Jack O’Dander Is Coming

Can you see him?

Jack O’Dander by Priya Sharma. Edited by Ellen Datlow. Illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love.

Out on Tor.com on 4th October 2023.

The British Fantasy Awards 2023

The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners for the 2023 British Fantasy Awards:

Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• WINNER: The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)

• Path of War, David Green (Eerie River)
• Cast Long Shadows, Cat Hellisen (Luna)
• Glitterati, Oliver K. Langmead (Titan)
• The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
• The Oleander Sword, Tasha Suri (Orbit)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• WINNER: Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey (Hodder & Stoughton)

• Full Immersion, Gemma Amor (Angry Robot)
• The Hollows, Daniel Church (Angry Robot)
• Miracle Growth, Tim Mendees (Eerie River)
• Sundial, Catriona Ward (Viper)

Best Novella

• WINNER: The Queen of the High Fields, Rhiannon A. Grist (Luna)

• And Then I Woke Up, Malcolm Devlin (Tordotcom)
• Interference, Terry Grimwood (Elsewhen)
• The Entropy of Loss, Stewart Hotston (NewCon)
• Pomegranates, Priya Sharma (PS)
• Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)

Best Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Morta”, James Bennett (The Book of Queer Saints)

• “The Tails That Make You”, Eliza Chan (Fantasy  8/22)
• “The Call of El Tunche”, Shona Kinsella (Weird Horror Anthology)
• “A Moment of Zugzwang”, Neil Williamson (ParSec #4)

Best Collection

• WINNER: Under the Moon, E.M. Faulds (Ghost Moth)

• Candescent Blooms, Andrew Hook (Salt)
• Behind a Broken Smile, Penny Jones (Black Shuck)
• Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)

Best Anthology

• WINNER: Someone in Time, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)

• Sky Breaker: Tales of the Wanderer, Lee C. Conley, H.L. Tinsley, J.E. Hannaford, David Green, Derek Power, C. Marry Hultman, Damien Larkin, & C.F. Welburn, eds. (Nordic)
• Isolation: The Horror Anthology, Dan Coxon, ed. (Titan)
• The Book of Queer Saints, Mae Murray, ed. (Medusa)
• Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana, Steve J. Shaw, ed. (Black Shuck)
• Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fic­tion, Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, eds. (Tordotcom)

Best Independent Press

• WINNER: Luna

• Black Shuck
• Flame Tree
• NewCon

Best Non-Fiction

• WINNER: An Earnest Blackness, Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus)

• Fantasy: How it Works, Brian Attebery (OUP)
• Outlander and the Real Jacobites, Shona Kinsella (Pen & Sword History)
• My Life in Horror, Vol. 2, Kit Power (self-published)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart & Marguerite Kenner, eds.
• Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• WINNER: Interzone

• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Shoreline of Infinity
• Strange Horizons

Best Artist

• WINNER: Vince Haig

• Chris Baker (Fangorn)
• Ben Baldwin
• Jenni Coutts
• Dan Hillier

Best Audio

• WINNER: The Stranger Times, C.K. McDonnell

• The Painkiller Podcast, Bitter Pill Theatre
• The Secret of St. Kilda, Michael Ireland & Naomi Clarke
• PodCastle, Escape Artists
• PseudoPod, Escape Artists
• Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Charlotte Bond, & Lucy Hounsom

Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• WINNER: Hiron Ennes

• Sunyi Dean
• Somto Ihezue
• Shauna Lawless
• Elijah Kinch Spector
• Susan York

Karl Wagner Award

• Ann Landmann

I am very honoured to have be a finalist in the novella category of the British Fantasy Awards and I am genuinely thrilled for Rhiannon A. Grist. A huge congratulations to all the nominees and winners.

Shirley Jackson Award Nomination

I am hugely honoured that “Pomegranates” was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. I will treasure my nominee pebble.

I owe thanks to my editor, Marie O’Regan, to Jeffrey Alan Love for his cover art, and tothe team at PS Publishing- Tamsin Traves, Michael Smith, snd Nicky and Peter Crowther.

It’s available in hardback and as an ebook.