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The winner of this year’s Crawford Award, presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts for a first book of fantasy (novel or collection) published the previous year, is Simon Jimenez’s The Spear Cuts Through Water. The award will be presented at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in March 2023.
A shortlist was also announced, with works by Maya Deane, Naseem Jamnia, Alex Jennings, and Jacob Kerr.