
• The Survival of Molly Southbourne – Tade Thompson (Tordotcom)

 

Best Short Fiction

• Dendrochronology – Penny Jones (Hersham Horror)
• I Say, I Say, I Say – Robert Shearman (The Shadow Booth)
• The Pain-Eater’s Daughter – Laura Mauro (Undertow)
• Tomorrow, When I Was Young – Julie Travis (Eibonvale Press)

 

Best Anthology 

• A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods, ed. Jennifer Brozek (Pulse Publishing)
• The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage)
• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction for People of Color, ed. Nisi Shawl (Solaris)
• Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales, ed. David Gullen (NewCon)
• Wonderland, ed. Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane (Titan)
• The Woods, ed. Phil Sloman (Hersham Horror)

 

Best Collection

• The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams – Maura McHugh (NewCon)
• Growing Things – Paul Tremblay (Titan)
• This House of Wounds – Georgina Bruce (Undertow)
• Of Wars, And Memories, And Starlight – Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press)
• Sing Your Sadness Deep – Laura Maro (Undertow)

 

Best Non-Fiction

• Coffinmaker’s Blues: Collected Writings on Terror – Stephen Volk (PS Publishing)
• The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games – Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (New York University Press)
• The Full Lid – Alasdair Stuart
• Joanna Russ (Modern Masters of SF) – Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press)
• Notes from the Borderland – Lynda E Rucker, for Black Static (TTA Press)
• The Pleasant Profession of Robert E Heinlein – Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)

 

Best Independent Press

• Aqueduct Press
• Black Shuck Books
• Luna Press 
• NewCon Press
• Rebellion Publishing
• Undertow Publications

 

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Black Static
• The Dark
• F&SF
• Fiyah
• Gingernuts of Horror
• Shoreline of Infinity

 

Best Audio

• Breaking the Glass Slipper
• PodCastle
• PseudoPod
• Speculative Spaces

 

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• 2000AD, ed. Matt Smith (Rebellion)
• Basketful of Heads #1 – Joe Hill (DC)
• B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know, Vol. 3: Ragna Rok – Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Laurence Campbell et al. (Dark Horse)
• DCeased #1-6 – Tom Taylor, Trevor Hairsine, Stefano Gaudiano et al. (DC)
• DIE – Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)
• The Ozone Diary – Pentti Otsamo & Tero Mielonen (Luna Press)

 

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Vince Haig
• Jackie Morris
• David Rix

 

Best Film / Television Production

• Game of Thrones: The Long Night – David Benioff & DB Weiss (HBO / Sky Atlantic)
• Us – Jordan Peele (Monkeypaw Productions et al.)
• Watchmen: It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice – Damon Lindelof (HBO / Sky Atlantic)
• The Witcher: Rare Species – Haily Hall (Netflix)

 

2019 British Fantasy Awards Winners Announced

The winners of the 2019 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society. The winners were revealed at Fantasy Con in Glasgow, Scotland on October 18-20 2019.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Bitter Twins, by Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Little Eve, by Catriona Ward (W&N)

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Tasha Suri, for Empire of Sand (Orbit)

Best Novella

• The Tea Master and the Detective, by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press)

Best Short Fiction

• “Down Where Sound Comes Blunt”, by GV Anderson (F&SF March/April 2018)

Best Anthology

• Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5, ed. Robert Shearman & Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)

Best Collection

• All the Fabulous Beasts, by Priya Sharma (Undertow Publications)

Best Non-Fiction

• Noise and Sparks, by Ruth EJ Booth (Shoreline of Infinity)

Best Independent Press

• Unsung Stories

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Uncanny Magazine

Best Audio

• Breaking the Glass Slipper (www.breakingtheglassslipper.com)

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• Widdershins, Vol. 7, by Kate Ashwin

Best Artist

• Vince Haig

Best Film / Television Production

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Phil Lord & Rodney Rothman

The Karl Wagner Award (for important contribution to the genre or the Society)

