NEWS: BFS Award 2025 Nominees Announced

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit)
• Fathomfolk, Eliza Chan (Orbit)
• A Shadow Over Haven, David Green (Eerie River)
• The Green Man’s War, Juliet E. McKenna (Wizard’s Tower)
• Masquerade, O.O. Sangoyomi (Forge)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Withered Hill, David Barnett (Canelo Horror)
• The Ravening, Daniel Church (Angry Robot)
• Feast While You Can, Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta (Grand Central)
• Among the Living, Tim Lebbon (Titan)
• Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle (Titan)
• My Darling Dreadful Thing, Johanna van Veen (Poisoned Pen)

Best Novella

• What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher (Titan)
• Millionaires Day, Kit Power (French Press)
• Charlie Says, Neil Williamson (Black Shuck)
• The Last to Drown, Lorraine Wilson (Luna Press Publishing)

Best Short Fiction

• “The Oracle at Dairy”, Tiffani Angus (Trembling with Fear 9/29/24)
• “Godskin”, CL Hellisen (Strange Horizons 3/4/24)
• “The Witch’s Pillowbook”, Priya Sharma (Bound in Blood)
• “Jinx”, Carlie St. George (PseudoPod 2/2/24)
• “Loneliness Universe”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)

Best Collection

• Preaching To The Perverted, James Bennett (Lethe)
• Elephants in Bloom, Cécile Cristofari (Newcon)
• Limelight and Other Stories, Lyndsey Croal (Shortwave)
• Mood Swings, Dave Jeffery (Black Shuck)
• Dirt Upon My Skin, Steve Toase (Black Shuck)

Best Anthology

• Bury Your Gays – An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, Sofia Ajram, ed. (Ghoulish)
• I Want That Twink Obliterated!, Robert Berg, Trip Galey & C.L. McCartney, eds. (Bona)
• Fight Like A Girl Vol. 2, Roz Clarke & Joanne Hall, eds. (Wizard’s Tower)
• Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology, Dan Coxon, ed. (PS)
• The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2023, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Chinaza Eziaghighala, eds. (Caezik SF & Fantasy)
• Nova Scotia Vol. 2, Neil Williamson & Andrew J. Wilson, eds. (Luna Press Publishing)

Best Independent Press

• Black Shuck
• Flame Tree
• Luna Press Publishing
• Newcon
• Swan River

Best Non-Fiction

• Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 2: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing More Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna Press Publishing)
• Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters, Sacha Coward (Unbound)
• “Autism and Writing”, David Green (BFS Blog)
• Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, edited by Marguerite Kenner (self-published)
• Translating, Interpreting, and Decolonizing Chinese Fairy Tales: A Case Study and Ideological Approach (Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities), Juwen Zhang (Lexington)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• ParSec
• Phantasmagoria

Best Artist

• L.N. Bayen
• Greg Chapman
• Kelly Chong
• Jenni Coutts

Best Audio

• Breaking the Glass Slipper
• PodCastle
• PseudoPod
• The Tiny Bookcase

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• L.N. Bayen
• Eliza Chan
• Lyndsey Croal
• Adrian M. Gibson
• J.L. Odom
• Frances White