Winners of the 2026 World Fantasy Awards Announced

The winners of the 2026 World Fantasy Awards have been announced, recognizing fantasy and horror work published in 2024.

The awards were presented during World Fantasy Convention 2026, held in Oakland CA, held on October 25, 2026.

Novel

• Once Was Willem, MR Carey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Novella

• Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)

Short Fiction

• “The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home”, Renan Bernardo (Reactor 8/27/25)

Anthology

• Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams)

Collection

• Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow)

Artist

• Kathleen Jennings

Special Award, Professional

•  Jaymee Goh, Jill Roberts & Jacob Weisman, for Tachyon Publications

Special Award, Non-Professional

• Wendy Wagner, for Nightmare

Lifetime Achievement

• Clive Barker
• Joyce Carol Oates

Winners of the 2025 World Fantasy Awards Announced

The winners of the 2025 World Fantasy Awards have been announced, recognizing fantasy and horror work published in 2024.

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

Novel

• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey/Hodderscape)

Novella

• Yoke of Stars by RB Lemberg (Tachyon Publications)

Short Fiction

• “Raptor” by Maura McHugh (Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology)

Anthology

• Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology, ed. Dan Coxon (Drugstore Indian Press)

Collection

• A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell (Hogarth/Granta Books)

Artist

• Liv Rainey-Smith

Special Award, Professional

• 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)

Special Award, Non-Professional

• Steve J Shaw, for Black Shuck Books

Lifetime Achievement

• Juliet Marillier
• Michael Whelan

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

Winners of the 2024 World Fantasy Awards Announced

The winners of the 2024 World Fantasy Awards have been announced.

The awards, for works published in 2023, were presented during the 2024 World Fantasy Convention, October 17-20, 2024 in Niagara Falls, NY.

NOVEL

• The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)

NOVELLA

• “Half the House Is Haunted”, Josh Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn)

SHORT FICTION

• “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood”, Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)

COLLECTION

• No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories,  Premee Mohamed (Undertow)

ARTIST

• Audrey Benjaminsen

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Liza Groen Trombi, for Locus

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Lynne M Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
for individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field

• Ginjer Buchanan
• Jo Fletcher

Winners of the 2023 World Fantasy Awards Announced

The winners of the 2023 World Fantasy Awards have been announced.

The awards were presented during World Fantasy Convention 2023, that was held October 26-29 in Kansas City, Missouri.

NOVEL

• Saint Death’s Daughter by CSE Cooney (Solaris)

NOVELLA

• Pomegranates by Priya Sharma (Absinthe Books)

SHORT FICTION

• “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge” by Tananarive Due (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)

ANTHOLOGY

• Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, eds. Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight (Tordotcom Publishing)

COLLECTION

• All Nightmare Long by Tim Lebbon (PS Publishing)

ARTIST

• Kinuko Y Craft

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Matt Ottley, for The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness (Dirt Lane Press)

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Peter Crowther
• John Douglas

2023 World Fantasy Award Finalists Announced

The finalists for the 2023 World Fantasy Awards have been announced.

The awards will be presented during World Fantasy Convention 2023, to be held October 26-29 in Kansas City, Missouri.

NOVEL

• Saint Death’s Daughter by CSE Cooney (Solaris)
• Spear by Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom Publishing)
• The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings (Redhook/Orbit UK)
• Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by RF Kuang (Harper Voyager)
• Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom Publishing)

NOVELLA

• The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon Publications)
• The House of Drought by Dennis Mombauer (Stelliform Press)
• Even Though I Knew The End by CL Polk (Tordotcom Publishing)
• Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum (Undertow Publications)
• Pomegranates by Priya Sharma (Absinthe Books)

SHORT FICTION

• “The Devil Don’t Come with Horns” by Eugen Bacon (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)
• “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge” by Tananarive Due (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)
• “The Morning House” by Kate Heartfield (PodCastle, July 5 2022)
• “Telling the Bees” by Kat Howard (The Sunday Morning Transport, Jan. 30 2022)
• “Douen” by Suzan Palumbo (The Dark magazine, March 2022)

ANTHOLOGY

• Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor Nightfire)
• Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology, eds. Vince Liaguno and Rena Mason (William Morrow)
• Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror, ed. John F. D. Taff (Tor Nightfire)
• Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, eds. Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight (Tordotcom Publishing)
• Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, eds. Sheree Renée Thomas, Pan Morigan, and Troy Wiggins (Third Man Books)

