From the World Fantasy Award website: http://www.worldfantasy.org
The winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention℠ 2019 in Los Angeles, CA on October 31 – November 3, 2019.
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 R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
- Witchmark by C. L. 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 N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- Phantom Limbs, by Margo Lanagan (PS Publishing)
Artist
- Rovina Cai
- Galen Dara
- Jeffrey Alan Love
- Shaun Tan
- Charles Vess
Special Award – Professional
- C. C. 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
- Catherine Tobler, for Shimmer Magazine
- Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor
Judges: Nancy Holder, Kathleen Jennings, Garry Douglas Kilworth, Stephen Graham Jones, and Tod McCoy
Congratulations to all nominees!
