World Fantasy Awards 2015
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
World Fantasy Convention,
Saratoga Springs, NY :
November 8, 2015
Eligibility Year: 2014
Judges: Gemma Files, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Bénédicte Lombardo, Bruce McAllister, Robert Shearman
Eligibility Year: 2014
Judges: Gemma Files, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Bénédicte Lombardo, Bruce McAllister, Robert Shearman
Life Achievement
- Winner: Ramsey Campbell
- Winner: Sheri S. Tepper
Novel
- Winner: The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Random House; Spectre)
- Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus & Girous)
- City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
- The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
- My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair)
Novella
- Winner: We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
- “The Devil in America”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 2 Apr 2014)
- “Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Sum 2014)
- “Hollywood North”, Michael Libling (F&SF Nov/Dec 2014)
- “The Mothers of Voorhisville”, Mary Rickert (Tor.com 30 Apr 2014)
- “Where the Trains Turn”, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Tor.com 19 Nov 2014)
Short Fiction
- Winner: Do You Like to Look at Monsters?, Scott Nicolay (Fedogan & Bremer)
- “Death's Door Café”, Kaaron Warren (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014)
- “The Fisher Queen”, Alyssa Wong (F&SF May/Jun 2014)
- “I Can See Right Through You”, Kelly Link (McSweeney's #48)
- “Jackalope Wives”, Ursula Vernon (Apex Jan 2014)
Anthology
- Winner: Monstrous Affections, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (Candlewick)
- Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine)
- Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres)
- Rogues, George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam; Titan)
- Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
Collection
- Winner (tie): The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
- Winner (tie): Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
- Death at the Blue Elephant, Janeen Webb (Ticonderoga)
- Mercy and Other Stories, Rebecca Lloyd (Tartarus)
- They Do the Same Things Different There, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
Artist
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Sandra Kasturi & Brett Alexander Savory, for ChiZine Publications
- John Joseph Adams, for editing anthologies and Nightmare and Lightspeed magazines
- Jeanne Cavelos, for Odyssey writing workshops
- Gordon Van Gelder, for F&SF
- Jerad Walters, for Centipede Press
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner: Ray B. Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
- Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Matt Cardin, for Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti (Subterranean)
- Stefan Fergus, for Civilian Reader (civilianreader.wordpress.com)
- Patrick Swenson, for Fairwood Press
Remarks:
Winners:
This is David Mitchell's first sf or fantasy award ever, as compiled in this database. And it's the first nomination and first win of all the awards compiled here for both Scott Nicolay and Samuel Araya.
This is Daryl Gregory's first World Fantasy Award; this story was also a finalist for the Nebula, Shirley Jackson, and Theodore Sturgeon awards.
Sandra Kasturi and Brett Alexander Savory have won their first WF Awards, after three previous nominations.
This is Rosalie Parker's fifth WF win, and Ray Russell's third.
Nominations:
These are the first World Fantasy Awards nominations for Katherine Addison [Sarah Monette], Robert Jackson Bennett, Stefan Fergus, Rose Fox, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, Michael Kelly, Rebecca Lloyd, Jeffrey Alan Love, Helen Marshall, David Mitchell, Erik Mohr, Scott Nicolay, Daniel Jose Older, Ursula Vernon, Kai Ashante Wilson, and Alyssa Wong.
And this is Ellen Datlow's 42nd WFA nomination, after 10 previous wins; Kelly Link's 16th and 17th nominations, after 2 previous wins; George R.R. Martin's 15th nomination, with 3 previous wins; and Jeff VanderMeer's 15th nomination, with 3 previous wins.
Winners:
This is David Mitchell's first sf or fantasy award ever, as compiled in this database. And it's the first nomination and first win of all the awards compiled here for both Scott Nicolay and Samuel Araya.
This is Daryl Gregory's first World Fantasy Award; this story was also a finalist for the Nebula, Shirley Jackson, and Theodore Sturgeon awards.
Sandra Kasturi and Brett Alexander Savory have won their first WF Awards, after three previous nominations.
This is Rosalie Parker's fifth WF win, and Ray Russell's third.
Nominations:
These are the first World Fantasy Awards nominations for Katherine Addison [Sarah Monette], Robert Jackson Bennett, Stefan Fergus, Rose Fox, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, Michael Kelly, Rebecca Lloyd, Jeffrey Alan Love, Helen Marshall, David Mitchell, Erik Mohr, Scott Nicolay, Daniel Jose Older, Ursula Vernon, Kai Ashante Wilson, and Alyssa Wong.
And this is Ellen Datlow's 42nd WFA nomination, after 10 previous wins; Kelly Link's 16th and 17th nominations, after 2 previous wins; George R.R. Martin's 15th nomination, with 3 previous wins; and Jeff VanderMeer's 15th nomination, with 3 previous wins.
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