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2022 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners for the 2022 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • WINNER: She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)
  • The Black Coast, Mike Brooks (Orbit)
  • The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit)
  • Sistersong, Lucy Holland (Tor)
  • The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit)
  • This is Our Undoing, Lorraine Wilson (Luna)

Best Horror Novel (the August

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2022 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

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The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • The Black Coast, Mike Brooks (Orbit)
  • The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit)
  • Sistersong, Lucy Holland (Tor)
  • She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)
  • The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit)
  • This is Our Undoing, Lorraine Wilson (Luna)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth

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British Fantasy Awards Call for Jurors

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The British Fantasy Society (BFS) is looking for judges for the British Fantasy Awards. “For each category, 3-5 jurors read/watch/examine every entry on the final shortlist (4-6 titles) & then agree between themselves on the final winner.”

The BFA constitution calls for “at least one non-member of the Society” to be on the jury. Interested individuals may apply through the webform, which is scheduled to close May 29, 2022.

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2021 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners for the 2021 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
  • WINNER: The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook)
  • Threading the Labyrinth, Tiffani Angus (Unsung Stories)
  • The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
  • Dark River, Rym Kechacha (Unsung Stories)
  • The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart (Orbit)
  • By Force Alone, Lavie Tidhar (Tor)
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2021 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

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The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • Threading the Labyrinth, Tiffani Angus (Unsung Stories)
  • The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook)
  • The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
  • Dark River, Rym Kechacha (Unsung Stories)
  • The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart (Orbit)
  • By Force Alone, Lavie Tidhar (Tor)
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2020 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners for the 2020 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • WINNER: The Bone Ships, RJ Barker (Orbit)
  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Orbit)
  • The Migration, Helen Marshall (Titan)
  • The Poison Song, Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

  • WINNER: The Reddening, Adam Nevill (Ritual Limited)
  • The Plague
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2020 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

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The British Fantasy Society has announced the shortlist for the 2020 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • The Bone Ships, RJ Barker (Orbit)
  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Orbit)
  • The Migration, Helen Marshall (Titan)
  • The Poison Song, Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

  • The Plague Stones, James Brogden (Titan)
  • The
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2019 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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The British Fantasy Society announced the winners for the 2019 British Fantasy Awards on October 20, 2019 during FantasyCon 2019 at the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel in Glasgow, Scotland.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • WINNER: The Bitter Twins, Jen Williams (Headline)
  • Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Jo Fletcher)
  • The Green Man’s Heir, Juliet E. McKenna (Wizard’s Tower)
  • Priest of Bones, Peter McLean (Jo Fletcher)
  • Empire
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2019 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

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The British Fantasy Society has announced the shortlist for the 2019 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Jo Fletcher)
  • The Green Man’s Heir, Juliet E. McKenna (Wizard’s Tower)
  • Priest of Bones, Peter McLean (Jo Fletcher)
  • Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri (Orbit)
  • The Loosening Skin, Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)
  • The Bitter Twins, Jen Williams
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2018 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners for the 2018 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • WINNER: The Ninth Rain, Jen Williams (Headline)
  • Age of Assassins, RJ Barker (Orbit)
  • Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng (Angry Robot)
  • The Court of Broken Knives, Anna Smith Spark (HarperVoyager)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

  • WINNER: The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel &
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2018 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

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The British Fantasy Society has announced the shortlist for the 2018 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • Age of Assassins, RJ Barker (Orbit)
  • Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng (Angry Robot)
  • The Court of Broken Knives, Anna Smith Spark (HarperVoyager)
  • The Ninth Rain, Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

  • The Boy on the Bridge,
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2017 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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The British Fantasy Society announced the winners of the 2017 British Fantasy Awards on October 1, 2017 during an awards ceremony held at Fantasycon 2017 at the Bull Hotel in Peterborough UK. The winners are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • The Tiger and the Wolf, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pam Macmillan)
  • The Summer Goddess, Joanne Hall (Kristell Ink)
  • The High King’s Vengeance, Steven Poore (Kristell Ink)
  • The
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2017 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

