2017 British Fantasy Awards Winners

The British Fantasy Society announced the winners of the 2017 British Fantasy Awards on October 1, 2017 during an awards ceremony held at Fantasycon 2017 at the Bull Hotel in Peterborough UK. The winners are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Tiger and the Wolf, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pam Macmillan)

• The Summer Goddess, Joanne Hall (Kristell Ink)
• The High King’s Vengeance, Steven Poore (Kristell Ink)
• The Silver Tide, Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay (Titan)

• The Searching Dead, Ramsey Campbell (PS)
• The Hidden People, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher)
• 13 Minutes, Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)

Best Novella

• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)

• Hammers on Bone, Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com Publishing)
• Bodies of Water, V.H. Leslie (Salt)
• Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Grieving Stones, Gary McMahon (Horrific Tales)
• Arrival of Missives, Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)

Best Short Fiction

• “White Rabbit”, Georgina Bruce (Black Static 1-2/16)

• “Charmed Life”, Simon Avery (Something Remains)
• “Greenteeth”, Gary Budden (Black Static 1-2/16)
• “Waxy”, Camilla Grudova (Granta 136)
• “The Watcher”, Sammy H.K. Smith (The Book of Angels)
• “The Women’s Song”, Nadine West (Fight Like a Girl)

Best Collection

• Some Will Not Sleep, Adam Nevill (Ritual Limited)

• Sharp Ends, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
• The Unheimlich Manoeuvre, Tracy Fahey (Boo Books)
• A Tiding of Magpies, Peter Sutton (Kensington Gore Hammered Horror)
• The Parts We Play, Stephen Volk (PS)
• Secret Language, Neil Williamson (NewCon)

Best Anthology

• People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction, Nalo Hopkinson & Kristine Ong Muslim, eds. (Lightspeed)

• Fight Like a Girl, Roz Clarke & Joanne Hall, eds. (Kristell Ink)
• Something Remains, Peter Coleborn & Pauline E. Dungate, eds. (Alchemy)
• Asian Monsters, Margrét Helgadóttir, ed. (Fox Spirit)
• The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
• Dead Letters, Conrad Williams, ed. (Titan)

Best Independent Press

• Grimbold

• Alchemy
• Fox Spirit
• NewCon
• TTA

Best Non-Fiction

• The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley (Tor)

• Blood Spectrum column, Gary Couzens (Black Static)
• The Women of Harry Potter series, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com)
• This Spectacular Darkness, Joel Lane (Tartarus)
• Words Are My Matter: Writings about Life and Books, 2000-2016, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
• Ginger Nuts of Horror, Jim McLeod (gingernutsofhorror.com)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Tor.com

• Black Static
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Interzone
• Uncanny Magazine

Best Artist

• Daniele Serra

• Ben Baldwin
• Evelinn Enoksen
• Sarah Anne Langton

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)

• Sixpack and Dogwelder: Hard Travelin’ Heroz (#1-5), Garth Ennis & Russ Braun (DC)
• Skal (Chapter 3, pages 1-19), Jennie Gyllblad (skalsaga.tumblr.com)
• Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! (#2-13), Kate Leth & Brittney Williams (Marvel)
• 2000AD (progs 1963-2011), Matt Smith, ed. (Rebellion)
• Saga (#33-40), Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (Image)

Best Film/Television Production

• Arrival

• Series three of Black Mirror
• Captain America: Civil War
• Deadpool
• High Rise

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award)

• Erika L Satifka, for Stay Crazy (Apex)

• James Bennett, for Chasing Embers (Orbit)
• Daniel Godfrey, for New Pompeii (Titan)
• Phil Sloman, for Becoming David (self-published)
• Martin Owton, for Exile (Tickety Boo)

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