COLLECTION

• Dark Breakers by CSE Cooney (Mythic Delirium Books)
• Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw (Undertow Publications)
• All Nightmare Long by Tim Lebbon (PS Publishing)
• Boys, Beasts & Men by Sam J Miller (Tachyon Publications)
• A Different Darkness and Other Abominations by Luigi Musolino (Valancourt Books)

ARTIST

• Kinuko Y Craft
• Galen Dara
• Matt Ottley
• Lauren Raye Snow
• Charles Vess

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Irene Gallo, for Tor.com
• Gavin J Grant and Kelly Link, for Small Beer Press
• Tim Lebbon and Daniele Serra, for Without Walls (PS Publishing)
• Fiona Moore, for Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros (Edward Elgar Publishing)
• Matt Ottley, for The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness (Dirt Lane Press)

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
• Cristina Macía, for The Celsius Festival
• Lynne M Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
• Dave Ring, for Neon Hemlock Press
• E Catherine Tobler, for editing The Deadlands

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Peter Crowther
• John Douglas

Winners Of The 2022 World Fantasy Awards Announced

The winners of the 2022 World Fantasy Awards have been announced.

The awards were presented during World Fantasy Convention 2022, held November 3-6, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

NOVEL

• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (Orbit US/Orbit UK)

NOVELLA

• And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock Press)

SHORT FICTION

• “(emet)” by Lauren Ring (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/Aug 2021)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola Press)

COLLECTION

• Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan by Usman T. Malik (Kitab)

ARTIST

• Tran Nguyen

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, for Monstress Volume Six: The Vow (Image Comics)

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Tonia Ransom, for Nightlight: A Horror Fiction Podcast

SPECIAL AWARD – LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Terri Windling
• Samuel R Delaney

2022 World Fantasy Award Finalists Announced

2022 World Fantasy Award finalists have been announced.

The awards will be presented during World Fantasy Convention 2022, to be held November 3-6, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

NOVEL

• Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (Ace Books/Macmillan)
• A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom/Orbit UK)
• The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros (Inkyard Press)
• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (Orbit US/Orbit UK)
• The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward (Nightfire/Viper UK)

NOVELLA

• “For Sale by Owner” by Elizabeth Hand (When Things Get Dark)
• Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire)
• And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock Press)
• Finches by A. M. Muffaz (Vernacular Books)
• “A Canticle for Lost Girls” by Isabel Yap (Never Have I Ever: Stories)

SHORT FICTION

• “The Failing Name” by Eugen Bacon and Seb Doubinsky (Fantasy Magazine, Aug. 2021)
• “The Demon Sage’s Daughter” by Varsha Dinesh (Strange Horizons, 8 Feb 2021)
• “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny Magazine #42, Sep/Oct 2021)
• “#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi” by Usman T. Malik (Tor.com, Mar 3 2021)
• “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine #39, Mar/Apr 2021)
• “(emet)” by Lauren Ring (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/Aug 2021)

ANTHOLOGY

• Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 Edition), eds. Charlatan Bardot and Eric J. Guignard (Dark Moon Books)
• When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, ed. Ellen Datlow (Titan Books)
• The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume Two, ed. Paula Guran (Pyr)
• The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola Press)
• Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, eds. Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, Sarah Rafael García (Mad Creek Books an imprint of the Ohio State University Press)

COLLECTION

• Tales the Devil Told Me by Jen Fawkes (Press 53)
• Big Dark Hole: Stories by Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer Press)
• Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan by Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
• The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales by Angela Slatter (Tartarus Press)
• The Ghost Sequences by A. C. Wise (Undertow Publications)
• Never Have I Ever: Stories by Isabel Yap (Small Beer Press)

ARTIST

• Brom
• Odera Igbokwe
• Tran Nguyen
• Aleksandra Skiba
• Charles Vess

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Charlie Jane Anders, for Never Say You Can’t Survive (Tordotcom)
• Cam Collins and Steve Shell, for Old Gods of Appalachia (podcast)
• Irene Gallo, for Tor.com
• Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, for Monstress Volume Six: The Vow (Image Comics)
• William K. Schafer, for Subterranean Press
• Sheree Renée Thomas, for editing F&SF

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Gautam Bhatia and Vanessa Rose Phin, for Strange Horizons
• Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, for Hellebore
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
• Tonia Ransom, for Nightlight: A Horror Fiction Podcast
• Arley Sorg and Christie Yant, for Fantasy Magazine
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine

2021 World Fantasy Awards Winners Announced

Winners of the 2021 World Fantasy Awards have been announced. The awards were presented during World Fantasy Convention 2021, in Montreal, Quebec.

