2021 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

The British Fantasy Society has announced the shortlist for the 2021 British Fantasy Awards. The winners will be announced at FantasyCon in September 2021.

Best Newcomer (The Sydney J. Bounds Award)

• Tiffani Angus, for Threading the Labyrinth (Unsung Stories)
• Dan Coxon, for Green Fingers & Only the Broken Remain (Black Shuck Books)
• Sean Hogan, for England’s Screaming (PS Publishing) & Three Mothers, One Father (Black Shuck Books)
• Kathleen Jennings, for Flyaway (Tordotcom)
• Simon Jimenez, for The Vanished Birds (Titan)
• Rym Kechacha, for Dark River (Unsung Stories)

Best Film / Television Production

• Birds of Prey
• The Boys: What I Know (Season 2, episode 8)
• The Haunting of Bly Manor: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes (Season 1, episode 8)
• The Invisible Man
• The Lighthouse
• Saint Maud

Best Non-Fiction

• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
• It’s the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of?, Adam Roberts (Elliot & Thompson)
• Notes from the Borderland, Lynda E. Rucker (in “Black Static”, TTA Press)
• Ties that Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Francesca T Barbini (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest, Paul Kincaid (Gylphi Limited)
• Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, ed. Alison Peirse (Rutgers University Press)

Best Artist

• Warwick Fraser-Coombe
• David Rix
• Vincent Sammy
• Daniele Serra

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• The Daughters of Ys, Jo Rioux & M.T. Andersen (First Second)
• DIE Vol. 2: Split the Party, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image Comics)
• John Constantine: Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Marks of Woe, Simon Spurrier & Aaron Campbell (DC Comics)
• The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen (Random House Graphic)
• Rivers of London: The Fey and the Furious, Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmell (Titan)
• Venus in the Blind Spot, Junji Ito (VIZ Media LLC)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Black Static
• The Dark
• FIYAH
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Shoreline of Infinity
• Strange Horizons

Best Independent Press

• Black Shuck Books
• Flame Tree Press
• Luna Press Publishing
• Unsung Stories

Best Audio

• Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounson & Charlotte Bond
• The Magnus Archives, Rusty Quill
• PodCastle, Escape Artists
• PseudoPod, Escape Artists
• The Sandman, Dirk Maggs & Neil Gaiman (Audible Originals)
• Stellar Firma, Rusty Quill

Best Anthology

• After Sundown, ed. Mark Morris (Flame Tree Press)
• Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, ed. Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn (Omnium Gatherum Media)
• Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, ed. Zelda Knight & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Aurelia Leo)
• Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8, ed. Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)

Best Short Fiction

• 8-Bit Free Will, John Wiswell (in PodCastle 654, Escape Artists)
• Daylight Robbery, Anna Taborska (in “Bloody Britain”, Shadow Publishing)
• Infinite Tea in the Demara Café, Ida Keogh (in “London Centric: Tales of Future London, Newcon Press)
• We Do Like to be Beside, Pete Sutton (in “Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2”, Alchemy Press)

Best Collection

• Bloody Britain, Anna Taborska (Shadow Publishing)
• Only the Broken Remain, Dan Coxon (Black Shuck Books)
• The Watcher in the Woods, Charlotte Bond (Black Shuck Books)
• We All Hear Stories in the Dark, Robert Shearman (PS Publishing)

Best Novella

• The Flame and the Flood, Shona Kinsella (Fox Spirit)
• Honeybones, Georgina Bruce (TTA Press)
• The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho (Tordotcom)
• Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• A Song for the End, Kit Power (Horrific Tales Publishing)
• Triggernometry, Stark Holborn (Rattleback Books)

Best Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award)

• Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed (Rebellion)
• The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher (Titan)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Jo Fletcher Books)
• The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
• Plain Bad Heroines, Emily Danforth (The Borough Press)
• Survivor Song, Paul Tremblay (Titan)

Best Fantasy Novel (The Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart (Orbit)
• By Force Alone, Lavie Tidhar (Head of Zeus)
• The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
• Dark River, Rym Kechacha (Unsung Stories)
• The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Orbit)
• Threading the Labyrinth, Tiffani Angus (Unsung Stories)

  For more information, see the British Fantasy Society website.