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The British Fantasy Society has announced the shortlist for the 2017 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • The Summer Goddess, Joanne Hall (Kristell Ink)
  • The High King’s Vengeance, Steven Poore (Kristell Ink)
  • The Tiger and the Wolf, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pam Macmillan)
  • The Silver Tide, Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

  • The Searching Dead, Ramsey
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2016 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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The British Fantasy Society announced the British Fantasy Awards Winners on September 25, 2016 during an awards ceremony at FantasyCon 2016 at the Grand and Royal Hotels in Scarborough, England. The winners are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
  • Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Macmillan)
  • Half a War, Joe Abercrombie (Harper Voyager)
  • Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho (Macmillan)
  • Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
  • Guns of the
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2015 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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The British Fantasy Society (BFS) announced the winners for the 2015 British Fantasy Awards on October 25, 2015 during an awards ceremony at FantasyCon 2015 in Nottingham England.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • Cuckoo Song, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children’s)
  • City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Jo Fletcher)
  • The Relic Guild, Edward Cox (Gollancz)
  • Breed, K.T. Davies (Fox Spirit)
  • A Man Lies Dreaming, Lavie
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2015 British Fantasy Awards Nominees

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The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the finalists for the 2015 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Jo Fletcher)
  • The Relic Guild, Edward Cox (Gollancz)
  • Breed, K.T. Davies (Fox Spirit)
  • Cuckoo Song, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children’s)
  • A Man Lies Dreaming, Lavie Tidhar (Hodder & Stoughton)
  • The Moon King, Neil Williamson
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2014 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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On September 7, 2014 at FantasyCon in York the British Fantasy Society announced winners for the 2014 British Fantasy Awards.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Headline)
  • Blood and Feathers: Rebellion, Lou Morgan (Solaris)
  • Between Two Thorns, Emma Newman (Angry Robot)
  • The Glass Republic, Tom Pollock
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British Fantasy Awards

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The British Fantasy Society announced the winners of the 2013 British Fantasy Awards at a ceremony during the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, England on November 3, 2013. The winners are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
  • Red Country, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
  • The Brides of Rollrock Island, Margo Lanagan (David Fickling)
  • Railsea, China Miéville (Macmillan)
  • Blood and
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2012 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Novel (There are two awards in the best Novel category: The August Derleth Fantasy Award for best horror novel and the Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel):

The Robert Holdstock Award (fantasy)

  • Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

The August Derleth Fantasy Award (horror)

  • The Ritual, Adam Nevill (Pan)
  • The Heroes,
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British Fantasy Awards Judges Announced

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The judges for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards have been empaneled. The judges are James Barclay, Hal Duncan, Maura McHugh, Esther Sherman, and Damien G. Walter. This year the awards will be decided by a jury of five volunteers, a first for the award. The jury will decide the winner from a list of four nominations as determined by the members of the BFS, and will also have the power ...Read More

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British Fantasy Society Meeting Regarding the British Fantasy Awards

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Acting chair Graham Joyce announced an Extraordinary General Meeting of the British Fantasy Society to be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, December 9, 2011 at the Mug House near London Bridge. The meeting will consider a proposal to reorganize the BFS Awards and will elect new officers to the BFS Committee.

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2010 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners of the 2010 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award):

  • One, Conrad Williams (Virgin)
  • Best Served Cold, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
  • The Naming of the Beasts, Mike Carey (Orbit)
  • Under the Dome, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
  • Futile Flame, Sam Stone (House of Murky Depths)

Best Novella:

  • The Language of Dying, Sarah Pinborough (PS)
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2009 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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The winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2009 are:

Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)

  • Memoirs of a Master Forger, William Heaney/Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
  • Midnight Man, Simon Clark (Severn House)
  • Rain Dogs, Gary McMahon (Humdrumming)
  • The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
  • The Victoria Vanishes, Christopher Fowler (Little, Brown)
  • Thieving Fear, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)

Best Novella

  • The Reach of Children, Tim Lebbon
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2023 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists

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The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2023 Mythopoeic Awards finalists. Winners will be announced during the society’s Online Midsummer Seminar 2023, “Fantasy Goes to Hell,” to be held August 5-6, 2023 on Zoom and Discord.