Best Novel

• Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor)

 

Best Novella

• Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)

 

Best Short Fiction

• 
”Glass Bottle Dancer”, Celeste Rita Baker (Lightspeed 20/4)

 

Best Anthology

• The Book of Dragons, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager)

 

Best Collection

• Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoko Matsuda (Soft Skull)

 

Best Artist

• Rovina Cai

 

Special Award – Professional

• CC Finlay, for F&SF editi

 

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Brian Attebery, for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

 

Lifetime Achievement

• Megan Lindholm
  
• Howard Waldrop

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

2020 World Fantasy Award Finalists Announced

2020 World Fantasy Award finalists have been announced. The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, held during October 29 - November 1, in an online presentation.

NOVEL

• Queen of the Conquered, by Kacen Callender (Orbit)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E Harrow (Redhook Books/Orbit UK)
• The Raven Tower, by Ann Leckie (Orbit)
• Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com)
• The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder) (Pantheon/Harvill Secker)

NOVELLA

• “The Butcher’s Table,” by Nathan Ballingrud (Wounds: Six Stories From the Border of Hell)
• Desdemona and the Deep, by CSE Cooney (Tor.com)
• In an Absent Dream, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
• The Deep, by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes (Saga
  Press/Hodder & Stoughton UK)
• Silver in the Wood, by Emily Tesh (Tor.com)

SHORT FICTION

• “For He Can Creep,” by Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, July 10, 2019)
• “Read After Burning,” by Maria Dahvana Headley, (A People’s Future of the United States)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye,” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July-Aug. 2019)
• “Blood is Another Word For Hunger,” by Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, July 24, 2019)
• “Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” by Jerome Stueart (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
  Mar./Apr. 2019)
• “Everyone Knows That They‘re Dead. Do You?,” by Genevieve Valentine (The Outcast Hours)

ANTHOLOGY

• Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, edited by Ellen Datlow (Saga Press)
• The Outcast Hours, edited by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin (Solaris)
• The Mythic Dream, edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe (Saga Press)
• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, edited by Nisi Shawl (Solaris)
• The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage Books)

COLLECTION

• Homesick: Stories, by Nino Cipri (Dzanc Books)
• Song For the Unraveling of the World: Stories, by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
• Unforeseen, by Molly Gloss (Saga Press)
• A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror, by John Hornor Jacobs (Harper Voyager)
• Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories by Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer Press)

ARTIST

• Tommy Arnold
• Galen Dara
• Julie Dillon
• Wendy Froud
• Kathleen Jennings

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• CC Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated HP Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (Liveright)
• Ellen Oh, for We Need Diverse Books
• Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, for The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the
• Hunger Games (New York University Press)
• Sheree Renée Thomas, for contributions to the genre

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Laura E Goodin and Esko Suoranta, for Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction
• Jonathan Strahan & Gary K Wolfe, for the Coode Street Podcast
• Lynne M Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
• Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Rowena Morrill
• Karen Joy Fowler

Winners Of The 2019 World Fantasy Awards Announced

The winners of the 2019 World Fantasy Awards were announced during the World Fantasy Convention weekend in Los Angeles.

Novel

• Witchmark by CL Polk (Tor.com)

Novella

• “The Privilege of the Happy Ending” by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Aug. 2018)

Short Fiction

• “Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake” by Mel Kassel (Lightspeed, October 2018)
• “Like a River Loves the Sky” by Emma Törzs (Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2018)

Anthology

• Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, edited by Irene Gallo (Tor.com)

Collection

• The Tangled Lands, by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S Buckell (Saga Press/Head of Zeus UK)

Artist

• Rovina Cai

Special Award – Professional

• Huw Lewis-Jones, for The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (University of Chicago Press)

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Scott H Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Hayao Miyazaki
• Jack Zipes

2019 World Fantasy Award Finalists Announced

2019 World Fantasy Award finalists have been announced. The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, held during October 31 - November 3 in Los Angeles.

