World Fantasy Awards 2020
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
World Fantasy Convention,
Online :
November 1, 2020
Eligibility Year: 2019
Judges: Gwenda Bond, Galen Dara, Michael Kelly, Victor LaValle, Adam Roberts
Eligibility Year: 2019
Judges: Gwenda Bond, Galen Dara, Michael Kelly, Victor LaValle, Adam Roberts
Life Achievement
- Winner: Karen Joy Fowler
- Winner: Rowena Morrill
Novel
- Winner: Queen of the Conquered, Kacen Callender (Orbit)
- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com)
- The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa (Pantheon; Harvill Secker)
- The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie (Orbit)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
Novella
- Winner: Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh (Tor.com)
- “The Butcher's Table”, Nathan Ballingrud (Wounds)
- The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes, with234 (Saga)
- Desdemona and the Deep, C. S. E. Cooney (Tor.com)
- In an Absent Dream, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Read After Burning”, Maria Dahvana Headley (A People's Future of the United States)
- “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger”, Rivers Solomon (Tor.com 24 Jul 2019)
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2019)
- “Everyone Knows That They're Dead. Do You?”, Genevieve Valentine (The Outcast Hours)
- “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 10 Jul 2019)
- “Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun”, Jerome Stueart (F&SF Mar/Apr 2019)
Anthology
- Winner: New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris)
- The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)
- Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
- The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
- The Outcast Hours, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris)
Collection
- Winner: Song for the Unraveling of the World, Brian Evenson (Coffee House)
- Homesick, Nino Cipri (Dzanc)
- A Lush and Seething Hell, John Hornor Jacobs (Harper Voyager)
- Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)
- Unforeseen, Molly Gloss (Saga)
Artist
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, for The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (New York University Press)
- C. C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
- Leslie S. Klinger, for The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (Liveright)
- Ellen Oh, for We Need Diverse Books
- Sheree Renée Thomas, for contributions to the genre
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Laura E. Goodin & Esko Suoranta, for Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
- Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction series
- Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe, for The Coode Street Podcast
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny
- Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor
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