Announcing the 2016 World Fantasy Award Winners

The winners for the 2016 World Fantasy Awards have been announced, and include Lifetime Achievement recipients David G. Hartwell and Andrzej Sapkowski. The awards were given at this year’s World Fantasy Convention, which took place from October 27-30 in Columbus, OH.

The full list of nominees follows, with winners in bold.

Novel

• Winner: Anna Smaill, The Chimes (Sceptre)
• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant (Knopf/Faber & Faber)
• N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (Orbit)
• Naomi Novik, Uprooted (Del Rey Books/Macmillan UK)
• K. J. Parker, Savages (Subterranean Press)
• Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts (William Morrow & Co.)

Long Fiction

• Winner: Kelly Barnhill, The Unlicensed Magician (PS Publishing)
• Usman T. Malik, “The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn” (Tor.com, Apr. 22, 2015)
• Kim Newman, “Guignol” (Horrorology, edited by Stephen Jones, Jo Fletcher Books)
• Kelly Robson, “Waters of Versailles” (Tor.com, June 10, 2015)
• Bud Webster, “Farewell Blues” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan./Feb. 2015)

Short Fiction

• Winner: Alyssa Wong, “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” (Nightmare magazine, Oct. 2015)
• Selena Chambers, “The Neurastheniac” (Cassilda’s Song, ed. Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. Chaosium Inc)
• Amal El-Mohtar, “Pockets” (Uncanny Magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2015)
• Sam J. Miller, “The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History” (Uncanny Magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2015)
• Tamsyn Muir, “The Deepwater Bride” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/Aug. 2015)

Anthology

• Winner: Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles, eds., She Walks in Shadows (Innsmouth Free Press)
• Ellen Datlow, ed., The Doll Collection (Tor Books)
• S. T. Joshi, ed., Black Wings IV: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (PS Publishing)
• Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., ed., Cassilda’s Song: Tales Inspired by Robert W. Chambers’ King in Yellow Mythos (Chaosium Inc.)
• Simon Strantzas, ed., Aickman’s Heirs (Undertow Publications)

Collection

• Winner: C. S. E. Cooney, Bone Swans (Mythic Delirium Books)
• Leena Krohn, Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction (Cheeky Frawg Books)
• V. H. Leslie, Skein and Bone (Undertow Publications)
• Kelly Link, Get in Trouble (Random House)
• James Morrow, Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow (Wesleyan University Press)
• Mary Rickert, You Have Never Been Here (Small Beer Press)

Artist

• Winner: Galen Dara
• Richard Anderson
• Julie Dillon
• Kathleen Jennings
• Thomas S. Kuebler

Special Award – Professional

• Winner: Stephen Jones, for The Art of Horror (Applause Theatre Book & Cinema Book Publishers)
• Neil Gaiman, Dave Stewart, and J. H. Williams III, The Sandman: Overture (Vertigo)
• Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons, The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series (Tor Books)
• Joe Monti, for contributions to the genre
• Heather J. Wood, for Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary (Stone Skin Press)

Special Award – Nonprofessional

• Winner: John O’Neill, for Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature
• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Jedediah Berry and Eben Kling, for The Family Arcana: A Story in Cards (Ninepin Press)
• Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein, for Letters to Tiptree (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
• Helen Young, for Tales After Tolkien Society