• Ian Whates

Finalists For The 2019 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The finalists for the 2019 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society. The winners will be revealed at Fantasy Con in Glasgow, Scotland on October 18-20 2019.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Bitter Twins, by Jen Williams (Headline)
• Empire of Sand, by Tasha Suri (Orbit)
• Foundryside, by Robert Jackson Bennett (Jo Fletcher Books)
• The Green Man’s Heir, by Juliet E McKenna (Wizard’s Tower Press)
• The Loosening Skin, by Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)
• Priest of Bones, by Peter McLean (Jo Fletcher Books)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• The Cabin at the End of the World, by Paul Tremblay (Titan Books)
• Little Eve, by Catriona Ward (W&N)
• The Way of the Worm, by Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
• Wolf’s Hill, by Simon Bestwick (Snowbooks)

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Tomi Adeyemi, for Children of Blood and Bone (Macmillan Children’s Books)
• Cameron Johnston, for The Traitor God (Angry Robot)
• RF Kuang, for The Poppy War (HarperVoyager)
• Tasha Suri, for Empire of Sand (Orbit)
• Marian Womack, for Lost Objects (Luna Press Publishing)
• Micah Yongo, for Lost Gods (Angry Robot)

Best Novella

• Binti: The Night Masquerade, by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
• “Breakwater”, by Simon Bestwick (Tor.com)
• The Land of Somewhere Safe, by Hal Duncan (NewCon Press)
• The Last Temptation of Dr Valentine, by John Llewellyn Probert (Black Shuck Books)
• The Only Harmless Great Thing, by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com)
• The Tea Master and the Detective, by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press)

Best Short Fiction

• “Down Where Sound Comes Blunt”, by GV Anderson (F&SF March/April 2018)
• “Her Blood the Apples, Her Bones the Trees”, by Georgina Bruce (The Silent Garden: A Journal of Esoteric Fabulism)
• “In the Gallery of Silent Screams”, by Carole Johnstone & Chris Kelso (Black Static #65)
• “A Son of the Sea”, by Priya Sharma (All the Fabulous Beasts)
• “Telling Stories”, by Ruth EJ Booth (The Dark #43)
• “Thumbsucker”, by Robert Shearman (New Fears 2)

Best Anthology

• The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books)
• Humanagerie, ed. Sarah Doyle & Allen Ashley (Eibonvale Press)
• New Fears 2, ed. Mark Morris (Titan Books)
• This Dreaming Isle, ed. Dan Coxon (Unsung Stories)
• Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5, ed. Robert Shearman & Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)

Best Collection

• All the Fabulous Beasts, by Priya Sharma (Undertow Publications)
• The Future is Blue, by Catherynne M Valente (Subterranean Press)
• How Long ‘til Black Future Month?, by NK Jemisin (Orbit)
• Lost Objects, by Marian Womack (Luna Press Publishing)
• Octoberland, by Thana Niveau (PS Publishing)
• Resonance & Revolt, by Rosanne Rabinowitz (Eibonvale Press)

Best Non-Fiction

• The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Francesca T Barbini (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Full Lid, by Alasdair Stuart (alasdairstuart.com/the-full-lid)
• Ginger Nuts of Horror (www.gingernutsofhorror.com)
• Les Vampires, by Tim Major (PS Publishing)
• Noise and Sparks, by Ruth EJ Booth (Shoreline of Infinity)

Best Independent Press

• Fox Spirit Books
• Luna Press Publishing
• NewCon Press
• Unsung Stories

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Black Static
• Gingernuts of Horror
• Interzone
• Shoreline of Infinity
• Uncanny Magazine

Best Audio

• Bedtime Stories for the End of the World (endoftheworldpodcast.com)
• Blood on Satan’s Claw, by Mark Morris (Bafflegab)
• Breaking the Glass Slipper (www.breakingtheglassslipper.com)
• PodCastle (podcastle.org)
• PsuedoPod (pseudopod.org)

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• 100 Demon Dialogues, by Lucy Bellwood (Toonhound Studios)
• B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Vol. 1, by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Guy Davis, Tyler Crook & Dave Stewart (Dark Horse)
• Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories, Vol. 1, by Mike Mignola and others (Dark Horse)
• The Prisoner, by Robert S Malan & John Cockshaw (Luna Press Publishing)
• Saga #49-54, by Brian K Vaughan & Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
• Widdershins, Vol. 7, by Kate Ashwin

