British Fantasy Awards 2026
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Fantasycon 2026,
Glasgow, Scotland :
October 9, 2026
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October 11, 2026
Eligibility Year: 2025
Eligibility Year: 2025
Legends Of Fantasycon Award
- Winner: Chloe Yates
Fantasy Novel (robert Holdstock Award)
- Winner: Upon a Starlit Tide, Kell Woods (Tor US; Titan UK)
- Daughters of Nicnevin, Shona Kinsella (Flame Tree)
- Grave Empire, Richard Swan (Orbit)
- Magic, Maps, and Mischief, David Green (self-published)
- The Outcast Mage, Annabel Campbell (Orbit)
- A Song of Legends Lost, M. H. Ayinde (Orbit)
Horror Novel (august Derleth Award)
- Winner: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga US; Titan UK)
- Black Flame, Gretchen Felker-Martin (Tor Nightfire US; Titan UK)
- Hungerstone, Kat Dunn (Zando US; Manilla UK)
- Lionhearts, Dan Howarth (Northern Republic UK)
- The Needfire, MK Hardy (Solaris)
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley US; Tor Nightfire UK)
Anthology
- Winner: Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
- Blood in the Bricks, Neil Williamson, ed. (NewCon)
- Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, J. S. Fields, Heather Tracy & William C. Tracy, eds. (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)
- This Way Lies Madness, Dave Jeffery & Lee Murray, eds. (Flame Tree)
Collection
- Winner: Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
- Dark Crescent, Lyndsey Croal (Luna Press Publishing)
- Into Wrack and Ruin, Benjamin Kurt Unsworth (Phantasmagoria)
- Who Will You Save?, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
- Wolf's Path, Joyce Chng (Atthis Arts)
Novella
- Winner: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom US; Arcadia UK)
- Fate's Bane, C. L. Clark (Tordotcom)
- The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella, Eugen Bacon (Stars and Sabers)
- “Walking a Wounded Land”, Andrew Knighton (Wiz Duos 3)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Shadow Jack”, CL Hellisen (GigaNotoSaurus 1 May 2025)
- “Down Street”, James Bennett (Blood in the Bricks)
- “Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike”, E. M. Faulds, narrated by Eliza Chan (PodCastle 29 Jul 2025)
- “No One Knows the Old Ways Anymore and It Will Be the End of Everything”, LJ McMenemy (Hiding Under the Leaves)
Non-fiction
- Winner: Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution, Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke (Routledge India)
- Britain's Folklore Year: A seasonal journey through our customs, celebrations and rituals, Mark Norman (National Trust)
- The Ecological Imaginary in Literature and Other Media: The Nature of Fantasy, Kevan Manwaring (Routledge)
- The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, edited by Mauguerite Kenner
- “Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other”, Eugen Bacon (Strange Horizons 24 Mar 2025)
- Writing the Magic: Essays on Crafting Fantasy Ficion, Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)
Independent Press
- Winner: NewCon
- Black Shuck
- Flame Tree
- Luna Press Publishing
Magazine/periodical
- Winner: Remains
- Ginger Nuts of Horror
- Mythaxis
- Phantasmagoria
- Strange Horizons
Artist
Audio (fiction)
- Winner: The Shape of Monsters, CL Hellisen, narrated by Omari Douglas (Audible Originals)
- PodCastle
- PseudoPod
- The Tiny Bookcase
Audio (non-fiction)
- Winner: The Folklore Podcast
- Breaking the Glass Slipper
- Fantasy Book Swap
- Uncanny
Karl Edward Wagner Award For Special Achievement
- Winner: Jane Johnson
Newcomer
- Winner: Annabel Campbell, for The Outcast Mage (Orbit)
- M. H. Ayinde, for A Song of Legends Lost (Orbit)
- MK Hardy, for The Needfire (Solaris)
- Ana Sun, for Future to Live By (NewCon)
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