World Fantasy Awards 2003
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
World Fantasy Convention,
Washington DC :
November 2, 2003
Eligibility Year: 2002
Judges: Justin Ackroyd, Les Edwards, Laura Anne Gilman, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Jane Yolen
Eligibility Year: 2002
Judges: Justin Ackroyd, Les Edwards, Laura Anne Gilman, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Jane Yolen
Life Achievement
- Winner: Donald M. Grant
- Winner: Lloyd Alexander
Novel
- Winner (tie): The Facts of Life, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
- Winner (tie): Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
- Fitcher's Brides, Gregory Frost (Tor)
- The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
- The Scar, China Miéville (Macmillan; Del Rey)
Novella
- Winner: “The Library”, Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan, Volume Three)
- Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
- “The Least Trumps”, Elizabeth Hand (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
- Seven Wild Sisters, Charles de Lint (Subterranean Press)
- A Year in the Linear City, Paul Di Filippo (PS Publishing)
Short Story
- Winner: “Creation”, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF May 2002)
- “The Essayist in the Wilderness”, William Browning Spencer (F&SF May 2002)
- “Little Dead Girl Singing”, Stephen Gallagher (Weird Tales Spr 2002)
- “October in the Chair”, Neil Gaiman (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
- “The Weight of Words”, Jeffrey Ford (Leviathan, Volume Three)
Anthology
- Winner (tie): The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
- Winner (tie): Leviathan, Volume Three, Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre, eds. (The Ministry of Whimsy Press)
- The American Fantasy Tradition, Brian M. Thomsen, ed. (Tor)
- Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists, Peter Straub, ed. (Bard College)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)
Collection
- Winner: The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)
- City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris [revised], Jeff VanderMeer (Prime Books)
- Figures in Rain, Chet Williamson (Ash-Tree Press)
- The Ogre's Wife: Fairy Tales for Grownups, Richard Parks (Obscura Press)
- Waifs and Strays, Charles de Lint (Viking)
- Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson (Putnam)
Artist
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Gordon Van Gelder, for F&SF
- Terri Windling, for editing
- Ellen Datlow, for editing
- Paul Barnett, for Paper Tiger art books
- Gary Turner & Marty Halpern, for Golden Gryphon Press
- William K. Schafer, for Subterranean Press
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner: Jason Williams, Jeremy Lassen & Benjamin Cossel, for Night Shade Books
- Gavin Grant & Kelly Link, for Small Beer Press
- Sean Wallace, for Prime Books
- Michael Walsh, for Old Earth Books
- Peter Crowther, for PS Publishing
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