Announcing the 2013 British Fantasy Awards Winners

The 2013 British Fantasy Awards were presented today at the Brighton World Fantasy convention. Nominees in each category were decided by a vote of the members of the British Fantasy Society and the attendees of FantasyCon 2012. Congratualtions to all the nominees and winners.

British Fantasy Special Award:
Iain M. Banks

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Winner: Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
• Blood and Feathers, Lou Morgan (Solaris)
• The Brides of Rollrock Island, Margo Lanagan (David Fickling Books)
• Railsea, China Miéville (Macmillan)
• Red Country, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Winner: Last Days, Adam Nevill (TorUK/Macmillan)
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc)
• The Kind Folk, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
• Silent Voices, Gary McMahon (Solaris)
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)

Best Novella

• Winner: The Nine Deaths of Dr Valentine, John Llewellyn Probert (Spectral Press)
• Curaré, Michael Moorcock (Zenith Lives!) (Obverse Books)
• Eyepennies, Mike O’Driscoll (TTA Press)
• The Respectable Face of Tyranny, Gary Fry (Spectral Press)

Best Short Story

• Winner: Shark! Shark! Ray Cluley (Black Static #29) (TTA Press)
• Our Island, Ralph Robert Moore (Where Are We Going?) (Eibonvale Press)
• Sunshine, Nina Allan (Black Static #29) (TTA Press)
• Wish for a Gun, Sam Sykes (A Town Called Pandemonium) (Jurassic London)

Best Collection

• Winner: Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine Publications)
• From Hell to Eternity, Thana Niveau (Gray Friar Press)
• Where Furnaces Burn, Joel Lane (PS Publishing)
• The Woman Who Married a Cloud, Jonathan Carroll (Subterannean Press)

Best Anthology

• Winner: Magic: an Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, Jonathan Oliver (ed.) (Solaris)
• A Town Called Pandemonium, Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin (eds) (Jurassic London)
• The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women, Marie O’Regan (ed.) (Robinson)
• Terror Tales of the Cotswolds, Paul Finch (ed.) (Gray Friar Press)

Best Small Press (the PS Publishing Independent Press Award)

• Winner: ChiZine Publications (Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi)
• Gray Friar Press (Gary Fry)
• Spectral Press (Simon Marshall-Jones)
• TTA Press (Andy Cox)

Best Non-Fiction

• Winner: Pornokitsch, Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin (eds)
• Ansible, David Langford
• The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (eds) (Cambridge University Press)
• Coffinmaker’s Blues, Stephen Volk (Black Static) (TTA Press)
• Fantasy Faction, Marc Aplin (ed.)
• Reflections: On the Magic of Writing, Diana Wynne Jones (David Fickling Books)

Best Magazine/Periodical

• Winner: Interzone, Andy Cox (ed.) (TTA Press)
• Black Static, Andy Cox (ed.) (TTA Press)
• SFX, David Bradley (ed.) (Future Publishing)
• Shadows and Tall Trees, Michael Kelly (ed.) (Undertow Publications)

Best Artist

• Winner: Sean Phillips
• Ben Baldwin
• David Rix
• Les Edwards
• Vincent Chong

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• Winner: Saga, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
• Dial H, China Miéville, Mateus Santolouco, David Lapham and Riccardo Burchielli (DC Comics)
• The Unwritten, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Gary Erskine, Gabriel Hernández Walta, M.K. Perker, Vince Locke and Rufus Dayglo (DC Comics/Vertigo)
• The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (Skybound Entertainment/Image Comics)

Best Screenplay

• Winner: The Cabin in the Woods, Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard
• Avengers Assemble, Joss Whedon
• Sightseers, Alice Lowe, Steve Oram and Amy Jump
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award)

• Winner: Helen Marshall, for Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine Publications)
• Alison Moore, for The Lighthouse (Salt Publishing)
• Anne Lyle, for The Alchemist of Souls (Angry Robot)
• E.C. Myers, for Fair Coin (Pyr)
• Kim Curran, for Shift (Strange Chemistry)
• Lou Morgan, for Blood and Feathers (Solaris)
• Molly Tanzer, for A Pretty Mouth (Lazy Fascist Press)
• Saladin Ahmed, for Throne of the Crescent Moon (Gollancz)
• Stephen Bacon, for Peel Back the Sky (Gray Friar Press)
• Stephen Blackmoore, for City of the Lost (Daw Books)