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

  • When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
  • The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
  • When the Angels Left the Old Country,
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2023 British Book Awards Winners

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The Bookseller announced the winners for the 2023 British Book Awards. Awards recipients of genre interest included Babel by R.F. Kuang (HarperVoyager) in the Fiction category and Tyger by SF Said, illustrated by Dave McKean (David Fickling), in the Children’s Fiction category. As previously announced, the shortlist featured a number of authors and titles of genre interest.

Winners were also announced in the Book Trade Awards, with 17 categories, including

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2022 BSFA Awards Winners

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The winners for the 2022 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards have been announced.

Best Novel

  • WINNER: City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)
  • The Red Scholar’s Wake, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
  • Stars and Bones, Gareth Powell (Titan)
  • The This, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
  • The Coral Bones, E.J. Swift (Unsung Stories)

Best Short Fiction (under 40,000 words)

  • WINNER: Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances,
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2023 FAAn Awards Winners

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The winners of the 2023 Fan Activity Achievement Awards (FAAns) were announced at Corflu 40 (Corflu Craic) on April 2, 2023 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Best Personal Zine

  • This Here…

Best Genzine

  • Portable Storage

Best Special Publication

  • 1957: The First British Worldcon

Best Fan Writer (tie)

  • Justin E.A. Busch
  • Nic Farey

Best Letterhack

  • Jerry Kaufman

Best Fan Artist

  • Ulrika O’Brien

Best Fanzine Cover Art

  • BEAM 17, Alan White

Corflu Lifetime

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2023 British Book Awards Shortlists

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The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2023 British Book Awards, including several titles and authors of genre interest.

Fiction

  • Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes (Mantle)
  • Fairy Tale, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
  • Babel, R.F. Kuang (HarperVoyager)

Pageturner

  • The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak (Viking)

Discover

  • As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow, Zoulfa Katouh (Bloomsbury)

Children’s Fiction

  • Onyeka and the Academy of the
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2022 Stoker Awards Final Ballot

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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards:

Superior Achievement in a Novel

  • The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mullholland)
  • The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
  • Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
  • Daphne, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
  • Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

  • Jackal, Erin Adams (Bantam)
  • The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
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2023 Canopus Awards Winners

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Winners for the 100 Year Starship (100YSS) 2023 Canopus Awards for Excellence in Interstellar Writing have been announced. Canopus recognizes “the finest fiction and non-fiction works that expand our understanding of the challenges, opportunities, pitfalls, and rewards of interstellar space exploration.”

Published Long-Form Fiction (40,000 words or more)

  • WINNER: Sentient, Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Hernandez Walta (TKO)
  • Sweep of Stars, Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
  • Escaping Exodus, Nicky Drayden
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2022 Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot

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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the preliminary ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards:

Superior Achievement in a Novel

  • Sallow Bend, Alan Baxter (Cemetery Dance)
  • The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mullholland)
  • The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
  • Fairy Tale, Stephen King (Scribner)
  • Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
  • The Ghost That Ate Us: The Tragic True Story of the Burger City Poltergeist,
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2022 Canopus Awards Finalists

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Finalists for the 100 Year Starship (100YSS) 2022 Canopus Awards for Excellence in Interstellar Writing have been announced. Canopus recognizes “the finest fiction and non-fiction works that expand our understanding of the challenges, opportunities, pitfalls, and rewards of interstellar space exploration.”

Published Long-Form Fiction (40,000 words or more)

  • Sweep of Stars, Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
  • Escaping Exodus, Nicky Drayden (HarperVoyager)
  • Light Chaser, Peter F. Hamilton and Garth L.
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