2017 World Fantasy Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: The Sudden Appearance of Hope, Claire North (Redhook; Orbit UK)

• Borderline, Mishell Baker (Saga)
• Roadsouls, Betsy James (Aqueduct)
• The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff (Harper)

Best Long Fiction

• WINNER: The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)

• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
• Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• “Bloodybones”, Paul F. Olson (Whispered Echoes)
• A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Das Steingeschöpf”, G.V. Anderson (Strange Horizons 12/12/16)

• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
• “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
• “Little Widow”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Nightmare 9/16)
• “The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me”, Rachael K. Jones (Clockwork Phoenix 5)

Best Anthology

• WINNER: Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann, ed. (PS Australia)

• Clockwork Phoenix 5, Mike Allen, ed. (Mythic Delirium)
• Children of Lovecraft, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Karen Joy Fowler & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)

Best Collection

• WINNER: A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)

•  Sharp Ends, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz)
• On the Eyeball Floor and Other Stories, Tina Connolly (Fairwood)
• Vacui Magia, L.S. Johnson (Traversing Z Press)
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)

Best Artist

• WINNER: Jeffrey Alan Love

• Greg Bridges
• Julie Dillon
• Paul Lewin
• Victo Ngai

Special Award, Professional

• WINNER: Michael Levy & Farah Mendlesohn, for Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press)

• L. Timmel Duchamp, for Aqueduct Press
• C.C. Finlay, for editing F&SF
• Kelly Link, for contributions to the genre
• Joe Monti, for contributions to the genre

Special Award, Non-Professional

• WINNER: Neile Graham, for fostering excellence in the genre through her role as Workshop Director, Clarion West

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Malcolm R. Phifer & Michael C. Phifer, for their publication The Fantasy Illustration Library, Volume Two: Gods and Goddesses (Michael Publishing)
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny
• Brian White, for Fireside Fiction Company