2022 World Fantasy Awards Winners
The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2021 has been announced during the 2022 World Fantasy Convention, held November 3-6, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, in Louisiana.
The Life Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, went to Samuel R. Delany and Terri Windling.
The World Fantasy Awards winners are:
Best Novel
- WINNER: The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan)
- A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
- The City Beautiful, Aden Polydoros (Inkyard)
- The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper UK)
Best Novella
- WINNER: And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock)
- “For Sale by Owner”, Elizabeth Hand (When Things Get Dark)
- Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire)
- Finches, A.M. Muffaz (Vernacular)
- “A Canticle for Lost Girls”, Isabel Yap (Never Have I Ever)
Best Short Fiction
- WINNER: “(emet)”, Lauren Ring (F&SF 7-8/21)
- “The Failing Name”, Eugen Bacon & Seb Doubinsky
(Fantasy 8/21) - “The Demon Sage’s Daughter”, Varsha Dinesh
(Strange Horizons 2/8/218) - “If the Martians Have Magic”, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 9-10/21)
- “#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi”, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 3/3/21)
- “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/21)
Best Anthology
- WINNER: The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, ed. (Jembefola)
- Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 Edition), Charlatan Bardot & Eric J. Guignard, eds. (Dark Moon)
- When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
- The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume Two, Paula Guran, ed. (Pyr)
- Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek)
Best Collection
- WINNER: Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
- Tales the Devil Told Me, Jen Fawkes (Press 53)
- Big Dark Hole, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
- The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
- The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow)
- Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)
Best Artist
- WINNER: Tran Nguyen
- Brom
- Odera Igbokwe
- Aleksandra Skiba
- Charles Vess
Special Award – Professional
- WINNER: Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda, for Monstress Volume Six: The Vow (Image Comics)
- Charlie Jane Anders, for Never Say You Can’t Survive (Tordotcom)
- Cam Collins & Steve Shell, for Old Gods of Appalachia (podcast)
- Irene Gallo, for Tor.com
- William K. Schafer, for Subterranean Press
- Sheree Renée Thomas, for editing F&SF
Special Award – Non-Professional
- WINNER: Tonia Ransom, for Nightlight: A Horror Fiction Podcast
- Gautam Bhatia & Vanessa Rose Phin, for Strange Horizons
- Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, for Hellebore
- Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
- Arley Sorg & Christie Yant, for Fantasy
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny
This year’s judges are C.S.E. Cooney, Julie Crisp, C.C. Finlay, Richard Kadrey, and Misha Stone. For more information, see the WFC website.
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