Best Artist

• Vince Haig
• David Rix
• Daniele Serra
• Sophie E Tallis

Best Film / Television Production

• Annihilation, Alex Garland
• Avengers: Infinity War, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely
• Black Panther, Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole
• The Haunting of Hill House, Mike Flanagan
• Inside No. 9, series 4, Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Phil Lord & Rodney Rothman

Winners Of The 2018 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The winners of the 2018 British Fantasy Awards were announced by the British Fantasy Society at Fantasy Con 2018 in Peterborough, UK on October 21.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Ninth Rain, by Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• The Changeling, by Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)

Best Novella

• Passing Strange, by Ellen Klages (Tor.com)

Best Short Fiction

• “Looking for Laika,” by Laura Mauro (in Interzone #273) (TTA Press)

Best Collection

• Strange Weather, by Joe Hill (Gollancz)

Best Anthology

• New Fears, ed. Mark Morris (Titan Books)

Best Audio

• Anansi Boys (by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Dirk Maggs for Radio 4)

Best Independent Press

• Unsung Stories

Best Non-Fiction

• Gender Identity and Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. FT Barbini (Luna Press)

Best Magazine/Periodical

• Shoreline of Infinity, ed. Noel Chidwick

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• Monstress, Vol. 2, by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)

Best Artist

• Jeffrey Alan Love

Best Film/Television Production

• Get Out, by Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures)

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Jeanette Ng, for Under the Pendulum Sun (Angry Robot)

Special Services to the Fantasy Genre and/or BFS (the Karl Edward Wagner Award)

• NK Jemisin

Nominees For The 2018 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2018 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society. The winners will be revealed at Fantasy Con 2018 in Peterborough, UK on October 21.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Age of Assassins, by RJ Barker (Orbit)
• The Court of Broken Knives, by Anna Smith Spark (HarperVoyager)
• The Ninth Rain, by Jen Williams (Headline)
• Under the Pendulum Sun, by Jeanette Ng (Angry Robot)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Behind Her Eyes, by Sarah Pinborough (Harper Collins)
• The Boy on the Bridge, by MR Carey (Orbit)
• The Changeling, by Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
• The Crow Garden, by Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Relics, by Tim Lebbon (Titan Books)

Best Novella

• Brother’s Ruin, by Emma Newman (Tor.com)
• Cottingley, by Alison Littlewood (Newcon Press)
• The Murders of Molly Southbourne, by Tade Thompson (Tor.com)
• Naming the Bones, by Laura Mauro (Dark Minds Press)
• Passing Strange, by Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
• A Pocketful of Crows, by Joanne Harris (Gollancz)

Best Short Fiction

• “The Anniversary,” by Ruth EJ Booth (in Black Static #61) (TTA Press)
• “Four Abstracts,” by Nina Allan (in New Fears) (Titan Books)
• “Illumination,” by Joanne Hall (in Book of Dragons) (Kristell Ink)
• “The Little Gift,” by Stephen Volk (PS Publishing)
• “Looking for Laika,” by Laura Mauro (in Interzone #273) (TTA Press)
• “Shepherd’s Business,” by Stephen Gallagher (in New Fears) (Titan Books) 

Best Collection

• Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
• Strange Weather, by Joe Hill (Gollancz)
• Tanith by Choice, by Tanith Lee (Newcon Press)
• Tender: Stories, by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
• You Will Grow Into Them, by Malcolm Devlin (Unsung Stories)

Best Anthology

• 2084, ed. George Sandison (Unsung Stories)
• Dark Satanic Mills: Great British Horror Book 2, ed. Steve Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
• Imposter Syndrome, ed. James Everington & Dan Howarth (Dark Minds Press)
• New Fears, ed. Mark Morris (Titan Books)
• Pacific Monsters, ed. Margret Helgadottir (Fox Spirit) 

