British Fantasy Awards 2020
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Eligibility Year: 2019
Fantasy Novel (robert Holdstock Award)
- Winner: The Bone Ships, RJ Barker (Orbit)
- The Migration, Helen Marshall (Titan)
- The Poison Song, Jen Williams (Headline)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Orbit)
Horror Novel (august Derleth Award)
- Winner: The Reddening, Adam Nevill (Ritual Limited)
- The Institute, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Migration, Helen Marshall (Titan)
- Mistletoe, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher)
- The Plague Stones, James Brogden (Titan)
- The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher (Titan)
Anthology
- Winner: New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris)
- The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)
- Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales, David Gullen, ed. (NewCon)
- A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods, Jennifer Brozek, ed. (Pulse)
- Wonderland, Marie O'Regan & Paul Kane, eds. (Titan)
- The Woods, Phil Sloman, ed. (Hersham Horror)
Collection
- Winner: Sing Your Sadness Deep, Laura Mauro (Undertow)
- The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams, Maura McHugh (NewCon)
- Growing Things, Paul Tremblay (Titan)
- Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
- This House of Wounds, Georgina Bruce (Undertow)
Novella
- Winner: Ormeshadow, Priya Sharma (Tor.com)
- The Ascent to Godhood, JY Yang (Tor.com)
- “Butcher's Table”, Nathan Ballingrud (Woulds)
- The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Gallery)
- Ragged Alice, Gareth L. Powell (Tor.com)
- The Survival of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson (Tor.com)
Short Story
- Winner: “The Pain-Eater's Daughter”, Laura Mauro (Sing Your Sadness Deep)
- “Dendrochronology”, Penny Jones (The Woods)
- “I Say (I Say, I Say)”, Robert Shearman (Tales from the Shadow Booth, Vol. 3)
- Tomorrow, When I Was Young, Julie Travis (Eibonvale)
Non-fiction
- Winner: The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (New York University Press)
- Coffinmaker's Blues: Collected Writings on Terror, Stephen Volk (PS Publishing)
- The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart
- Joanna Russ, Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press)
- Notes from the Borderland, Lynda E Rucker (Black Static Sep/Oct 2020)
- The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein, Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)
Independent Press
- Winner: Rebellion
- Aqueduct
- Black Shuck
- Luna
- NewCon
- Undertow
Magazine/periodical
- Winner: Fiyah
- Black Static
- The Dark
- Gingernuts of Horror
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
- Shoreline of Infinity
Artist
- Winner: Ben Baldwin
- Vince Haig
- Jackie Morris
- David Rix
Comic/graphic Novel
- Winner: DIE, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)
- 2000AD, Matt Smith (Rebellion)
- B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know, Vol. 3: Ragna Rok, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie & Laurence Campbell, et al (Dark Horse)
- Basketful of Heads #1, Joe Hill, Leomacs & Dave Stewart (DC)
- DCeased #1-6, Tom Taylor, Trevor Hairsine & Stefano Gaudiano, et al (DC)
- The Ozone Diary, Tero Mielonen & Pentti Otsamo (Luna)
Film/television Production
- Winner: Us
- Game of Thrones: “The Long Night”
- Watchmen: “It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice”
- The Witcher: “Rare Species”
Audio
- Winner: PodCastle
- Breaking the Glass Slipper
- PseudoPod
- Speculative Spaces
Karl Edward Wagner Award For Special Achievement
- Winner: Craig Lockley
Sydney J. Bounds Award For Best Newcomer
- Winner: Ta-Nehisi Coates, for The Water Dancer (One World)
- Alix E. Harrow, for The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Orbit)
- Penny Jones, for Suffer Little Children (Black Shuck)
- Tamsyn Muir, for Gideon the Ninth (Tor.com)
- Nina Oram, for The Joining (Luna)
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