The finalists for the 2022 World Fantasy Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention, November 3-6, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The nominees are:
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
Congratulations to all nominees!