Best Audio

• Anansi Boys (by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Dirk Maggs for Radio 4)
• Brave New Words podcast (Ed Fortune and Starburst Magazine)
• Breaking the Glass Slipper podcast (Lucy Hounsom, Charlotte Bond & Megan Leigh)
• Ivory Towers (by Richard H Brooks, directed by Karim Kronfli for 11th Hour Audio Productions)
• PseudoPod podcast (Alasdair Stuart and Escape Artists)
• Tea & Jeopardy podcast (Emma & Peter Newman)

Best Independent Press

• Fox Spirit
• Grimbold Books
• Newcon Press
• Salt Publishing
• Unsung Stories

Best Non-Fiction

• Gender Identity and Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. FT Barbini (Luna Press)
• Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
• Luminescent Threads, ed. Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal (12th Planet Press)
• No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, by Ursula K Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction, by Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, by Maura McHugh (Electric Dreamhouse Press)

Best Magazine/Periodical

• Black Static, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
• Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
• Grimdark Magazine, ed. Adrian Collins
• Interzone, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
• Shoreline of Infinity, ed. Noel Chidwick

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• Bitch Planet Vol 2: President Bitch, by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Taki Soma & Valentine de Landro (Image)
• Grim & Bold, by Joshua Cornah (Kristell Ink)
• Monstress, Vol. 2, by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)
• Tomorrow, by Jack Lothian & Garry Mac (BHP Comics)
• The Wicked + The Divine Vol 5: Imperial Phase Part 1, by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie (Image)

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Victo Ngai
• Daniele Sera
• Sophie E Tallis
• Sana Takeda

Best Film/Television Production

• Black Mirror, Series 4, by Charlie Brooker (Netflix)
• Get Out, by Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures)
• The Good Place, Season 1, by Michael Schur (Netflix)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi, by Rian Johnson (Lucasfilm)
• Stranger Things, Season 2, by Matt & Ross Duffer (Netflix)
• Twin Peaks: the Return, by Mark Frost & David Lynch (Sky Atlantic)
• Wonder Woman, by Zack Snyder, Allan Heinberg & Jason Fuchs (Warner Bros.)

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• RJ Barker, for Age of Assassins (Orbit)
• SA Chakraborty, for The City of Brass (HarperVoyager)
• Ed McDonald, for Blackwing (Orion)
• Jeanette Ng, for Under the Pendulum Sun (Angry Robot)
• Anna Smith Spark, for The Court of Broken Knives (HarperVoyager)

The 2017 British Fantasy Awards Winners Announced

The winners for the 2017 British Fantasy Awards were announced by the British Fantasy Society at Fantasy Con 2017 in Peterborough, UK.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Tiger and the Wolf – Adrian Tchaikovsky

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Disappearance at Devil’s Rock – Paul Tremblay

Best Novella

• The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle

Best Short Fiction

• “White Rabbit” – Georgina Bruce

Best Collection

• Some Will Not Sleep – Adam Nevill

Best Anthology

• People of Colour Destroy Science Fiction ed. Lightspeed Magazine

Best Independent Press

• Grimbold Press

Best Non-Fiction

• The Geek Feminist Revolution – Kameron Hurley

Best Magazine/Periodical

• Tor.com

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• Monstress, Vol 1: Awakening – Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

Best Artist

• Daniele Serra

Best Film/Television Production

• Arrival

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Erika L Satifka, for Stay Crazy

Nominees For The 2017 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2017 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society. The winners will be revealed at Fantasy Con 2017 in Peterborough, UK at the end of September.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• The High King’s Vengeance – Steven Poore
• The Silver Tide – Jen Williams
• The Summer Goddess – Joanne Hall
• The Tiger and the Wolf – Adrian Tchaikovsky

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• 13 Minutes – Sarah Pinborough
• Disappearance at Devil’s Rock – Paul Tremblay
• The Hidden People – Alison Littlewood
• The Searching Dead – Ramsey Campbell

Best Novella

• Arrival of Missives – Aliya Whiteley
• The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle
• Bodies of Water – VH Leslie
• Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire
• The Grieving Stones – Gary McMahon
• Hammers on Bone – Cassandra Khaw

Best Short Fiction

• “Charmed Life” – Simon Avery
• “Greenteeth” – Gary Budden
• “The Watcher” – Sammy HK Smith
• “Waxy” – Camilla Grudova
• “White Rabbit” – Georgina Bruce
• “The Women’s Song” – Nadine West

