2020 World Fantasy Award Winners Announced

Over the weekend at the World Fantasy Convention, taking place virtually this year, the winners were announced for the World Fantasy Awards, which recognize excellence in fantasy-themed literature and art, and have been part of the convention since its inception in 1975. This year’s judges were Gwenda Bond, Galen, Dara, Michael Kelly, Victor LaValle, and Adam Roberts.

Lifetime Acievement Awards went to Rowena Morrill and Karen Joy Fowler for their “outstanding service to the fantasy field”.

Winners are marked in red.

Novel

• “The Butcher’s Table,” by Nathan Ballingrud (Wounds: Six Stories From the Border of Hell)
• Desdemona and the Deep, by C.S.E. Cooney (Tor.com)
• In an Absent Dream, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
• The Deep, by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes (Saga Press/Hodder & Stoughton UK)
• Silver in the Wood, by Emily Tesh (Tor.com)

Short Fiction

• “For He Can Creep,” by Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, July 10, 2019)
• “Read After Burning,” by Maria Dahvana Headley, (A People’s Future of the United States)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye,” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, Jul-Aug 2019)
• “Blood is Another Word For Hunger,” by Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, July 24, 2019)
• “Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” by Jerome Stueart (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2019)
• “Everyone Knows That They‘re Dead. Do You?,” by Genevieve Valentine (The Outcast Hours)

Anthology

• Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, edited by Ellen Datlow (Saga Press)
• The Outcast Hours, edited by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin (Solaris)
• The Mythic Dream, edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe (Saga Press)
• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, edited by Nisi Shawl (Solaris)
• The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage Books)

Collection

• Homesick: Stories, by Nino Cipri (Dzanc Books)
• Song For the Unraveling of the World: Stories, by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
• Unforeseen, by Molly Gloss (Saga Press)
• A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror, by John Hornor Jacobs (Harper Voyager)
• Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories, by Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer Press)

Artist

• Tommy Arnold
• Galen Dara
• Julie Dillon
• Wendy Froud
• Kathleen Jennings

Special Award – Professional 

• C. C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (Liveright)
• Ellen Oh, for We Need Diverse Books
• Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, for The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (New York University Press)
• Sheree Renée Thomas, for contributions to the genre

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Laura E. Goodin and Esko Suoranta, for Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction
• Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe, for the Coode Street Podcast
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
• Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor