2020 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

• Queen of the Conquered, Kacen Callender (Orbit US)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie (Orbit US & UK)
• Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa (Pantheon; Harvill Secker)

Best Novella

• “The Butcher’s Table”, Nathan Ballingrud (Wounds)
• Desdemona and the Deep, C.S.E. Cooney (Tor.com Publishing)
• In an Absent Dream, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
• Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Short Fiction

• “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
• “Read After Burning”, Maria Dahvana Headley (A People’s Future of the United States)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)
• “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger”, Rivers Solomon (Tor.com 7/24/19)
• “Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun”, Jerome Stueart (F&SF 3-4/19)
• “Everyone Knows That They’re Dead. Do You?”, Genevieve Valentine (The Outcast Hours)

Best Anthology

• Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
• The Outcast Hours, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris)
• The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris US & UK)
• The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)

Best Collection

• Homesick, Nino Cipri (Dzanc)
• Song for the Unraveling of the World, Brian Evenson (Coffee House)
• Unforeseen, Molly Gloss (Saga)
• A Lush and Seething Hell, John Hornor Jacobs (Harper Voyager US)
• Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)

Best Artist

• Tommy Arnold
• Galen Dara
• Julie Dillon
• Wendy Froud
• Kathleen Jennings

Special Award – Professional

• C.C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (Liveright)
• Ellen Oh, for We Need Diverse Books
• Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, for The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (New York University Press)
• Sheree Renée Thomas, for contributions to the genre

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Laura E. Goodin & Esko Suoranta, for Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction series
• Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe, for The Coode Street Podcast
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny
• Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor