The World Fantasy Awards are given each year for outstanding achievement in fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year at the annual convention as the central focus of the event. This year’s Convention, held in New Orleans, was celebrated last weekend; here is a list of this year’s award winners.
Samuel R. Delany
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Samuel R. Delany
Terri Windling
NOVEL
WINNER:The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
NOVELLA
WINNER:And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed
“For Sale by Owner” by Elizabeth Hand (When Things Get Dark)
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
Finches by A. M. Muffaz
“A Canticle for Lost Girls” by Isabel Yap (Never Have I Ever: Stories)
SHORT FICTION
WINNER: “(emet)” by Lauren Ring (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/Aug 2021)
“The Failing Name” by Eugen Bacon and Seb Doubinsky (Fantasy Magazine, Aug. 2021)
“The Demon Sage’s Daughter” by Varsha Dinesh (Strange Horizons, 8 Feb 2021)
“If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny Magazine #42, Sep/Oct 2021)
“#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi” by Usman T. Malik (Tor.com, Mar 3 2021)
“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine #39, Mar/Apr 2021)
ANTHOLOGY
The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
WINNER:The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 Edition), eds. Charlatan Bardot and Eric J. Guignard
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, ed. Ellen Datlow
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume Two, ed. Paula Guran
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, eds. Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, Sarah Rafael García
COLLECTION
WINNER:Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan by Usman T. Malik
Tales the Devil Told Me by Jen Fawkes
Big Dark Hole: Stories by Jeffrey Ford
The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales by Angela Slatter
The Ghost Sequences by A. C. Wise
Never Have I Ever: Stories by Isabel Yap
ARTIST
“Miranda and Caliban” by Tran Nguyen
WINNER: Tran Nguyen
Brom
Odera Igbokwe
Aleksandra Skiba
Charles Vess
SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL
WINNER: Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, for Monstress Volume Six: The Vow (Image Comics)
Charlie Jane Anders, for Never Say You Can’t Survive (Tordotcom)
Cam Collins and 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 and Vanessa Rose Phin, for Strange Horizons
Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, for Hellebore
Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
Arley Sorg and Christie Yant, for Fantasy Magazine
Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
