The British Fantasy Award nominations have been annouced and I am delighted to be included with “Pomegranates” in the novella category. My humble thanks to anyone who voted for it.
The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Jurors: Elias Eells, Elloise Hopkins, S.D. Howarth, Nadya Mercik, Roseanna Pendlebury
- The Bone Orchard – Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
- Cast Long Shadows – Cat Hellisen (Luna Press Publishing)
- Glitterati – Oliver K. Langmead (Titan)
- The Oleander Sword – Tasha Suri (Orbit)
- Path of War – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
- The Spear Cuts Through Water – Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)
The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
Jurors: Ben Appleby-Dean, Theresa Derwin, Rhian Drinkwater, Rebecca Gault, Sasha Sienna
- Full Immersion – Gemma Amor (Angry Robot)
- The Hollows – Daniel Church (Angry Robot)
- Just Like Home – Sarah Gailey (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Miracle Growth – Tim Mendees (Eerie River Publishing)
- Sundial – Catriona Ward (Viper)
Best Novella
Jurors: Rick Danforth, Elizabeth Elliot, Jessica Hyslop, E. Saxey, Miranda Seitz-McLeese
- And Then I Woke Up – Malcolm Devlin (Tordotcom)
- The Entropy of Loss – Stewart Hotston (NewCon Press)
- Interference – Terry Grimwood (Elsewhen Press)
- Ogres – Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
- Pomegranates – Priya Sharma (PS Publishing)
- The Queen of the High Fields – Rhiannon A. Grist (Luna Press Publishing)
Best Short Fiction
Jurors: Laura Bennett, Andrew Freudenberg, Jessica Levai, Peter McLean
- The Call of El Tunche – Shona Kinsella (in Weird Horror Anthology, Flame Tree Press)
- A Moment of Zugzwang – Neil Williamson (in ParSec #4)
- Morta – James Bennett (in The Book of Queer Saints, Medusa Publishing Haus)
- The Tails That Make You – Eliza Chan (in Fantasy Magazine #82)
Best Collection
Jurors: Brian Kinsella, Ann Landmann, Chris McNallen-Jones, India Nye, Derek Schofield
- Behind a Broken Smile – Penny Jones (Black Shuck Books)
- Breakable Things – Cassandra Khaw (Undertow Publications)
- Candescent Blooms – Andrew Hook (Salt Publishing)
- Under the Moon – E.M. Faulds (Ghost Moth Press)
Best Magazine/Periodical
Jurors: Jonathan Laidlow, Hesper Leveret, Lauren McMenemy, Eleanor Pender, Nathaniel Spain
- Ginger Nuts of Horror
- Interzone
- Shoreline of Infinity
- Strange Horizons
Best Audio Work
Jurors: Rosemarie Cawkwell, Arden Fitzroy, Morgan Greensmith, Amy Portsmouth
- Breaking the Glass Slipper
- The Painkiller Podcast (Bitter Pill Theatre)
- Podcastle (Escape Artists)
- Pseudopod (Escape Artists)
- The Secret of St. Kilda (Michael Ireland & Naomi Clarke)
- The Stranger Times (C.K. McDonnell)
Best Independent Press
Jurors: Rowena Andrews, Andy Angel, Robin CM Duncan, Alex Norriss, Sara Omer
- Black Shuck Books
- Flame Tree Press
- Luna Press Publishing
- NewCon Press
Best Artist
Jurors: Cat Anderson, Mehzeb Chowdhury, David Green, Adam McDowall, Paul Yates
- Chris Baker (Fangorn)
- Ben Baldwin
- Jenni Coutts
- Vince Haig
- Dan Hillier
Best Anthology
Jurors: Chris Butler, Robin CM Duncan, Ian Hunter, Mira Manga, Abbi Shaw
- Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, ed. Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight (Tordotcom)
- The Book of Queer Saints, ed. Mae Murray (Medusa Publishing Haus)
- Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana, ed. Steve J. Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
- Isolation: The Horror Anthology, ed. Dan Coxon (Titan)
- Sky Breaker: Tales of the Wanderer – Lee C. Conley, H.L. Tinsley, J.E. Hannaford, David Green, Derek Power, C. Marry Hultman, Damien Larkin and C.F. Welburn (Nordic Press)
- Someone in Time, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)
Best Non-fiction
Jurors: Cerys Gardner, Susan Maxwell, Kevin McVeigh, TJ Moules, Aparna Sivasankar
- An Earnest Blackness – Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus Press)
- Fantasy: How it Works – Brian Attebery (OUP)
- The Full Lid – Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
- My Life in Horror, Vol. 2 – Kit Power
- Outlander and the Real Jacobites – Shona Kinsella (Pen & Sword History)
- Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes – Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)
The Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer
Jurors: Liz Delton, Michael Dodd, Fabienne Schwizer, Arturo Serrano, Stephen Theaker
- Sunyi Dean, for The Book Eaters (Tor)
- Hiron Ennes, for Leech (Tor)
- Somto Ihezue, for a collection of short stories: Whole; Like Stars Daring to Shine; A Girl is Blood, Spirit and Fire; The Carving of War
- Shauna Lawless, for The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Head of Zeus)
- Elijah Kinch Spector, for Kalyna the Soothsayer (Erewhon Books)
- Susan York, for Starless and Bible Black (Midnight Street Press)
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