Novel

• In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• The Poppy War by RF Kuang (Harper Voyager)
• Witchmark by CL Polk (Tor.com)
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press)

Novella

• The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com)
• The Black God’s Drums by P Djèlí Clark (Tor.com)
• The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press)
• “The Privilege of the Happy Ending” by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Aug. 2018)
• Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)

Short Fiction

• “The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation” by Adam-Troy Castro (Nightmare Magazine, July 2019)
• “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E Harrow (Apex Magazine, February 2018)
• “Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake” by Mel Kassel (Lightspeed, October 2018)
• “The Court Magician” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed, January 2018)
• “Like a River Loves the Sky” by Emma Törzs (Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2018)

Anthology

• Sword and Sonnet, edited by Aidan Doyle, Rachael K Jones, and E Catherine Tobler (Ate Bit Bear)
• The Book of Magic, edited by Gardner Dozois (Bantam Books US/HarperVoyager UK)
• Best New Horror #28, edited by Stephen Jones (Drugstore Indian Press UK)
• Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga Press)
• Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, edited by Irene Gallo (Tor.com)

Collection

• The Tangled Lands, by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S Buckell (Saga Press/Head of Zeus UK)
• Still So Strange, by Amanda Downum (ChiZine Publications)
• An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories, by Andy Duncan (Small Beer Press)
• How Long ’til Black Future Month? by NK Jemisin (Orbit)
• Phantom Limbs, by Margo Lanagan (PS Publishing)

Artist

• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess

Special Award – Professional

• CC Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Irene Gallo, for Art Direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
• Huw Lewis-Jones, for The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (University of Chicago Press)
• Catherine McIlwaine for Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth exhibition (The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford)
• Julian Yap, Molly Barton, Jeff Li, and James Stuart for Serial Box

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Mike Allen, for Mythic Delirium
• Scott H Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Lynne M Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
• E Catherine Tobler, for Shimmer Magazine
• Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Hayao Miyazaki
• Jack Zipes

2018 World Fantasy Award Winners Announced

The winners of 2018 World Fantasy Awards have been announced. They were presented during the World Fantasy Convention, held during November 1-4 in Baltimore, MD.

NOVEL

• = The Changeling by Victor LaValle (Spiegal & Grau)
• = Jade City by Fonda Lee (Orbit)

LONG FICTION (10,000 to 40,000 words)

• Passing Strange by Ellen Klages (Tor.com)

SHORT FICTION (under 10,000 words)

• “The Birding: A Fairy Tale” by Natalia Theodoridou (Strange Horizons, Dec. 18, 2017)

ANTHOLOGY

• The New Voices of Fantasy, edited by Peter S Beagle and Jacob Weisman (Tachyon Publications)

COLLECTION

• The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen (Tachyon Publications)

ARTIST

• Gregory Manchess

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Harry Brockway, Patrick McGrath, and Danel Olson for Writing Madness (Centipede Press)

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Justina Ireland and Troy L. Wiggins, for FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

• Charles de Lint
• Elizabeth Wollheim

2018 World Fantasy Award Finalists Announced

2018 World Fantasy Award finalists have been announced. The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, held during November 1-4 in Baltimore, MD.

The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, will go this year to Charles de Lint and Elizabeth Wollheim.

NOVEL

• The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
• Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymir by John Crowley (Saga Press)
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss (Saga Press)
• Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory (Bond Street Books CA/Knopf US/Riverrun UK)
• The Changeling by Victor LaValle (Spiegal & Grau)
• Jade City by Fonda Lee (Orbit)

LONG FICTION (10,000 to 40,000 words)

• The Teardrop Method by Simon Avery (TTA Press)
• In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon Publications)
• Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com)
• Passing Strange by Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
• The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang (Tor.com)

SHORT FICTION (under 10,000 words)

• “Old Souls” by Fonda Lee (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy)
• “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” by Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex Magazine, Aug. 2017)
• “The Birding: A Fairy Tale” by Natalia Theodoridou (Strange Horizons, Dec. 18, 2017)
• “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2017)
• “Carnival Nine” by Caroline Yoachim (Beneath Ceasless Skies, May 11, 2017)

ANTHOLOGY

• The New Voices of Fantasy, edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (Tachyon Publications)
• Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books)
• The Book of Swords, edited by Gardner Dozois (Bantam Books US/Harper Voyager UK)
• The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, edited by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin (Solaris)
• The Best of Subterranean edited by William Schafer (Subterranean Press)

