2015 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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 Tidhar (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Moon King, Neil Williamson (NewCon)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• No One Gets Out Alive, Adam Nevill (Macmillan)

• The Last Plague, Rich Hawkins (Crowded Quarantine)
• The Unquiet House, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher)
• Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
• The End, Gary McMahon (NewCon)
• The Girl With All the Gifts, M.R. Carey (Orbit)

Best Novella

• “Newspaper Heart”, Stephen Volk (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories)

• “Water For Drowning“, Ray Cluley (This Is Horror)
• Cold Turkey, Carole Johnstone (TTA)
• Drive, Mark West (Pendragon)

Best Short Story

• “A Woman’s Place”, Emma Newman (Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets)

• “The Girl on the Suicide Bridge”, J.A. Mains (Beside the Seaside)
• “Ptichka”, Laura Mauro (Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease)
• “A Change of Heart”, Gaie Sebold (Wicked Women)

Best Collection

• Nick Nightmare Investigates, Adrian Cole (Alchemy & Airgedlámh)

• Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites, Hal Duncan (Lethe)
• The Bright Day Is Done, Carole Johnstone (Gray Friar)
• Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
• Black Gods Kiss, Lavie Tidhar (PS)

Best Anthology

• Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue, Christie Yant, ed. (Lightspeed)

• The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic 2, Jan Edwards & Jenny Barber, eds. (Alchemy)
• Terror Tales of Wales, Paul Finch, ed. (Gray Friar)
• Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease, Joel Lane & Tom Johnstone, eds. (Gray Friar)
• The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Mark Morris, ed. (Spectral)

Best Independent Press

• Fox Spirit Books (Adele Wearing)

• The Alchemy Press (Peter Coleborn)
• NewCon Press (Ian Whates)
• Spectral Press (Simon Marshall-Jones)

Best Non-Fiction

• Letters to Arkham: The Letters of Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth, 1961-1971, S.T. Joshi, ed. (PS)

• Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions, Hal Duncan (Lethe)
• You Are the Hero: A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, Jonathan Green (Snowbooks)
• Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic, John Howard (Alchemy)
• D.F. Lewis Dreamcatcher Real-Time Reviews, D.F. Lewis (D.F. Lewis)
• Ginger Nuts of Horror, Jim McLeod, ed. (Jim McLeod)
• Sibilant Fricative: Essays & Reviews, Adam Roberts (Steel Quill)

Best Magazine/Periodical

• Holdfast Magazine, Laurel Sills & Lucy Smee, eds. (Laurel Sills & Lucy Smee)

• Black Static, Andy Cox, ed. (TTA)
• Interzone, Andy Cox, ed. (TTA)
• Lightspeed, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Lightspeed)
• Sein und Werden, Rachel Kendall, ed. (ISMs)

Best Artist

• Karla Ortiz

• Ben Baldwin
• Vincent Chong
• Les Edwards
• Sarah Anne Langton
• Daniele Serra

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• Through the Woods, Emily Carroll (Margaret K. McElderry)

• The Wicked + The Divine, Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie (Image)
• Cemetery Girl, Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden & Don Kramer (Jo Fletcher)
• Seconds, Bryan Lee O’Malley (SelfMadeHero)
• Grandville Noël, Bryan Talbot (Jonathan Cape)
• Saga, Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (Image)

Best Film/Television Episode

• Guardians of the Galaxy

• Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Black Mirror: “White Christmas”
• Interstellar
• Under the Skin

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award)

• Sarah Lotz, for The Three (Hodder & Stoughton)

• Edward Cox, for The Relic Guild (Gollancz)
• Laura Mauro, for “Ptichka” (Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease)
• Den Patrick, for The Boy with the Porcelain Blade (Gollancz)
• Jen Williams, for The Copper Promise (Headline)

 

Juliet E. McKenna received the special award (the Karl Edward Wagner Award), chosen by the BFS committee.