2021 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Threading the Labyrinth, Tiffani Angus (Unsung Stories)
• The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook)
• The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
• Dark River, Rym Kechacha (Unsung Stories)
• The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart (Orbit)
• By Force Alone, Lavie Tidhar (Tor)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Plain Bad Heroines, Emily M. Danforth (Borough)
• The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
• The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher (Saga)
• Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
  
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Jo Fletcher)
  
• Survivor Song, Paul Tremblay (Titan)

Best Novella

• Honeybones, Georgina Bruce (TTA)
• The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho (Tordotcom)
• Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• Triggernometry, Stark Holborn (Rattleback)
• The Flame and the Flood, Shona Kinsella (Fox Spirit)
  
• A Song for the End, Kit Power (Horrific Tales)

Best Short Story

• “Infinite Tea in the Demara Café”, Ida Keogh (London Centric: Tales of Future London)
• “We Do Like to be Beside”, Pete Sutton (Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2)
• “Daylight Robbery”, Anna Taborska (Bloody Britain)
• “8-Bit Free Will”, John Wiswell (PodCastle 11/24/20)

Best Collection

• The Watcher in the Woods, Charlotte Bond (Black Shuck)
• Only the Broken Remain, Dan Coxon (Black Shuck)
• We All Hear Stories in the Dark, Robert Shearman (PS)
• Bloody Britain, Anna Taborska (Shadow)

Best Anthology

• Shadows & Tall Trees 8, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
• Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Zelda Knight & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, eds. (Aurelia Leo)
• After Sundown, Mark Morris, ed. (Flame Tree)
• Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Lee Murray & Genevieve Flynn, eds. (Omnium Gatherum)

Best Independent Press

• Black Shuck
• Flame Tree
• Luna
• Unsung Stories

Best Non-Fiction

• Ties that Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Francesca T Barbini, ed. (Luna)
• The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest, Paul Kincaid (Gylphi)
• Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, Alison Peirse, ed. (Rutgers University Press)
• It’s the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of?, Adam Roberts (Elliot & Thompson)
• Notes from the Borderland, Lynda E. Rucker (Black Static)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart & Marguerite Kenner

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Black Static
• The Dark
• Fiyah
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Shoreline of Infinity
• Strange Horizons

Best Artist

• Warwick Fraser-Coombe
• David Rix
• Vincent Sammy
• Daniele Serra

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• Rivers of London: The Fey and the Furious, Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmell (Titan)
• DIE Vol. 2: Split the Party, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)
• Venus in the Blind Spot, Junji Ito (VIZ)
• The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen (Random House Graphic)
• The Daughters of Ys, Jo Rioux & M.T. Anderson (First Second)
  
• John Constantine: Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Marks of Woe, Simon Spurrier & Aaron Campbell (DC)

Best Audio

• PodCastle
• PseudoPod
• Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounsom & Charlotte Bond
• The Sandman, Dirk Maggs & Neil Gaiman (Audible Originals)
• The Magnus Archives
• Stellar Firma

Best Film / Television Production

• Birds of Prey
• The Boys: “What I Know”
• The Haunting of Bly Manor: “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes”
• The Invisible Man
• The Lighthouse
• Saint Maud

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Tiffani Angus
• Dan Coxon
• Sean Hogan
• Kathleen Jennings
• Simon Jimenez
• Rym Kechacha