Who won the British Fantasy Awards in 2022? The British Fantasy Society revealed the winners at FantasyCon this weekend.
Best Newcomer (The Sydney J. Bounds Award)
Winner:
Nominees:
- J.T. Greathouse, for The Hand of the Sun King (Gollancz)
- Ian Green, for The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath (Head of Zeus)
- Lorraine Wilson, for This is Our Undoing (Luna Press Publishing)
- C.A. Yates, for We All Have Teeth (Fox Spirit)
- Xiran Jay Zhao, for Iron Widow (Penguin Teen)
Best Film / Television Production
Winner:
Nominees:
Best Non-Fiction
Winner:
- Writing the Uncanny, ed. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)
Nominees:
- After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin, Thomas Connolly (Liverpool University Press)
- Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985, ed. Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre (PM Press)
- The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
- Ginger Nuts of Horror, Jim Mcleod
- Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Francesca T. Barbini (Luna Press Publishing)
Best Artist
Winner:
- Jenni Coutts
Nominees:
- Olga Beliaeva
- Randy Broecker
- Alison Buck
- Vincent Sammy
- Daniele Serra
Best Comic / Graphic Novel
Winner:
- The Girl from the Sea, Molly Knox Ostertag (Graphix)
Nominees:
- 2000AD (Rebellion)
- DIE Vol. 4, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)
- Djeliya, Juni Ba (TKO Studios)
- ExtraOrdinary, V.E. Schwab & Enid Balam (Titan Comics)
- Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming, Stan Sakai (IDW Publishing)
Best Magazine / Periodical
Winner:
- Apex Magazine
Nominees:
- Anathema Magazine
- Black Static
- Ginger Nuts of Horror
- Interzone
- Shoreline of Infinity
Best Independent Press
Winner:
- Luna Press Publishing
Nominees:
- Black Shuck Books
- Unsung Stories
- Wizard’s Tower Press
Best Audio
Winner:
- Monstrous Agonies, H.R. Owen
Nominees:
- Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounsom & Charlotte Bond
- Daughter of Fire and Water, Lyndsey Croal
- PodCastle, Escape Artists
- PseudoPod, Escape Artists
Best Anthology
Winner:
- Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction, ed. Xueting C. Ni (Solaris)
Nominees:
- Dreamland: Other Stories, ed. Sophie Essex (Black Shuck Books)
- Out of the Darkness, ed. Dan Coxon (Unsung Stories)
- There Is No Death, There Are No Dead, ed. Aaron J. French & Jess Landry (Crystal Lake)
- When Things Get Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow (Titan)
- The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola Press)
Best Short Fiction
Winner:
- “Bathymetry,” Lorraine Wilson (in Strange Horizons)
Nominees:
- “Fill the Thickened Lung with Breath,” C.A. Yates (in Dreamland: Other Stories, Black Shuck Books)
- “A Flight of Birds,” E.M. Faulds (in Shoreline of Infinity #25)
- “Henrietta,” T.H. Dray (in BFS Horizons #13)
- “O2 Arena,” Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (in Galaxy’s Edge)
- “Sky Eyes,” Julie Travis (in Dreamland: Other Stories, Black Shuck Books)
Best Collection
Winner:
- Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer Press)
Nominees:
- The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow Publications)
- I Spit Myself Out, Tracy Fahey (Sinister Horror Company)
- The Museum for Forgetting, Pete W. Sutton (Grimbold Books)
- We All Have Teeth, C.A. Yates (Fox Spirit)
Best Novella
Winner:
- Defekt, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
Nominees:
- & This is How to Stay Alive, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Neon Hemlock)
- Matryoshka, Penny Jones (Hersham Horror)
- A Spindle Splintered, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
- These Lifeless Things, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
- Treacle Walker, Alan Garner (4th Estate)
Best Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award)
Winner:
- The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Viper Books)
Nominees:
- The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Penguin)
- A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
- A Dowry of Blood, S.T. Gibson (Nyx Publishing / Orbit)
- My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
- Nothing but Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Titan)
Best Fantasy Novel (The Robert Holdstock Award)
Winner:
- She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)
Nominees:
- The Black Coast, Mike Brooks (Orbit)
- The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit)
- Sistersong, Lucy Holland (Tor)
- This is Our Undoing, Lorraine Wilson (Luna Press Publishing)
- The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit)
In addition, The Legends of FantasyCon award, not part of the society but part of the convention, was announced at the same time and went to Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane.
There’s a diverse wealth of talent on display, and congratulations to all the winners.
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