The nominees for this year’s British Fantasy Society Awards have been announced. They are:
Here are the nominations for the 2022 awards, with the winners to be announced at FantasyCon in September.
Best Newcomer (The Sydney J. Bounds Award)
Jurors: Anna Agaronyan, Clara Cohen, E.M. Faulds, Mina Ikemoto Ghosh, João F. Silva
J.T. 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)
C.A. Yates, for We All Have Teeth (Fox Spirit)
Xiran Jay Zhao, for Iron Widow (Penguin Teen)
Best Film / Television Production
Jurors: Shona Kinsella, S. Naomi Scott, Marie Sinadjan, Neil Williamson
Candyman
Dune
The Green Knight
In the Earth
Last Night in Soho
Space Sweepers
Best Non-Fiction
Jurors: Alba Arnau Prado, Gautam Bhatia, Jessica Lévai, Patrick McGinley, Aparna Sivasankar
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
Jurors: Eugen Bacon, Marc Gascoigne, Alex Gushurst-Moore, John Newsome, Paul Yates
Olga Beliaeva
Randy Broecker
Alison Buck
Jenni Coutts
Vincent Sammy
Daniele Serra
Best Comic / Graphic Novel
Jurors: Ben Appleby-Dean, Hannah Barton, Dan Coxon, Rajani Thindiath, Mob W
2000AD (Rebellion)
DIE Vol. 4, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)
Djeliya, Juni Ba (TKO Studios)
ExtraOrdinary, V.E. Schwab & Enid Balam (Titan Comics)
The Girl from the Sea, Molly Knox Ostertag (Graphix)
Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming, Stan Sakai (IDW Publishing)
Best Magazine / Periodical
Jurors: Nicole Chen, Adri Joy, Andrew Lindsay, Suzie Wilde
Anathema Magazine
Apex Magazine
Black Static
Ginger Nuts of Horror
Interzone
Shoreline of Infinity
Best Independent Press
Jurors: David Green, Susan Maxwell, Alia McKellar, Kate Sibson
Black Shuck Books
Luna Press Publishing
Unsung Stories
Wizard’s Tower Press
Best Audio
Jurors: Marcus Gipps, Ann Landmann, Adam McDowall, Tam Moules, Dion Winton-Polak
Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounsom & Charlotte Bond
Daughter of Fire and Water, Lyndsey Croal
Monstrous Agonies, H.R. Owen
PodCastle, Escape Artists
PseudoPod, Escape Artists
Best Anthology
Jurors: Colleen Anderson, Caroline Mersey, Graham Millichap, Siân O’Hara, Fabienne Schwizer
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
Jurors: Laura Burge, Rick Danforth, Peter Haynes, Phillip Irving, Roseanna Pendlebury
Bathymetry, Lorraine Wilson (in Strange Horizons)
Fill the Thickened Lung with Breath, C.A. Yates (in Dreamland: Other Stories, Black Shuck Books)
A Flight of Birds, E.M. Faulds (in Shoreline of Infinity #25)
Henrietta, T.H. 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
Jurors: Wendy Bradley, Jay Faulkner, Brian Kinsella, Abbi Shaw, Filip Drnovšek Zorko
The Ghost Sequences, A.C. 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, C.A. Yates (Fox Spirit)
Best Novella
Jurors: Verity L. Allan, Allyson Bird, Kshoni Gunputh, Mick Rohman, Ellis Saxey
& 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)
Jurors: Edward Crocker, Laura Lucas, Ian Muneshwar, Amanda Rutter, Judith Schofield
The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Penguin)
A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
A Dowry of Blood, S.T. 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)
Jurors: Danny Boland, Jessie Goetzinger-Hall, Elloise Hopkins, Kate Towner, Jen Williams
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, C.L. Clark (Orbit)
The winners will be announced at this year’s British Fantasy Society Awards in November. Congratulations to all nominees.
