2020 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Bone Ships, RJ Barker (Orbit)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Orbit)
• The Migration, Helen Marshall (Titan)
• The Poison Song, Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• The Plague Stones, James Brogden (Titan)
• The Institute, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher (Titan)
• Mistletoe, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher)
• The Migration, Helen Marshall (Titan)
• The Reddening, Adam Nevill (Ritual Limited)

Best Novella

• “Butcher’s Table”, Nathan Ballingrud (Wounds)
• Ragged Alice, Gareth L. Powell (Tor.com Publishing)
• Ormeshadow, Priya Sharma (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Gallery)
• The Survival of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Ascent to Godhood, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Short Story

• “Dendrochronology”, Penny Jones (The Woods)
• “The Pain-Eater’s Daughter”, Laura Mauro (Sing Your Sadness Deep)
• “I Say (I Say, I Say)”, Robert Shearman (Tales from the Shadow Booth, Vol. 3)
• “Tomorrow, When I Was Young“, Julie Travis (Eibonvale)

Best Collection

• This House of Wounds, Georgina Bruce (Undertow)
• Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
• Sing Your Sadness Deep, Laura Mauro (Undertow)
• The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams, Maura McHugh (NewCon)
• Growing Things, Paul Tremblay (Titan)

Best Anthology

• A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods, Jennifer Brozek, ed. (Pulse)
• Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales, David Gullen, ed. (NewCon)
• Wonderland, Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane, eds. (Titan)
• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction for People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris)
• The Woods, Phil Sloman, ed. (Hersham Horror)
• The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)

Best Independent Press

• Aqueduct
• Black Shuck
• Luna
• NewCon
• Rebellion
• Undertow

Best Non-Fiction

• Joanna Russ, Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press)
• The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein, Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)
• “Notes from the Borderland”, Lynda E Rucker (Black Static 9-10/20)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart
• The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (New York University Press)
• Coffinmaker’s Blues: Collected Writings on Terror, Stephen Volk (PS)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Black Static
• The Dark
• Fiyah
• Gingernuts of Horror
• Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Shoreline of Infinity

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Vince Haig
• Jackie Morris
• David Rix

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• DIE, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)
• Basketful of Heads #1, Joe Hill, Leomacs & Dave Stewart (DC)
• The Ozone Diary, Tero Mielonen & Pentti Otsamo (Luna)
• B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know, Vol. 3: Ragna Rok, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Laurence Campbell, et al. (Dark Horse)
• 2000AD, Matt Smith, ed. (Rebellion)
• DCeased #1-6, Tom Taylor, Trevor Hairsine, Stefano Gaudiano, et al. (DC)

Best Audio

• Breaking the Glass Slipper
• PodCastle
• PseudoPod
• Speculative Spaces

Best Film / Television Production

• Game of Thrones: “The Long Night”
• Us
• Watchmen: “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”
• The Witcher: “Rare Species”

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, for The Water Dancer (One World)
• Alix E. Harrow, for The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Orbit)
• Penny Jones, for Suffer Little Children (Black Shuck)
• Tamsyn Muir, for Gideon the Ninth (Tor.com Publishing)
• Nina Oram, for The Joining (Luna)