Best Collection

• The Parts We Play – Stephen Volk
• Secret Language – Neil Williamson
• Sharp Ends – Joe Abercrombie
• Some Will Not Sleep – Adam Nevill
• A Tiding of Magpies – Pete Sutton
• The Unheimlich Menoeuvre – Tracy Fahey

Best Anthology

• Asian Monsters ed. Margrét Helgadóttir
• Dead Letters ed. Conrad Williams
• Fight Like a Girl ed. Joanne Hall & Roz Clarke
• People of Colour Destroy Science Fiction ed. Lightspeed Magazine
• The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales ed. Dominik Larisien & Navah Wolfe
• Something Remains ed. Peter Coleborn and Pauline E Dungate

Best Independent Press

• Alchemy Press
• Fox Spirit Books
• Grimbold Press
• NewCon Press
• TTA Press

Best Non-Fiction

• Blood Spectrum – Gary Couzens
• The Geek Feminist Revolution – Kameron Hurley
• Ginger Nuts of Horror ed. Jim McLeod
• This Spectacular Darkness – Joel Lane, ed. Mark Valentine
• The Women of Harry Potter series – Sarah Gailey
• Words are my Matter: Writings about Life and Books, 2000-2016 – Ursula K Le Guin

Best Magazine/Periodical

• Black Static
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Interzone
• Tor.com
• Uncanny Magazine

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• 2000AD (progs 1963-2011) ed. Matt Smith
• Monstress, Vol 1: Awakening – Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda
• Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! (#2-13) – Kate Leth & Brittney Williams
• Saga (#33-40) – Brian K Vaughan & Fiona Staples
• Sixpack and Dogwelder: Hard Travelin’ Heroz (#1-5) – Garth Ennis & Russ Braun
• Skal (Chapter 3, pages 1-19) – Jennie Gyllblad

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Evelinn Enoksen
• Sarah Anne Langton
• Daniele Serra

Best Film/Television Production

• Arrival
• Black Mirror series 3
• Captain America: Civil War
• Deadpool
• High Rise

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• James Bennett, for Chasing Embers
• Daniel Godfrey, for New Pompeii
• Erika L Satifka, for Stay Crazy
• Phil Sloman, for Becoming David
• Martin Owton, for Exile

2016 British Fantasy Award Winners Announced

The nominees for the 2016 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society. The winners were revealed at Fantasy Con 2016 in Scarborough, UK at the end of September.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• 'Uprooted', Naomi Novik (Macmillan)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• 'Rawblood', Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)

Best Novella

• 'The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn', Usman T. Malik (Tor.com)

Best Short Fiction

• 'Fabulous Beasts', Priya Sharma (Tor.com)

Best Collection

• 'Ghost Summer: Stories', Tananarive Due (Prime Books)

Best Anthology

• 'The Doll Collection', ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor Books)

Best Independent Press

• Angry Robot (Marc Gascoigne)

Best Non-Fiction

• 'Letters to Tiptree', ed. Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)

Best Magazine/Periodical

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies, ed. Scott H. Andrews (Firkin Press)

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• 'Bitch Planet: #2-5', Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Robert Wilson IV and Cris Peter (Image Comics)

Best Artist

• Julie Dillon

Best Film/Television Production

• 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell', Peter Harness (BBC One)

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Zen Cho, for 'Sorcerer to the Crown' (Macmillan)

Nominees For The 2016 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2016 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society. The winners will be revealed at Fantasy Con 2016 in Scarborough, UK at the end of September.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• 'Guns of the Dawn', Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)
• 'Half a War', Joe Abercrombie (HarperVoyager)
• 'The Iron Ghost', Jen Williams (Headline)
• 'Signal to Noise', Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
• 'Sorcerer to the Crown', Zen Cho (Macmillan)
• 'Uprooted', Naomi Novik (Macmillan)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• 'A Cold Silence', Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)
• 'The Death House', Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
• 'Lost Girl', Adam Nevill (Pan Books)
• 'Rawblood', Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
• 'The Silence', Tim Lebbon (Titan Books)
• 'Welcome to Night Vale', Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor (Orbit)

