2017 World Fantasy Awards Winners

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The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2016 were announced during the World Fantasy Convention, held November 2-5, 2017 at the Wyndham Riverwalk in San Antonio TX. The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, went to Terry Brooks and Marina Warner.

The World Fantasy Awards winners are:

Best Novel

Best Long Fiction

Best Short Fiction

  • WINNER: “Das Steingeschöpf”, G.V. Anderson (Strange Horizons 12/12/16)
  • “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
  • “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
  • “Little Widow”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Nightmare 9/16)
  • “The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me”, Rachael K. Jones (Clockwork Phoenix 5)

Best Anthology

Best Collection

Best Artist

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

Special Award, Professional

  • L. Timmel Duchamp, for Aqueduct Press
  • C.C. Finlay, for editing F&SF
  • Kelly Link, for contributions to the genre
  • Joe Monti, for contributions to the genre

Special Award, Non-Professional

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

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One thought on “2017 World Fantasy Awards Winners

  • December 3, 2017 at 11:08 pm
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    Hey another award where 90% of the main nominees are Women.

    Isn’t that how we tell that it’s not Sexist(when it’s overwhelmingly the appropriate and ironically the so called under represented sex)

    Hmmmm(Don’t Run from it)

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