World Fantasy Awards Winners 2014

The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2013 were announced at a ceremony held on November 9, 2014. The awards were presented in Washington DC during the World Fantasy Convention, November 6-9, 2014.

The World Fantasy Award winners are:

Life Achievement:

• Ellen Datlow
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Novel:

• A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)

• Dust Devil on a Quiet Street, Richard Bowes (Lethe)
• A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent, Marie Brennan (Tor)
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review)
• The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker (Harper)
• The Land Across, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

Novella:

• “Wakulla Springs”, Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages (Tor.com 10/2/13)

• Black Helicopters, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
• “The Sun and I”, K.J. Parker (Subterranean Summer ’13)
• “Burning Girls”, Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com 6/19/13)
• Six-Gun Snow White, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)

Short Fiction:

• “The Prayer of Ninety Cats”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean Spring ’13)

• “The Ink Readers of Doi Saket”, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor.com 4/24/13)
• “Effigy Nights”, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 1/13)
• “Selkie Stories Are for Losers”, Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons 1/7/13)
• “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love”, Rachel Swirsky (Apex 3/13)

Anthology:

• Dangerous Women, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Tor; Voyager)

• xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, Kate Bernheimer, ed. (Penguin)
• Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Tor)
• Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013, Stephen Jones, ed. (Smith & Jones/PS Publishing)
• End of the Road, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Collection:

• The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)

• North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer)
• The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories, Laird Barron (Night Shade)
• Flowers of the Sea, Reggie Oliver (Tartarus Press)
• How the World Became Quiet, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean)

Artist:

• Charles Vess

• Galen Dara
• Zelda Devon
• Julie Dillon
• John Picacio

Special Award – Professional: (tie)

• Irene Gallo, for art direction of Tor.com
• William K. Schafer, for Subterranean Press

• John Joseph Adams, for magazine and anthology editing
• Ginjer Buchanan, for editing at Ace Books
• Jeff VanderMeer & Jeremy Zerfoss, for Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Abrams Image)
• Jerad Walters, for Centipede Press

Special Award – Nonprofessional:

• Kate Baker, Neil Clarke, & Sean Wallace, for Clarkesworld

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Marc Aplin, for Fantasy-Faction
• Leslie Howle, for Clarion West administration
• Mieneke van der Salm, for A Fantastical Librarian