COLLECTION

• Wicked Wonders by Ellen Klages (Tachyon Publications)
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
• Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers by Tim Powers (Baen Books)
• Tender by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
• The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen (Tachyon Publications)

ARTIST

• Gregory Manchess
• Victo Ngai
• Omar Rayyan
• Rima Staines
• Fiona Staples

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Harry Brockway, Patrick McGrath, and Danel Olson for Writing Madness (Centipede Press)
• C. C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Irene Gallo, for Art Direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
• Greg Ketter, for DreamHaven Books
• Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated Frankenstein (Liveright Publishing Corp.)

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Justina Ireland and Troy L. Wiggins, for FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction
• Khaalidah Muhammed-Ali and Jen R Albert, for PodCastle
• Ray B. Russell and Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

• Charles de Lint
• Elizabeth Wollheim

2017 World Fantasy Award Winners Announced

2017 World Fantasy Award winners have been announced. The awards were presented during the World Fantasy Convention, held during November 2-5 in San Antonio, TX.

The Lifetime Achievement Award, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, was awarded to to Terry Brooks and Marina Warner.

A new design for the World Fantasy Awards, sculpted by Vincent Villafranca, was also awarded this year.

Novel

• The Sudden Appearance of Hope, Claire North (Redhook; Orbit UK)

Long Fiction

• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)

Short Fiction

• “Das Steingeschöpf,” G.V. Anderson (Strange Horizons December 12 2016)

Anthology

• Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann, ed. (PS Australia)

Collection

• A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)

Artist

• Jeffrey Alan Love

Special Award, Professional

• Michael Levy & Farah Mendelsohn, for Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction(Cambridge University Press)

Special Award, Non-Professional

• Neile Graham, for fostering excellence in the genre through her role as Workshop Director, Clarion West

2017 World Fantasy Award Nominees Announced

2017 World Fantasy Award nominees have been announced. The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, held during November 2-5 in San Antonio, TX.

The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, will go to Terry Brooks and Marina Warner.

A new design for the World Fantasy Awards, sculpted by Vincent Villafranca, will also be awarded this year.

Novel

• Borderline, Mishell Baker (Saga)
• Roadsouls, Betsy James (Aqueduct)
• The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Sudden Appearance of Hope, Claire North (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff (Harper)

Long Fiction

• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
• Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• “Bloodybones,” Paul F. Olson (Whispered Echoes)
• A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)

Short Fiction

• “Das Steingeschöpf,” G.V. Anderson (Strange Horizons December 12 2016)
• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies,” Brooke Bolander (Uncanny November/December 2016)
• “Seasons of Glass and Iron,” Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
• “Little Widow,” Maria Dahvana Headley (Nightmare September 2016)
• “The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me,” Rachael K. Jones (Clockwork Phoenix 5)

Anthology

• Clockwork Phoenix 5, Mike Allen, ed. (Mythic Delirium)
• Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann, ed. (PS Australia)
• Children of Lovecraft, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Karen Joy Fowler & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)

Collection

• Sharp Ends, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz)
• On the Eyeball Floor and Other Stories, Tina Connolly (Fairwood)
• A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
• Vacui Magia, L.S. Johnson (Traversing Z Press)
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)

Artist

• Greg Bridges
• Julie Dillon
• Paul Lewin
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Victo Ngai

Special Award, Professional

• L. Timmel Duchamp, for Aqueduct Press
• C.C. Finlay, for editing F&SF
• Michael Levy & Farah Mendelsohn, for Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction(Cambridge University Press)
• Kelly Link, for contributions to the genre
• Joe Monti, for contributions to the genre

Special Award, Non-Professional

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Neile Graham, for fostering excellence in the genre through her role as Workshop Director, Clarion West
• Malcom R. Phifer & Michael C. Phifer, for their publication The Fantasy Illustration Library, Volume Two: Gods and Goddesses (Michael Publishing)
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny
• Brian White, for Fireside Fiction Company

2016 World Fantasy Award Winners Announced

2016 World Fantasy Award winners were announced during the World Fantasy Convention, October 27-30, 2016 in Columbus Ohio.

The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, go to David Geddes Hartwell and Andrzej Sapkowski.