Best Novella

• 'Albion Fay', Mark Morris (Spectral Press)
• 'Binti', Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
• 'The Bureau of Them', Cate Gardner (Spectral Press)
• 'The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn', Usman T. Malik (Tor.com)
• 'Witches of Lychford', Paul Cornell (Tor.com)

Best Short Fiction

• 'The Blue Room', V.H. Leslie (Skein and Bone)
• 'Dirt Land', Ralph Robert Moore (Black Static #49)
• 'Fabulous Beasts', Priya Sharma (Tor.com)
• 'Hippocampus', Adam Nevill (Terror Tales of the Ocean)
• 'Strange Creation', Frances Kay (Tenebris Nyxies)
• 'When The Moon Man Knocks', Cate Gardner (Black Static #48)

Best Collection

• 'Ghost Summer: Stories', Tananarive Due (Prime Books)
• 'Monsters', Paul Kane (The Alchemy Press)
• 'Probably Monsters', Ray Cluley (ChiZine Publications)
• 'Scar City', Joel Lane (Eibonvale Press)
• 'Skein and Bone', V.H. Leslie (Undertow Publications)
• 'The Stars Seem So Far Away', Margrét Helgadóttir (Fox Spirit Books)

Best Anthology

• 'African Monsters', ed. Margrét Helgadóttir and Jo Thomas (Fox Spirit Books)
• 'Aickman’s Heirs', ed. Simon Strantzas (Undertow Publications)
• 'Best British Horror 2015', ed. Johnny Mains (Salt Publishing)
• 'The Doll Collection', ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor Books)
• 'The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories', ed. Mark Morris (Spectral Press)

Best Independent Press

• The Alchemy Press (Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards)
• Angry Robot (Marc Gascoigne)
• Fox Spirit Books (Adele Wearing)
• Newcon Press (Ian Whates)

Best Non-Fiction

• 'The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History', ed. Stephen Jones (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books)
• 'Fantasy-Faction', ed. Marc Aplin (Fantasy-Faction)
• 'Ginger Nuts of Horror', ed. Jim Mcleod (Jim McLeod)
• 'King for a Year', ed. Mark West (Mark West)
• 'Letters to Tiptree', ed. Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
• 'Matrilines', Kari Sperring (Strange Horizons)

Best Magazine/Periodical

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies, ed. Scott H. Andrews (Firkin Press)
• Black Static, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
• Holdfast Magazine, ed. Laurel Sills and Lucy Smee (Laurel Sills and Lucy Smee)
• Interzone, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
• Strange Horizons, ed. Niall Harrison (Strange Horizons)

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• 'Bitch Planet: #2-5', Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Robert Wilson IV and Cris Peter (Image Comics)
• 'Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why', G. Willow Wilson, Jacob Wyatt and Adrian Alphona (Marvel)
• 'Nimona', Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen)
• 'Red Sonja: #14-18', Gail Simone and Walter Geovani (Dynamite Entertainment)
• 'Saga: #25-32', Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
• 'The Sandman: Overture', Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III and Dave Stewart (Vertigo)

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Vincent Chong
• Julie Dillon
• Evelinn Enoksen
• Sarah Anne Langton
• Jeffrey Alan Love

Best Film/Television Production

• 'Inside No. 9: The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge', Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton (BBC Two)
• 'Jessica Jones: AKA WWJD?', Scott Reynolds (Netflix)
• 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell', Peter Harness (BBC One)
• 'Mad Max: Fury Road', George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris (Warner Bros. Pictures et al.)
• 'Midwinter of the Spirit', Stephen Volk (ITV Studios)
• 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens', by Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt (Lucasfilm et al.)

