2019 World Fantasy Award Winners Annouced

Winners have been announced for the 2019 World Fantasy Awards.

The awards are administered by the World Fantasy Awards Administration and the Board of the World Fantasy Convention, which is a traveling convention hosted by individual events bidding to host the WFC. The awards are given each year to recognize light and dark fantasy art and literature released the previous year.

Winners are marked in red.

Novel

• In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
• Witchmark by C. L. Polk (Tor.com)
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press)

Novella

• The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com)
• The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com)
• The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press)
• “The Privilege of the Happy Ending” by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Aug. 2018)
• Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)

Short Fiction (tie)

• “The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation” by Adam-Troy Castro (Nightmare Magazine, July 2019)
• “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine, February 2018)
• “Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake” by Mel Kassel (Lightspeed, October 2018)
• “The Court Magician” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed, January 2018)
• “Like a River Loves the Sky” by Emma Törzs (Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2018)

Anthology

• Sword and Sonnet, edited by Aidan Doyle, Rachael K. Jones, and E. Catherine Tobler (Ate Bit Bear)
• The Book of Magic, edited by Gardner Dozois (Bantam Books US/HarperVoyager UK)
• Best New Horror #28, edited by Stephen Jones (Drugstore Indian Press UK)
• Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga Press)
• Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, edited by Irene Gallo (Tor.com)

Collection

• The Tangled Lands, by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (Saga Press/Head of Zeus UK)
• Still So Strange, by Amanda Downum (ChiZine Publications)
• An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories, by Andy Duncan (Small Beer Press)
• How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
• Phantom Limbs, by Margo Lanagan (PS Publishing)

Artist

• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess

Special Award – Professional

• C. C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Irene Gallo, for Art Direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
• Huw Lewis-Jones for The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (University of Chicago Press)
• Catherine McIlwaine for Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth exhibition (The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford)
• Julian Yap, Molly Barton, Jeff Li, and James Stuart for Serial Box

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Mike Allen, for Mythic Delirium
• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
• Catherine Tobler, for Shimmer Magazine
• Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor

2019 Lifetime Achievement Awards

• Hayao Miyazaki
• Jack Zipes

The winners were announced November 3rd as part of the World Fantasy Convention in Los Angeles.