The winners of the 2013 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, England. A round of applause to all of the nominees and winners.
This year, Holly Black, Tom Clegg, Marc Laidlaw, Stephen Laws, and Stephanie Smith served as judges for the awards. See all the nominees below, with the winners in bold.
World Fantasy Special Award: William F. Nolan and Brian Aldiss
Novel
Winner: Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)
The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
Crandolin, Anna Tambour (Chômu)
Novella
Winner: “Let Maps to Others,” K.J. Parker (Subterranean Summer ’12)
“Hand of Glory,” Laird Barron (The Book of Cthulhu II)
The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon)
“The Skull,” Lucius Shepard (The Dragon Griaule)
“Sky,” Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)
Short Story
Winner: “The Telling,” Gregory Norman Bossert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/29/12)
“A Natural History of Autumn,” Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 7-8/12)
“The Castle That Jack Built,” Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/12)
“Breaking the Frame,” Kat Howard (Lightspeed 8/12)
“Swift, Brutal Retaliation,” Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12)
Anthology
Winner: Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4, Danel Olson, ed. (PS Publishing)
Epic: Legends of Fantasy, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Tachyon)
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown, eds. (Small Beer)
Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Random House)
Collection
Winner: Where Furnaces Burn, Joel Lane (PS Publishing)
At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
Jagannath, Karin Tidbeck (Cheeky Frawg)
Artist
Winner: Vincent Chong
Didier Graffet and Dave Senior
Kathleen Jennings
J.K. Potter
Chris Roberts
Special Award—Professional
Winner: Lucia Graves for the translation of The Prisoner of Heaven (Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Harper) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Peter Crowther & Nicky Crowther for PS Publishing
Adam Mills, Ann VanderMeer, & Jeff VanderMeer for the Weird Fiction Review website
Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi for ChiZine Publications
William K. Schafer for Subterranean Press
Special Award—Non-professional
Winner: S.T. Joshi for Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volumes 1 & 2 (PS Publishing)
Scott H. Andrews for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
L. Timmel Duchamp for Aqueduct Press
Charles A. Tan for Bibliophile Stalker blog
Jerad Walters for Centipede Press
Joseph Wrzos for Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration (Centipede Press)
The Life Time Achievement Award: Susan Cooper and Tanith Lee
[via Tor.com]