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Becky Chambers, for The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Zen Cho, for Sorcerer to the Crown (Macmillan)
• Peter Newman, for The Vagrant (HarperVoyager)
• Steven Poore, for The Heir to the North (Kristell Ink)
• Marc Turner, for When the Heavens Fall (Titan Books)

Nominees For The 2015 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2015 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society. The winners will be revealed at Fantasy Con 2015 in Nottingham on Sunday October 25.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Breed, KT Davies (Fox Spirit Books)
• City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Cuckoo Song, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children’s Books)
• A Man Lies Dreaming, Lavie Tidhar (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Moon King, Neil Williamson (NewCon Press)
• The Relic Guild, Edward Cox (Gollancz)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• The End, Gary McMahon (NewCon Press)
• The Girl With All the Gifts, M.R. Carey (Orbit)
• The Last Plague, Rich Hawkins (Crowded Quarantine Publications)
• No One Gets Out Alive, Adam Nevill (Macmillan)
• Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel (Knopf)
• The Unquiet House, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)

Best Novella

• Cold Turkey, Carole Johnstone (TTA Press)
• Drive, Mark West (Pendragon Press)
• Newspaper Heart, Stephen Volk (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories)
• Water For Drowning, Ray Cluley (This Is Horror)

Best Short Story

• “A Change of Heart”, Gaie Sebold (Wicked Women)
• “The Girl on the Suicide Bridge”, J.A. Mains (Beside the Seaside)
• “Ptichka”, Laura Mauro (Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease)
• “A Woman’s Place”, Emma Newman (Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets)

Best Collection

• Black Gods Kiss, Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
• The Bright Day Is Done, Carole Johnstone (Gray Friar Press)
• Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine Publications)
• Nick Nightmare Investigates, Adrian Cole (The Alchemy Press and Airgedlámh Publications)
• Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites, Hal Duncan (Lethe Press)

Best Anthology

• The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic 2, ed. Jan Edwards and Jenny Barber (The Alchemy Press)
• Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease, ed. by Joel Lane and Tom Johnstone (Gray Friar Press)
• Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue, ed. Christie Yant (Lightspeed Magazine)
• The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, ed. Mark Morris (Spectral Press)
• Terror Tales of Wales, ed. Paul Finch (Gray Friar Press)

Best Small Press

• The Alchemy Press (Peter Coleborn)
• Fox Spirit Books (Adele Wearing)
• NewCon Press (Ian Whates)
• Spectral Press (Simon Marshall-Jones)

Best Non-Fiction

• D.F. Lewis Dreamcatcher Real-Time Reviews, D.F. Lewis (D.F. Lewis)
• Ginger Nuts of Horror, ed. Jim McLeod (Jim McLeod)
• Letters to Arkham: The Letters of Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth, 1961–1971, ed. S.T. Joshi (PS Publishing)
• Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions, Hal Duncan (Lethe Press)
• Sibilant Fricative: Essays & Reviews, Adam Roberts (Steel Quill Books )
• Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic, John Howard (The Alchemy Press)
• You Are the Hero: A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, Jonathan Green (Snowbooks)

Best Magazine/Periodical

• Black Static, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
• Holdfast Magazine, ed. Laurel Sills and Lucy Smee (Laurel Sills and Lucy Smee)
• Interzone, ed. by Andy Cox (TTA Press)
• Lightspeed, ed. John Joseph Adams (Lightspeed Magazine)
• Sein und Werden, ed. Rachel Kendall (ISMs Press)

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• Cemetery Girl, Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden and Don Kramer (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Grandville Noël, Bryan Talbot (Jonathan Cape)
• Saga, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
• Seconds, Bryan Lee O’Malley (SelfMadeHero)
• Through the Woods, Emily Carroll (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
• The Wicked + The Divine, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (Image Comics)

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Vincent Chong
• Les Edwards
• Sarah Anne Langton
• Karla Ortiz
• Daniele Serra

Best Film/Television Episode

• Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Black Mirror: White Christmas, Charlie Brooker (Channel 4)
• Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn and Nicole Perlman (Marvel Studios)
• Interstellar, Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan (Paramount Pictures)
• Under the Skin, Walter Campbell and Jonathan Glazer (Film4 et al)

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Edward Cox, for The Relic Guild (Gollancz)
• Sarah Lotz, for The Three (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Laura Mauro, for “Ptichka” (Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease)
• Den Patrick, for The Boy with the Porcelain Blade (Gollancz)
• Jen Williams, for The Copper Promise (Headline)