2022 British Fantasy Awards Winners
The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners for the 2022 British Fantasy Awards:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
- WINNER: She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)
- The Black Coast, Mike Brooks (Orbit)
- The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit)
- Sistersong, Lucy Holland (Tor)
- The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit)
- This is Our Undoing, Lorraine Wilson (Luna)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)
- WINNER: The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Viper)
- 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 Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Penguin)
Best Novella
- WINNER: 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
- WINNER: “Bathymetry”, Lorraine Wilson (Strange Horizons 3/21)
- “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)
- “Fill the Thickened Lung with Breath”, C.A. Yates (Dreamland: Other Stories)
Best Collection
- WINNER: Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)
- I Spit Myself Out, Tracy Fahey (Sinister Horror Company)
- The Museum for Forgetting, Pete W. Sutton (Grimbold)
- The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow)
- We All Have Teeth, C.A. Yates (Fox Spirit)
Best Anthology
- WINNER: Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction, Xueting Christine Ni, ed. (Solaris)
- 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)
Best Independent Press
- WINNER: Luna
- Black Shuck
- Unsung Stories
- Wizard’s Tower
Best Non-Fiction
- WINNER: Writing the Uncanny, Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst, ed. (Dead Ink)
- 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)
- 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
- WINNER: Apex
- Anathema
- Black Static
- Ginger Nuts of Horror
- Interzone
- Shoreline of Infinity
Best Artist
- WINNER: Jenni Coutts
- Olga Beliaeva
- Randy Broecker
- Alison Buck
- Vincent Sammy
- Daniele Serra
Best Comic / Graphic Novel
- WINNER: The Girl from the Sea, Molly Knox Ostertag (Graphix)
- 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)
- Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming, Stan Sakai (IDW)
Best Audio
- WINNER: Monstrous Agonies, H.R. Owen
- Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounsom & Charlotte Bond
- Daughter of Fire and Water, Lyndsey Croal
- PodCastle, Escape Artists
- PseudoPod, Escape Artists
Best Film / Television Production
- WINNER: Last Night in Soho
- Candyman
- Dune
- In the Earth
- Space Sweepers
- The Green Knight
Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)
- WINNER: Shelley Parker-Chan
- J.T. Greathouse
- Ian Green
- Lorraine Wilson
- C.A. Yates
- Xiran Jay Zhao
Karl Edward Wagner Award
- Maureen Kincaid Speller
Winners were announced during FantasyCon, held September 17-18, 2022 at the Radisson Red Hotel and Conference Centre in Heathrow, UK. The Legends of FantasyCon award (presented by the con, rather than the British Fantasy Society) went to Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane, “for their tireless work keeping FantasyCon and other conventions running.” For more information, see the BFS website.
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