The British Fantasy Society has announced the shortlists for the 2024 British Fantasy Awards, which recognize work published for the first time in English anywhere in the world during the previous year. The shortlists are voted on by members of the society and FantasyCon; the winners are chosen by juries.
The winners of the 2024 awards will be announced at Fantasycon over the weekend of October 11th to 13th, 2024.
Congratulations to all on the shortlists!
Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Jurors: Susan Jeferies, Brian Kinsella, Dante Luiz, Kev McVeigh, Amanda Raybould
- A Day of Fallen Night – Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury)
- At Eternity’s Gates – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
- Beyond Sundered Seas – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon – Wole Talabi (Daw Books)
- Talonsister – Jen Williams (Titan)
Best Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award)
Jurors: Rebecca Gault, Rome Godwin, Laura Langrish, Adam Millard, Leanbh Pearson
- A House with Good Bones – T. Kingfisher (Titan)
- Boys in the Valley – Philip Fracassi (Orbit)
- Don’t Fear the Reaper – Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
- How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix (Titan)
- Looking Glass Sound – Catriona Ward (Viper)
- One Life Left – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
Best Novella
Jurors: Gagan Kaur, Jonathan Laidlow, Pauline Morgan, Melissa Ren, Kate Towner
- The Darkness in the Pines – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
- The Last Day and the First – Tim Lebbon (PS Publishing)
- The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar – Indra Das (Subterranean Press)
- They Shut Me Up – Tracy Fahey (PS Publishing)
- Thornhedge – T. Kingfisher (Titan)
- Untethered Sky – Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)
Best Short Fiction
Jurors: Andrew Freudenberg, Stephen Kotowych, Stephen McGowan, Abbi Shaw
- “Professor Flotsam’s Cabinet of Peculiarities” – Shona Kinsella (Great British Horror 8)
- “The Brazen Head of Westinghouse” – Tim Major (IZ Digital)
- “The Pilfered Quill” – Rachel Rener & David Green (From the Arcane)
- “The Ripe Fruit in the Garden” – C.A. Yates (Great British Horror 8)
- “Turn Again, O My Sweetness” – C.A. Yates (At the Lighthouse)
Best Collection
Jurors: Steven French, Heather Ivatt, Penny Jones, Graham Millichap, Stephen Theaker
- A Curious Cartography – Alison Littlewood (Black Shuck Books)
- Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic – Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow Publications)
- No Happily Ever After – Phil Sloman
- No One Will Come Back for Us – Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)
- The House on the Moon – Georgina Bruce (Black Shuck Books)
- Under My Skin – K.J. Parker (Subterranean Press)
Best Anthology
Jurors: Colleen Anderson, Adri Joy, Creag Munroe, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Abbi Shaw
- At the Lighthouse, ed. Sophie Essex (Eibonvale Press)
- Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, ed. Wole Talabi (Android Press)
- Never Whistle at Night, ed. Shane Hawk (Vintage)
- Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, ed. Jordan Peele (Random House)
- Something Peculiar: Great British Horror 8, ed. Steve J. Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
- The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy, eds. Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane (Titan)
Best Independent Press
Jurors: Andy Angel, Andrew Freudenberg, Morgan Greensmith, Corinne Pollard
- Angry Robot
- Black Shuck Books
- Eibonvale Press
- Flame Tree Press
- Luna Press Publishing
- Newcon Press
Best Non-Fiction
Jurors: Jessica Lévai, Susan Maxwell, TJ Moules, Eleanor Pender
- Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror – Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna Press Publishing)
- The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts – Delyth Badder & Mark Norman (Calon)
- The Full Lid – Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
- Writing the Future, eds. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)
Best Magazine / Periodical
Jurors: Carla Bataller Estruch, Arden Fitzroy, Adam McDowall, Siân O’Hara
- Hellebore
- Interzone (IZ Digital)
- khōréō
- Occult Detective Magazine
- Shoreline of Infinity
Best Artist
Jurors: David Green,Stephen Kotowych, Stephen McGowan, Kate Towner, Paul Yates
- Jenni Coutts
- Vince Haig
- David Rix
- Asya Yordonova
Best Audio
Jurors: Eugen Bacon, Robin CM Duncan, Ann Landmann, Caroline Mersey
- Cast of Wonders (Escape Artists)
- The Penumbra Podcast – Harley Takagi Kaner, Kevin Vibert, Ginny D’Angelo, Alice C. LeBeau, Noah Simes
- PodCastle (Escape Artists)
- PseudoPod (Escape Artists)
- Simultaneous Times Podcast (Space Cowboy Books)
- The Tiny Bookcase – Nico Rogers & Ben Holroyd-Dell
Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer
Jurors: Rhian Drinkwater, Devin Martin, Arturo Serrano
- Moniquill Blackgoose, for To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (Del Ray)
- Vajra Chandrasekera, for The Saint of Bright Doors (Tordotcom)
- Hannah Kaner, for Godkiller (HarperVoyager)
- Charlotte Langree, for Fractured: Tales of Flame and Fury (Clarendon House Publications)
- Em X. Liu, for The Death I Gave Him (Solaris)
- Teika Marija Smits, for Umbilical (Newcon Press) & Waterlore (Black Shuck Books)
You can read more about the British Fantasy Awards at the British Fantasy Society site.
