World Fantasy Awards 2026
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Where and When:
World Fantasy Convention,
Oakland, CA :
October 22, 2026
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October 25, 2026
Eligibility Year: 2025
Judges: Chikodili Emelumadu, Tamsyn Muir, Madeleine E. Robins, Richard Thomas, Ann VanderMeer
Eligibility Year: 2025
Judges: Chikodili Emelumadu, Tamsyn Muir, Madeleine E. Robins, Richard Thomas, Ann VanderMeer
Life Achievement
- Winner: Clive Barker
- Winner: Joyce Carol Oates
Novel
- The Adventures of Mary Darling, Pat Murphy (Tachyon)
- Audition for the Fox, Martin Cahill (Tachyon)
- The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK)
- Once Was Willem, M. R. Carey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Secret Market of the Dead, Giovanni De Feo (Saga)
Long Fiction
- The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
- A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
- The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)
- “The Secret Diary of Mina Harker”, Theodora Goss (Letters from an Imaginary Country)
- “The Spotter”, Josh Malerman (You, Human: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction, Vol. 2)
- “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories)
Short Fiction
- “10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2025)
- “The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home”, Renan Bernardo (Reactor 27 Aug 2025)
- “In My Country”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld Apr 2025)
- “St. Dymphna's School for Borderland Girls”, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (Weird Horror Spr 2025)
- “Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Uncanny May/Jun 2025)
Anthology
- The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
- Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror, Hollie Starling, ed. (Chatto & Windus)
- Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
- Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams)
- Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible)
Collection
- Black Hole Heart and Other Stories, K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman (Fairwood)
- The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories, Salman Rushdie (Random House; Jonathan Cape)
- Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon)
- Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow)
Special Award, Professional
- Clive Bloom, for London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic)
- Blumhouse & Dave Schilling, for Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse (Simon Element)
- Jaymee Goh, Jill Roberts & Jacob Weisman, for Tachyon Publications
- Tim Lucas, for Succubus (PS/Electric Dreamhouse)
- Becky Siegel Spratford, for Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature (Saga)
- Richard Wolinsky, for Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends (Tachyon)
Special Award, Non-professional
- Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Andy Cox, for Remains
- Patrick Swenson, for Fairwood Press and for the Rainforest Writers Village Retreat
- Elise C. Tobler, for The Deadlands
- Wendy N. Wagner, for Nightmare
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