World Fantasy Awards 2023
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Winners announced: October 29, 2023
Convention: World Fantasy Convention
Where: Kansas City, MO
Eligibility Year: 2022
Judges: Dale Bailey, Kelly Robson, Ginny Smith, Ian Whates, A. C. Wise
Convention: World Fantasy Convention
Where: Kansas City, MO
Eligibility Year: 2022
Judges: Dale Bailey, Kelly Robson, Ginny Smith, Ian Whates, A. C. Wise
Life Achievement
- Winner: Peter Crowther
- Winner: John Douglas
Novel
- Winner: Saint Death's Daughter, C. S. E. Cooney (Solaris)
- Babel, R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- Siren Queen, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
Novella
- Winner: Pomegranates, Priya Sharma (Absinthe)
- The Bruising of Qilwa, Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon)
- Even Though I Knew the End, C. L. Polk (Tordotcom)
- Helpmeet, Naben Ruthnum (Undertow)
- The House of Drought, Dennis Mombauer (Stelliform)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)
- “The Devil Don't Come with Horns”, Eugen Bacon (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)
- “Douen”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark Mar 2022)
- “The Morning House”, Kate Heartfield (PodCastle 5 Jul 2022)
- “Telling the Bees”, Kat Howard (Sunday Morning Transport 30 Jan 2022)
Anthology
- Winner: Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, eds. (Tordotcom)
- Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror, John F. D. Taff, ed. (Nightfire)
- Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology, Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason, eds. (Morrow)
- Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)
- Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Sheree Renée Thomas, Pan Morigan & Troy L. Wiggins, eds. (Third Man)
Collection
- Winner: All Nightmare Long, Tim Lebbon (PS)
- Boys, Beasts & Men, Sam J. Miller (Tachyon)
- Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
- Dark Breakers, C. S. E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium)
- A Different Darkness and Other Abominations, Luigi Musolino (Valancourt)
Artist
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Matt Ottley, for The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness (Dirt Lane)
- Irene Gallo, for Tor.com
- Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link, for Small Beer Press
- Tim Lebbon & Daniele Serra, for Without Walls (PS)
- Fiona Moore, for Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros (Edward Elgar)
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner: Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
- Cristina Macía, for The Celsius Festival
- dave ring, for Neon Hemlock Press
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny
- E. Catherine Tobler, for editing The Deadlands
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