NOVELS:

• 'The Chimes', Anna Smaill (Sceptre)

LONG FICTION:

• 'The Unlicensed Magician', Kelly Barnhill (PS)

SHORT FICTION:

• 'Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers', Alyssa Wong (Nightmare Oct 2015)

ANTHOLOGY:

• 'She Walks in Shadows', Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles, eds. (Innsmouth Free Press)

COLLECTION:

• 'Bone Swans', C.S.E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium)

ARTIST:

• Galen Dara

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL:

• Stephen Jones, for 'The Art of Horror' (Applause Theatre & Cinema)

SPECIAL AWARD, NONPROFESSIONAL:

• John O’Neill, for 'Black Gate'

2016 World Fantasy Award Nominees Announced

2016 World Fantasy Award nominees have been announced. The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, held October 27-30, 2016 in Columbus Ohio.

The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, will go to David Geddes Hartwell and Andrzej Sapkowski.

NOVELS:

• 'The Buried Giant', Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
• 'The Fifth Season', N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• 'Uprooted', Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
• 'Savages', K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
• 'The Chimes', Anna Smaill (Sceptre)
• 'A Head Full of Ghosts', Paul Tremblay (Morrow)

LONG FICTION:

• 'The Unlicensed Magician', Kelly Barnhill (PS)
• 'The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn', Usman T. Malik (Tor.com April 22 2015)
• 'Guignol', Kim Newman (Horrorology)
• 'Waters of Versailles', Kelly Robson (Tor.com June 10 2015)
• 'Farewell Blues', Bud Webster (F&SF Jan/Feb 2015)

SHORT FICTION
:

• 'The Neurastheniac', Selena Chambers (Cassilda’s Song)
• 'Pockets', Amal El-Mohtar (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2015)
• 'The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History', Sam J. Miller (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2015)
• 'The Deepwater Bride', Tamsyn Muir (F&SF July/Aug 2015)
• 'Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers', Alyssa Wong (Nightmare Oct 2015)

ANTHOLOGY
:

• 'The Doll Collection', Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
• 'Black Wings IV', S.T. Joshi, ed. (PS)
• 'She Walks in Shadows', Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles, eds. (Innsmouth Free Press)
• 'Cassilda’s Song', Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., ed. (Chaosium)
• 'Aickman’s Heirs', Simon Strantzas, ed. (Undertow)

COLLECTION
:

• 'Bone Swans', C.S.E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium)
• 'Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction', Leena Krohn (Cheeky Frawg)
• 'Skein and Bone', V.H. Leslie (Undertow)
• 'Get in Trouble', Kelly Link (Random House)
• 'Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow', James Morrow (Wesleyan)
• 'You Have Never Been Here', Mary Rickert (Small Beer)

ARTIST:

• Richard Anderson
• Galen Dara
• Julie Dillon
• Kathleen Jennings
• Thomas S. Kuebler

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL:

• Neil Gaiman, Dave Stewart, & J.H. Williams III, for 'The Sandman: Overture' (Vertigo)
• Stephen Jones, for 'The Art of Horror' (Applause Theatre & Cinema)
• Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, & Maria Simons, for 'The Wheel of Time Companion' (Tor)
• Joe Monti, for contributions to the genre
• Heather J Wood, for 'Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary' (Stone Skin Press)

SPECIAL AWARD, NONPROFESSIONAL:

• Scott H Andrews, for 'Beneath Ceaseless Skies'
• Jedediah Berry & Eben Kling, for 'The Family Arcana: A Story in Cards' (Ninepin)
• John O’Neill, for 'Black Gate'
• Alexandra Pierce & Alisa Krasnostein, for 'Letters to Tiptree' (Twelfth Planet)
• Lynne M Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for 'Uncanny'
• Helen Young, for 'Tales After Tolkien Society'

2015 World Fantasy Award Winners Announced

2015 World Fantasy Award winners were announced at the World Fantasy Convention, held in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Novel
The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre)

Novella
We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)

Short Fiction
Do You Like to Look at Monsters?, Scott Nicolay (Fedogan & Bremer)

Anthology
Monstrous Affections, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, ed. (Candlewick)

Collection
Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)

Artist
Samuel Araya

Special Award – Professional
Sandra Kasturi & Brett Alexander Savory, for ChiZine Publications

Special Award – Nonprofessional
Ray B. Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press