Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• WINNER: The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)

• Path of War, David Green (Eerie River)
• Cast Long Shadows, Cat Hellisen (Luna Press Publishing)
• Glitterati, Oliver K. Langmead (Titan)
• The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
• The Oleander Sword, Tasha Suri

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Path of War, David Green (Eerie River)
• Cast Long Shadows, Cat Hellisen (Luna)
• The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)
• Glitterati, Oliver K. Langmead (Titan)
• The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
• The Oleander Sword, Tasha Suri (Orbit)

Best Horror

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

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

• 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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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 &

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,

Best Novel

• WINNER: The Green Man’s Quarry, Juliet E. McKenna (Wizard Tower)

• Descendant Machine, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
• Airside, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
• HIM, Geoff Ryman (Angry Robot)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (Gollancz)

Best Shorter Fiction (for

• Yellowface, Rebecca F. Kuang (Borough Press)
• The Ghost Ship, Kate Mosse (Mantle)
• Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Piaktus)

Pageturner

• Icebreaker, Hannah Grace (Simon & Schuster)
• It Starts with Us, Colleen Hoover (Simon & Schuster)
• The Lost Bookshop, Evie Woods (One More Chapter)
• Fourth Wing

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• WINNER: When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb (Levine Querido)

• When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
• The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• Thistlefoot, GennaRose Nethercott (Anchor Books)
• The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd (Orion; Morrow)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• WINNER:

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• WINNER: The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)

• 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

• WINNER: Beulah, Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates)

• Jackal, Erin Adams

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,

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