World Fantasy Awards 2021
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
World Fantasy Convention,
Montreal, Canada :
November 7, 2021
Eligibility Year: 2020
Judges: Tobias S. Buckell, Siobhan Carroll, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Brian Evenson, Patrick Swenson
Eligibility Year: 2020
Judges: Tobias S. Buckell, Siobhan Carroll, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Brian Evenson, Patrick Swenson
Life Achievement
- Winner: Megan Lindholm
- Winner: Howard Waldrop
Novel
- Winner: Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor)
- Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- The Midnight Bargain, C. L. Polk (Erewhom; Orbit UK)
- The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
- Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
Novella
- Winner: Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
- Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings (Tordotcom)
- The Four Profound Weaves, R. B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
- Ring Shout, or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
- “Stepsister”, Leah Cypess (F&SF May/Junn 2020)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Glass Bottle Dancer”, Celeste Rita Baker (Lightspeed Apr 2020)
- “My Country Is a Ghost”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2020)
- “The Nine Scents of Sorrow”, Jordan Taylor (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2020)
- “Open House on Haunted Hill”, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 15 Jun 2020)
- “The Women Who Sing for Sklep”, Kay Chronister (Thin Places)
Anthology
- Winner: The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)
- The Book of Dragons, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager)
- Edited By, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Subterranean)
- Shadows & Tall Trees 8, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
- The Valencourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol. 1, James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle, eds. (Valancourt)
Collection
- Winner: Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoko Matsuda (Soft Skull)
- The Best of Jeffrey Ford, Jeffrey Ford (PS)
- Nine Bar Blues, Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man)
- Velocities: Stories, Kathe Koja (Meerkat)
- We All Hear Stories in the Dark, Robert Shearman (PS)
Artist
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: C. C. Finlay, for F&SF
- Clive Bloom, for The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Jo Fletcher, for Jo Fletcher Books
- Maria Dahvana Headley, for Beowulf: A New Translation (MCD x FSG Originals US/Scribe UK)
- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, for The Monster Theory Reader (University of Minnesota Press)
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner: Brian Attebery, for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
- Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
- Arley Sorg & Christie Yant, for Fantasy Magazine
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
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