2023 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Path of War, David Green (Eerie River)
• Cast Long Shadows, Cat Hellisen (Luna)
• The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)
• Glitterati, Oliver K. Langmead (Titan)
• The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
• The Oleander Sword, Tasha Suri (Orbit)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Full Immersion, Gemma Amor (Angry Robot)
• The Hollows, Daniel Church (Angry Robot)
• Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Miracle Growth, Tim Mendees (Eerie River)
• Sundial, Catriona Ward (Viper)

Best Novella

• And Then I Woke Up, Malcolm Devlin (Tordotcom)
• Interference, Terry Grimwood (Elsewhen)
• The Queen of the High Fields, Rhiannon A. Grist (Luna)
• The Entropy of Loss, Stewart Hotston (NewCon)
• Pomegranates, Priya Sharma (PS)
• Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)

Best Short Fiction

• “Morta”, James Bennett (The Book of Queer Saints)
• “The Tails That Make You”, Eliza Chan (Fantasy  8/22)
• “The Call of El Tunche”, Shona Kinsella (Weird Horror Anthology)
• “A Moment of Zugzwang”, Neil Williamson (ParSec #4)

Best Collection

• Under the Moon, E.M. Faulds (Ghost Moth)
• Candescent Blooms, Andrew Hook (Salt)
• Behind a Broken Smile, Penny Jones (Black Shuck)
• Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)

Best Anthology

• Sky Breaker: Tales of the Wanderer, Lee C. Conley, H.L. Tinsley, J.E. Hannaford, David Green, Derek Power, C. Marry Hultman, Damien Larkin, & C.F. Welburn, eds. (Nordic)
• Isolation: The Horror Anthology, Dan Coxon, ed. (Titan)
• Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fic­tion, Sheree Renée Thomas & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, eds. (Tordotcom)
• The Book of Queer Saints, Mae Murray, ed. (Medusa)
• Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana, Steve J. Shaw, ed. (Black Shuck)
• Someone in Time, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)

Best Independent Press

• Black Shuck
• Flame Tree
• Luna
• NewCon

Best Non-Fiction

• Fantasy: How it Works, Brian Attebery (OUP)
• An Earnest Blackness, Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus Press)
• Outlander and the Real Jacobites, Shona Kinsella (Pen & Sword History)
• My Life in Horror, Vol. 2, Kit Power (self-published)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart & Marguerite Kenner, eds.
• Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Interzone
• Shoreline of Infinity
• Strange Horizons

Best Artist

• Chris Baker (Fangorn)
• Ben Baldwin
• Jenni Coutts
• Vince Haig
• Dan Hillier

Best Audio

• The Painkiller Podcast, Bitter Pill Theatre
• Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounsom & Charlotte Bond
• The Secret of St. Kilda, Michael Ireland & Naomi Clarke
• PodCastle, Escape Artists
• PseudoPod, Escape Artists
• The Stranger Times, C.K. McDonnell

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Sunyi Dean
• Hiron Ennes
• Somto Ihezue
• Shauna Lawless
• Elijah Kinch Spector
• Susan York