2018 World Fantasy Awards Winners

Best Novel (tie)

• WINNER: The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
• WINNER: Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

• The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
• Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
• Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)

Best Novella

• WINNER: Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)

• The Teardrop Method, Simon Avery (TTA)
• In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “The Birding: A Fairy Tale”, Natalia Theodoridou (Strange Horizons 12/18/17)

• “Old Souls”, Fonda Lee (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy)
• “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience^TM“, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
• “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 9-10/17)
• “Carnival Nine”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)

Best Anthology

• WINNER: The New Voices of Fantasy, Peter S. Beagle & Jacob Weisman, eds. (Tachyon)

• Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
• The Book of Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
• The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• The Best of Subterranean, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)

Best Collection

• WINNER: The Emerald Circus, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)

• Wicked Wonders, Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
• Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
• Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers, Tim Powers (Baen)
• Tender, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)

Best Artist

• WINNER: Gregory Manchess

• Victo Ngai
• Omar Rayyan
• Rima Staines
• Fiona Staples

Special Award, Professional

• WINNER: Harry Brockway, Patrick McGrath, and Danel Olson, for Writing Madness (Centipede)

• C.C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Irene Gallo, for art direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
• Greg Ketter, for DreamHaven Books
• Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated Frankenstein (Liveright)

Special Award, Non-Professional

• WINNER: Justina Ireland & Troy L. Wiggins, for FIYAH

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali & Jen R Albert, for PodCastle
• Ray B. Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny