Thursday 7 August 2003

World Fantasy Awards Nominations

Nominations for this year's World Fantasy Awards, for works published in 2002, have been released.

Winners will be announced Sunday, November 2, 2003 at the World Fantasy Convention 2003 in Washington, DC. Judges for this year’s awards are Justin Ackroyd, Les Edwards, Laura Anne Gilman, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Jane Yolen. Awards administrator is Peter Dennis Pautz. A Life Achievement Award, whose nominees are not released in advance, will also be announced at the convention.

NOVEL

The Facts of Life, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)

Fitcher's Brides, Gregory Frost (Tor)

Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)

The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)

The Scar, China Miéville (Macmillan; Del Rey)

NOVELLA

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)

"The Least Trumps", Elizabeth Hand (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)

"The Library", Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3)

Seven Wild Sisters, Charles de Lint (Subterranean Press)

A Year in the Linear City, Paul Di Filippo (PS Publishing)

SHORT STORY

"Creation", Jeffrey Ford (F&SF May 2002)

"The Essayist in the Wilderness", William Browning Spencer (F&SF May 2002)

"Little Dead Girl Singing", Stephen Gallagher (Weird Tales Spr 2002)

"October in the Chair", Neil Gaiman (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)

"The Weight of Words", Jeffrey Ford (Leviathan 3)

ANTHOLOGY

The American Fantasy Tradition, Brian M. Thomsen, ed. (Tor)

Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists, Peter Straub, ed. (Bard College)

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)

Leviathan 3, Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre, eds. (Ministry of Whimsy Press)

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)

COLLECTION

City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer (Prime Books)

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)

Figures in Rain, Chet Williamson (Ash-Tree Press)

The Ogre's Wife, Richard Parks (Obscura Press)

Waifs and Strays, Charles de Lint (Viking)

Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson (Putnam)

ARTIST

Kinuko Y. Craft

Tom Kidd

Gary Lippincott

Dave McKean

John Jude Palencar

Charles Vess

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

Paul Barnett (for Paper Tiger art books)

Ellen Datlow (for editing)

William K. Schafer (for Subterranean Press)

Gary Turner & Marty Halpern (for Golden Gryphon Press)

Gordon Van Gelder (for F&SF)

Terri Windling (for editing)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

Peter Crowther (for PS Publishing)

Gavin Grant & Kelly Link (for Small Beer Press)

Sean Wallace (for Prime Books)

Michael J. Walsh (for Old Earth Books)

Jason Williams, Jeremy Lassen & Benjamin Cossel (for Night Shade Books)

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Links

World Fantasy Convention

Locus Online —
  2002 WF Awards winners | nominations
  2001 WF Awards winners | nominations
  2000 WF Awards winners | nominations

Locus Index to SF Awards —
  World Fantasy Awards —
    Past winners by Year
    Past finalists and winners

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