The winners for the 2017 World Fantasy Awards have been announced! This year’s award ceremony was held at the World Fantasy Convention, November 2-5, 2017 in San Antonio, Texas, with a theme of “Secret Histories.” Terry Brooks and Marina Warner were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards.
The full list of nominees follows, with winners in bold.
Novel
- Winner: The Sudden Appearance of Hope, Claire North (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- Borderline, Mishell Baker (Saga)
- Roadsouls, Betsy James (Aqueduct)
- The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff (Harper)
- Long Fiction
- Winner: The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
- Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
- “Bloodybones,” Paul F. Olson (Whispered Echoes)
- A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Das Steingeschöpf,” G.V. Anderson (Strange Horizons 12/12/16)
- “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies,” Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
- “Seasons of Glass and Iron,” Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
- “Little Widow,” Maria Dahvana Headley (Nightmare 9/16)
- “The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me,” Rachael K. Jones (Clockwork Phoenix 5)
Anthology
- Winner: Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann, ed. (PS Australia)
- Clockwork Phoenix 5, Mike Allen, ed. (Mythic Delirium)
- Children of Lovecraft, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Karen Joy Fowler & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
- The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
Collection
- Winner: A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
- Sharp Ends, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz)
- On the Eyeball Floor and Other Stories, Tina Connolly (Fairwood)
- Vacui Magia, L.S. Johnson (Traversing Z Press)
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
Artist
- Winner: Jeffrey Alan Love
- Greg Bridges
- Julie Dillon
- Paul Lewin
- Victo Ngai
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Michael Levy & Farah Mendelsohn, for Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction(Cambridge University Press)L. Timmel Duchamp, for Aqueduct Press
- C.C. Finlay, for editing F&SF
- Kelly Link, for contributions to the genre
- Joe Monti, for contributions to the genre
Special Award, Non-Professional
- Winner: Neile Graham, for fostering excellence in the genre through her role as Workshop Director, Clarion West
- Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Malcom R. Phifer & Michael C. Phifer, for their publication The Fantasy Illustration Library, Volume Two: Gods and Goddesses (Michael Publishing)
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny
- Brian White, for Fireside Fiction Company
