2019 World Fantasy Awards Finalists
The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2018 has been announced. The awards will be presented November 3, 2019 during World Fantasy 2019 (WFC) to be held at the Marriott Los Angeles Airport Hotel in Los Angeles CA.
The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, will go to Hayao Miyazaki and Jack Zipes.
The World Fantasy Awards finalists are:
Best Novel
- In the Night Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams)
- The Mere Wife, Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD)
- The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)
- Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
Best Novella
- The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
- “The Privilege of the Happy Ending“, Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 8/18)
- Beneath the Sugar Sky, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
Best Short Fiction
- “The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation”, Adam-Troy Castro (Nightmare 7/19)
- “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies”, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/18)
- “Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake”, Mel Kassel (Lightspeed 10/18)
- “The Court Magician”, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)
- “Like a River Loves the Sky”, Emma Törzs (Uncanny 3-4/18)
Best Anthology
- Sword and Sonnet, Aidan Doyle, Rachael K. Jones, & E. Catherine Tobler, eds. (Ate Bit Bear)
- The Book of Magic, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
- Worlds Seen in Passing, Irene Gallo, ed. (Tor.com Publishing)
- Best New Horror #28, Stephen Jones, ed. (Drugstore Indian)
- Robots vs Fairies, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
Best Collection
- The Tangled Lands, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell (Saga)
- Still So Strange, Amanda Downum (ChiZine)
- An Agent of Utopia, Andy Duncan (Small Beer)
- How Long ’til Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Phantom Limbs, Margo Lanagan (PS)
Best Artist
- Rovina Cai
- Galen Dara
- Jeffrey Alan Love
- Shaun Tan
- Charles Vess
Special Award – Professional
- C.C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
- Irene Gallo, for Art Direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
- Huw Lewis-Jones for The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (University of Chicago Press)
- Catherine McIlwaine for Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth exhibition (The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford)
- Molly Barton, Jeff Li, James Stuart & Julian Yap for Serial Box
Special Award – Non-Professional
- Mike Allen, for Mythic Delirium
- Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny
- E. Catherine Tobler, for Shimmer
- Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor
This year’s judges are Nancy Holder, Kathleen Jennings, Garry Douglas Kilworth, Stephen Graham Jones, and Tod McCoy. For more information, see the WFC website.
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