2019 World Fantasy Awards - Winners

The 2019 World Fantasy Awards℠ Winners have been announced.

Statuette created by Vincent Villafranca

2019 Lifetime Achievement Award

          Hayao Miyazaki
          Jack Zipes

The Winners

(in green)

NOVEL

• In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
• Witchmark by C. L. Polk (Tor.com)
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press)

NOVELLA

• The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com)
• The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com)
• The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press)
• “The Privilege of the Happy Ending” by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Aug. 2018)
• Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)

SHORT FICTION

• “The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation” by Adam-Troy Castro (Nightmare Magazine, July 2019)
• “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine, February 2018)
• “Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake” by Mel Kassel (Lightspeed, October 2018) TIE
• “The Court Magician” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed, January 2018)
• “Like a River Loves the Sky” by Emma Törzs (Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2018) TIE

ANTHOLOGY

• Sword and Sonnet, edited by Aidan Doyle, Rachael K. Jones, and E. Catherine Tobler (Ate Bit Bear)
• The Book of Magic, edited by Gardner Dozois (Bantam Books US/HarperVoyager UK)
• Best New Horror #28, edited by Stephen Jones (Drugstore Indian Press UK)
• Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga Press)
• Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, edited by Irene Gallo (Tor.com)

COLLECTION

• The Tangled Lands, by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (Saga Press/Head of Zeus UK)
• Still So Strange, by Amanda Downum (ChiZine Publications)
• An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories, by Andy Duncan (Small Beer Press)
• How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
• Phantom Limbs, by Margo Lanagan (PS Publishing)

ARTIST

• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• C. C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Irene Gallo, for Art Direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
• Huw Lewis-Jones for The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (University of Chicago Press)
• Catherine McIlwaine for Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth exhibition (The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford)
• Julian Yap, Molly Barton, Jeff Li, and James Stuart for Serial Box

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Mike Allen, for Mythic Delirium
• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
• Catherine Tobler, for Shimmer Magazine
• Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor

The winners were announced at the World Fantasy Convention℠ 2019 held in Los Angeles, CA, October 31 – November 3, 2019.