2016 British Fantasy Awards Winners

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 Dawn, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)
• The Iron Ghost, Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Rawblood, Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)

• Welcome to Night Vale, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor (Orbit UK)
• The Silence, Tim Lebbon (Titan)
• A Cold Silence, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher)
• Lost Girl, Adam Nevill (Pan)
• The Death House, Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
• Rawblood, Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)

Best Novella

• The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com)

• Witches of Lytchford, Paul Cornell (Tor.com)
• The Bureau of Them, Cate Gardner (Spectral)
• Albion Fay, Mark Morris (Spectral)
• Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)

Best Short Fiction

• “Fabulous Beasts”, Priya Sharma (Tor.com 7/27/15 )

• “When the Moon Man Knocks”, Cate Gardner (Black Static 10-11/15)
• Strange Creation, Frances Kay (Tenebris Nyxies)
• “The Blue Room”, V.H. Leslie (Skein and Bone)
• “Dirt Land”, Ralph Robert Moore (Black Static 11-12/15)
• “Hippocampus”, Adam Nevill (Terror Tales of the Ocean)

Best Collection

• Ghost Summer: Stories, Tananarive Due (Prime)

• Probably Monsters, Ray Cluley (ChiZine)
• The Stars Seem So Far Away, Margrét Helgadóttir (Fox Spirit)
• Monsters, Paul Kane (The Alchemy Press)
• Scar City, Joel Lane (Eibonvale)
• Skein and Bone, V.H. Leslie (Undertow)

Best Anthology

• The Doll Collection, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)

• African Monsters, Margrét Helgadóttir & Jo Thomas, eds. (Fox Spirit)
• Best British Horror 2015, Johnny Mains, ed. (Salt)
• The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Mark Morris, ed. (Spectral)
• Aickman’s Heirs, Simon Strantzas, ed. (Undertow)

Best Independent Press

• Angry Robot (Marc Gascoigne)

• The Alchemy Press (Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards)
• Fox Spirit (Adele Wearing)
• Newcon (Ian Whates)

Best Non-Fiction

• Letters to Tiptree, Alexandra Pierce & Alisa Krasnostein, ed. (Twelfth Planet)

• Fantasy-Faction, Marc Aplin & Jennie Ivins, eds. (Fantasy-Faction)
• The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History, Stephen Jones, ed. (Applause Theater & Cinema)
• Ginger Nuts of Horror, Jim McLeod, ed. (gingernutsofhorror.com)
• Matrilines, Kari Sperring (Strange Horizons)
• King for a Year, Mark West, ed. (kingreviews2015.blogspot.com)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Beneath Ceasless Skies

• Black Static
• Holdfast Magazine
• Interzone

Best Artist

• Julie Dillon

• Ben Baldwin
• Vincent Chong
• Evelinn Enoksen
• Sarah Anne Langton
• Jeffrey Alan Love

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• Bitch Planet (#2-5), Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Robert Wilson IV & Cris Peter (Image)

• Red Sonja (#14-18), Gail Simone & Walter Geovani (Dynamite)
• Nimona, Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen)
• Saga (#25-32), Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (Image)
• Ms. Marvel, Vol 2: Generation Why, G. Willow Wilson, Jacob Wyatt & Adrian Alphona (Marvel)

Best Film/Television Production

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

• Inside No. 9: The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge
• Jessica Jones: “AKA WWJD?”
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Midwinter of the Spirit
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award)

• Zen Cho for Sorcerer to the Crown (Macmillan)

• Becky Chambers for The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Peter Newman for The Vagrant (HarperVoyager)
• Steven Poore for The Heir to the North (Kristell Ink)
• Marc Turner for When the Heavens Fall (Titan)

Winners were chosen by jury, except for the special award (the Karl Edward Wagner Award) which is chosen by the BFS committee.