2022 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Black Coast, Mike Brooks (Orbit)
• The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit)
• Sistersong, Lucy Holland (Tor)
• She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)
• The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit)
• This is Our Undoing, Lorraine Wilson (Luna)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• A Dowry of Blood, S.T. Gibson (Nyx Publishing / Orbit)
• My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
• Nothing but Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Titan)
• A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
• The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Viper)
• The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Penguin)

Best Novella

• Defekt, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
• Treacle Walker, Alan Garner (4th Estate)
• A Spindle Splintered, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
• Matryoshka, Penny Jones (Hersham Horror)
• & This is How to Stay Alive, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Neon Hemlock)
• These Lifeless Things, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)

Best Short Story

• “Henrietta”, T.H. Dray (BFS Horizons)
• “O2 Arena”, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Galaxy’s Edge 11/21)
• “A Flight of Birds”, E.M. Faulds (Shoreline of Infinity 8/21)
• “Sky Eyes”, Julie Travis (Dreamland: Other Stories)
• “Bathymetry”, Lorraine Wilson (Strange Horizons 3/21)
• “Fill the Thickened Lung with Breath”, C.A. Yates (Dreamland: Other Stories)

Best Collection

• I Spit Myself Out, Tracy Fahey (Sinister Horror Company)
• The Museum for Forgetting, Pete W. Sutton (Grimbold)
• The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow)
• Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)
• We All Have Teeth, C.A. Yates (Fox Spirit)

Best Anthology

• Out of the Darkness, Dan Coxon, ed. (Unsung Stories)
• When Things Get Dark, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
• The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, ed. (Jembefola)
• Dreamland: Other Stories, Sophie Essex, ed. (Black Shuck)
• There Is No Death, There Are No Dead, Aaron J. French & Jess Landry, eds. (Crystal Lake)
• Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction, Xueting Christine Ni, ed. (Solaris)

Best Independent Press

• Black Shuck
• Luna
• Unsung Stories
• Wizard’s Tower

Best Non-Fiction

• Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Francesca T. Barbini, ed. (Luna)
• After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin, Thomas Connolly (Liverpool University Press)
• Writing the Uncanny, Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst, ed. (Dead Ink)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, Marguerite Kenner, eds.
• Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985, Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, eds. (PM)
• Ginger Nuts of Horror, Jim Mcleod

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Anathema
• Apex
  
• Black Static
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Interzone
• Shoreline of Infinity

Best Artist

• Olga Beliaeva
• Randy Broecker
• Alison Buck
• Jenni Coutts
• Vincent Sammy
• Daniele Serra

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• 2000AD
• Djeliya, Juni Ba (TKO)
• ExtraOrdinary, V.E. Schwab, art by Enid Balam (Titan)
• DIE, Volume 4: Bleed, Kieron Gillen, art by Stephanie Hans, lettering by Clayton Cowles (Image)
• The Girl from the Sea, Molly Knox Ostertag (Graphix)
• Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming, Stan Sakai (IDW)

Best Audio

• Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounsom & Charlotte Bond
• Daughter of Fire and Water, Lyndsey Croal
• PodCastle, Escape Artists
• PseudoPod, Escape Artists
• Monstrous Agonies, H.R. Owen

Best Film / Television Production

• Candyman
• Dune
• In the Earth
• Last Night in Soho
• Space Sweepers
• The Green Knight

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• J.T. Greathouse
• Ian Green
• Shelley Parker-Chan
• Lorraine Wilson
• C.A. Yates
• Xiran Jay Zhao